What do you think: Nancy Pelosi for president?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's speech to Congress about the financial bailout proposal was so spot-on, so intelligent, so full of common sense and perspective that some are crediting the California Democrat with stopping the $700-billion Bush bailout bill in its tracks. Watch these videos and see if you don't wish this woman was running for president. Or at least vice president. Obama/Pelosi might have been such a winning ticket that we could have been spared this spectacular flame-out of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. What do you think? Do you admire Pelosi? Do you agree with her on the $700 billion bailout? Would you like to see this woman on a presidential ticket?

Comments

[ebmo]

Yes!

[kieth]

SHE IS ANYTHING BUT A LEADER SHE IS THAT PIG WITH LIPSTICK THEY KEEP TALKING ABOUT,JUST ANOTHER THEIF

[Randolph Man]

Nancy Pelosi is right up at the top of the list of reasons Congress has a 10% approval rating. She's the worst excuse for partisan deadlock in recent history.

[Jonas Heath]

How clueless are you? This is the least accomplished Speaker of the House ever! She is an overly partisan moron who will destroy the Democrats one legislative failure at a time. You obviously have no historical perspective on Congress. This current crop of legislators are a collective failure and Pelosi is their hapless ringleader.

It is frightening that people with such a limited world view are given media outlets to espouse your uneducated viewpoints.

[Annabee]

Thank you for encouraging us to see Pelosi's actual comments. After hearing the republicans whine about how partisan they were, I imagined she would sound like a right-wing talk show host. On the contrary, she's just telling it like it is. But I don't think she'd get much support on a presidential ticket. Too many people could never fogive her for taking impeachment off the table.

[Joe]

You're kidding...right?

She's an idiot? It's all the republicans fault....right...you're a toady

On November 12th, 1999, Bill Clinton signed the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. What that did was allow commercial and investment banks to consolidate. Now, banks began trading and underwriting assets called mortgage backed securities, CDOs, and SIVs, all of the toxic waste that’s coming home to roost today. That was after a one-year, $200 million lobbying effort by the Democrat lobbyists to put this thing through and it was done in opposition to the Congressional Research Service’s own report, the information is out there, all anyone has to do is go do a Web search for Glass-Steagall and repeal. It is unbelievable that the Democrat Party is trying to lay this at the at the foot of the Republican Party when it was Bill Clinton and Democrat lobbyists that pushed this thing through.

Plus, the Democrats refused to listen to George Bush when, in 2003, he “recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago."

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.

Here's Barney Franks response: "These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing
any kind of financial crisis". "The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

Mr. Frank didn't realize affordable housing only works if the people getting the loans could actually afford the payments.

In 2006, John McCain joined as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore his support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. He stated, "If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole."

Why is it the media doesn't pick up on these facts.

She's part of the problem...not a solution. lucky Obama didn't pick her.

By the way, you suck!

[Joe]

You're a tool!

She's an idiot...no wonder California is so jacked up between Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Watson and Barbara Lee.

[desk]

Pelosi?! I don't know which is worse: Pelosi in the White HOuse or Gavin "Let 'em get away with murder" Newsom in Sacramento... and I've lived in SF all my life.

[Cherie]

Pelosi should not be put up as an icon - she is a shrew out to blame everyone but the real culprits in this debacle. Barney Franks was head of the committee to oversee the banking industry but yet this is the republicans fault? She blames Bush for the state of the economy but who could have forseen 9/11 and the market troubles that brought? He had to deal with the problems that stemmed from Clinton's 8 years.

[robert ray]

I am absolutly shocked at her lack of leadership and insight and inability in a time of crises to move past her usually polemics inorder to lead a bipartisan
move to get past this very real crisis. I am usually an independent......but am disgusted with the Dems, when they have been in control of both houses of congress and Sen. Dowd and Congressman Barney Frank have headed the two most powerful committees charged with the oversight of Fannie Mae and the SEC
and incessantly seek to shift the blame. Sounds like something my 10yr old does!
The

[robert ray]

Are you getting too many negative remarks about Nancy?......Is that why you have not posted my last remarks?

[Arye Michael Bender]

Had high hopes when Ms. Pelosi was named speaker. She was mandated to end the war in Iraq. Instead, she has taken the road of allowing bad things to continue so that she can blame the opposition. In that sense, she is just as complicit as George W. Bush.

[Ted]

Ms. Pelosi took office with a grand promise to finally get something done at the half way mark of Bush's 2nd term. She implored America to provide a majority Congress so that she could get Washington moving again. Since then, we have endured the biggest DO NOTHING Congress in our history. There are doers. And there are those who DON'T. There is zero evidence to suggest she could have success in moving Congress to act bilaterally on the important issues facing us. The bailout or failure to motivate Congress to pass it is just the latest evidence of this position. I would hope the people in the media can help those in the U.S. who need to be shown the truth would use their mass-reaching pulpits to inform and educate so most of the people in America who just don't understand this stuff can get proper advice.

[Big Sam]

Not no, but hell no!

[fred weiersmueller]

In Europe the stock markets don't play such a heavy role in total investment capital as they do here. I think Ms Pelosi is right on.

We need to protect the taxpayer here and not just cave to another mad rush to the cliff the Bush has orchestrated again. The Indians used to drive the buffalo to the cliffs, easier kill.

[rocky pimentel]

She had an opportunity to step above the partisan fray and actually take an historic role and she proved she is unworthy of being a leader. She is bitter, negative, and marginal all of which no one desires to be around or associated with. If she did not live in the district she does she would not even be in the House. Enough said, and I live in her district.

[jack]

Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Harry Reid just to name a few ought to resign in disgrace,

Pelosi is the most ignorant, partisan, sack of air, that has ever BEEN in Washington!!

[susie smith]

Ms. Pelosi needs her mouth washed out with soap. The worst manners, the most disgusting mouth, the most disrespectful sub-human in U.S politics. I am an independent. She turns my stomach. I deplore her comments about the president of the U S. She has no manners, no respect, no dignity, no I. Q. above a moron. She is a blight on the American political scene, a symbol of how degenerate some politicians are today. A real bad seed, a definite drawback to the Democratic party. The Democrats have lost me. I liked
Bill Clinton, even if he lied about oral copulation while under oath as president of the U.S.A. And she blames President Bush for not being perfect, in the most vile and vicious manner. In the most perilous of times, she puts the American citizens at risk to push her own agenda. Get her out of politics. Isn't she the one who flew her family to Washington on the taxpayer's dollar (our hard -earned money)? I have never been so disgusted by a politician.

[Tristen]

Are you kidding Pelosi is one of the worse politicians of all time she hasnt a clue on anything...she is an idiot and embarrashment to USA

[patrick c. legein]

what's wrong nowadays that you can't tell the truth, if you don't you're a liar if you do you're disrespectful and unpatriotic, Nancy says how it is and if you hear the comments from overseas then you'll notice that Nancy wasn't that far off. I read the above comments and I was surprised,some are plain rude and disrespectful other are more decent, you don't have to agree with what was said but that doesn't give one the right to be utterly rude, their mouths should be washed with soap and vinegar !

[James]

Not a chance! As a Californian, I am embarassed by Pelosi-she totally missed a historic opportunity. As a veteran, I still remember her solo trip to Syria and am still outraged...she is definitely not serving our agenda as voters!

[Carol Goins]

She is one of the reason,
I will not vote as a Democrat this year, it is time Washington has a
change, they want to blame
all of this mess on everyone else, and I'm not
saying they are not responsible, but I'm tired
of this blame game. Let
get really here, we started
giving this country away
along time ago, we first
let all of this people come
to this Country and take jobs at a cheaper rate than
ever, it is not that American
won't do the job, give them
the same benefits that
you give all of the illegals,
and I bet people would
be lining up for these jobs,
I have worked in an industry that employ, thousands of illegals, I see
them getting Housing, Food Stamps, Medical
and many other benefits,
when My Grandparents came here, there was no
such things as free, they
work hard and took care
of their needs, you want
us to take care of them, and you don't want to take
care of our Elderly, our
sick children, etc, etc,
Now people like Pelosi
want to tax our savings
to give them a better life,
is that why California is
in over their heads. When
do we stop all of this....
I for one don't know if
Obama or McCain can
get us through this mess.
But it is people like Pelosi
that I have lost faith in the
system. STOP asking
HARD WORKING AMERICAN to kept giving
and giving until there is
no more to give.----
We as HARD WORKING
AMERICAN who are still
paying our Bills, and taking
care of our Family can
not give any more.

FIX THE PROBLEMS or
GO HOME

[Jason in PG]

This morning's little tap-dance by Pelosi was utterly amusing. The press questioned her on knowing / not knowing about waterboarding techniques back in 2003/2004 and she started coming back with what, I thought, a reasonably sounding defense, but it didn't quite fully answer the question. Press threw the question out again, slightly altered in order to get her to really answer it, and she totally dodged it!

Just hilarious. I won't be surprised to see her gone in next 6-12 months.

I know... just wishful thinking.