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House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'

news.yahoo.com — President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without..

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  • jaybol, on 07/17/2008, -9/+27sorry - the duplicate checker was skipped when i submitted please digg this one http://digg.com/politics/House_Speaker_Pelosi_call ...
  • kithogan, on 07/18/2008, -12/+109Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid DO KNOW that Congress has a lower popularity rate than the

    President, don't they? These two petty losers have done NOTHING since winning a majority

    a few years ago. They have to be the "creepiest do nothings" in congressional history. All they

    can do is attack the President for their shortcomings...getting old
    • SOS84, on 07/18/2008, -21/+4You are a moron if you think that congress's low approval rating is for anything other than Bushie's loyal idiots blocking every meaningful legislation that congressional leadership has put out. The GOP component of congress is the one with the 18 percent approval rating. They are defying the will of the people and protecting a war criminal.
    • mfc5200, on 07/18/2008, -1/+19Agreed 100%. All they do is talk, they never get anything done.

      If I was in a room with her:

      He's a "total failure" Pelosi? Well what are you going to do about it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING because you are a coward and you are pathetic. So what then would you call yourself?
      • rblancarte, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4They have done less than nothing - they have given in to his every wish.

        God Pelosi is an idiot.
    • Grimee, on 07/18/2008, -3/+10Exactly. This is pure deflection politics. "Hey don't mind us, look at Bush. He's the idiot not us". To all of you left-wingers, please tell me what has Pelosi and company done for the country to put themselves above Bush and his administration? What's that? *silence* Yeah, thought so.

      Do you realize they're trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes and deflect the blame for everything? The sad thing is, people buy this ***** because they're so caught up in the "anti-bush" rhetoric that they can't help themselves.

      I'm no Bush proponent. But, I do see when someone is trying to pull a fast one and Pelosi and her bitches are doing just that. Wake up morons.
      • nfury8ing, on 07/18/2008, -6/+1Kinda hard when there are less than 75% Dems when the Repub's will block anything. Not that it excuses their complete lack of even TRYING, but even if they did, it would be fairly futile.
    • Meekus, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4Quite right. Checks and balances. Congress has continually approved funding for all of Bush's antics. "We need to pull out of Iraq now! Here is $30 trillion more for the war"

      All the power holders have failed us. But then again, that is running under the assumption that they were there for the American people to begin with. What they say to get elected, and what they do after they win are two different things.
    • MasterPain, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3If he is a failure & yet the democrats continue to cave in to him then what are they spineless failures ?
    • Spuy767, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4I think Pelosi, who is clearly an utter failure herself, calling bush a failure is meaningless.
    • Wavemancali, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4Dear Pot,

      ***** You.

      Sincerely,
      Kettle

  • Masternajee, on 07/18/2008, -9/+62Yeah with approvals around 14%-that is the pot calling the kettle black.
    • Solkre, on 07/18/2008, -0/+10I heard it was in the singe digits at one point.
    • DangerCollie, on 07/18/2008, -0/+15If you're talking about Congress, their approval rating is at 9%. You'd think with numbers like that anything they did different would be an improvement.

      What chaps me about Pelosi is the Democrats won big in '06, then rolled over to everything George Bush wanted. Excuse me, but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, OVER? As much as I despise the Republicans for being corrupt, incompetent and traitors to true conservatism, they wouldn't do that. They might lose a vote here and there but they'd stick to their guns. With the Democrats, you can never figure out where they stand on anything one day to the next.

      If George Bush is such a total failure, then why has Pelosi voted for what he wanted so many times? We gave them a majority partly in hopes they'd impeach the chimp and what's the first thing she does? Takes impeachment off the table! Brilliant. And then they're surprised when people don't like Washington.
    • floorman56, on 07/18/2008, -0/+12They wish they had 14% ...it's more like 9%
  • jfzimmermann, on 07/18/2008, -18/+35Better to have tried and failed, like the Bushes, than to be a total loser and do-nothing to begin with, like Madam Pelosi.
  • mattalice, on 07/18/2008, -13/+62She is a complete moron. Her rating is lower than Bush. What's lower than a complete failure? Definition in Websters = Nancy Pelosi

    "What the president said is a fact — this is the longest a Congress has gone in 20 years without passing a single spending bill, so it's clear that the speaker is feeling some frustration at their inability to do so."

    Ummmm... yikes. Nancy more work less rhetoric please. Can you do something for us general public?!? ANYTHING!??!
    • Grimee, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4Well said. Thank you.
    • mbondr, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2She isn't a failure. I'm sure she will be well paid for her support of Bush.
  • theNazz, on 07/18/2008, -9/+81Nancy Pelosi, you took impeachment 'off the table' and now you're stuck with a plate full of *****. Enjoy your last term in public office.
  • Bagos1, on 07/18/2008, -12/+56***** you Pelosi....you stupid arrogant bitch.
    • aa1voice, on 07/18/2008, -5/+13Amen!
    • tillerman00, on 07/18/2008, -0/+7Yeah . . . you skull-faced *****.
    • Spuy767, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4Pelosi is the most smug sounding person I've ever had the displeasure of having to listen to. Every time hear he speak I want to bite her face.
      • gn0stik, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2calm down hannibal, she's a stupid bitch but.. bite her face?
  • Anonandanon, on 07/18/2008, -22/+15Bush was a failure long before he became president. He hasn't succeeded in anything in his life. Lucky for him his daddy can bail him out.
    • aa1voice, on 07/18/2008, -12/+7Another first class idiot...Anonandanon
    • Treoinmypocket, on 07/18/2008, -3/+7You are an example of someone that makes bombastic statements that gloss over facts for the sake of drama.

      The result is that thinking people don't take you seriously (though you are probably unaware of it because they politely spare your feelings) and those that DO take you seriously are as foolish and inconsequential as you are.
    • Spuy767, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Exactly what the ***** have YOU ever succeeded at?
  • philodygmn, on 07/18/2008, -9/+28What does she think she is for defying the will of the American people on impeachment and so much more? What's worse, a failure, or failing to address that fact?

    "Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows it?" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"
    • Evilena, on 07/18/2008, -2/+20You were put in office to resolve this attack on our sovereignty now. Your people are your dying senator. You were not elected to watch your people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee. If this body is not capable of action, I suggest new leadership is needed. I move for a vote of no confidence in Nancy Pelosi's leadership.
    • mfc5200, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5brilliant quote, applies perfectly here.
    • Arramol, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4I'm half-tempted to say that if we do ever get around to prosecuting Bush for war crimes, all of these Congresspeople who sat around and did nothing ought to be tried as complicit right along with him. If sitting around watching him do all this when they had the legal power to stop it isn't already considered a crime, it should be. Too bad that passing such a bill would require a Congress that was interested first and foremost in the country's good rather than its own.
      • bigbadgoat, on 07/18/2008, -5/+1Applying Star Wars quotes to Politics is a good way to ensure no one takes you seriously.
      • Evilena, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2Not if anything to say about it I have.
        We need to put an end to this destructive conflict and restore order to the galaxy.

        The Empire Strikes Barack got a lot of Diggs a few months ago.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lvc-azCXY&eurl=ht ...
        In closing, I have a message for John McCain. Your Powers are weak old man.
  • adam1285, on 07/18/2008, -15/+9too bad she only sees him as a "failure" and not a "criminal" that should be impeached for regularly abusing the powers of his office. Though she and other dem leaders are probably culpable in his crimes which is why they haven't pushed for impeachment
    • aa1voice, on 07/18/2008, -10/+3You, Adam are a first class idiot! Too stupid to even no why!
      • Lythium, on 07/18/2008, -1/+5So.... does aa1voice's comment count as irony? Or is it just sad?
    • toetagger, on 07/18/2008, -2/+8You're right. How can they impeach if they voted with him? That's why the dems are turning their backs on Kucinich.
  • stephenhacking, on 07/18/2008, -2/+18he is not the only one.
  • aa1voice, on 07/18/2008, -17/+22Pelosi, you are a retched piece of human debris! Only morons in CA could elect such a total imbecile! Even they must be embarrassed. Enjoy your final days in office you idiot. For all those of you to young to know, this is the way Tip O'neil spoke of Reagan. Democrat=Idiot!
    • Apocrypha, on 07/18/2008, -5/+8Republican = ignorant, closet *****.
      See how baseless, sweeping generalizations are so much fun?
    • gn0stik, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2Their all idiots, and ignorant. Only a few of them are closet ***** though. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But yeah, it's all about political careers now, our representatives do what they do to further their careers now, not because they believe in what they are doing for the american people.

      If only 50% of our representatives were altruistic in serving us, there would be no such thing as political action committees and private interest groups.
      • mbondr, on 07/18/2008, -2/+2If you're going to call someone an idiot, then you should learn to spell "they're" first.
  • BigKopp, on 07/18/2008, -1/+37I love how she criticizes Bush so much, but she never does ***** about it.
    • mbondr, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Yah, when it's close to election time. Isn't Cindy Shehan running against her?
  • toetagger, on 07/18/2008, -11/+20***** her. She said from the beginning, "Impeachment is off the table". She has a constitutional obligation to try him, but she won't. She and the other dems are part of the problem. I suppose this war would have been acceptable to them had it "succeeded" . It should be unacceptable - period. She's a failure! They were elected in 2006 to end this war but instead they funded it and voted yes for every constitution buster Bush put in front of them.
  • chase001, on 07/18/2008, -5/+22And yet she continues to do his bidding and bend over and give him everything he wants. She has been a Historic Failure as Speaker.
  • Apocrypha, on 07/18/2008, -2/+25Looks to me like Pelosi is a totally ineffectual failure as well.
  • Number23, on 07/18/2008, -9/+17Pelosi promised she'd lower gas prices, what happened digg-tards?
    • gernblansted, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4pwnage!

      You sure showed all the 'digg-tards' who the man is by pointing out how much Pelosi sucks right in the middle of a digg group which is... well... talking about how much Pelosi sucks??
  • SuperVepr308, on 07/18/2008, -10/+7SuperVepr308 Calls Pelosi a Communist Idiot (I like my headline better)
  • legendxx, on 07/18/2008, -3/+16She has been nothing but hot-air up to this point.. why should I believe this time is any different?
    • Polarize, on 07/18/2008, -2/+3You shouldn't.

      You're dumb for even asking the question.
  • Ardentfrost, on 07/18/2008, -2/+29Pot, meet Kettle
  • Solkre, on 07/18/2008, -5/+19So wait... How is the guy who gets 99% of what he wants, a total failure?
    Sounds like she's jealous to me.
    • kfsutops, on 07/18/2008, -0/+6That's what I don't get. This ***** says the President is a failure, but yet she votes for everything he wants.

      Pot meet kettle.
      • mbondr, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2She's one of the ones who helped him get everything he wanted and is now preventing us from prosecuting him or any of his cabal.
  • iancgi, on 07/18/2008, -5/+9Its all about preserving the illusion of two opposing parties when in reality they are all controlled by the same backers.
    • mbondr, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Pelosi is a Republican infiltrator, a sort of stealth Lieberman.
  • chadell, on 07/18/2008, -6/+11You get the leaders you choose, Americans have failed themselves.
  • connieLingus, on 07/18/2008, -0/+7ahhh...nothing like a cup of coffee and a side of anti-bush diggbait to start my morning!
  • jakdracula, on 07/18/2008, -2/+8Of all the smart, good, intelligent people in the USA - this is the best we can come up with for leadership?

    And it continues - NObama is a complete dolt, and McCan't is just totally out of touch. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
  • Godwhacker, on 07/18/2008, -3/+6I agree with Speaker Pelosi - but she too is a "total failure". Democrats were elected to end the War in Iraq and safeguard our civil liberties - they have failed miserably on both counts. Curse you all who did not get out there and support Ron Paul - he would have followed through with a plan to restore what is good about America.
    • joekewle, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Yup, just like all the rest of them...
  • elister, on 07/18/2008, -2/+6HA!!! TAKE THAT HUFFINGTON POST!!
  • forgottenhope, on 07/18/2008, -5/+9First off the president should have little to do with the economy 2nd, ***** nancy pelosi, she is a traitor.

    Anyone who would take away the tools of the constitution to impeach a president who breaks the law should be removed from office. ***** partisan and ***** how voters would interpret an impeachment.

    If you lie to people and kill hundreds of thousands of people who would have otherwise been alive, there is genocide.

    Nancy Pelosi is a total failure as a house speaker. ***** you and george bush, you are both in the same party. the prick lovers party.
  • wheelfoot, on 07/18/2008, -2/+7How cocky! After caving on FISA and impeachment, and any number of other important matters, Pelosi says HE'S a failure.
  • dema, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4Pot, kettle, etc.
  • Valthan, on 07/18/2008, -1/+5Maybe they should ***** do something instead of bitching then eh?
  • mozisbored, on 07/18/2008, -3/+3A complete failure who had 2 terms as president - washington speak for a genius.
  • cobophers, on 07/18/2008, -5/+1Well there is alot of Pelosi hate in this room but it is quite historic for House Speaker to call a President out like the way she did. Granted she is a part of congress and their rating is quite poor but seriously, this has to do with having complete bi-partisan politics. We would be so much happier if G.W. Corp would have reached across the isle and promoted cross party agenda years ago. Now we have very bitter and entrenched Congressman/women and the inaction or fractured continuity stall real progress. Not all of what they do is a failure but the system needs an overhaul, especially in its rhetoric and by that I mean candor. Its not just Pelosi that is a problem but she should have had a an elaborate plan in stemming the tide of failure that is G.W. and the associated fallout. I agree with what she did, its seems time for an all out war on this presidency. Let it not be forgotten the lies that came forth from this administration.
    • BigW, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2But Bush DID reach across the aisle and he and congress gave us crap like No Child Left Behind and the Medicare Prescription Drug program, and he TRIED to reach across the aisle and give us amnesty for illegal aliens.

      All bad ideas by the way.
    • tasine, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Good grief, cobophers! Where were you right after President Bush entered the trashed Oval Office?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! He refused to criticize those (democrats) who literally trashed much of the White House. When his backers were wanting him to at least investigate the trashing, he said "No, we need to work together". How dare you make the statement you did about his refusing to reach across the aisle.He DID reach across the aisle for bipartisan ship. He even invited that slimey Ted Kennedy to the White House to watch a movie about Kennedy's brother. He TRIED, and got kicked in the face every time. Dems hated him and showed it at every opportunity. If you are so ill informed, silence would be your best bet.
    • tasine, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Hellooo?! Cobophers, did you have your head in the sand right after President Bush was elected the first time? He refused to cause any trouble for the clintonoids who trashed the White House before he arrived. Most of his supporters wanted him to prosecute them, but he wouldn't hear of it. He even invited that alcoholic reknowned swimmer and life saver, Ted Kennedy to the White House to watch a movie with him and Laura. He DID reach across the aisle for bipartisanship, and the result was the dims biting off his hand. They did everything possible to make him fail - nothing was off limits for them. A hateful, spiteful, slimey bunch of scumballs are the dims in DC.. After the dims did all they could to kill his Presidency, many, many of us wanted him to become confrontational, but he is too decent (for the trolls on this site that means he is a good man) for that. To this day he is polite when being gouged by their arrows and rocks. Precious few of the posters on Digg are worthy to speak his name, let alone criticize him. He, of course has flaws, but he, unlike some dims in DC, has never sullied young women in the Oval Office, he has never lied under oath, he has never run away from a wreck leaving a victim in it to drown, he has never sided with the foreign enemy against his own people, he has never tried to destroy a Presidency. All of those things HAVE been done by Democrats, but I never heard all this hue and cry before. You people need to grow up, or at least take a civics lesson ..... assuming you can find a truly educated teacher after the libs have so thoroughly dumbed down education. All whiners on this post make me sick!
  • NemEnforcer, on 07/18/2008, -2/+2That's calling the kettle black. This whole government needs an enema. The new congress was elected to get ***** done and fix the mess we were in then, not sit around with their thumbs up their asses watching everything get worse.
  • Splicernyc, on 07/18/2008, -6/+1Only the most tragically self-deluded Kool Aid drinkers could put a positive spin on this President and his incompetent administration. Even the gains by corporations, Neocons and Sauron...eh, I mean, Dick Cheney, will come back to bite them all in the end.
    • Andrwmorph, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Kool Aid is delicious and I'm tired of your bigotry towards it.
  • roddack, on 07/18/2008, -1/+49% approval rating........

    Hello Pot how's kettle?
  • kingofinternet, on 07/18/2008, -7/+2Bush had seven years of a Republican dominated congress. They followed Bush blindly and are responsible for American dissatisfaction with congress. Remember that her forerunner was the corrupt Tom DeLay?

    Pelosi has presided over a razor thin Democrat majority for one year.
    You right-wing hacks have such short memories.



    • tasine, on 07/18/2008, -3/+0Actually, king, the Republicans did not follow President Bush blindly - that's why so many of them are in deep trouble with their constituents. Actually too many of the Republicans are just lefty sheep swallowing the liberal swill that kills all who partake of it.
      Pelosi, on the other hand, has resided over absolutely nothing but hatred and spite plus a lot of ethics violations. The democrats in Congress, along with the RHINOs are trash, most of whom belong behind bars, but aren't because everybody in DC is afraid for his own skin. If Pelosi or any other dim in Congress came to my door, I'd not allow them in. I don't associate with vermin like them.
      • jsmith39, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1"the liberal swill that kills all who partake of it"
        Such as economic growth, lack of territorial wars, balanced budgets, mandatory corporate ethics and oversight?

        I remember my parents preacher always saying that the best trick the devil ever created was to convince mankind he wasn't real. To me; the best trick the Republicans ever created was convincing white trash America that they had they're best interests at heart.
      • kingofinternet, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1actually tasine, incumbent republicans or those running for office have been fleeing from him like rats from a sinking ship, those that stick with him know he's poison.
  • BuzzFriendly, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4simple math here failure+failure=failure As bad as Bush approval rating is, congress is worse. Whats even worse than that is none of them seem to care.
  • bluebadgerdigg, on 07/18/2008, -3/+7Actually Congress' approval is 9%. So her calling Bush a total failure is like me calling my mother old. It's not like she didn't know that back two years ago. It's not like she and Reid (as big a sourpuss as I've ever seen), followed through on any one thing in two years except minimum wage. I mean it took most Americn 5 years to figure out GWB was a boob. Most of us got her and Reid figured out in a year.

    Typical ploy by her and all politicians: get in power, do nothing, then blame the other side. Whha Whha Whhha
  • mfc5200, on 07/18/2008, -2/+7Damnit, this party system is so f'ing broken. Except for a few exceptions, can everyone please stop voting democratic and republican and giving into the game? Vote Libertarian, Green, Constitution, w/e the hell else is out there. Stop feeding this beast before it consumes us all!
    • kingp, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2It's as if Thomas Jefferson knew what he was talking about (in reference to the Two Party system being the downfall of our political system).
  • method77, on 07/18/2008, -3/+1'miserable failure' is more correct
  • arvvvs, on 07/18/2008, -2/+1Is digg actually protecting Bush?
    Besides... No Fudge he sucks.
  • brickbat, on 07/18/2008, -6/+8YOU GDMF WHORING BITCH. He is not a failure. He has made him and his mates hundreds of billions of dollars. He has stolen 2 elections and has gotten away with trashing the constitution. The only failure has been of the US political system that has allowed a tyrannical President to maintain power with the help of a complicit Congress and Supreme Court.
  • brock2020, on 07/18/2008, -0/+12It's good to see Liberals and Conservatives coming together on Digg by their hatred for Nancy Pelosi.
    • thesonofdarwin, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3True, but it's a bit confusing. One would think the conservatives would applaud Pelosi as she sure hasn't done much in opposition aside from idle talk. The only possible explanation I come up with is that she is a democrat, but labels mean nothing when she is on your side!
    • mcrunch2, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Nancy Pelosi - the glue that holds america together :)
  • Anntink, on 07/18/2008, -5/+5Calling Bush a "failure" is misleading and totally inaccurate. Ms. Peolsi's statement implies that Bush's goals were to do something good for the country and the people he was elected to serve, but just didn't quite make it. Truth is, I don't think protecting the US or its citizens were EVER at the top of Bush's list of things to do; his goal was to speed up the New World Order his Dad bragged about and fulfill its dream of one world government controlled by self-appointed elites and he's accomplished that goal beyond his wildest dreams. Bush & Co are succeeding in trashing the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and American soverignty... Pelosi could have stopped him, but didn't. SHE"s the failure.
    • AfuknHumanBeing, on 07/18/2008, -1/+0the illuminati lizard-man shapeshifters are out for complete global control and will not stop until they achieve 80% global extinction. NWO is the greatest threat facing humanity in the new century and most people do not even see it comming. they are poisining are food and water and the only escape is to gain information.
    • Joetwopointoh, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Absolutely. Bush couldn't have accomplished such destructive behavior toward our Constitution, our economy or the lives and freedom of so many in other countries as well, without the lock stepped cooperation of our legislative branch! Come to think of it, he wouldn't have been in office without the judiciary's actions.
  • OC73, on 07/18/2008, -1/+8She's mad at Bush because he owns her and the rest of the do-nothing congress.
  • jaykeating, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2That certainly is the "kettle calling the pot black"! She and her new congress have done little of the many items she promised. She is another one that should go back home and keep her mouth shut.
  • kingp, on 07/18/2008, -2/+7hello Pot? This is Kettle...I've got something to tell you.
  • Fallout911, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3Something about stones in glass houses.
  • grey580, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3pot meet kettle. yeah.
    the democratic has been even a bigger failure standing up to bush and telling him where to stick it.
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