Rush to Pelosi: It’s time to go
posted at 4:35 pm on May 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Not only is it good strategy, it’s a matter of feminist pride. All kidding aside, I wonder if gender politics aren’t helping to keep the vultures at bay for her. If she’s pressured to quit, Steny Hoyer would likely replace her, and having the first woman Speaker muscled out in favor of a man wouldn’t be very progressive at all. Then again, The One’s almost certain to name a woman to the Supreme Court so he’ll get plenty of cover from that. Fire photon torpedoes!
You’ll be pleased to know that the Speaker of the House’s charge that America’s intelligence bureau is serially corrupt made it all the way to page A-18 of the New York Times today, so if there are any Times readers stumbling across this post, you might want to check our archives to get caught up before listening. Exit question: How bizarre is it for conservatives to be demanding her resignation for prevaricating about a policy they support full-throatedly? I know, I know — “it’s not that she condoned waterboarding, it’s that she lied” — but if the left forces her out, it won’t be because she’s a weasel. It’ll be because she didn’t have the moral acuity to throw caution to the wind after 9/11 and shrug off the odds of more attacks all so that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed wouldn’t be pretend-drowned. Click the image to listen.
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Thanks for sharing that, kid.
Limbaugh doesn’t need a job. He could walk away from his radio gig today and never have to work another day in his life.
You’re obviously jealous because you’ll never be able to do the same.
Del Dolemonte on May 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Fixed it for ya.
Now go away, the adults are talking.
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
If this dim bulb were a conservative Republican, her bones would already have been picked clean.
ddrintn on May 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Someone needs to put a ba-ba in its mouth and put it in its
cribswamp.blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Man, what I think we have here is a troll seriously off his game today. We are all discussing a compelling story about political corruption, national security, the CIA, etc and the best you can come up with is to snark about Rush’s past addiction to pain pills? Its almost as if you have nothing to add to the actual conversation at hand. Truly sad days indeed.
Zetterson on May 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Drug addict needs to get off the radio. He is in no position to talk when sober people are talking. Drug Limbaugh will never get a good job if he wasn’t on the radio because most good paying jobs require DRUG testing.
He will fail miserably
nice343 on May 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
That includes the presidency.
itsspideyman on May 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
I agree that it would be better for her to stay right where she is but discredited and wounded and weak so that Dems like the ‘Blue Dogs’ might be tempted to not vote in lockstep with her demands and split their caucus.
CommentGuy on May 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
racist troll is racist.
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Me thinks it needs a diaper change too.
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Trolls use tree bark for diapers. Good luck with that!
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Drug addicts are firmly within the liberal protected identity class, but not when they don’t play ball.
btw, substitute women, blacks, gays, etc. for drug addicts in the sentence above and it still is true. Amazing.
JiangxiDad on May 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM
If the left forces her out, it might simply be because they’re genuinely concerned about (arguably) the second most powerful person in the United States being in a borderline psychotic state. This honestly might be less a political issue than a psychiatric one.
From a purely partisan standpoint, though, wouldn’t it benefit the GOP to keep the disturbed socialist woman around? I’m sure the people at large have been comfortably sheltered from yesterday’s little shock-drama, but in the event things get weird enough to not sweep under the media rug, which they really might, her apparently deteriorating state of mind can’t be a good thing for her party.
For my part, though, I’m not sufficiently partisan to believe now is the right time in the history of this land mass (I’m not sure “this country” is the correct phrase anymore–I don’t know what country this is) to have a mentally unstable person holding the legislative till.
Blacklake on May 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM
She needs to go. It must be shown to these a**wipe politicians that there are consequences for putting yourself before the country. Republican and democrat.
Vince on May 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM
+1
gatorboy on May 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
They’ve got a great victimhood machine going. Brings me back memories of good ol’ Tammany Hall
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
The libs control the psychiatric profession. It’s much more likely a new disorder designation for people like Ms. California is created, than Pelosi’s mental stability is questioned. Be very careful of the state’s ability to decide what is normal and what is mental illness. I believe the psychiatric hospitals in paradises like the USSR and Cuba were full of political prisoners deemed mad by the state.
JiangxiDad on May 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Wow…
BigWyo on May 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
that was an offensive statement. Why must you take the Lord’s name in vain?
unseen on May 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
The Democratic Party is having what I call a classic Pogo moment — like when Pogo famously says, “we has seen the enemy and he is…. us! Looks like they’re snared in their own show trials. Where has reason gone?
littleguy on May 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Truly bizarre. But they’re Democrats, so it’s to be expected.
Buy Danish on May 15, 2009 at 5:31 PM
governor pelosi?
http://www.polmachina.com/?p=260
ranchoforte on May 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Remember when Pelosi would stand right next to Bush and then right in front of him say what a terrible president he was???
George Bush is laughing his ass off in Dallas right now….
I can hear him from here.
izoneguy on May 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM
That’d be assuming that her job doesn’t really mean anything. Bad things can happen when a person this unhinged is in a position this powerful; and those things will be bad, regardless of the purity of your partisanship.
(Again we see Rush putting country over party, although in this case it’s most literally a no-brainer.)
notropis on May 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM
nuff said
maintenanceman on May 15, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I agree that we are better off with Pelosi occupying the office for all kinds of reasons (barring the Presidential succession problem), but Republicans need to be on record calling for her resignation.
pedestrian on May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM
I’m with you. She should stick around as long as she possibly can. The more she talks, the deeper her foot goes in her mouth.
Jim Treacher on May 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Are you assuming he’s in the military? I know how you like to attack those types.
TTheoLogan on May 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Actually, Rush talked about his addiction on Thursday’s show relating it to the liberal addiction for power. At least he’s admitted his addiction – will Speaker Pelosi admit hers? Doubt it.
Mr_Magoo on May 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Poor lil nice. Chances of it being able to sit on it’s arse the rest of it’s life, and live off of others, is at risk.
The difference honey, between you, and Rush is…intelligence, of which you have none. Compassion…of which you have none. A job, of which you either don’t have, or don’t want. And love of country. Something you obviously know nothing about.
capejasmine on May 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM
That’s possible……….
………. but don’t forget she is third in line for the Presidency of the United States.
Seven Percent Solution on May 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Snotty lil fella. . Sounds a bit jealous and scared
at the same time. . . . What a baby.
Texyank on May 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I’m confused what exactly is Ethical lying?
heshtesh on May 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
At this point? Anything a liberal says.
capejasmine on May 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM
When a Democrats lips move?
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM
So don’t forget Nancy. When you somehow get Obama, and Biden impeached….you’re up next! ;)
capejasmine on May 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
ROFL!!! Great minds, think alike :D LOL
capejasmine on May 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM
We are demanding her resignation after hearings to last through the summer in order to preoccupy the House so that it won’t be able to pass cap n trade or socialist medicine or another shamnesty bill this year. When the enemy is seriously wounded you don’t allow the enemy to go back to recover so that she/he can come back somewhat recovered with guns blazing. You finish off the enemy. You don’t know what can happen in a year’s time or so. Republicans should be plastering this all over Nancy’s District.
It is not odd to be demanding her firing over her lies on a policy we support. She lied about supporting the policy lambasted all republicans for supporting the policy libeled our fine men and women by calling them torturers and then libeled the CIA by calling them liars, and implying they were perjurers and intentionally misled Congress. We demand she go, eventually, like around Thanksgiving, so that we have a pro American Speaker, not an anti american loony tune Speaker. We need to get rid of her because she should not be in the line of succession to the highest office in the land. We saw with the President and Biden, that they travelled together in violation of protocol. Imagine if some terrorist got advanced word that Biden and Obama were traveling to the pizza joint and was able to blow the place up. Nancy would be the Acting President now. Could we afford that?
eaglewingz08 on May 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM
You fools actually thought your people were clean on this. ROFLMAO! Not only did they know, the encouraged more. Only Leftist fools bought their feigned ignorance. They play you idiots like fiddles and you still come back for more. Sad pathetic lot.
TheBigOldDog on May 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
When questioned about Larry Craig’s bathroom “footsie” incident – Bob Beckel had this comment …
“Those who live by ‘family values’ … die by them”
**Democrats have no problems with Homosexuals who play footsie in airport bathroom stalls – in fact, they covet their votes. However – they lit onto Craig because of his hypocrisy.
We have a similar case here with Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats live by the “Terrorist’s Rights” credo. Well, more importantly they lived by the “Do anything to make Bush fail in the war on Terror” credo – and here we have Nancy Pelosi – who had a chance to uphold that credo for her base – and she failed to do so.
The fact is … the speaker has been at the FOREFRONT of public criticism of the Bush administration for it’s terror fighting tactics. Now here she is – complicent in them!
It’s beautiful man.
She needs to be crucified if she doesn’t go willingly.
Let me remind you – TRENT LOTT was forced to resign as Majority Leader of the Senate for saying these words at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party …
Through some extrapolation – that statement was taken to mean that the country would have been better off racially segregated for all these years. In fact – Lott was simply saying something nice about a very old guy who was about to die.
But he was forced to resign for it.
Pelosi has done much worse. She has pointed an accusing finger at the Bush administration for actions she endorsed through her silence. She then LIED about knowing. Now she’s LIEING about the CIA not telling her.
She needs to go – she’s done far worse than Lott did.
HondaV65 on May 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Panetta is also a disgrace and needs to go.
elduende on May 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM
So is, and does, Obama, but that ain’t gonna happen for at least another 3.5 years.
notropis on May 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM
she’ll be fine democRATs are SUPPOSED TO LIE…its what they do, its ALL THEY DO…
and their lemming voters are the stupidest creatures on earth…easily led…
right4life on May 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Hear, hear!
progressoverpeace on May 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM
nice:
I am not a huge Rush fan by any means, but he is right a lot more often than he is wrong. And he is right about Pelosi.
And your constant references to his problems with drugs is ridiculous and judgmental and sanctimonious.
Terrye on May 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I also think that if this were the Republican party, people would be talking about who was going to get frog marched out of the Capitol building.
But the Democrats? Not so much.
Terrye on May 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM
She won’t resign. She’ll choke to death on her foot first.
boomer on May 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
I agree. This is too much fun.
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Wait for it…
Whatever dries the tears, darlin’, whatever dries the tears.
(btw, Rush cries tears of joy everytime he reads his contract…can you say the same?)
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Palomino has hoof n mouth disease. Yeah! That’s it!
capejasmine on May 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Gotta get some more popcorn. Watching the lefties twist themselves into pretzels is hard work. My ribs hurt from the laughing.
GarandFan on May 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Pepto? Pepto is for wimps! I don’t need no stinkin’ Pepto…
…don’t need it ’cause I take Prilosec twice a day! LOL
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
When a Democrat President lies under oath to a Federal Grand Jury about sex.
Despite the fact that the same President’s Justice Department had already successfully prosecuted another Federal employee (a woman, no less) for doing the exact same thing.
That would be the same Justice Department that confirmed that Iraq and al Qaeda were working together a full 3 years before 9/11.
Del Dolemonte on May 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM
A Botox drink? Sort of like a Grasshopper, except that you wipe it across your forehead and let it run into your eyes.
hachiban on May 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
NO! NNNNNOOOOOO!
She is the best vote-getter of the GOP.
We need to prop up her regime, I mean speakership at least til we sweep in with a new batch of young’uns in 2010.
Then if we the GOP is the majority, she steps down automatically.
Milk this cow for all we can get.
Sapwolf on May 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
hey thats an INSULT to cows!!!
right4life on May 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Rush has an audience of millions. Nice can’t get an audience with the local wino down on the corner.
Yoop on May 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM
All I could think about is “shrinkage.” ;o)
techno_barbarian on May 15, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Finally Rush gets something right. I only wish he and Pelosi would elope and disappear.
lexhamfox on May 15, 2009 at 7:10 PM
TGFR!
(Thank God for Rush)
This Pelosi-thon was already unbearable two weeks ago.
Of course, Hoyer might actually be worse, in the sense of destroying the country by actually getting things done. So it may be best to hold our noses and take our Tums now.
J.E. Dyer on May 15, 2009 at 7:12 PM
This whole mess is amazing to me… she’s ashamed that she supported the right thing to do. She’s denying that she was ever that patriotic.
mankai on May 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM
He’s lost huge amounts of weight before and even managed to be relatively svelte for several years in the 90s.
The Left never acknowledged it or skipped a beat in calling him fat.
Kensington on May 15, 2009 at 7:25 PM
The lovable little fuzzball does know how to stir the pot. And the beauty part is that partisan hypocrite Pelosi, who made her rallying cry one for a “truth commission” is an absolute stranger to truth.
Pelosi has done so much damage to our country with her rabid politics and overweeing ego that divisiveness is her middle name, no matter how much she coos about bipartisanship.
HondaV65: You sum up quite well why this woman needs a day of reckoning. She protects her own party members from valid ethics inquiries. The frosting on the cake is the image I have of her sincerely wearing a scarf out of respect when she traveled to Syria against the advice of the State Department.
onlineanalyst on May 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM
I don’t know, Jim. Sure, it’s great to have such an obvious fool in her position, but how often do we get the chance to make one of these b*stards choke on their own corruption?
Kensington on May 15, 2009 at 7:27 PM
That is the pitiful irony. The Lefties want her turkey neck for being supportive of aggressive interrogation, and for Madame P, it’s all politics all of the time.
onlineanalyst on May 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Why is it that trolls like not nice can never come up w/a logical thought and always think their snarky attacks are profound. Notice he/she does not stick around to debate. If I had one suggestion(respectfully) for HA is that I wish the poster’s call sign was at the top of the post so I could more easily skip past it w/out getting irritated and causing myself to feed a troll.
arnold ziffel on May 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I think she should resign because her credibility is now zero. From the looks of things, she’s never going to recover it.
However, it has nothing to do with her being a woman.
AnninCA on May 15, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Frankly, I wish he’d pillory her and beg her to stay on and fight for her job. Why should she be singled out. Rush should tick off the names and offenses of the others in her party and beat the culture of corruption drum.
Acorn could be hired through the muscle for money program to intimidate other law makers and members of the CIA….
There’s a lot of gold to be mined here.
Fight Nancy! Fight!
moxie_neanderthal on May 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I agree. I am surprised Rush hasn’t implemented another Operation Chaos as he did with Hillary.
diogenes on May 15, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Milk this cow for all we can get.
Sapwolf on May 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Pelosi is a disgrace, but I agree we need to keep her around definitely good GOP material.
Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Rangel, Schumer, Murtha, Franken etc. will be gifts to the Republican Party … the gift(s)that keeps on giving.
We need to milk this herd for all it’s worth.
redridinghood on May 15, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Rush is worth $400 million. How much are YOU worth?
Loser.
newton on May 15, 2009 at 8:10 PM
There once danced a bitter old bitch
Who’s botox prevented a twitch
She lied to the world as the truth was unfurled,
and her future she surely did ditch.
cannonball on May 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM
There once danced a bitter old b-itch
Who’s botox prevented a twitch
She lied to the world as the truth was unfurled,
and her future she surely did ditch.
cannonball on May 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Time to flood Nancy “Plastic” Pelosi’s congressional inbox with words of encouragement.
The country will follow you Nancy but they need to see you fight! You need to be more acerbic and more strident in your defense! Don’t be afraid of being confrontational! You’re at your best when you are lashing out!
Make your surrogates heel and strong arm the fence sitters with an aggressive defense. Spare no one!
We believe you Nancy!
moxie_neanderthal on May 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM
izoneguy:
heh
Blacksmith8 on May 15, 2009 at 9:32 PM
It was bad enough this poor excuse for a human lied about the CIA briefing. She compounded that by saying she didn’t complain because she was too busy trying to make sure the dummycrats defeated as many Repubs as possible in order to assume power. How dare she fail to do the job for our country that she is supposed to do instead of trying to benefit herself and the Socialist/Marxist party she represents.
Nuts4koi on May 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM
She(?) lied
To take its seat, it must be recalled or charged and convicted of TREASON
It cannot be allowed to reign as speaker.
Does anyone remember “Censure”? Magua’s belly would warm to watch it squirm because it doesn’t get to vote.
Never Again!
Blacksmith8 on May 15, 2009 at 9:39 PM
mine does not, and if they tested around here nobody would be employed very long. We self-medicate in order to watch the trolls self destruct and take our country with them.
and i bet i made 4x what you did last yr skippy.
so get off your mom’s computer, get a job, and earn some respect instead of demanding it
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on May 15, 2009 at 9:43 PM
You are exactly right.
cjs1943 on May 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Allah, where’s the love, man?
I’m timestamped at 7:42am with my essay this morning, “New York Times, Nation’s “Paper of Record,” Rejects Frontpage Coverage of Pelosi Scandal”!
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-york-times-nations-paper-of-record.html
Check your inbox, bro!
Donald Douglas on May 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Pelosi’s problem now – if indeed she either supported or acquiesced in the interrogations back at the time – is that she is either a gutless creep for not having the courage of her former convictions, or she’s simply trying (and not too well at that) to take political advantage.
Whatever the case, she needs to go.
seanrobins on May 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM
I guess that’s why these Leftists have so much time to spend out protesting…because drug testing has kept them on the dole.
seanrobins on May 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM
What do you think is happening right now? Let her choke in the midst of all her fallen brethren. Let them gasp at the stench. Watch them scatter and snarl.
Jim Treacher on May 16, 2009 at 1:32 AM
I disagree with Maha Rushie and Mr, Newt too
As long as Nancy Pelosi keeps maintaining her foolish lies, the GOP will probably make even bigger gains in 2010 than in 1994.
Keep it up, Nancy! The GOP is rooting for ya!!
ToddonCapeCod on May 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Dear goopers, what a shock, pillboy himself calling for Pelosi to resign. I’m sure the Democrats want to take advice from an overweight,thrice divorced, ex drug addict, partisan hack, neocon. We wait in anticipation for the grand wisdom that Jobba the Hut dispenses with every day. Better bring more than pillboy to this fight, he’s just another rightwing loon that Americans quit listening too long ago. Only the hardcore koolaid drinkers still worship at the feet of this hatemonger. Hey Rush, how’d that Operation Chaos work out for your party? The gop got spanked in 06 and 08 and what do they do in response? They give more credibility to a man who has driven away moderates and independents. But hey goopers, if you insist on going deeper into the political wilderness, by all means, be my guest.The gop continues to alienate anyone that critiques the party, even the party faithful! As their numbers shrink, all thats left is the wingnutty of the wingnuttiest, total loons. All the while totally ignorant of the self-destruction. So goopers, do you think that if you prove Pelosi lied, that somehow that will stop your freefall? You might win a news cycle or 2 but after that your problems will still all be there, they ain’t going away.
athensboy on May 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Pelosi comes off like a baseball player who denies steroid use. Despite her gigantic muscle growth, hitting twice as many home runs, her trainer seeing her inject, her dealer admitting he sold it to her, her teammates and manager noticing the injections in the locker room, her husband divorcing her from all the ‘roid rage.
“No, I never did steroids. Everyone else is lying.”
Riiiiight
76United on May 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM
It would be nice if “Nice 5:04 PM” understood the full story.
Rush told the truth about his problem, sought professional assistance using his own money, and recovered.
Nice 5:04 PM represents what is wrong with the current leadership in Disfunction Central D.C. He speak untruths without bothering to find out the facts and follow up.
MSGTAS on May 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM
“Nice” handle
2ipa on May 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Oh, I don’t know. Package says good to 25 pounds…
2ipa on May 16, 2009 at 11:06 AM
We need a better quality of trolls. ‘Grow Fins’ was doing well yesterday. He/she was actually making arguments instead of trolling. “Nice,” however, probably is incapable of that. Too bad.
baldilocks on May 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
I think anyone receiving a government check should be required to undergo mandatory drug tests in order to continue getting that paycheck. This would include all those who are unwilling to work to receiv their paycheck (ie: Welfare).
Yes, this is off on a tangent, but I couldn’t help it. I work for the government and I am willing to submit to a drug test. It’s in my work agreement.
Mike
Hammie on May 17, 2009 at 10:56 AM
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