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.

[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.

[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.

[shingles1]

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

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]

"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!

[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?

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[lacraft]

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

[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.

[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.

[bluestardad]

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

[bellal-2009]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?"

[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!