Pelosi to Republicans: You need to take back your party or something
posted at 5:45 pm on April 29, 2009 by Allahpundit
Precisely as compelling as advice from, oh, say, George W. Bush would be to a Democrat. She’s a little hazy on who she has in mind as “Republican,” but I’ll bet people willing to vote for statist crap up and down the line are prime suspects.
The California Democrat offered her own analysis of the political environment for her political opponents, asserting Republicans across the country are more willing to work with Democrats than their leaders on Capitol Hill.
“Yes, there is, shall we say – a ‘radical right-wing’ element with whom they identify. But by and large, I say to Republicans in America: take back your party. The party of protecting the environment. The party of individual rights. The party of fairness. This is not the Grand Old Party.”
Pelosi concluded her long riff about the GOP by saying, “our country needs a strong diverse Republican party.”
Does it? Check out the clip here from the same interview in which she defends the idea of one-party rule on grounds that the left’s just so gosh-darned diverse and independent that they can pretty much supply all necessary policy alternatives themselves. Especially creepy is how happy she is about not having to explain “process” anymore to the public, which is her way of saying that now they can pass anything they want without having to even superficially negotiate with the GOP to avoid a filibuster. Exit question: Is there anyone who qualifies as a “moderate Republican” who’s acceptable to the base at this point? Huntsman? Maybe not after today, I’m guessing.
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Well its not like the MSM will ask them any tough questions.
The GOP really needs to just attack attack attack and let the left whine.
The dems are not invulnerable. Obama is not that likable.
William Amos on April 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Weren’t you privy to ‘torture’ intel in your Congressional oversight role, ma’am?
Stop distracting the public.
Good Lt on April 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
The Left..especially San Fran Nan…can give all the advice they wish. I’ve no problem with that.
It is when the Right starts listening to that advice, then we have a problem.
coldwarrior on April 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
The message should be “Take Back America”. But we don’t need it, we already know that. BTW, what are her feelings about liars?
bloggless on April 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Well now I know who the RNSC has been listening to.
myrenovations on April 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I’ll agree with Empress Pelosi on that. But that begs the question, does she mean that the Democrats aren’t for individual rights or fairness.
rbj on April 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
She should be in a padded room. What a NUT. Am I blinking now? how bout now?
Tremmy on April 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
NY-20 voted for Spitzer and Clinton. Its hardly solidly republican.
Speedwagon82 on April 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
In Nancy Pelosi’s world:
Moderates: Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Michael Moore
Conservatives: Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe
Far-Right Freaks: Jon Huntsman, John McCain
Seriously, hide the kids: Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin
Snowed In on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Ahh Gollum has arrived!
upinak on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Um…Specter switched parties because Republican voters didn’t want him anymore.
So, in other words, back to the progressive GOP of Teddy R. At least Specter talked about going back to the days of Reagan.
amerpundit on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
She better worry about her own job rather than worry about what we are doing out here to take her off her high horse. We want her to be toast. RINO’s best really worry, we are organized.
suzyk on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Yeah Nancy, that’s me to a tee, still wishing you idiot fanatic liberals would quit spending unfunded tax payer dollars to supply your socialist/communist egos.
Rovin on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Ewww. Thanks loads for that mental image.
Snowed In on April 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
I’m surprised she’s not one of Barak’s Beauties. Puke.
Brat4life on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Someone please refill her water dish so that she’ll stop babbling
leetpriest on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
God help us.
Firebird on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Or, as Ace calls her, “Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants”.
amerpundit on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
And she “didn’t come to Washington to be bipartisan” mind you…how can we have such ignorant people at the top of our government?
DCJeff on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
In a time of complete government deceit there is no shame in standing up and saying no.
What’s wrong with saying no to a trillion dollar spending bill no one has read. What’s wrong with allowing market forces to push out bad companies.
Saying no is the most patriot thing to do right now.
petunia on April 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Gee Granny… you’re not the Democratic Party we used to know either… Someone has to be the adult party… there can’t be two immature infant parties….
CynicalOptimist on April 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
You got that right.
Tim Zank on April 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Actually, I agree with the House Madam. There needs to be a strong, resilient opponent to Hussein al-Chicago and his Merry Marxist Marching Society in the Biggest Little Whorehouse on the Potomac.
We the People need to firmly remind these self-anointed aristocrats that they work for us. Each and every member of the House of Ill-Repute needs to be given walking papers. Then, people of honor, morals and integrity need to be sworn in and undo decades of corruption, sleaze and spendthrift ways.
SeniorD on April 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Says who?
Snowed In on April 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Doesn’t she have some swamps to drain or houses to haunt?
rw on April 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
As each day goes by I hate the term “moderate” more and more. This a clever, and unfortunately effective, marketing strategy by statist to paint federalists as exteremists.
WashJeff on April 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I’d like to now hear from the RINOs that they agree with Nancy Pelosi.
Think this is confirmation enough that we are on the right path here!
HondaV65 on April 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
OT:
If you have a CRYSLER, be sure to keep an eye out for this.
upinak on April 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Duh, Yea; You sweet thing! Anything for you, baby; You feel so nice; NO! DON’T TURN ON THE LIGHT!
Cybergeezer on April 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I’m not sure who all qualifies. I could have voted for and supported Rudy if that means anything, but that’s in large part because he isn’t always asking to be taken as a martyr because of his moderate status.
I personally welcome a big tent, so long as those in it can at least meet bare minimum standards, standards like limiting government spending, protecting this country, and at least being respectful about the social issues. You tell me, Allah. How many moderates fit that? Heck, I know “conservatives” who don’t fit that.
Esthier on April 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
The key word there is beauty
rbj on April 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
I dont get it. The dens attack us saying we caused the swing flu. They say we are the party of no, The accuse of of being unsympathetic to the poor.
And yet they are the party of bipartisanship and the party of “moving past the politics of personal attack” ?
They have a strange way of showing it. Or more accurately they are hypocrites.
The only thing worse is the GOPers who buy into that “New way of doing politics”
William Amos on April 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
When did al-Chicago get voted in by the private investors of Chrysler LLC? Is this action Constitutional in ANY way?
Or is this just another of the Caliph’s diktats?
SeniorD on April 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Exactly! But how is this statement by Pelosi:
Different from what Frum says, Ms. Mcain, Sen. McCain, Sen. Graham, Snowe, Proud Rino et al.? This is why I resist the calls from “our side”, because it is essentially the same as what Pelosi would desire for our party.
Weight of Glory on April 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM
That reality should make everyone sleep better at night…….
…….. tomorrow when you wake, we will have National Health Care in a bill that no one was allowed to read, 40 million new American Citizens with Spanish Sir names, and an ACORN/CENSUS Political Officer on every block reporting your daily thoughts.
Keep that picture of Blinky smiling and gloating fresh in your mind, ladies and gentlemen, especially if you are going to watch “Lie to Me” tonight…………
Seven Percent Solution on April 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM
It’s important to be able not to explain the process in a bipartisan way.
radiofreevillage on April 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Nancy’s fashion sense and perfect toned guns just do it for me. Wowza. It’s a crime if she’s not on the Most Beautiful People list.
BardMan on April 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
This is ‘Sweeps Week’ – let’s make the Fox Network #1 tonight.
SeniorD on April 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Hey Nancy, I’m sure Leiberman agrees with you regarding how open minded and accepting you Democrats are.
MarkTheGreat on April 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Don’t you love when Democrats and liberals give republicans advice? How about Tom Brady telling the Colts what defensive play to run? Ahh great idea!
youngO on April 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Yah, as if Pelosi really wants a new and vibrant GOP to emerge.
I don’t trust someone with crazy eyes.
Bishop on April 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Depends on how one defines “moderate”.
If the media is setting the definition, probably not.
If Democrats are setting the definition, no, not at all.
myrenovations on April 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM
seejanemom — Get control of yourself. You won’t be warned again.
Allahpundit on April 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM
“There needs to be a party to demonize,” said Pelosi. “If there’s not a party to label as the idealogical devil, people are going to start realizing that the decline in urban America coincided with Democratic rule. They’ll also notice that the only party in power is the one with exploding deficits, higher taxes, and insane foreign policy decisions, and then the facade will be shattered. Let’s face it– Democrats are only going to be happy when this is a hard-core socialist Utopia born of the 1960s, and I don’t think the country is going to be none-to-happy with that. Unless there’s a strong GOP that can set up as the Boogeyman.”
Nethicus on April 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I got a tip for her, bring on the torture witch hunt cause’ yer goin’ down biatch!
Oh and one more tip, STFU!
Liberty or Death on April 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM
How do we get madam speaker out of Congress?
canditaylor68 on April 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Hasn’t this bitch started melting yet?
Cybergeezer on April 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM
OOPS: TYPO!!!!!
Cybergeezer on April 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Hasn’t this witch started melting yet?
Cybergeezer on April 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Take away her Botox and she will melt away…
right2bright on April 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM
heeheeeee…YOU LOVE IT….and I thought you were asleep…. heh….
;)**smooches**
seejanemom on April 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
We are in a culture war where the other side wants to not only fight dirty but set the rules so that they force us to fight at a disadvantage.
The left should never set the rules for the right. We should force them to defend liberalism not give them a defense of Conservativism.
William Amos on April 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
what a gargoyle
Erich66 on April 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Step One: Getting rid of Sen, Specter
Blaise on April 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM
WE. ARE. GUTLESS.
I hope the GOP continues to disintigrate.
Then we can start a new party with some backbone.
I feel a Reagan Revolution coming on >>>IF our poor country can withstand it.
If his first 100 days are any measure, we’ll all be speaking Mandarin by September.
seejanemom on April 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM
When Americans (a far less intelligent group of people it seems, than they were 25 years ago) finally wake up from thier MSM-induced stupor and realize that the entire 50 billion-plus dollar auto bailout was simply a handout to the idiots in the UAW for their pledged support to the Dims, I wouldn’t want to be in the way of those flying rounds..
Biggest payoff corruption in the history of this country, and they just got started…
Who’s got the rope?
TexasJew on April 29, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Taking ideas from a radical liberal on how to transform the conservative party is always a good idea.
therightwinger on April 29, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Ominus words from this woman. “Now we can get things done”?
Take heed California. This woman plans to bury us all, and she won’t discriminate along party lines either. VOTE HER OUT!!!
There’s nothing worse than someone like this, but couple her with stupidity, and that makes for dangerous politics.
capejasmine on April 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I need to go buy one.
Opps, I am going to have to get another Full Time Job to pay my freaking property taxes.. so I guess I can’t help out.
upinak on April 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM
…this, coming from the Dragon Lady of the “Party of the Fairness Doctrine”, the Empress of the “Party of No Secret Ballots for Union Members”…or, as I like to call her, the Queen Bee of the “Party of Head Down/Butt Up/and Shut Up”! Can’t say that Ol’ Nancy doesn’t have nerve….
…first, you have Specter, as slippery as a greased lawyer, changing parties a’ la Jim Jeffords, to advance his agenda…which is nothing more or less than Arlen Specter, period….
…then we have the usual suspects (Snow, Collins, Graham) coming out crying alligator tears that a “moderate” (remember Lincoln Chaffee?) is made to feel unwelcome by the “radical right-wing” of the party…it would seem that, unlike these bozos, who believe in everything and nothing, just don’t rock to boat, the Republicans on the right are radical precisely because they actually have standards. You remember standards, don’t'cha neighbors? Standards remain immovable as circumstance swirls by, giving you a way of judging the right or wrong in what floats by as politcal and societal jetsum.
…and, now, advice from the Lady With The Fiberglass Smile. This is the unkindest cut of all.
Well…let Snow, Collins, Graham and anyone else who’s willing to compromise what the rest of us call core constitutional values (and which they call “guidelines”, a’ la Captain Barbosa) all bolt the party. Then…let those who remain know that the electorate expects them to shape up.
…Nancy Pelosi…she is to democracy what the Perons were…er…well…to democracy…except without the class….
Puritan1648 on April 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM
SHUT UP, NANCY
blatantblue on April 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM
If Queen Stretch Pelosi of the House of Botox really wanted to promote individual rights and fairness the best thing she could do would be to wrap herself up in a box and have fedex ship her to the moon.
MB4 on April 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM
♫ I’m a Statist, your a Statist, wouldn’t you like to be a Statist too… ♫
SeanTate5 on April 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM
blatantblue on April 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Taking ideas from a radical liberal on how to transform the conservative party is always a good idea.
therightwinger on April 29, 2009 at 6:17 PM
It’s like taking advice from Adolf Hitler at an Hadassah fundraiser.
TexasJew on April 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM
The world may be ugly, but each man must do what he must
Give in Royalist Hag, in a year you will be dust
Now come let our Lady of Justice possess you
In her breathtaking, hair-raising bed
She will tingle your spine
As she captures your heart and your head
Sing, swing
Savour the sting
As she severs you, Queen Pelosi
Slice, come paradise
Our Delilah will shave you razor clean
PercyB on April 29, 2009 at 6:24 PM
“reaching out in a bipartisan way”
I call bullshit.
therightscoop on April 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Can she even blink anymore? Her face looks like it her ears might be pinned at the back of her head.
capejasmine on April 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Sorry, that should be you’re instead of your:
♫ I’m a Statist, you’re a Statist, wouldn’t you like to be a Statist too ♫
Carry on…
SeanTate5 on April 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM
+ 100 !!!!!
seejanemom on April 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Party of protecting the environment? She’s really throwing long. Ironic coming from one of the most combative members of Congress to boot.
Hog Wild on April 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM
“Statist”? Has AP been reading Mark Levin? Sneaky devil!
Jim Treacher on April 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Um, you need to go back to grammar school.
therightscoop on April 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Everyone just needs to get completely Fed up Dude. We are close but not quite there yet…
I don’t have to tell you things are bad.
Everybody knows things are bad.
It’s a depressión. Everybody’s out
of work, or scared of losing their job.
The dollar buys a nickel’s worth.
Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers
keep a gun under the counter.
Punks are running wild, and nobody
knows what to do. There’s no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe
and our food is unfit to eat.
We sit watching our TVs while some
local newscaster tells us that today
we had homicides and violent
crimes, as if that’s the way it should be.
We know things are bad.
Worse than bad. They’re crazy.
Everything is going crazy,
so we don’t go out any more.
We sit in the house,
and the world we live in gets smaller.
All we say is “Please, at least
leave us alone in our living rooms.”
“Let me have my toaster and my TV and
I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”
Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don’t want you to protest or riot. I don”t
want you to write to your congressman.
I don’t know what to do about the
depressión, the inflation and the crime.
All I know is that first
you’ve got to get m
You’ve gotta say “I’m a human being,
goddammit! My life has value!”
So… I want you to get up now.
I want all of you
to get up out of your chairs.
I want you to get up right now
and go to the window,
open it and stick your head out and yell
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not
going to take this any more!”
TheBigOldDog on April 29, 2009 at 6:33 PM
It’s like the rather moronic modern American public is now standing at the All-You-Can-Eat line at Pizza Hut and shoveling tons of pizza in their faces, without a clue as to either how they will ever be able to pay for it, or how dangerous it is to their health.
I don’t see how else to put it except – it is almost becoming an embarrassment to be an American these days. I can’t recall a single moment before where such political and economic irresponsibility wouldn’t be condemned and punished by an outraged liberty- and freedom-loving public. What happened here?
There is absolutely no fear in the Dims publicly advocating, planning and executing these massive (and quite honestly, traitorous) socialization schemes, pay-offs and asset thefts.
TexasJew on April 29, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Yeah, but he’s the HTML Honor Student of the Week.
WHO ELSE CAN DO MUSICAL NOTES???
seejanemom on April 29, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Any Rep who beleves this crock of B.S. that Miss Pelosi is just trying to help the Rep take your party back is dumber than her.The thought of the GOP returning to a consev. small Gov ,low taxes,personal liberty party scares the hell out of the liberals They know that the country is a center right country.
thmcbb on April 29, 2009 at 6:35 PM
She is an idiot. I keep waiting for her to impress me. It has never happened. Not once.
Dr. Manhattan on April 29, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Good luck with that, she represents San Francisco. The freaks in that armpit of a city consider her to be a thoughtful moderate.
TheMightyMonarch on April 29, 2009 at 6:39 PM
This SWINE is immune to the flu!
Cybergeezer on April 29, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Peloser, one of the most compulsive liars in Congress, has things confused as usual. The dimocrats need to take their party back from the left wing extremists that are sponsored by anti-American forces whose goal is to bring us to our knees. Sphincter was a RINO and we need more to leave the party so a different choice can be presented to the American public. RINOs only disguise the GOP into being too much like the dims to make a difference. Millions of conservatives refused to swallow their pride and vote for McCain, knowing he was not true to the policies of the right. Leave RINOs, please.
volsense on April 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I took a vow not to watch her anymore, so I don’t know what she said, don’t care. But I agree with your statement, but who in the world would that be? We better find such a person, and fast.
scalleywag on April 29, 2009 at 6:53 PM
You’re kidding, right? Forget about that. I live in the Bay Area and what you’re asking is like tilting windmills. Conservatives like us, already an endangered species, are leaving the state.
The only thing you can do is focus on your own districts so that at least there are semi-sane people surrounding the nuts that California keeps sending to Congress.
evergreen on April 29, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Represent, y’all!
Rae on April 29, 2009 at 6:55 PM
When she speaks without blinking and eyes wide open, I am reminded of that girl from Georgia, the runaway bride who pulled that hoax. Both of them show visible signs of crazy.
sherry on April 29, 2009 at 6:56 PM
ex-Baltimore mayor’s daughter offering advice?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Christien on April 29, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Crap!! it was right the first time, arrrrgghhh
SeanTate5 on April 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Yup. And now, there’s no one else to blame. It’s all yours, Stretch. You best tread carefully.
It would depend on what they’re “moderate” about. If they’re big spending, big government, moral socialists … buh bye now.
Rae on April 29, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Nancy doesn’t have a clue. She pals with lefties, she’s surrounded by lefties, she reads nothing but lefty literature. When she and her friends are finally thrown out on their asses for going too far, they’ll all have a surprised look on their faces and have only one question. “What?”
GarandFan on April 29, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I have no regard, nothing in common with this lunatic left woman.
She’s nothing to me.
Republicans should do everything possible to defeat and to destroy this witch. Any Republican who does not and who works with this scum of the earth idiot, needs to be thrown out of office.
NoDonkey on April 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Nancy Pelosi cares as much about the needs of Republicans in America as she does unborn children. (Or the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church for that matter.)
Which is about as much as she cares about accountability for Democratic corruption.
Which is to say, yeah not that much.
Threshing Flora on April 29, 2009 at 7:19 PM
F*** you, Nancy.
bluelightbrigade on April 29, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Sometime in the distant future, when we least expect it, something actually intelligent sounding will come out of Nancy Pelosi’s mouth. Until then, she is a blithering idiot.
Most powerful woman in Washington? HA!
pilamaye on April 29, 2009 at 7:44 PM
@#$%!
CP on April 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Really? Silly bitch, I hadn’t noticed.
Spiritk9 on April 29, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Seeing that face is a grim reminder that I should have invested heavily in botox.
jdkchem on April 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Lady Sings the News: “That’s Pelosi!”
♫ Who will pay back this debt,
How will we ever get
Past Peolsi… ♫
Rae on April 29, 2009 at 8:48 PM
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