"Making them LAME DUCKS is good enough for me." - Nancy Pelosi

[alcibiades_mystery]

Me too, Madame Speaker!

With the delicious hint of emasculation, that was a brilliant statement. Lame duck those motherfuckers.

[Rex]

1. I've never seen the RW so scared in all my life.

You would think Pelosi and Hillary were going to team up and run in 2008. I hear them crying daily about how scared they are of Pelosi. All I can do is shake my head and laugh at them. Which I do, frequently.

[aquart]

6. Controlling women has always been a rightwing agenda.

Democrats have husbands and wives and partners. Republicans have little women.

[Rex]

18. You would think their world was coming to an end.

I'm not kidding, running around wetting themselves in the grocery store.

Like 'stocking up' for Y2K in 2006.

[aquart]

33. Well, tell them not to forget the duct tape.

[mcg]

17. She came from San Francisco!

She's a woman!
She's from San Francisco!
She's a LIBERAL!!!
She's probably going to be the Speaker of the House!
She shows her teeth!
She's coming after the scoundrels!

She's ... NANCY PELOSI !!!!!!!!!!!

BOOO!



BOOO!

[OwnedByFerrets]

20. Dont forget that shes also a...............

GRANDMOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG SHES A GRANDMOTHER!!!!!!!!:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[druidity33]

wait for it... wait......

is she....


a....

RAGING GRANNIE????....


:toast:

to Nancy!

[FogerRox]

40. Shes a hot lookin grand ma.

[Bucky]

36. There's one other time the Republicans were this flipped out. It was 1999

They were frantically trying to undo an election. They were desparate to try and impeach Clinton. When they did, it was by the barest of margins, almost a straight partyline vote. In the scramble to destroy Clinton, they lost two speakers in one week. Other members were ruined, shamed. The emotional torment in DC was appalling. And the country's attention was turned away from the real growing danger of Islamic terrorism. If only the could get Clinton, it'd be worth it.

Somehow they thought they had him--hoping they could pull enough Senate Democrats over to vote for removal after the impeachment. But no Democrats could see the case; they and the American public thought the Republicans had gone nuts. Clinton's approval ratings stayed in the 60s for the rest of his term. Our Republican friends often get worked up into crazed fixations. They let the politics become entirely about the game, the competition, the drive to win at all costs, and lose sight of the real object of government... to provide a safe and prosperous homeland for all the taxpayers.

They'll get worked up into dither again in another 2 years. Given a chance to govern, they failed and failed miserably. Their panic is the panic of a liar getting caught, of a child whose old excuses aren't fooling their parents anymore. It's not pretty. But it happens fairly often with this crew.

[krkaufman]

43. Great post.

The Republicans won't wait 2 years to get worked into a lather, though. If the Dems retake the House or Senate, I expect we'll see the media suddenly take out their penned-up frustrations from the previous 6+ years on whatever Democrats they can.

[AlCzervik]

2. stopping the Bush agenda and hopefully beginning the reversal of

thats all i want right.

[orpupilofnature57]

9. Impeachment is appropriate so those Duped members can start

putting this bunch straight ,Especially Cheney.We need to identify these people so their not constantly behind the scene for the next 100 yrs ,like Poppy.

[MiniMe]

53. She never said there woouldn't be hearings

Subpeona power!

[hootinholler]

3. I'm sorry Nancy, that's simply *NOT* good enough...

We are in this position because the Nixon gang wasn't rounded up, because later the Iran-Contra gang wasn't rounded up. Are you seriously proposing that we leave this boil festering on Lady Liberty's ass?

Round them up, prosecue them, jail them, for life, with Bubba.

-Hoot

[ClassWarrior]

5. Sounds to me like she means...

..."making them lame ducks" is the least we should expect.

NGU.

[HereSince1628]

11. She needs to quit cutting out possibilities she needn't run on impeachment

but she needn't cut-off its possibility either.

Better would be if she'd simply say as speaker she would restore oversight and re-establish the balance of power between co-equal branches of government that the founders seemed to intend.

Pursuit of those things is completely justifiable, but rather than taking things off the table it leaves them as traditionally have been--ready to use if circumstance demands them.

[krkaufman]

46. Oops. I totally agree. (And just posted the same darn thing below. n/t

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2455840&mesg_id=2457367

[Zybelline]

13. we're also in mess cuz Hillary et al didnt stand up to them

why didnt Dems insist on better intelligence before this war ?

how could so many Dems in Congress have been been duped, or caved in, when I and hundreds and thousands of people around the world knew Colin Powell's power point show at the UN was computer generated fiction and exagerration

[Gabi Hayes]

26. easy...911

they were AFRAID to rock the boat and be accused of being in bed with the terrorists

and they ARE TODAY being accussed of that very thing

it's all the fascists have

[Radical Activist]

15. Exactly.

There need to be hearings to at least reveal what has happened.

[wildbilln864]

30. Damn right Hoot! I agree 100%!

It's not fucking good enough for me either! These s.o.b.s allowed Sept. 11th to happen and have used it to break every law they saw fit to further their agenda no matter the cost of life, limb, and treasure! Prosecute and imprison the murderous bastards if they're found guilty! And they are!

[TahitiNut]

34. Nope. Not even close.

A failure to imprison war criminals is a stain on this nation that will endure far longer than anyone alive. Until and unless they're imprisoned for their war crimes, we are ALL complicit - a nation of war criminals without honor and without integrity.

[krkaufman]

45. Rather than jumping for the "we will not impeach" bail-out ....

... I wish the Democrats would simply state that impeachment isn't an issue. However, basic constitutionally-mandated oversight *will* be brought back to Congress, and we'll put a stop to the waste and whatever other corruption have proliferated under the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress.

(This stresses a return to much-needed oversight, and doesn't take impeachment off the table.)

[tsuki]

4. That interview reminded me why I stopped watching the networks.

Son turned to me and said "hit piece." So the Democrats are not civil and are partisan. At least when she says Bush is incompetent, it is a true statement. And the Thugees are immoral, and criminal. They own all branches of government, and they're still going to jail.

[aquart]

7. Thanks. That's what I thought.

[oustemnow]

44. well, they definitely tried their best to make it a hit piece

but Nancy stood firm and would have none of it. So proud of her.

[rodeodance]

8. see this thread also.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2455401&mesg_id=2455901

[Raine]

10. Me too!

:thumbsup:

[carpe diem]

12. who exactly is this pledge to...

I think the majority of the Ameican people want this administration held accountable, I think they want something done about this war and the price we are paying at home and abroad in blood and money and credibility as a nation. And, if the pledge is to the Republicans, why are we making promises to them about OUR agenda? If we win, they won't be in any position to demand anything of us and we need to give them a little dose of their own medicine because they will do it again the minute they get a chance.

[Bitwit1234]

14. Lame and Lamer

Wouldn't if be lover-ly.....Just think all that blow hard, lying S.O.B's regulated to the party of not being able to do anything. I hope the democrats take back this country. But I am sooo afraid that bush and his henchmen have a scheme to steal this one. The one person I wish they could find something on is rove. I wish they could investigate, indict and lock that sewer mind in the worst prison around and give him the biggest nastiest cell mate possible.

[Duppers]

16. wink, wink - we'll see about that

Tell 'em anything now, Nancy.

Two slogans come to mind:
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Hang 'em high.

JUSTICE SHOULD NOT BE CALLED RETALITATION!

[pacalo]

22. "Wink, wink" is right...

Impeachment "isn't on the table." We'll see where the hearings take us...:)

I loved Nancy Pelosi's reply to Stahl's "this is personal" slam: "We're professionals." She's also more mature than the incompetent, petulant one.

[Laurab]

35. There were no war plan's on *'s desk, either

maybe they were on the table....and maybe Nancy has something on the desk "wink, wink"! And IMO, hearings can pretty much take us only in one direction...I'm guessing to the desk...maybe under the desk - anywhere but on the table!

[pacalo]

48. When Pelosi said she wanted subpoena power, that was enough

for my ears to perk up. Oh, & can you imagine the fun when the boy king doesn't cooperate? :popcorn:

[fooj]

50. The honorable John Conyers is waiting...

[applegrove]

19. She seems pretty strong and organized. Go Pelosi!

[ixion]

21. it's not enough for me. they belong in a cell in the Hague.

period.

[ecstatic]

23. So no justice for all the dead and wounded? nt

[bridgit]

24. exactly my point elsewhere, alcibiades_mystery, end this waking...

national nightmare called g.w. bush, rend him as pointless as he is...then get on with the common good :patriot:

[Monkeyman]

25. Oversight Oversight thats what we need

Let those cards show the way.

http://democraticleader.house.gov

leave her a message impeachment will come leave that on the table so their dam base stays at home

[Hubert Flottz]

27. Of course...

if evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors are uncovered, then "nobody is above the law"!

[Gabi Hayes]

28. CNN Headline: Pelosi vows to make cripples out of Bush/Cheney!

[partylessinOhio]

29. One Nancy Pelosi don't make no show!

She does not speak for this entire country. This country has been deceived, shamed and destroyed by Bush. He gets no free pass from us. We are not about to exchange one dictator for another.

Go home and be a grandmother! We have stronger candidates for speaker, madame!

[Gabi Hayes]

31. Amen.... conyers.... waxman.... just for starters

and we haven't won anything yet

[in_cog_ni_to]

32. Once the investigations start

it will be so unfortunate, not what she wanted to "waste her time on", BUT....the repukes have left her NO CHOICE but to Impeach. She took an oath to uphold the "rule of law".... IMCPO, that's how this is going to play out.

She just doesn't want to give the repukes any new fodder before the election. That would be ALL they talk about if Pelosi said she was going to Impeach. The RW religious wacko nut jobs would show up in droves if they thought their DEAR LEADER was going to pay for his crimes.

Stay tuned. Pelosi has plans.

[drm604]

42. That's pretty much what I've been thinking.

As far as I can see, there's no upside politically to announcing plans to impeach.

Announcing an intent to impeach won't gain the Dems any votes (anyone who's pro-impeachment is already planning to vote Democratic) but it may cost them votes from some DINOs and moderate Dems who believe "it would be bad for the country".

[mmonk]

49. Then why mention it at all?

Why say it's off the table? How about, something like, "I don't an an agenda to impeach" or "I can't say what will happen"? Why say it's off the table?

[drm604]

52. Because any hint that it's even a possibility

may cost votes or energize the Republican base.

That said, I obviously have no idea what's really on her mind. I'm just saying that, IMHO, it would make perfect sense to deny it even if she has other plans.

[ck4829]

37. Nothing says Lame Duck like a bat to the knee

Politically speaking of course.

[Golden Raisin]

38. Do not put the crown on Pelosi's

head just yet. A lot can happen between now and November 7th. Rove is not going down without a (dirty) fight, nor is Diebold. Also don't forget that the verdict in Saddam's trial is to be announced exactly 48 hours before the US elections. Coincidence? I think not. If the verdict is "hang him" or "firing squad", a lot of votes will go right back to the Repubs.

[talk hard]

39. crippled ducks sounds pretty good

[ldf]

41. that was the one problem i had

with her entire interview.

screw "having the time to do it".

if justice is not served for what they have done to this country, they will have gotten away with it, and will do it again as soon as they can. it may take them another 30 years, but you can bet they will start planning on it the day after the election.

they have to be taught that this crap will NEVER be tolerated again.

ever.

:grr:

and justice is never revenge.

[mmonk]

47. This will be good enough for me:

[chill_wind]

51. After Friday's 6-Alarm Fire, lame ducks might be all she'll get.

That and a lot of smoke. Nobody can seriously think the most multi-faceted & elite intelligence agencies in the world were going to make her job easy. Or even possible.

[GeorgeGist]

54. Nancy represents ...

lame Democrats quite effectively.

[WinkyDink]

55. I like cooked geese.

[hiaasenrocks]

56. Hey, Nancy, don't get weak on us too soon.

If she's serious then she's less of a leader than I thought she was. Oh well.