A headline in a weekend news story reads: "Pelosi Called Pragmatic, Inclusive" (You have to read the whole article to figure out that only her closest allies call her that).
In the meantime, Pelosi herself is inclusive of everybody but Republicans, whom she dismisses with the old label of "extremist":
We must draw clear distinctions between our vision of the future and the extreme policies put forward by the RepublicansAnd to figure out what is Pelosi's non-extremist vision of the future, let's poke around her recent press releases, where we will find the following specimens of her self-appointed non-extremism:
"Force protection is our top priority on the Intelligence Committee...We cannot put [our troops] in harm’s way unless we take every precaution possible to protect them." (I always thought that the military were the brave folks who volunteer to go into "harm's way" to protect the rest of us, not the other way around).
"[Housing projects for very low-income frail seniors] are investments in our parents and our grandparents..." (I always thought that investment was about developing productive assets, not about taking care of dying invalids)
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union stands for economic progress
The women of Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia are better off than the women in the United States because those countries signed a treaty for the "Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women"
Maintaining the teacher union's monopoly on public schools is more important than giving parents a choice in their own children's education
Enlarging the member base of public employee labor unions is more important than public safety.
Government funded art is somehow better than privately funded art.
The government should decide how much companies are allowed to pay their executives.
Employees shouldn't be allowed to make their own decisions on managing their own retirement savings
Pricing unskilled workers out of the labor market will help their children.
Tobacco companies cause women and children to smoke.
Immigrants should get food stamps
Campaign finance reform laws will prevent special interests from influencing politics.
More resources should be shifted from working taxpayers to people who choose not to work.
You get the point. There's plenty more where this came from. But if Pelosi thinks her positions are an antidote to extremism, then go ahead, call me an extremist. After all, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 11, 2002 07:18 AMGo ahead, Democrats, drink the Kool-Aid...
Posted by: BarCodeKing on November 12, 2002 12:12 PMWe may not see eye to eye on some things, but you're still a fine American.
Posted by: Tacitus on November 12, 2002 01:34 PMThis is good. Nice summary, all from one voice.
Posted by: pduffy on November 13, 2002 06:08 AMSounds like Rush on a rant. Followed your links... but don't quite follow your logic.
Posted by: Ruuk Haviser on November 13, 2002 04:00 PMNancy Pelosi is not only vile, she is simply wrong about everything. The only solution she has to every problem is Tax and Spend! Drive that woman from power! She is a national disgrace. She is not fit to work third shift at your local Dairy Queen....
Posted by: Ames Tiedeman on April 29, 2005 11:48 AMAs late as 1905 America was still engaged in praire wars with Indians. In 2005 these battles, as well as the Mexican America War mean little or nothing to most Americans. Given the current state of illegal immigration from Mexico, it is safe to say that anyone who gave their life in the Mexican American War did so for absolutely nothing.
We are being invaded by a group of people who do not have the capacity to build a gand society. They are coming here, not to escape religious prosecution, but to live in the kind of country and they themselves are not capable of producing. As their numbers grow and the number of European Americans shrink; who will be left to produce an economy that innovates, grows and is the envy of the world? The Mexican? I don't think so. We need to put the US military on the boarder without delay. We are sewing the seeds for generational poverty and massive civil unrest, civil war, and the dislocation of miilions of Mexicans as they are marched back to Mexico sometime in the second half of this century.....
Posted by: Ames Tiedeman on May 9, 2005 12:55 PM