New York Magazine: 'Denial Is Just a River in Egypt to Nancy Pelosi'
By Noel Sheppard | October 21, 2010 | 19:16
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday told PBS's Charlie Rose, "I believe that it would be very difficult for the Republicans to take over the House...I would rather be in our position right now than theirs."
So absurd were these comments that New York magazine posted a brief piece at its Daily Intel blog with the headline "Denial Is Just a River in Egypt to Nancy Pelosi" (partial video of Pelosi's moronic exchange with Rose follows with transcript and commentary):
CHARLIE ROSE: If I talk to you six months from now will I be talking to the speaker of the House or just a representative from California?
NANCY PELOSI: Well, let me say being a representative from California is the greatest honor. To walk the floor of the House, to be chosen by your constituents to represent them is the highest honor. To be speaker is a great privilege. However, I have every anticipation that we will come together in this -- a similar form as we are now with me as speaker of the House.
CHARLIE ROSE: Why do you believe that when the numbers look -- I mean, 95 House races are in play, they say.
NANCY PELOSI: Well, who are "they"?
(LAUGHTER)
CHARLIE ROSE: Tell me how your numbers are. That would be what I would like to hear.
NANCY PELOSI: Well, let me say why I believe that it would be very difficult for the Republicans to take over the House of Representatives. Let me tell you right here and now that I would rather be in our position right now than theirs.
In order for them to win, they have to win around 38 seats and we’ll win some, so they have to win into the 40s. Our members are battle ready. They’ve been -- many of them have won two elections that were very tough elections. They’ve won in very difficult districts in terms of Democratic numbers. And they know how to win those elections and communicate with their voters, a. B, when we were full bore in 2006, the war in Iraq, the unpopularity of the president the president was in the 30s, President Bush, with all of that going for us, with great candidates and the rest, we won 30 seats. For them to win maybe 15 more seats than is a very tall order.
CHARLIE ROSE: So how do you characterize all those polls that say the Republicans are doing so well, including 40 or 40-plus seats that they will win?
NANCY PELOSI: From our standpoint, the national generic poll is interesting. And the one that came out today had us behind among likely voters but ahead among registered voters. So that means we have to change that reality and have it all about turnout. It’s all about who votes.
And so when we see the individual polls district by district, they’re very close but they’re very promising for us.
CHARLIE ROSE: Turnout is also about energy, who has the energy in this campaign.
NANCY PELOSI: Well, you know it’s interesting, because they talk about the enthusiasm gap.
CHARLIE ROSE: Right.
NANCY PELOSI: That momentum is changing among base Democrats and even some of the issues that appeal to the incumbents in terms of sending our jobs overseas and getting a tax credit to do it, privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicaid. Those issues are important to women, important to independents, and important to our base vote. So they play across the board.
But it is -- the turnout is all about the issues. Our people understand what the choice is. The president has said it very clearly. We’re moving America forward, we’re not going back. We’re fighting for the mile-class. As I said, we’re preserving Social Security not privatizing it. We’re protecting Medicare not cutting it and making it a voucher.
We’re making it in America. That’s our overriding theme -- making in the America to support our manufacturing base but also to enable people to make it in America, again, instead of sending your job overseas and getting a tax credit to do it.
So, again, for these reasons the choice is a clear one between us and the more people know about that the more the momentum swings to us. And our members are the best communicators in their districts to have an exchange of ideas with their constituent. We feel good about it.
If we've finally gotten to the point that even the liberal New York magazine doesn't believe Pelosi's delusions, maybe there really is hope for this country.
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Comments
The Old Media Yawns
Submitted by libBuster on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 7:26pm.
Pelosi can deny learning about water boarding, say the CIA lied and make statements about the upcoming elections not consistent with objective reality.
By and large the media yawns.
Yet the old media reservies its Ire for Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, Micehle Bachman and Sharon Angle.
We've heard for a long time
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 7:26pm.
We've heard for a long time that when The Big One finally hits California that it would fall into the ocean but some of those people, like Miss Nancy, have fallen off the planet.
Yes
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 8:00pm.
And "clue" is just a game she could never understand the rules to.
Nancy Pelosi, not just another pretty face. ;-) No, really, she isn't.
Pelosi
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 7:42pm.
This woman just oozes arrogance, vanity, and hubris out of every pore. The way she talks about the upcoming election, it's almost like she's certain she's going to still be speaker afterwards. I don't know whether it's just her usual insufferable arrogance, or if she's actually aware of plans to steal the election through massive voter fraud, corrupt election boards, and selective enforcement of election laws. Neither would suprise me. One thing is for certain, she's seems to genuinely believe she's entitled to her position of power and that she's above any criticism and scrutiny of herself or her agenda.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
What was she going to say?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 7:58pm.
"As the Speaker of the House, I predict that the Republicans will smash us so hard, we'll look like a hockey player with no teeth"? Nah. She was keeping the faith for her faithful fellow Democratic Representatives, 45 or 50 of whom will not be renewing the leases on their Washington apartments.
In the famous "8 points in 17 seconds" UNC basketball comeback victory over Duke in 1974, Dean Smith told the players in the huddle at one point that he would rather be in their shoes than in Duke's.
That's called "psychology." Nancy Pirogi is using psychology.
Hah!
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:08am.
Considering her dingy past statements, I think you're givinig her too much credit.
Remember, this was the person who, after making a press statement regarding receipt of a briefing on waterboarding, couldn't answer a simple question, and then responded by reading her prepared statement over again.
I don't think she's that smart.
Pelosi is either lying or stupid
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 8:05pm.
PELOSI: "Our members are battle ready." >"
Is that anything like being shovel-ready?
Incumbent Dems are running from Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, as well as the stimulus and health care reform. If that's battle-ready, bring it on.
I can't wait to see Queen Nancy hand over the Speaker's gavel next January.
Wont happen
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:10pm.
I can't wait to see Queen Nancy hand over the Speaker's gavel next January.
She may throw it, or be absent. But know way she will give it up like a civil person, she'll do it like a dimwit!
Nancy will give up the
Submitted by samhermanmd on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:24pm.
Nancy will give up the speaker's chair, but not without a long speech and a lot of attention-seeking behavior labeling herself a "victim" or similar canard. She just will not be able to resist. She will do something to de-legitimize any change, whether she is voted out of the speaker's chair by her own party or dumped by a GOP majority. Look for any displaced Democrat to do the same.
The only thing shovel-ready is her
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:11pm.
When she does hand over the gavel, I hope it's that real big one she showed off when taking her victory lap in Spitfest 2010.
so true
Submitted by sometimesright on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 2:12pm.
"the only thing shovel-ready is her" now that's the funniest thing i've heard all week.. thanks SickofLibs. i laughed so hard i have to wipe the dr. pepper from my nostrils.
Listening to Her Speakerness
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:00pm.
Listening to Her Speakerness is bad enough, watching her speak is excruciating.
Where did she get the idea that she has to keep smiling the whole time she is talking? The result is macabre.
mb.. She's macabre...always
Submitted by bigtimer on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:06pm.
mb..
She's macabre...always has been in my eyes.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
And she's second in succession. Scary. Real scary.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:07pm.
I will miss her wildly gesticulating bony claws, though.
Buh-bye, Pretty Pretty Princess.
What an idiot
Submitted by sms5217 on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:09pm.
It is just amazing to me that such an idiot like Pelosi skates under this detestable mainstream media.
She says more asinine things before 9am than Palin or O'Donnell do all week, yet her musings are so conveniently ignored.
However, Ms. Idiot Speaker is more than that. Only Rep. Grayson from Florida is a more contemptible and vulgar creature than Ms. Idiot Speaker.
Her vulgarity, her arrogance, her Bay area marxism, all belong to the trash heap of history, and God willing, it will happen in November.
I Want Some of Whatever She's Taking.
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 9:30pm.
Truly Stupid Looks Painless, Doesn't It?
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
Well, this is a good thing.
Submitted by Thoreau on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 11:10pm.
Well, this is a good thing. When she wakes up on November 3 and finds out her kidneys are missing, it'll be a shock to nobody but her. And I prefer it that way.
I've never seen her
Submitted by Vonu on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 1:03am.
so coherent.
Queen Nancy is bad enough, but...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:25am.
Should the Spend-o-crats keep control of the House and decide to deep-six Queen Nancy, the two potential successors aren't much better, since they're just as leftist as ol' Nancy herself. They are: Steny Hoyer of Maryland (Majority Leader) and James Clyburn of South Carolina (Majority Whip). Egad!
There's only one way (ok two ways) to describe NanciKins...
Submitted by stage9 on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 12:05pm.
and it comes from none other than Steven Crowder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvSytKst4ZM&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr56_qxmejQ&feature=channel
lol. classic.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
walk the walk
Submitted by sometimesright on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 1:56pm.
"To walk the floor of the House, to be chosen by your constituents to represent them is the highest honor. To be speaker is a great privilege."
that's right, lady. why don't you act like it? when the majority of those who elected you disagree with everything you do maybe you should listen to them once in a while. this walking travesty talks the talk, you know, stuff like "draining the swamp" and other hogwash about this being the most ethical administration in history. just words, walking the walk is altogether different.
what surprises me is how these dems (like pelosi, reid, feinstein, boxer) saw how we fired our own(republicans). what makes them think they're somehow not going to be on the chopping block too?
Hey, she may really believe that.
Submitted by doug1950 on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 2:01pm.
She is as crazy as an outhouse rat. All you got to do is look at her face. She got "crazy eyes". Most of what she says, does and thinks is the workings of a delusion person. I think about half the people is Washington as just as crazy and out of touch with reality as she is.
I have to say how much I
Submitted by ant on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:02pm.
I have to say how much I appreciate the commenters here at NB ( Jer and ADK, not so much,sorry.). I get pretty irritated sometimes listening to the delusional arrrogance of people like Pelosi, Grayson, Obama,et al. But I can always rely on the comment thread to not only reflect exactly what I was thinking about the political joke that is the Dem party but also to lighten my spirits and make me laugh and point out a nuance I may have missed. No, I'm not drunk, I had a few but, straight up, thank God for NB and the comments section from a guy surrounded by libs in everyday life.
So, ant...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:25pm.
who are the lib commenters at NB whom you DO appreciate? There are only a handful of us. But we have always been told that our views and dissenting opinions are welcome at this website.
Jer
It's a light-hearted jab,
Submitted by ant on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 1:25pm.
It's a light-hearted jab, Jer. Lighten up. Unlike some leftists I know of (um, NPR, comes to mind), I have no desire to ever shut down opinions or ideas that differ from mine. If you read between the lines or not in my statement, many people in my life have high opinions of Obama, Pelosi, etc. Quite the opposite of where I'm coming from and I'm saying it's nice to hear from others who are more closely alligned with my views on the Thieves-on-the Hill.
Well, ant... Since I've
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:01pm.
Well, ant...
Since I've frequently expressed my irritation with Pelosi and called for her ouster--and Reid's--from their leadership positions in Congress, I would think you would be pleased to read such sentiments coming from a Democrat.
I am surrounded by conservatives where I live, but I have always wanted to be exposed to the opinions of those of every political and ideological bent. That's a major reason for my presence here for the past three years.
As I mentioned earlier, there are only a handful of us [on the "left"] who post at NB to any real degree of regularity. I seriously doubt there is any danger of our drowning out the commenters who are more closely aligned with your views.
Jer
Baghdad Bob rides again
Submitted by Vivaldi5 on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:28pm.
I sure do keep thinking of our old Iraqi pal from years ago when I see Nancy's latest stupid claims that Democrats will win the election:
"They are not near Baghdad! Don't believe them! They are nowhere! This is silly!"