The Dangers Of A President Pelosi

NRO: Rep.'s Record Could Be Problem If She Becomes Speaker

(National Review Online) 
Everyone seems to be talking about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a new Speaker of the House after this year’s elections. But is anyone interested in what she has actually done in the past, as a guide to what to expect from her in a powerful position that also puts her next in line to become president of the United States after the vice president?

On immigration, Congresswoman Pelosi voted against tightening border security. Current House Speaker Dennis Hastert voted for it — and also led the fight that stopped the Senate amnesty bill from gaining approval in the House of Representatives.

On taxes, Congresswoman Pelosi has paid no attention to their actual economic consequences and instead repeated the standard Democrat’s line about “tax cuts for the wealthiest few, causing red ink as far as the eye can see.”

Cuts in tax rates have been followed by increases — repeat, increases — in tax revenues. This has happened not only during this administration but also as far back as the Kennedy administration.

Red ink comes from runaway spending, which can always exceed any increases in revenues. When a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to cut federal spending on welfare, Pelosi voted against it.

Upper-income earners — most of whom are not rich — have in fact paid more total taxes after the rates were cut because these cuts have spurred economic growth and higher incomes. But to admit this would be to abandon the twin pillars of liberalism, higher tax rates, and class-warfare rhetoric.

As regards the war on terrorism and the terrorists’ war against the west, Nancy Pelosi has opposed having international phone calls to and from terrorists monitored by American intelligence agencies.

The liberal spin is that this is “domestic spying” when someone on one end of the line is within the United States. Pelosi also doesn’t think we are treating terrorists nice enough at Guantanamo. She wants to give them “rights” that neither the Constitution nor the Geneva convention gives them.

This is from someone who, as Speaker of the House, would be two heartbeats away from becoming president of the United States. We can only hope that the president and vice president never travel in the same car or fly on the same plane.

[forabluefla]

One_American...YOU are the idiot for falling for this unsubstantiated rhetoric...and without the intelligience to know a sarcastic point when you read one...you prove this by supporting someone who LIED to the world to start a war...and you say you support the troops...well I think it's an insult to those troops that you support an administration led by a MILITARY DESERTER and someone who used 5 DEFERRMENTS to avoid the draft during Vietnam and you ridicule someone who actually went and fought for his country..you seem to have a warped definition of the word PATRIOT...look the word up in Webster's and see for yourself...you can get a copy for under a buck at any yard sale or tractor pull..

As for this article....funny how the rant is on Pelosi being third in line...guess it's okay for the third in line person to be someone who covers up for pedophiles...really warped...

[one_american]

From www.drudgereport.com:

McCain Calls On Kerry To Apologize
Tue Oct 31 2006 11:43:14 ET

"Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks."

[observantx]

Since the war in Iraq, the bumbled search for Bin Laden, Denny Hastert hiding the pedophile page scandal, Tom Delay, Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham, and the lobby rot oozing out of K Street and through the halls of Congress ala Jack Abramoff are prying GOP control of the Senate and House out of their hands; it%u2019s now time to...

CHANGE THE SUBJECT!

BOO! Nancy Pelosi is coming!

SCREECH! The *** are getting married!

SOB! GASP! (CHOKE)! Immigrants are taking ALL the jobs! We need a big fence!

Generally, the National Review has good points to debate. But this is shilling of the worst sort. It is unseemly and at the base of it, dishonest.

VOTE based on your only personal best interets and not on this smear.

It's time to clean house! (especially the White House)

[forabluefla]

To Fartknocker...will your magic crystal ball also give us next week's winning Powerball numbers?

To One-America...wow the drudge report...now THERE'S credibility...you need to seek professional help and fast...God didn't give us these rights, Our Constitution did...while you're at that tractor pull getting a Webster's I also recommend an old history textbook...and turn off Fox News...they'll warp your brain even worse than you already have on your own....TOO FUNNY that you skimmed right over the DOCUMENTED facts of the Kerry, Bush and Cheney military (or lack thereof) records...talk about one sided....well it can be shared I guess...but that's between you and your proctologist..

[bfroggy-2009]

Personally I believe that the office of the President can be dutifully and capably manned by an American of integrity, common sense, duty, and honor. I do not believe that becomming innundated with years of experience in the taint that is D.C. qualifies one to hold the highest office in the land, rather quite the opposite. I'd rather have an idealist than an idealogue. I'd rather have someone pure and naive who is surrounded by experienced advisors than a doggedly corrupt lifetime politician.

Obama 08'. Its like Kennedy sort of, time for a new generation to take the reigns because the old has become so far stuck up its own political behind it cant smell the mess.

[oleander8]

Come on - do you really think the boys and girls that actually fight the wars are the same ones that have a free-ticket to higher education - generally the priviledged classes - or, the boys and girls joining the military lured by the promise of assistance with their higher education goals.

The rich start wars - the poor fight them. This hasn't changed for thousands of years.

[bmirarck]

What had Boosh accomplished that would/should have qualified him for president you Moron!! Unfortunately for many of your idiot readers they can't realize that Kerry was talking about the neo-con braintrust we have heading our government, not the troops!! Wake up people!! And forget giving me any ***, I'm a veteran unlike most of Bush's idiots!

[kdanderson3]

CNN, John Kerry, Nancy P. Charley Rangel, nothing these people say should surprise us anymore. As this election gets closer,ask yourself "who does bin laden want to win?"

[rafterman1]

Let me ge this straight. You are OK with Bush and a Republican congress who puts your son and grandaughters in harm's way with a fabricated war in which they refuse to admit was a mistake, compounding the error. Also, you thank God the "fool" Kerry isn't President, even though he would most likely have keep your son and grandaughters safe by not throwing them into an unnecessary war.

Interesting logic there. I don't understand this unwavering loyalty to a party that puts thousands of troops in harm's way over a disasterous and ill-conceived war in Iraq, won't equip them properly (Rumsfeld's famous quote "you fight with the army you have, not the one you wish you had") and won't pay their health costs (thanks Republican congress). Yet, Republicans claim how much they "love" our military. But SAYING you love them and DOING something to show it are two different things. Republicans love sending them into combat, but don't seem to have much love for proper body armor, taking care of troops after they get back or relief from multiple, crushing tours of duty. Yet democrats are guilty of the horrible crimes of wanting to bring the soldiers home, of wanting to fund health insurance for reservists and more money for equipemt like body armor. Horrible liberals. I can see how much they hate the troops.

Ignorance is a dangerous thing. Arrogance is also a dangerous thing. Put therm together though, and you have a disaster in the making. Something the Bush admin proves every day.

[rafterman1]

Are you kidding me? Yeah, the dems want Osama to win, they want to set him up in a summer cottage after the election. GOOD GRIEF.

Of the most ignorant and moronic things that any person can say, this garbage about dems/liberals wanting Osama to win because they don't believe in what I believe in or what the govt believes in blah blah blah is the most foolish thing that can come out of anyone's mouth.

There isn't a person in the house or senate, from the most liberal dem to the most conservative repub, who wants the terrorists to win. To even suggest overwise is idiotic. To question one's loyalty simply because they don't believe in solving certain problems (like terrorism) the way you believe in or the way the current govt believes in is complete ignorance not even worthy of a response.

[bellal-2009]

Nancy Pelosi seems like a nice lady that would be a popular mayor of a cute little seaside tourist town.

[bluestardad]

SHE IS GOING TO BE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE DEAL WITH IT YOU BIGOTS.

[saransk]

Let's see
We've had "spend & Spend" republicans for awhile.
We have had years of Fat-White guys trying to control women's bodies, force their brand of intollerent religion down our throats, equate moral outrage over single cell embryos as the same as dying children in Dafar, supported an ill advised war that is every bit a quagmire as Vietnam was, had the morals of a snake-oil salesmen and particiapted in ham-handed corruption, turned back years of enviromental and work safety laws while in the "employ" of big corporations, and in general set back democracy years. And we should be afraid of the Democrats.

[sparkcolo]

Yes... and of course George Bush was overly qualified to become president. Let's see his accomplishments: executing a couple felons, getting most of his money and political influence from his daddy, and oh yes, dodging the draft. That's a REAL qualified presidential canidate for you.

[lacraft]

Pelosi adores the limelight, she is an overtly aggressive non-thinker!

[jpesot]

This article is pretty funny ... seems well timed for Halloween. Nancy is so scaaaaary!! HA!!

Darth Cheney proclaims all manner of craziness and this guy thinks we should fear Nancy Pelosi. This administration attacks the wrong country and Nancy is the devil!

Give me a break.

What's scary is the number of people who buy into this nonsense.

[sandy5274]

The worst mistakes the Democrats have made since
that Republican Loser George W Bush & *** Cheney
got in as President & Vice President was running
that idiot windsurfer loser John Kerry for their
Democratic Presidential Candidate and making that
pair of losers Nancy Pelosi House Democratic
Leader and that crooked old fraud Harry Reid their Senate Minority Leader and we hope to Hell
that the Democrats learned from their mistakes &
get rid of Pelosi & Reid & not be dumb enough to
re-nominate that loser John Kerry in 2008 as we
don't need a Democrat version of George W Bush &
*** Cheney Or Dennis Cover Up Hastert or Bill The Video Doctor Frist again either! So Democrats
wake up and accept reality here will you?

[LowFlyn]

Wake up America! Only the Republican Party can stop Nancy Pelosi from inviting Gay Mexican Terrorist Stem Cell Researchers with San Francisco Values into the country! They will invade your homes, redecorate your living rooms and marry each other before triggering their WMDs! Did I mention that they will exaggerate Parkinson's symptoms? We must not cut and run, we must stay the cou - er, never mind.

[hermit22]

Someone at National Review Online must have their head set on straight with a level balance.

I had to double check, then double check again, just to make sure this Pelosi report was realy on CBS.

If Kerry were a republican, his nasty remark would have been played and replayed instead of covered up under the lid. Katie's predjudice is showing.

I hope her first order of the day will be to impeach monsters bush and cheney.

[bluestardad]

Dictators is that a Washington Dish that Republican Mark Foley was covertly serving the Congressional pages, Or Is that a Texas Style potato dish that the Bush administration has been feeding the American people for the last few years?

[shingles1]

"If Kerry were a republican, his nasty remark would have been played and replayed instead of covered up under the lid."

Yes, being FRONT PAGE news everywhere is a good example of the story being "covered up".
Bad liberal media, bad!

Ah, well -- National Review must be cut some slack for being so much in the dark. There are so few well-lighted anal cavities, and that appears to be where the National Review-ers keep their heads a good part of the time.

Shame on me! Another death blow to civility...on the other hand, if National Review-er's language skills are on a par with Mr. Bush's (or Tony Snow's), the missile will whiz above their comprehension, doing no discernible damage.

Gee, I've managed offense and self-exoneration. I can see why the GOPers have become addicted to it. It really does simplify matters.

[shingles1]

Fartknocker2, that's funny, you don't write like you've been "reading for long time".

[tibu987]

I was an ardent fan of Obama until I found out that he is the godson of a very long time, corrupt Chicago politician. He also supports that persons son for a major Chicago political position.
Also, Obama is the close friend of Tony Rezko who owns the lot next to Obama's home and has been indicted for some serious corruption matters. Rezco is also a close friend of the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich whose office is being looked into by Federal Investigators.
So, par for the course in llinois, corruption lives on, nothing changes, just faces.
Obama's friends. Go figure.
Things are beginning to make more sense and it is not favorable.

[hermit22]

Hi Shingles, Couric was specifically hoping that the Kerry deal would be a one day and thats enough type of story, and she complained that the Republicans would be keeping it going.That is what I was refering too.