Pelosi and the Tea Party ‘Share Views’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party. The speaker now says she shares views with movement she dismissed last summer as being “Astroturf” – her suggestion that the grassroots of the Tea Party were a creation of the Republican Party.
In a “This Week” interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, Pelosi said, “We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop. And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy, whether it's on health insurance, whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest.”
Pelosi held to her skepticism about what is behind the movement. “Some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters,” Pelosi said. She also added that, “Some of it is hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns that we have about the role of special interests.”
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Read full exchange HERE:
VARGAS: Let's talk a bit about the coming elections in November. You had recently– and the Tea Party movement, do you think it will be a force to be reckoned with? You had said last summer that it was a faux grassroots movement. You called it the Astroturf movement.
PELOSI: In some respects it is. Uh-huh.
VARGAS: Is the Tea Party movement a force?
PELOSI: No – No what I said at the time is, that they were — the Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party. And so there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots.
But, you know, we share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop. And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy, whether it's on health insurance, whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest.
VARGAS: So, common ground with many people in the Tea Party movement.
PELOSI: Well, no, there are some. There are some because they, again, some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters. Some of it is hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns that we have about the role of special interests and many Tea Partiers, not that I speak for them, share the view, whether it's — and Democrats, Republicans and Independents share the view that the recent Supreme Court decision, which greatly empowers the special interests, is something that they oppose.
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I would love to hear a representative of the tea party movement give their analysis of Pelosi and her connections with special interests.
Posted by: Rueuhy | February 28, 2010, 8:44 am 8:44 am
What a lying sack of you know what!!! Pelosi is such a hypocrite and sleazy politican. So she was going to clean up corruption in congress, but now says that Wrangel taking trips to the Bahamas paid for by corporations is not a “matter of national security” so she doesn’t think he should step down from the powerful position he uses to garner the corporate perks. Saying she “shares many of the Tea Party’s views” is the most ridiculous thing that has ever spewed from her ridiculous mouth. If her face hadn’t had so much plastic surgery, you could tell when she is lying by facial twitches, etc. Now you can only tell by the fact that whenever she opens her mouth, she is normally lying or exaggerating.
Posted by: z350tom | February 28, 2010, 9:26 am 9:26 am
I agree with Nancy that today is Sunday!
Posted by: Bob McDougal | February 28, 2010, 9:29 am 9:29 am
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party.” Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (*wiping tears from my eyes) Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Posted by: ncpilot09 | February 28, 2010, 9:36 am 9:36 am
Bwahahahah hahahaha bwahahaha
If I was in this woman’s family, I would be utterly embarrassed. Why in the world is she Speaker of the House? What sort of world is it that the Democrats pick HER to be their leader? And they say Palin is stupid? Palin is Marie Curie compared to Pelosi and Maxine Waters.
Posted by: VinceP1974 | February 28, 2010, 9:38 am 9:38 am
Pelosi “fights the special interests” while taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of their contributions every year for campaigns that she wins in landslides. Her top two donor groups: lawyers and the health care industry. Fire the Republicrats.
Posted by: ShannonInCT | February 28, 2010, 9:47 am 9:47 am
Toto, I get the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore…
Posted by: Shoe | February 28, 2010, 9:49 am 9:49 am
Pelosi is stupid? On Fox they just asked a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin (Paul Ryan? I think) if the Dems had the votes to pushed a health care reform through the House. He said they did not but added, “Don’t underestimate Pelosi – she can muscle the votes and make deals.”
I would add that it was Pelosi who pushed through changes in House rules where the sponsor of any bill has to disclose if any beneficiary of that bill contributed to his campaign. The Senators of both parties were happy to pass a resolution allowing them to block us from seeing that info on Senate bills.
So if you want to scream about corruption (and I agree there’s an awful lot to go around with both parties), I’d start with someone besides Pelosi. She’s no angel, but there are a lot worse!
Posted by: The_Mick | February 28, 2010, 9:51 am 9:51 am
When a politicion isn’t out campaigning and kissing babies,they’re stealing the kiddies lollypops!She claims to lead the most ethical congress in history.Only In her dreams.What is fact is that she runs the least approved congress in history.So please Mrs. Speaker Pelosi,keep on flapping your gums and enrage the voters just a little bit more.
Posted by: sarge1075 | February 28, 2010, 9:52 am 9:52 am
Amend the constitution to bar corporations / lobbyists and from donating to Pacs and campaign activities. They caused the meltdown and drained the treasury.
Posted by: justanotheropinion123 | February 28, 2010, 9:56 am 9:56 am
I am a supporter of President Obama and a middle of the road Dem.Pelosi is NOT sharp…her opening comments during the healthcare summit were completely disjointed and she came off as a stammering idiot.Being able to fog a mirror must be the only qualification to become Speaker of the House!!!
Posted by: StaceyIN | February 28, 2010, 10:02 am 10:02 am
To The_Mick:
She may not be alone, but she certainly is instigator and “Center of Gravity” when it comes to corruption……
Posted by: Devil_Wolf | February 28, 2010, 10:03 am 10:03 am
This just proves how out of touch Nancy P. is. What a joke!
Posted by: Liberty4all | February 28, 2010, 10:03 am 10:03 am
OK, perhaps I was a little harsh with my first comment about Pelosi but my goodness, this person is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives!!! How can we have allowed our federal government fall into such an utter state of embarassment? I never posted comments in the past but I can’t help myself when such idiotic statements are made by such idiotic people.
Posted by: z350tom | February 28, 2010, 10:06 am 10:06 am
What’s next? Hitler was a nice guy?
Posted by: Kevin | February 28, 2010, 10:06 am 10:06 am
Thanks Nancy for showing us once again how completely out of touch you are with the American people. It’s a shame that the 3rd most powerful person in this country is constantly speaking out of both sides of their mouth on every issue that comes up to her. Nancy let your “Yes” be a yes and your “No” be a no. Start there with your life.
Posted by: ScottCGA | February 28, 2010, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Nancy Pelosi is a junk yard dog…
Posted by: LongT | February 28, 2010, 10:12 am 10:12 am
Question: Is there ANY Democrats out there that like this woman?
Posted by: ajax | February 28, 2010, 10:12 am 10:12 am
Watching the PANEL DISCUSSION on ABC….they have 4 EXTREME LIBERALSLiz…Cokie…Sam….Krugman and one MODERATE George Will…..
Fair and Balanced???? Ya Right…
Where is Laura Ingraham???? Michelle Malkin??? Andrew Breibart??or Ann Colter??? Frank Luntz??? or Glenn Beck #1 WATCHED SHOW on Cable?? 3rd in Radio!!! ALL INTELLIGENT people WHO KNOW WHAT the MAJORITY of AMERICANS THINK and WANT!!!
Instead we are SUBJECTED to an ECHO CHAMBER of LIBERAL THOUGHT…trying to PASS as “MAINSTREAM”…What a JOKE!!!!!
Posted by: Irish23 | February 28, 2010, 10:12 am 10:12 am
Disgusting. The Tea Party Patriots have become a force to rid the country of elitist, imperial politicians like Nancy Pelosi. She has absolutely nothing in common with us; she is the antithesis of everything we stand for. I cannot believe she would even attempt to somehow co-opt the grass roots appeal we have generated. ‘She’s just a horrible person’ looks more and more like a very true statement.
Posted by: BubblerDad | February 28, 2010, 10:13 am 10:13 am
I wanted to comment, but I’m to busy laughing…Pelosi has something in common with the tea party…now I’ve heard everything!
Posted by: samhiguchi | February 28, 2010, 10:14 am 10:14 am
Why isn’t CHARLIE RANGEL in JAIL????
He has LIED about his TAXES to the TUNE of over $500,000.00 HE OWES US…THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!
Suppose the NEWS MEDIA will HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE…????
NOT on ABC..NBC…CBS….CNN…
You have to WATCH FOX to GET THAT!!!!!
Posted by: Irish23 | February 28, 2010, 10:17 am 10:17 am
Good grief you mean for all these years Iv’e had the wrong read on Pelosi? Man do I feel dumb, I can only hope now she will remain speaker for a long long time.Pack your bags Nancy you will be clearing out your desk in just a few short months.
Posted by: bornyesterday | February 28, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Elizabeth Vargas is hopeless. I’m pretty sure she’s not supposed to let Lamar Alexander lie through his teeth without calling him out on anything. Did she do any prep at all?? Does she understand any of the issues?? Gwen Ifill for This Week!
Posted by: Sabine | February 28, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am
What a laughingstock this entire government is.
God forbid you should be a foreign country that is depending on us for your security. We’re in the hands of the most self-destructive, ignorant, stupid people in the history of Earth.
If we survive the upcoming decade it will be a miracle.
Posted by: VinceP1974 | February 28, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am
political move to co opt tea party movement. Just hope no one falls for it.
Posted by: Bruce Emory | February 28, 2010, 10:31 am 10:31 am
If anyone can really believe that Pelosi is speaking with truth and conviction its really time to wake up! This administration is going to drive this country into a ditch that we, our children and our grand children will NEVER be able to get out of. All I can say is the Republicans better get their acts together and DON’T THINK FOR ONE MINUTE your gonna get voted back into office unless you start listening to what the majority of americans truly want. And it you really don’t know what we want yet I suggest you start using all of the tools at your disposal to get the information. Our politicians have to remember they all work for us and it is about time they get the message…..
Posted by: Middle ground | February 28, 2010, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Please don’t EVER again have Elizabeth Vargas as a guest “moderator” as she doesn’t know the role she is required to play on this program. She was noticeably mild when interviewing Pelosi, much more agressive when interviewing a Republican senator, (icing on the cake : questioned the senator about what he thinks needs to be done to fix Congress and how to pass the “sweeping changes that need to be made”). Who said that sweeping changes need to be made? Was this a leading question? I have one thing left to say : PLEASE bring back George!!!!! WE MISS YOU!!!!!
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:34 am 10:34 am
She is a progressive liberal statist from a state that is going broke because of its welfare and regulation excesses. What could she possibly have in common with people like Ron Paul? What does she now want to ride the Tea Party bandwagon. What are people in San Fran thinking? She should go back to Copenhagen and waste some more taxpayer dollars.
Posted by: Huh | February 28, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Oh, and a big PS : Elizabeth Vargas is serving up 3 lefties and George Will on the roundtable today. She has absolutely no ability to be impartial. End her 15 minutes of fame…at least on this show which is clearly not her ideal platform.
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
WHAT ABOUT GOLDMANS SACHS SPECIAL INTEREST WHY AREN’T THESE CROOKS IN JAIL OBAMA CHANGE HAS COME THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED NOTHING BUT LIES
Posted by: mike | February 28, 2010, 10:36 am 10:36 am
And, don’t get me started on Sam Donaldson…what a moron! What a shallow thinker! I can only imagine what’s going through George Will’s mind when Sam opens his mouth, as he has no compunction in doing so. Embarrassing.
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:37 am 10:37 am
Vargas. Thanks for trying, but you can’t fix stupid.
Posted by: James L. | February 28, 2010, 10:42 am 10:42 am
It would be great if the Tea Party movement could kick all of the bums out of Washington, but do they have any candidates to put up other than retreaded Republican airheads (Palin) and xenophobes (Tancredo)?
Posted by: ShannonInCT | February 28, 2010, 10:44 am 10:44 am
First of all I’d like to point out that Speaker Pelosi’s comments make total sense…. to Nanci Pelosi.
When Democrats want to get a large group of people out to protest for or against an issue they hold dear they call on their Union supporters and get a large group of Union members with their friends and family, get them all matching T-shirts and placards, and march en mass to what ever event they need support at. The protesters are provided with transportation (buses), food, and in some cases I’ve read that they’ve been paid.
If this is the way Democrats routinely do business, why wouldn’t Republicans?
Secondly Pelosi, and most politicians, define special interests as favors the opposition gives to their supporters. Therefore the billions The Speaker wants to transfer to “green” energy companies and the trillions spent to little or no effect to cure poverty, or stop drug use are not special interests, they’re good policy. A few million spent here or there to pay for daycare or preschool run by churches however would be a special interest and a bad idea.
The only thing Pelosi and the Tea Party movement have in common is that they don’t give a damn about the Republican party.
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out this November Mrs Speaker, I will miss your vapid, skeletor like smile scaring all the children on the evening news.
Posted by: Lostkiwi | February 28, 2010, 10:44 am 10:44 am
The next time, I would love to hear Nancy Pelosi say,
“We’re willing to listen.”
Posted by: Liberty Jane | February 28, 2010, 10:46 am 10:46 am
she is a joke. she thinks wasting tax mopney on her new plane, trips to copenhaggen for her crew,and rangle is honest.. give me a break, she is the personification of sleze. we are broke now, and she wants a new entitlement program for 50 million on the backs of working or retired taxpayers. Her own state is an example of socialism, and a bankrupt system.
Posted by: bigalyourpal | February 28, 2010, 10:46 am 10:46 am
Elizabeth Vargas is not impartial, and she should not be the moderator on this type of program. She was gentle while interviewing Pelosi; aggressive when interviewing the Republican senator; has 3 leftist guests on her roundtable and readily supports their viewpoints over those of George Will. I miss you, George S!
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
My favorite idiot Pelosi comment was at the health summit when she said this pork filled health bill would add 400K jobs… bwwaaa haaaa haaaa ONLY if all of those jobs are IRS tax auditors! Oh wait – I think one of them was slotted for another personal pilot to be on standby for her as well.
Posted by: clr | February 28, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
May God help our country when we send people like this to represent us in our Government we have them in the GOP also its time to clean house.
Posted by: bill blueman | February 28, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
Some very positive comments here. I could only add Pelosi MUST GO.
Posted by: traillu | February 28, 2010, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Astor-turf… Really. So she is either sucking up now, trying to playing them, or is confused. Pretty much all of these.
Posted by: TX_MBell | February 28, 2010, 10:50 am 10:50 am
“The Tea Party groups are really just followers who are being led by religious, radical, right-wing ultra conservatives who have the real purpose of protecting rich elitists.”
Actually, that’s not completely accurate. Tea Party members are a mix of a wide range of groups. I’m sorry that those you know are uninformed, but those I know are very well-educated and informed.
As for your comments on people who don’t know how to think for themselves, please do show me how the democrats (and republicans, for that matter) can think for themselves and are, in fact, not the sheeple you claim the tea partyers are. You can claim this for any large group of people who have the same viewpoint. It may be inaccurate, but you can claim this, nonetheless.
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:53 am 10:53 am
This is the media’s president and the media’s congress. The mainstream media iis completely out of touch with the American people and they wnat their elists, liberal agenda passed. At this point mainstream media is no better then a propaganda machine of Washington, D.C. and the democratic party.
Posted by: Amy Jo | February 28, 2010, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Sorry, Nancy, you don’t have anything in common with the American People, period, yet alone the Tea Party movement!
You come across as a skitzoid (sp?) with no basis in reality. I am sorry for you and your family.
PLEASE, California, do not re-elect this thing!
Posted by: Nancy | February 28, 2010, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Epiphany : Elizabeth Vargas is on 20/20…ahhhhh, so that’s why John Stossel left. It all makes sense.
Posted by: Christina | February 28, 2010, 10:59 am 10:59 am
What a show This Week. Liz and Nancy have milk and cookies. If this is a representaion of news or journalism, I hope ABC fails. You should be emabarassed, the media in America now serves the Democratic Party, not the people. Pravda, does better reporting than the American media. Let’s level the round table with two conservatives and two liberals along with your liberal mediator.
Posted by: Randy | February 28, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am
Three words: Pelosi is a liar. She will do anything to keep the socialist party in power.
Interesting note, she and her husband are worth over 35,000,000 dollars. In all their businesses, not one has union members; yet the unions support her. Interesting.
Posted by: Rick013 | February 28, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am
“Astroturf”? Is that because she likes walking all over us taxpayers? I don’t believe this women lives in our universe. Of course, I say this about many of our elected officials on both sides of the isle. Give me Kucinich and Ron Paul. Exile people like Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, etc.
Posted by: Ben | February 28, 2010, 11:07 am 11:07 am
Obama should have never try to tackle healthcare or any other major issue until he brought justice to America first. The first thing he should have done is hunt down every banker, politician, CEO, and especially the Bush Crime Family who brought down our nations economy and did crimes against mankind. These treasonous scoundrels should have been executed just like Benedict Arnold was over 200 years ago. If he would have done this then he would have set the tone for the country. Until he wanted to be Casper the friendly ghost by handing the Republicans an olive branch.
Posted by: cony647 | February 28, 2010, 11:07 am 11:07 am
Obama should have never try to tackle healthcare or any other major issue until he brought justice to America first. The first thing he should have done is hunt down every banker, politician, CEO, and especially the Bush Crime Family who brought down our nations economy and did crimes against mankind. These treasonous scoundrels should have been executed just like Benedict Arnold was over 200 years ago. If he would have done this then he would have set the tone for the country. Until he wanted to be Casper the friendly ghost by handing the Republicans an olive branch.
Posted by: cony647 | February 28, 2010, 11:10 am 11:10 am
Okay, assuming I’m not related to, or friend with a candidate, here’s my general voting sequence, beginning with
NO and working to a tepid YES:
Pelosi
Idiots
Dems
Reps
Tea Party
Libertarians
Posted by: Spiro | February 28, 2010, 11:11 am 11:11 am
Yoohoo? Earth to Nancy! You and your corrupt parties agenda is what planted the seed for the tea party movement, and they have absolutely nothing in common with you elitists democrats. You really should get out more Nancy, and get a taste of reality. Unbelievable!
Posted by: rkm63 | February 28, 2010, 11:11 am 11:11 am
cony647-I agree, instead Obama put many of these crooks on his economic team. The bailouts are unconstitutional travesties. No one has paid with their jobs or jailtime. Blankfein should be taken out with Hellfires, not Osama. Our country is fast become a broke joke. Corporate fascism is the problem. Ron Paul represents the solution.
Posted by: Huh | February 28, 2010, 11:12 am 11:12 am
She is really sickening.
And to say that anything “TEA PARTY” is connected TO any political party – proves how out of whack she is…
Posted by: COMMONCENTS | February 28, 2010, 11:16 am 11:16 am
The good thing about having “liberal” and “conservative” media outlets is that the liberal and conservative bums on both sides of the aisle have someone exposing their hypocrisy.
Posted by: ShannonInCT | February 28, 2010, 11:19 am 11:19 am
I mentioned corporate fascism. Let me elaborate:
Goldman Sachs = Federal Reserve = Treasury
This presents a major conflict of interest problem for all of us. Other similar ominous equations:
Monsanto = USDA
Pfizer = CDC
etc.
Posted by: Huh | February 28, 2010, 11:22 am 11:22 am
I am always in amazement of the Speaker. It is not the Senate’s fault that bills do not get passed/Poor Harry Reid and his time management challenges. So I guess the fact that Harry Reid cannot manage his time is the other sides fault. They have now spent 15 months on HC and we are not further along. Even Sen Byrd(Democrat)said that Reconcilliation should not be used for that. But as always they blame everything on the Republicans unless they need them and then the repsonse is that the Republicans always did it that way. I guess no one sees the irony of that
Posted by: Karla | February 28, 2010, 11:23 am 11:23 am
She has shown again and again that she is full of it. Just like Obama she will say anything she thinks will help her, while doing the opposite. If she wants to impress someone she should start by parking her jumbo jet party plane that tax payers are paying for and fly commercial like everybody else.
Posted by: sensible99 | February 28, 2010, 11:23 am 11:23 am
How could you have kept a straight face with an answer like that?
Posted by: mike | February 28, 2010, 11:23 am 11:23 am
I do not understand why the Tea Party would even give the likes of Pelosi the time of day. They are the only viable movement working to counteract the destruction Pelosi and her kind (from both parties) have brought on this nation.
What bothers me about the Tea Party is that they did not stand up when George Bush and the Republicans, with the consent of the Democrats, repealed the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act, then invaded Iraq while the string of lies used to sell the war were proved to be false one right after another. They did not stand up when the Bush administration unilateraly made torture a legitimate tool of empire, nor did they stand up when telecoms tapped all our phones, tracked our cellphones, and sent all the information to the FBI and CIA. They still do not under any circumstances want to investigate the truth of what occured on 9/11/01 or bring to justice those who were involved.
But when they perceived it to hit their pocketbooks, they stood right up. Ron Paul was right. This Tea tastes funny.
Posted by: Tom | February 28, 2010, 11:27 am 11:27 am
Perhaps Pelosi is not keeping up with the news, because Democratic President Barack Obama, not the GOP, made the backroom deal with Big Pharma, and others, and such backroom deals is a source of disgust to most tea party activists. Further, Obama also lined up almost all of the Fortune 500 behind his cap and trade plans, hardly evidence of Democrats fighting special interest influence. Pelosi also omits any reference to the Democratic kowtowing to unions, who after all are also special interest groups using big money in politics, and Obama most recently evidenced his undying allegiance to unions by placing a pure union political operative, SEIU boss Andy Stern, on his “bipartisan” deficit commission.
Finally, any claim that the Democrats and Obama are trying to combat special interest and big money influence was made inoperative by Obama’s appointment of Julianna Smoot as his White House Social Secretary in the wake of Desiree Rogers’ resignation in disgrace over the party crashers debacle. Julianna Smoot was the President’s chief fundraiser for Obama 2008, and as such was the main point of contact for Obama’s bundlers and big money donors. Now, as Social Secretary, Smoot is in charge of controlling access to the White House, which can only be seen as “good news for wealthy donors to President Obama’s campaign, for whom Smoot — the chief campaign fundraiser — is friend and point of contact.” Smoot also has close ties to convicted bigwig Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu as Hsu was “one of the most reliable donors from her tenure as finance chair for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.”
Posted by: AHFF Geoff | February 28, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am
Nancy Pelosi appears to be arrogant and condescending, from what I’ve seen and heard of her over the last year. she is also very political and knows how the games is played in Washington. I hope and pray the people vote her out next time and put in someone who really listens to people, not just the ones that agree with her, doesn’t make judgements on those who disagree or blame the other party, and who doesn’t act as though she is the authority and expert on what is the right thing for people to do. She tends to forget she is a public servant and not a diva in power as she seems to think she is.
Posted by: Acharka | February 28, 2010, 11:30 am 11:30 am
I once saw a Chuck Norris interview in which he told the interviewer that he would like Ron Paul to take him to Congress and point out the ones that are corrupted by special interests. Norris would then proceed to apply a roundhouse to their faces. It seems they should start in the CA section.
Posted by: Huh | February 28, 2010, 11:30 am 11:30 am
If the Senate will do the business of American people…use reconciliation…The replublican senate needs to recognize that they are not in majority…like during the Bush era (they had their chance)…Democrats have the majority we have a democratic president…so pass Health Care. The american people want health care and they want democratic reform now
with a public option.
Posted by: RP53 | February 28, 2010, 11:35 am 11:35 am
WOW! This woman is w/o limits to her insanity.
Posted by: HA! | February 28, 2010, 11:38 am 11:38 am
RP53-Dems should ram their stuff through, make it law, and then proceed to further bankrupt the country. Your right dems were elected, they should fulfill their mandate. A Ron Paul type will eventually be elected to reinforce the constitution when debt finally brings us to our knees.
Posted by: Huh | February 28, 2010, 11:39 am 11:39 am
This woman is two heartbeats away from being President of the United States.
Posted by: ironchefofmunchies | February 28, 2010, 11:43 am 11:43 am
This weeks political round table, from start to finish, was a joke. Elizabeth vargas couldn’t ask the tough questions of the speaker. When I hear a question and answer session where the person responds ….huh..huh…huh…you try to draw them out. Vargas certainly did not do that. As far as the round table went…roberts and will are the most informed and knowledgeable. donaldson, moreal and Krugman are too boring and too partisan. have you ever heard krugman agree with an opponent’s idea (especially if he was a republican)?
Posted by: coach13thcab | February 28, 2010, 11:52 am 11:52 am
This is a person whose stupid remarks on anything important is only exceeded by her look-at-me-and-see a grinning-soon-to-be runover possum-like-looks in the headlignts of a pick-up truck. The vacuum she creates by the need for a replacement as Speaker is at max wind-tunnel speed.
Posted by: ken holback | February 28, 2010, 11:54 am 11:54 am
I think they missed her face and injected botox directly into her brain
Posted by: StarveTheBeast | February 28, 2010, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
she’s fanatical
Posted by: MomGrandma | February 28, 2010, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
Wow a politican reading the polls and acting accordingly. What a shock!
Posted by: jafo | February 28, 2010, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
yeah right!
Posted by: LongT | February 28, 2010, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
Isn’t the healthcare bill a big win for special interests? What is she on?
Posted by: rusyix | February 28, 2010, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
This person that claims to be one of the leaders of this country is so far how of touch it’s mind blowing. She must be smoking some of her San Francisco stash.
Ms Pelosi, Stop the spending, Stop big government, Let the capitalist system do its thing, make money and jobs.
I am Spartacus and I am the Tea Party leader
Posted by: chatmandu002 | February 28, 2010, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
Yes she share the views of the TEA party, right and why did you let her get back with that comment, Elizabeth? You handled this interview as if you were Martha Stewart sharing recipes. You should have asked Nancy about the deep seated resentment toward her deals, call for her resignation, Nancy’s amnesia about CIA briefings, why she hasn’t reprimanded Rangle for tax evasion and bribes and her definition and misuse of the word “transparency”.
Posted by: temple62 | February 28, 2010, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
As insane as Pelosi is, there is an element in the Rebuclican party that is just as responsible for our current state od disaray. Lets weed out that group of RINO’s and we’ll be able to put Pelosi, Reed, Obama and the rest of these imposters out to pasture
Posted by: desdog | February 28, 2010, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm
Are you kidding me? Part of the reason the tea party was created was to get rid of politicians like her! It is shameful she would attempt to hi jack this movement to serve her own political agenda. This is almost as bad as Joe Biden trying to have his administration take credit for ending the Iraq war. What a bunch of corrupt hypocrits. Don’t worry their day of reconsiliation is coming!
Posted by: Artoro | February 28, 2010, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
ABC’s Carolyn Tyler stated that the healthcare bill was being held up in Congress by the Republicans. Actually it is being held up by the Democrats who have a majority
Posted by: src | February 28, 2010, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
IN ALL THE POSTS I HAVE READ NOT ONE PERSON HAS SAID ANYTHING ABOUT HOW GOOD PELOSI LOOKED IN HILLARYS PANTS.
Posted by: rking | February 28, 2010, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Meanwhile her henchmen at the Times and other political operatives are out in force calling the TEA parties ‘The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged’ and trying to tie the TEA Partiers to Stack and Timothy McVeigh We know the drill Obama, Reid and Nancy pretend you are above the fray and are extending the olive branch while your ‘Rahms’ do the dirty work. Despicable.
Posted by: Ferrari5858 | February 28, 2010, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
Irish23 10:12 AM – Gee, you just described the entire format of Fox and their big “fair and balanced” routine. It’s always a stacked deck. You really should not complain when the other side uses what you support daily. Hypocrite much?
Posted by: Secondlook | February 28, 2010, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm
I hope the tea party movement surges in the future. I’d love to see every politician that has whored himself/herself to any group that does not have our best interests at heart DISMISSED! I’m a tea party activist who happens to be a registered Democrat, and Nancy Pelosi is NOT one of us. I wouldn’t support the tea party activists if she were part of their group.
Posted by: Joe Democrat | February 28, 2010, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
I had to listen to the (Vargas)abc interviews of Pelosi and Alexander and the round table discussion with roberts, will, krugman and moreal; again to really see how bad this whole hour of television really was. Alexander certainly outclassed Pelosi (as he did on Thursday) and Will, though out number certainly was more effective in his arguments than Krugman. I’m getting tired of these democratic experts who tell me that I will like the bill when I see it. How can you place a trillion dollar excise tax on the American people in 2018 and say that it is a good thing; and put a future congress and presidential administration in the position of defending it or repealing it? This is ludicrous. How can these democrat congress people say that “a majority of americans like some of the things in the bill” yet want to pass a monstrosity of a bill that goes above and beyond what is agreed. The operative word is some. How does Donaldson defend the cutting of 1/2 a trillion dollars from medicare, to create a new entitlement and say that is saving money because we are taking out the 15 cents per dollar that goes to medicare advantage. Weren’t some of the deals created to keep medicare advantage in states like Florida and others? This media and the political forces assume that we are stupid and will roll over and play dead. This man needs to retire aned collect his lucrative benefits.
Posted by: coach13thcab | February 28, 2010, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
You have GOT to be kidding! The queen of lunacy claims common with the Tea Party movement? This woman is so far out of touch with realty that it scares me. Pelosi’s use of the Air Force as her personal airlines, her refusal to do the will of the people, her personal power agenda and her incoherent rambling babble are signs of mental derangement. Queen Pelosi doesn’t give a rat’s patut about what is good for this country; she is only interested in what will further her party and her own circle of power.
Posted by: John | February 28, 2010, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
This woman just keeps getting more insane by the day. It’s like Hamas saying that they have alot in common with the Jews.
Posted by: Cronk | February 28, 2010, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Just like your typical liberal, Nancy Pelosi states that it is the special interests in DC that the Tea Party’s movement is about–or at least in part, when it was so clear that this wasn’t the dominating issue in them. They were/are about governmental reckless spending, hence the signs “Stop Spending Our Children’s Money” and others re taxes.
Anyway, I will give liberals credit for their mastery of side-stepping issues and deceptive practices.
Posted by: Dianne93101 | February 28, 2010, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
Vargas should be ashamed of herself. She is no journalist, just another lapdog of the democrats. Shameful interview, letting Pelosi get away with that utter nonsense.
Posted by: Jack B. Nimble | February 28, 2010, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
If you tjhought that was bad on ABC, Meet the Press was a joke. 5 Liberal’s against 1 Eric Cantor, he never even got a word in.
Posted by: Edith | February 28, 2010, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Vargas is as corrupt as Pelosi
Posted by: Jack B. Nimble | February 28, 2010, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm
Vargas is a fraud
Posted by: Jack B. Nimble | February 28, 2010, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
the Tea Party Movement is not a grass-roots of the Republican nor Demorats, PELOSI… the Tea Party Movement is too remind you Senators and Congress that the AMERICAN citizens are tired being victimized by high taxes in the name of special foriegn interest so you can help the illegals and union employee HACKS… you know PELOSI that you democrats are all sold out to special interest especially the unions hacks that finance your campaigns…
Posted by: JEEP4X4 | February 28, 2010, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
If Ya can’t beat them then join em right Nancy? Well join them long enough to stab them in the back. Tea party people watch your backs they are trying to fit in and confuse people with the rhetoric talk but so far it is failing keep them out and away.
Posted by: K JUDGE | February 28, 2010, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
The absolute best thing the Democrats can do for our country is pass this healthcare bill. Than we will done with these liberal freaks for decades and we will repeal this very poor bill the president is jamming down our throats.
No more Pelosi, Reid, Franks, Dodd, Shummer, Franken, etc. I most likely misspelled theses names but so what they are not worth the time to look up.
So please pass this bill it’s a deal just to get rid of these sleazy politicians. 3 more years and Obama will be gone thank God. What a mistake we in America made.
Posted by: A Citizen | February 28, 2010, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
i guess the tea party movement has got
those liberals dogs scared
Posted by: dave carollo | February 28, 2010, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
OH NO looks like PELOSI needs more botox…PLEASE somebody tell this FRAUD to SHUT UP….it’s Bush’s fault that lady became the speaker of the house..sound familiar? IT’S ALWAYS BUSH’S FAULT, OR LET ME MAKE MYSELF CLEAR…YES our teleprompting president’s favorite quotes….
Posted by: JEEP4X4 | February 28, 2010, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
Last year we were Nazis, un-American, radicals ,zealots, red necks …now Nancy is sucking up to us because she is afraid. We are the disgruntled Hillary voters – remember us – the ones you drove from the DNC when you and your radicals hijacked the party so you could push your radical Obama into office while spitting on Hillary. The Clintons left office with huge surpluses for AMERICA and they could have turned this country around in 14 months but you all had to have your Obama.Well look at you now …mmmmm.mmmm..mmmmmm Now we have joined with others who are disgruntled and many of them are also fine upstanding American citizens who love our country and work hard. How dare you diss us– you arrogant old out of touch with reality San Francisco fool.A hypocrite who wants to keep taking from hard working Americans to keep giving it to the illegal and the lazy who feel entitled to Government handouts for a lifetime. Sooner or later you will run out of OUR money. Your day is coming soon Nancy.
Posted by: junglejim123 | February 28, 2010, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
peliesi has had too many face lifts; her brain has gone into a delusional states. – my comment also rings true with peliesi’s comment that she has held the most ethical congress ever. geesch. this woman has got to be on drugs.
Posted by: disenchanted | February 28, 2010, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Pelosi is so stupid they need to develop a new class for her for it is unfair to all the stupid people in the world to be lumped in with her.
Obama is not too far behind her.
Posted by: A Citizen | February 28, 2010, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
I have always liked Pelosi, long before she became speaker of the House. I followed her progress for years, and still think she is one of the greatest women in politics.
As for repubs, especially health car, they are going to always say: Let’s scrap the reform, start for scratch and let US write it in order to keep the systems just as it is: bankrupting decent hard-working Americans.”
No thanks, Pelosi should get it done, whatever it takes. You folks will eventually thank her and the democrats just like those on medicare & SSI do now.
Posted by: C.A. | February 28, 2010, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
This woman is delusional. She is exactly what Tea Party supporters are opposed to . . taxes, spending OPM, and government interference in our daily lives. How can anyone so dumb have been elected as Speaker of the House by the Democrat caucus. The only think I can figure is the caucus is even dumber than Pelosi.
Posted by: Okolehao | February 28, 2010, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
Frankin’ Freak !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dude | February 28, 2010, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
What a vile, venal woman.
A few short months ago she was calling for Tea Partiers to be put on terrorist watch lists.
She’s toast and she know it.
Posted by: Lorianne | February 28, 2010, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
You people are being to hard on Nancy. At least she tried to smile. That’s difficult to do when you’ve had a lot of botox injections.
Posted by: Fay | February 28, 2010, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
You all know we have to get out the vote and remove these socialist, Satanic and power mongers out of office. The press would also be smart to side with the people on this one or loose their capitalist control over there own business.
Posted by: Robert M | February 28, 2010, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
nancy the communist,god help us all
Posted by: commander | February 28, 2010, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
I think the Botox has finally gone to her brain if she thinks SHE, of all people, can jump on the Tea Party’s bandwagon!
Posted by: Phydeux | February 28, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
oh Nancy Pelosi, on top of being an ego, greed driven horror, you now suffer from delusion.
Posted by: Pat | February 28, 2010, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
Nut-job tea-baggers should put their money where there mouths are. Stop using any service provided by government if you hate it so much! Stop driving on public roads, using hospitals (almost all use public funding to some extent), if your house is on fire get your garden house, forget collecting Social Security or Medicare. If your house is robbed, well too bad. Military? Form your own, we need you nut-jobs on the front lines (like a hole in the head.)In other words, stay at home or join the military. Real Americans don’t want you using what we pay for to have a functioning society.
Posted by: DAB | February 28, 2010, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
It’s a good thing she has a cadillac health care plan for life, she’s certainly going to need it with the symptoms of dementia already so apparent. Maybe Harry will pass a senate resolution renaming it Pelotia.
Posted by: formerdem | February 28, 2010, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Speaker Pelosi’s military travel cost the Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
I don’t think she shares much for the “Tea” viewpoint … but it sure sounds like she knows how to “Party”!
Posted by: ThatsNice | February 28, 2010, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
The tea party movement will fail if it gets co-opted by people obsessed with wedge issues (immigration, abortion, gay-rights, unions, religion). Focus on “the economy, stupid” or your candidates won’t win any elections (if you put forth any candidates).
Posted by: ShannonInCT | February 28, 2010, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Wow, what she won’t say to suck up for a vote, doubt she will be getting much form the Tea Party. SHRINK GOV’T, BALANCE THE BUDGET AND TERM LIMITS. The recipe for saving the country, Nancy.
Posted by: cardiodude | February 28, 2010, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Posted by: sarge1075 | Feb 28, 2010 9:52:00 AM
Amend the constitution to bar corporations / lobbyists and from donating to Pacs and campaign activities. They caused the meltdown and drained the treasury.
I agree just as soon as the Unions are barred from donating to Pacs and campaign activities. They ruined our competitiveness and destroyed our businesses.
Posted by: Lets be fair | February 28, 2010, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Yeah, that Lizzy Vargas is one hard-hitting journalist, all right.
Maybe she could do a fashion photo shoot just like that other ol’ multi-millionaire, Katie Couric.
Cutting edge!!!
Posted by: merle | February 28, 2010, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Pelosi and her army of socialists is the reason why American citizens need to hold a Constitutional Convention in stripping our federal government of its tyrannical laws over the sovereignty of our states and individual liberty. 1000’s of Agencies that have grown out of control need to be scraped. Laws attributed from these agencies need to be revoked. Tax laws need to be abolished and replaced with a small flat tax for every citizen and business.
Send these dysfunctional socialists a message and vote for someone whom understands the constitution and the roll of being a civil servant, we need representatives that promote individual freedom not those who are ignorant of liberty.
Posted by: Dr. Cyclops | February 28, 2010, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Oh! And did she invent the internet also?
Posted by: GTR5 | February 28, 2010, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Pelosi is a drunken idiot! Women in general should protest against her. Humanity should protest against her.
Liberals: All the substance of a soup made by boiling the shadow of a chicken.
Posted by: Jub | February 28, 2010, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Just remember Pelosi is from California. The State that is totally broke and will be the first one to declare bankruptcy.
How’s all that liberal spending and attitude working out for ya now??
Posted by: Jub | February 28, 2010, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
How kind of Miss Nancy to embrace the movement that is out to unseat Washington Insiders. Glad to see Tea is winning them over…at least until they’re fired in November.
Posted by: TheSavageNation | February 28, 2010, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
I think she’s been drinking way too much booze on those military flights she takes every week. She’s plum loco. I thought the tea partiers were astro turf Pelosi. Wasn’t that what you said last year you plastic faced (and brained) mannequin.
Posted by: Knute | February 28, 2010, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Pelosi’s botox is filled with crack! Pelosi is to Tea Party as Tree is to Outer Space.
She is a ridiculous excuse of a person and a politician. But I forget, she comes from flaky California. If that state dropped off into the Pacific, wouldn’t miss a thing.
Posted by: My_Prerogative | February 28, 2010, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
Pelosi, you are the epitome of everything the TEA Party activists (and just about everyone else) detest about politicians and government in general. Fortunately for you, you are way too dimwitted to even realize it. Thus your pathetic, hamhanded attempt to curry favor with political activists you and your craven, sleazy leftist friends disparaged and demonized up until now.
Posted by: Ken | February 28, 2010, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Wow..Pelosi is admitting she is a racist Nazi? and that she is astroturf or fake? Didnt she say they reminded her of the violent protestors in San Francisco during the Harvey Milk demonstrations? I guess she was hiding her true feelings and beliefs very well.
Posted by: James | February 28, 2010, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
SHE MUST BE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA OR UNDER TREATMENT BY MICHAEL JACKSON DOCTOR.
Posted by: jorge | February 28, 2010, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
Obviously Botox can affect brain functions used to perceive reality.
Posted by: jggg | February 28, 2010, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
PS What’s the appropriate phrase? Oh yeah, “Begone Satan!”
Posted by: jggg | February 28, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
What she has in common with the Tea Party is that she was around for the original boston tea party in the 1700′s.
Posted by: shadowman | February 28, 2010, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
DAB,
You said “Nut-job tea-baggers should put their money where there mouths are. Stop using any service provided by government if you hate it so much!”
I’ll be MORE Than HAPPY to stop using those services… just as soon as I stop having to PAY for them. For example, refund ALL of my lifelong contributions to Social Security AND Medicare, as I haven’t used either, and I can reinvest those contributions to take care of MYSELF in retirement.
Now, you nut-job left-wingers should put MY money where YOUR mouth is. Stop using any Government services that YOU don’t pay for, with YOUR own money!!!
Posted by: Laughing_All_the____Way | February 28, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
How can people be so negative about Palin and stomache Pelosi? Pelosi has to be one of the dumbest people in Washington but still #3 in line to be president. That is scary!
Posted by: Gwen | February 28, 2010, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
Nancy Pelosi shares views with the Tea Party? This Linguini spined woman shares nothing in common with the Tea Party. She should know that there are plenty Tea Party members in her district and growing stronger everyday, it won’t matter how much money she takes from special interest when shes up for re-election. Speaker of the house, no wonder the world laughs at us.
Posted by: Tim Keating | February 28, 2010, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
She has to go!! And please don’t send her back to California
Posted by: irishrose | February 28, 2010, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Nancy Piglosi as about as much in common with the Tea Party patriots as I have in common with Barney Frank and Barack Obama. She is the Speaker of the House that proclaimed that it was “un-American” for America to enforce its Immigration laws.
Posted by: LechDharma | February 28, 2010, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
The fact that Pelosi is NOW pandering to Tea Partiers (who she previously admonished as being dangerous right-wing extremists) speaks a lot about the movement legitimately representing the majority of Americans.
Posted by: LechDharma | February 28, 2010, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
Unbelievable…Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!
This “deer in the headlights” vacant person is actually “Leader” of the House?
Posted by: Chris Petty | February 28, 2010, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
Pelosi is a pathetic joke, as a politician. She is nothing but a blind servant to Obama, even when he is dead wrong.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | February 28, 2010, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
Special Interest Groups. She wouldn’t be talking about the tuna company with its headquarters in San Fran would she.
The only company that does not have to adhere to the new federal minimum wage law. Especially in American Samoa, wouldn’t have anything to do with her husband owning $17 million in stock of said company.
But then again what do I know. I’m not a member of congress and don’t really know what’s good for me or my family.
Posted by: paco27 | February 28, 2010, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
I can only speak for myself as a Dem and cant stand this hypocritical House Speaker. I imagine many Dem’s feel as I do. She is not nor will be a part of a solution and only adds to the problem.
As far as her and the Tea Party. Thats the best joke I have heard in a long time.
Posted by: AW | February 28, 2010, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
This woman has totally lost touch with reality. I don’t know if it’s senile dimentia or too much botox, but either way, can you believe she is THIRD in line for the Presidency? What a truly scary thought. Thank God she won’t be re-elected. Now, all we have to do is STOP her from her own personal scorched-earth policy of destroying this country on her way out of office!
Posted by: Karen Grube | February 28, 2010, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
Nancy Pelosi makes no sense at all. What a stupid person.
Posted by: steph | February 28, 2010, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
I think it’s great that she feels she has to say she has something in common with them — that means they are much more influential than she would like. This is good, very good.
Posted by: Chiara | February 28, 2010, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
Speaker Pelosi is attempting to neutralize the TEA Party. She is the one who called TEA party activists “astroturf”. You saw their attempts to neutralize with reports of the TEA Party Convention. This is a dangerous woman who will distort facts.
Posted by: CopyKatnj | February 28, 2010, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
I don’t think the Tea Party would agree with Pilosi using a VERY large jet to travel to San Francisco at a VERY large cost. She is completely out of touch with people below the rank of US Congressperson. She is way below any of us common people with her elitist ways.
Posted by: Bob Fields | February 28, 2010, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
One of the most important tenets of the Tea Party movement is adherence to the Constitution. I’d be interested in hearing the Leader of the Democrat-Socialists views on that.
Posted by: 5466ron | February 28, 2010, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm
Well gee Nancy, the Democrat Party gets a lot of its ideas from the Communist Party so what’s the difference ?
Posted by: 5466ron | February 28, 2010, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
Why should she be any different than any other s***bag politician? They will do or say anything to make themselves look good. Those days are over! People know their game and they will be held accountable. Vote everyone of them out of office asap. THEY WORK FOR US!
Posted by: mudshark | February 28, 2010, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
Two words for Madam Speaker:
“YOU’RE FIRED!”
(come Nov)
Posted by: LauraBoatright | February 28, 2010, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Nancy makes Hillary look good.
Posted by: windbreaker | February 28, 2010, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm
Elisabeth Vargas is a keeper! Is she David B.? Is she George S.? No. she’s better! No more trial hosts! Get her here, not on 20/20!
Posted by: Randal Howland | February 28, 2010, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm
I believe Pelosi and the Tea Party Share somethings in common, like breathing, and eating, and sleeping. Doubt there are many other areas in common.
Posted by: Larry Andre | February 28, 2010, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
So if the Republican Party hijacked and is orchestrating the Tea Party then who are the Democrats controlling — ACORN? Oh, I’m sorry, they used them and their crocked politics just to get Obama elected! I can only hope that by voting for her health bills she’ll lose her job! She needs to retire and move to Europe to get some of that free health care.
Posted by: Steve | February 28, 2010, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
Dokdo is part of KOREA.
Posted by: dokdo | February 28, 2010, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
Nancy, ohhhhh Nancy! Come on now! At least when you tell a lie, you tell one big enough that everyone knows it’s a lie
Posted by: fedupwidit | February 28, 2010, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
all commander in the whitehouse,god help us all
Posted by: commander | February 28, 2010, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm
She was just impressed of how many Tea Party posters carried her image and not so nice things to say about her!
I am astroturf to her and this astroturffer will work to see her unemployed in November.
Posted by: Craig | February 28, 2010, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
I shudder everytime this woman opens her mouth. Time for a complete overhaul come election time!
Queen Pelosi wasn’t happy with the small USAF C-20B jet, Gulfstream III that comes with the Speaker’s job … OH NO! Queen Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat, 200-seat, USAF C-32, Boeing 757 jet that could get her back to California without stopping! I understand that a former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, flew commercial most of the time.
Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone of what Queen Nancy’s Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American tax payers, literally thousands of gallons of fuel every week.
Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California every Friday and returns every Monday, at a cost to the taxpayers (YOU and ME are those taxpayers!) of about $60,000, one way!
As Joe put it …..”Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night and that costs us another $60,000!” Taxpayers, that is $480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to us of $5,760,000!!!
No wonder she complains about the cost of this war … it might cramp her style and she is styling on my back and yours. I think of the military families in this country doing without and this woman, who heads up the most corrupt Congress in the history of our country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing. This doesn’t include the cost of the plane or the crew.
Queen Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires. Who do these people think they are??? Their motto is … Don’t do as I do … JUST DO AS I SAY!
Posted by: hadenough | February 28, 2010, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm
Unlikely that Pelosi will be voted out of office. She consistently wins her district in landslides. Tea Partiers can’t win in San Francisco since their ideology is too closely tied to homophobes and xenophobes.
Posted by: ShannonInCT | February 28, 2010, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party.” >>> RE WRITE history is all what these people are about. Only thing is TEA party people have a BRAIN -vs- the followers of Nancy Pelosi. My GOD why didnt the interviewer just laugh in her face. Pelsoi is everything thats wrong with the Democratic party and politics. This CONGRESS NEEDS TO GO !!! The TEA party needs to REBUILD these once great parties by KICK OUT THE crooks and degenerates like Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: ChicagoBob | February 28, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
Exactly what type of lunatic votes and supports a complete loon like Nancy Pelosi?
How did we come to be governed by bat crazy mental patients like Nancy Pelosi?
Look, if you are supporter of this lunatic, Our children deserve better.
Posted by: LogicalUS | February 28, 2010, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
Pelosi is just an example of the people who voted for her.
WAKE up America..
I am sure they are all just like Pelosi.
They are cunning liars with no honor or integrity.
Pelosi is a buffoon but I am sure so are the people in her district she represents otherwise why would she still be in office. God knows I would be ashamed to have her as my representative.
Posted by: ChicagoBob | February 28, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
Think your life is bad?
You could be Mr. Pelosi.
Posted by: Sandcrab1612 | February 28, 2010, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm
Pelosi will suffer massive losses in the 2010 election and with Reid gone, the democrats will be beside themselves to think that the American people do not buy the garbage that they and Al Gore are selling and America will take back the country from the liars and reverse the horrible healhcare that Obama has crammed down our throats. Long live the Tea Pary as they take back the country from the left wing Progressive or communists or however they wish to be called in retirement!!!
Posted by: rockychance | February 28, 2010, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm
Translation:
“I’m getting off of the left wing while I still have a job.”
Posted by: oonogil | February 28, 2010, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
I have no idea how any self respecting human could even give nancy pelosi a high five. this human is a total dolt, and it is an unfortuante downfall of the democrtic party.
Posted by: Jim | March 1, 2010, 12:33 am 12:33 am
nancy pelosi is nothing at all, GOD help us all.
Posted by: Jim | March 1, 2010, 12:41 am 12:41 am
So where are the Tea Party candidates that are going to defeat the incumbents in November? The Tea Party tries to take credit for GOP victories, but those people are just bandwagon jumpers like Pelosi. If the Tea Party is just a wing of the GOP, Pelosi was right. Show us the Tea Party candidates!
Posted by: KyleKim | March 1, 2010, 12:47 am 12:47 am
Speaker Pelosi: You are an ass.
Posted by: Hobart | March 1, 2010, 1:39 am 1:39 am
Doug Keller sounds like a typical wedge-issue Republican in some respects. He equates repealing don’t-ask-don’t-tell with Marxism and a danger to the fabric of our society. He says there’s no evidence of man-made global warming. On the other hand, he supports gay rights and environmental stewardship. If he wants to get elected, he should avoid the confusing messages on wedge issues and heed Bill Clinton’s advice, “It’s the economy stupid.”
Posted by: KyleKim | March 1, 2010, 2:27 am 2:27 am
I, too, noticed that it was three liberals and one conservative on the panel discussion. What’s with that? Boring.
Posted by: karenm | March 1, 2010, 2:34 am 2:34 am
This woman has a different speech for every crowd she faces. She’ totally two-faced. She is the Leona Helmsley of the congress. You know only the little people pay taxes. If the people of California reelect this woman it will show the rest of the country why they are in the shape they are.
Posted by: hkdakota | March 1, 2010, 6:22 am 6:22 am
She is a snake, figuratively. Forked tough and all.
Posted by: TX_MBell | March 1, 2010, 7:11 am 7:11 am
So since she now believes in things she does not believe in, as she trys even harder to stay in office will she resign? Her comments are way past logic, even for her strongest defender. Probably why Saturday Night Live does not spend much time on her anymore…you can’t tell where real life and comedy begins. But the scariest thing of all is that she remains in charge of the current ship of fools.
Posted by: wantingbalance | March 1, 2010, 8:14 am 8:14 am
Talk about astroturf! Pelosi saying she is against special interest groups? When the change of heart? If that’s not from outer space, what is?
Posted by: Daniel Martinusen | March 1, 2010, 8:44 am 8:44 am
Are you kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This lady is soooooo far out there you know they must be in HUGE trouble. The Dem’s now share many things that the Tea Party movement stand for…..Wow….let me sit down for this one…….Your Fired Nancy, start looking for a new job
Posted by: John | March 1, 2010, 9:06 am 9:06 am
Bahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Uh, no Nancy, you don’t. When I stand there, a lone person with my picket sign, and a fervent wish to perserve the country that I love…knowing that your ideas and policies are behind what is bringing it down…you share nothing with me other than also being a woman.
Your far left ideas stink and I want you out of office. You are what is wrong with America. I sincerely doubt we share THAT viewpoint.
Posted by: JR | March 1, 2010, 9:51 am 9:51 am
I didn’t think ABC had this many smart viewers anymore..Maybe Barbara Wa Wa hasn’t ran all the decent people off yet with her liberal agenda.Read the billboards across the Country Nancy,they say “We are coming for you Congress” and we don’t mean for lunch!
Posted by: Muddhaa | March 1, 2010, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Pelosi is an idiot. An idiot who is in control. She has nothing in common with the tea party. The very person whos mouth degraded the party is now one of them??? This lady has to go california. She is a perfect example of what is wrong with your state.
Posted by: Jim Rod | March 1, 2010, 10:11 am 10:11 am
If Ms. Vargas reviews these comments she will see what a poor job she did in this interview.
Pelosi was allowed to ramble on, saying nothing, never challenged with the absurdity of her comments.
In contrast, Vargas challenged much of what her next guest, Sen. Alexander said.
I normally do not watch “This Week”, but was interested in what Speaker Pelosi had to say.
Finally, I suggest Vargas review the interviews and see for herself the difference in how she approached
important issues with her guests.
ajbruno14@gmail.com
Posted by: Anthony Bruno | March 1, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Got a question, and look forward to hearing back from others.
Is Pelosi as ignorant as she appears, and if so, who is pulling her strings, and running the House.
It is hard to believe she was the best person to be the leader of her party. I know she and her backers have deep pockets, but still think she was a poor choice.
Thanks….
ajbruno14@gmail.com
Posted by: Anthony Bruno | March 1, 2010, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Pontius Pelosi……..the woman is a complete version of what is wrong in Washington. I may move to CA just to have the thrill of casting a vote against her. She is increasingly incompetent…………and loves to play the game.
Posted by: justj joey | March 1, 2010, 10:56 am 10:56 am
She does have things in common with the Tea Party… The fake phony tea party Harry Reid invented in order to infiltrate the REAL Tea Party to bribe their leaders and TRY to fool the peole into thinking the tea party supports ahahahahaha Harry Reid. This is the most corrupt political leaders we have ever had. Shame on anyone who voted for these people.
Posted by: SeaDragon | March 1, 2010, 11:48 am 11:48 am
I always knew Pelosi was a pandering, lying, political hack, but this remark surprised even me!! —– What a fool, is this the best mind the Dems have to place third in line to the Presidency??? Simply Amazing!!!
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | March 1, 2010, 11:52 am 11:52 am
Top tea party issues are: 1. fiscal responsibility, 2. constitutionally limited government, 3. capitalism (not socialism).
We have NOTING in common with Pelosi.
Most of all, we do not lie for political gain.
Posted by: Jan S | March 1, 2010, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
If independant voters and like minded republicans would register democrat for the upcoming primaries in their respective states,we could reaaly transform this country. Get the libs. out before the main election in Nov. Infiltrate and Overcome them with their own game. Just a thought.
Posted by: dave k. | March 1, 2010, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
Hang any politician from the lamp posts that pushes for the progressive socialist agenda– starting with obama bin laden our so called president.
Posted by: fed up | March 1, 2010, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
fed up – That sort of rhetoric will just poison the Tea Party movement. Moderates/independents aren’t going to vote for a party that talks about lynching black people or equates the President with a terrorist because of his name (when he’s ordering military offensives against terrorists). Better get rid of the loony elements (Tancredo) and the airhead elements (Palin) or your Tea Party will be a footnote.
Posted by: ShannonInCT | March 1, 2010, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
This is about as funny as Nancy saying that she’s running the most ethical congress ever (Charles Rangel) and that the last time she saw this much violence brewing under the surface (a democrat councilmen in San Fran killed Milk and the communist Jones rubbed elbows with democrat lawmakers before killing everyone in Jonestown).
Posted by: Logan | March 1, 2010, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
How would you tell since there hasn’t been a single rational idea come out of the ‘movement’. It’s essentially an ongoing political campaign. Whenever there are interviews with the people in these groups they can’t sum up a single reason for why they’re even marching around other than Limbaugh-esque blurbs like this one posted here “rid the country of elitist, imperial politicians” I suspect that like the rest of the teapartyers if we asked BubblerDad what that meant he couldn’t tell you except to say some nonsense about “Liberal Socialists”
As long as people expect little from the politicians they vote for we’ll have the government we deserve. The best thing any politician could hope for is for you to spin around in meaningless circles insulting other voters because it ensure they have to do as little as possible. The teapartyers are so twisted up in knots with with meaningless rhetoric and soundbites that eve they don’t know what they stand for.
Posted by: morethanpolite | March 1, 2010, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
HAHAHAHAAHA. Absolutely hilarious. I hope they all keep speaking the way they do, because it really empowers the actual movement going on. Nancy Pelosi shares views of the Tea Party Movement. Hahahah. Political comedy at it’s highest, or her highest.
Posted by: whoa | March 1, 2010, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Pelosi needs to just SHUT-UP—she thinks she knows just what is right for the people, she thinks we are all stupid and have no minds of our own—please just GO AWAY, and take your side kick Reid with you !!!!!!!!
Posted by: countrygirl_74 | March 1, 2010, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
OK, I was in Nashville at the Tea Party convention last month. I’m not sure who it is in the Republican Party that is handing out marching orders to us, but all I can say is HAHAHAHA!! The serious leaders of the various Tea Party organizations take their orders from no one. That is the beauty of the movement — it doesn’t have any single leader. We are ALL leaders, and we don’t care who gets the credit! While Pelosi may be telling a half-truth when she says that Tea Partiers want to eliminate special interests and that we are not happy with the Supreme Court decision, she is only half correct. Not only to we support the elimination of corporate campaign contributions (private registered voters only), but many of us also support the elimination of corporate taxes as well. The two concepts go hand in hand.
We need to CUT OFF the money flow between Big Government and Big Business. In doing so, we effectively diminish the overbearing power of both groups, eliminate the march toward fascism, and PUT GOVERNMENT BACK IN ITS CAGE WHERE IT BELONGS!
Posted by: Christine | March 1, 2010, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
countrygirl_74 = Unfortunately, she’s right. The majority of those that voted a little over a year ago WERE stupid and had no minds of their own.
The danger to America is actually NOT Obama, but rather a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be FAR easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than it will be to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate who were willing to have such a man for their president, just for the sake of “making history.”
The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the “Prince of Fools” should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely another in a ever-lengthening line fools. It is LESS likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president, based primarily on the color of his skin and his “oratory skills.”
Posted by: Laughing_All_the_____Way | March 1, 2010, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
This story is a joke, right? I thought I was reading the Onion when I saw the headline and first line that said Pelosi believes she has things in common with Tea Partiers. It is so absurd, I don’t even know how to respond.
Posted by: SoCal Greg | March 1, 2010, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
The only solution is to vote EVERYONE out!! Every politician is claiming to have similiar views to the movement. This includes Palin, McCain, etc.
Posted by: Chris W. | March 1, 2010, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
Christine – you’re all leaders. Sounds swell. But who are you going to elect? Tea Party candidates, or Republicans who will placate you now but not change their stripes? Maybe Libertarians, or are they too Godless?
Posted by: ShannonCT | March 1, 2010, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
As a member of two Tea Party Groups & as a Person who attended the National March on DC and recently helped hold a local Bonfire TeaParty what drew 4,000 people outside in 20degree weather one January day, I can say Pelosi has nothing in common with us. But the fact she is desparately trying to link up with us says a LOT!! It says we have clout and she recognises it!
Posted by: Pamela J | March 1, 2010, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm
I TELL YOU WHAT – ELIZABETH VARGAS DID A BANG OF JOB HOSTING ‘THIS WEEK’ ON 2-28-10. YOU COULDN’T ASK FOR A BETTER HOST FOR EVERY ‘THIS WEEK’ FROM NOW ON. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT HOST ELIZABETH IS THE ONE. PLEASE GIVE HER THE CHANGE TO HOST THE PROGRAM FROM NOW ON.
THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT DAY – ‘THIS WEEK’.
Posted by: SHARLIE | March 1, 2010, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
I GUESS I GOT SOME OF MY FINGERS ON THE WRONG KEYS.
SHOULD READ: I TELL YOU WHAT – ELIZABETH
VARGAS DID A BANG UP JOB HOSTING ‘THIS WEEK’ ON 2-28-10. YOU COULDN’T ASK FOR A BETTER HOST FOR ALL ‘THIS WEEK’ BROADCASTS FROM NOW ON. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT HOST ELIZABETH VARGAS IS THE ONE. PLEASE GIVE HER THE CHANCE TO HOST THE PROGRAM FROM NOW ON.
THANKS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND HAVE A
GREAT DAY – ‘THIS WEEK’.
Posted by: SHARLIE | March 1, 2010, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
A truly horrible woman…
Posted by: jj | March 2, 2010, 12:52 am 12:52 am
i support the usa and amen.
Posted by: sutter home | March 2, 2010, 2:51 am 2:51 am
Bay Area Tea Partiers want NOTHING to do with Pelosi/Obama and her Marxist/Lenninist policies. She could only DREAM of having something in common with us. Nice try Pelosi, you and your
“Mini me” Jerry McNerney are bad for California, bad for the nation. Listening to your sick and perverted lies makes the majority of people want to throw up. You are a disgrace to the nation!
Posted by: Kevin | March 2, 2010, 3:27 am 3:27 am
This is politics 101, friends.
It wasn’t that long ago that she was calling Tea Partiers ‘astroturf’, now she “shares (some of) the same ground”? give me a break.
First you discount, then you misstate their position, then you claim common views. Next is to claim she speaks (to some degree) for the movement. Classic Teddy the killer kennedy technique.
Posted by: Ruler4You | March 2, 2010, 3:39 am 3:39 am
This wench is an idiot. She is the reason for the Tea Party`s. She needs locked up as she is a psycho running loose in the streets
Posted by: Dave | March 2, 2010, 5:57 am 5:57 am
Boycott her district! Do not go to any meetings. Do not spend any money on hotels,food, ect., until the voters, whom she supposedly represents, VOTE HER OUT!
Posted by: stevemb12 | March 2, 2010, 7:52 am 7:52 am
This woman is as two faced as it gets.The queen of liars.Afew months ago she called the tea party people all kind of names and said the were terriorist.Anything for a vote-typical liberal,no values.
Posted by: james webster | March 2, 2010, 10:16 am 10:16 am
Seems to me nancy called the teaparty people grassrooters, nazis etc. Well what does that make her?
Posted by: Susan Milot | March 2, 2010, 10:23 am 10:23 am
Isn’t the leftist’s MO getting old? Call themselves what they are not; blame others for actions that the leftists do. They highjack monikers as if they’re appropriate, i.e. liberal, progressive, open minded free speech advocates. If a donkey quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, that doesn’t make the donkey a duck. Their 40 year old tactics are the only tranparencies I’ve seen in my lifetime. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
Posted by: Intellibronc | March 2, 2010, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
Every time Nancy Pelosi opens her mouth, she looks and sounds like one of Edgar Bergens DUMMIES
Posted by: Hobo Joe | March 2, 2010, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
No personal offense to Elizabeth Vargas-I like her- I think she is fine on 20/20, but “THIS WEEK” is not suited to her skill set. The host must be immersed in Washington minutia to the extent that he or she is able to contest and cross examine the guests. These interviews are not and should never be “feature” type interviews. If ABC goes with this style, it will go to third place in the ratings and stay there. I wanted to throw something at my TV listening to Speaker Pelosi recite her ridiculous talking points without interruption. My vote, as permanent host? Jake Tapper, who proved himself ably when he hosted, and by having the balls to stick up for Fox News. Or, how about bringing back Ted Koppel? And you know who did a pretty good job—i cant remember his name, but he is the younger guy with glasses. I think he works the congressional beat.
Posted by: jason stone | March 3, 2010, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm
How about another Power Panel with Roger Ailes? Even better, throw Beck or Hannity in there with Krugman.
Posted by: jason stone | March 3, 2010, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
Speaker Pelosi’s National Energy Tax Squeaks by Thanks to Billions in Special-Interest Handouts and Pet Projects
House Democrats Trade Billions in Taxpayer-Financed Handouts to Buy Votes for Pelosi’s Energy Tax
Washington (Jul 1, 2009) Last Friday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rammed a job-killing 1,500 page national energy tax through the House that will raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. In the weeks leading up to the vote, however, many Democrats were openly balking over the burdensome taxes Pelosi’s national energy tax would levy on the American middle class. Just weeks before the vote, Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) said “In my district, a ‘no’ vote would be a good vote.”
So how did Speaker Pelosi cajole her fellow Democrats into voting for what House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) described as “the most profound piece of legislation that has come to the floor of this House in the last 100 years”? With a combination of special-interest handouts, pet projects, and special exemptions for certain Democratic House Members – all financed on the taxpayers’ dime.
Posted by: Dusty | July 28, 2010, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
OMG it is a good thing that we out here in main stream America are just a bunch of idiots or we may not believe Palosi is sincere. I would like to write more but those dam Pigs are flying over my house again and they keep leaving droppings on my roof, must go clean it up. I know hard to believe right? But it is true really!
Posted by: Raymond Moore | September 19, 2010, 9:58 am 9:58 am