Reply #13: More on Pelosi... [View All]

[kay1864]

From Wikipedia:

She has been widely praised by liberals for criticism of steps taken by the George W. Bush administration in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She was a member of the Progressive Caucus until she became the party leader, when she adopted a policy of not belonging to any caucuses. <2>

In San Francisco, however, Pelosi is sometimes seen as more moderate than liberal, since she voted for the Patriot Act (which she now opposes) and authored the Presidio Trust Act, which privatized the Presidio of San Francisco.

Like most House Democrats, Pelosi opposed the resolution authorizing Bush to use military force against Iraq. She has strongly criticized the war effort since then, and introduced an amendment to the FY 2006 Defense Appropriations bill calling on Bush to specify a strategy for success in Iraq, as well as a timetable for a safe withdrawal of American troops.

Quotes:

Response to the State of the Union Address, January 20, 2004: "America must be a light to the world, not just a missile."

Referring to George W. Bush, Fox News, March 17, 2005: "Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped."

Pelosi's account of a meeting with President Bush in which she called for the firing of FEMA director Michael Brown, who eventually resigned. ca. September 2005: "He said 'Why would I do that?' I said 'because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?' Oblivious, in denial, dangerous."

Pelosi on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, November 30, 2005: "That's why they had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true."

On top of everything else, she looks kinda sorta like Geena Davis, so viewers of "Commander in Chief" would have little trouble accepting her!



(said only half-tongue-in-cheek--lotsa people see TV as reality!)