A conversation with Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives

with Nancy Pelosi
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on Friday, March 13, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives

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Bush
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Iraq
Rahm Emmanuel
Middle East
stimulus
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    1. winter  04/06/2009 12:52 AM Report

      I get the sense from Pelosi that when she gets home the first thing she does is plays with her Dalai Lama doll.

    2. KeenObserver  04/02/2009 04:01 AM Report

      I wonder if those writing the glowing comments work for Nancy Pelosi. The longer I watched, the more disappointed I became. Frankly, I thought Nancy sounded somewhat shallow – more along the line of Barbara Boxer. I expected better.

    3. Christopher  03/21/2009 05:27 PM Report

      I liked that she the benefits of the health care program proposed by obama will reduce health benefits given by the state.

    4. doodahdaze  03/17/2009 04:00 PM Report

      She seems like such a nice, decent lady; Hard to believe she's a politician, and SUCH a politician at that... It must be a "try to please daddy" kind of thing.

    5. ShalomFreedman  03/17/2009 02:42 PM Report

      Speaker Pelosi was here an eloquent defender of the Obama Administration's economic policy. She shows a generous approach to the Republican opposition. Her focusing on 'results' and her presenting the Obama program as a comprehensive one in which all the pieces work together also were convincing.

      Her remarks on Tibet and China were courageous. Her call for a reduction of the deficit, and U.S. dependancy on China also make sense.

      Of course the test of all she has spoken of , is yet to come.

    6. jwells  03/17/2009 02:14 PM Report

      Charlie, I wish you had pursued the line of questioning on the Free Choice Act(open union elections)concerning the potential intimadation of workers if the change is adopted, wherein a private ballot approach is negated by publicly signing a card to unionize. This is UnAmerican! Do you suppose the last election outcome would have been different if voters going to the polls did not have the right of privacy when making their choice? Another observation on Pelosi's comments; who caused the current financial crisis(the Bush Administration per her). Why isn't ther more focus on restoring the 1929 era banking restrictions, which were repealed in recent years, which led to the abuses with derivatives, etc. The 1999 CRA Act is certainly partly to blame for the mortgage crisis, as are the relaxed reserve requirements for financial and security firms. Obviously, Wall Street can't handle the deregulation!

    7. REMant  03/16/2009 11:59 PM Report

      Her best appearance on this show in my memory. It would help if everyone stopped calling it stimulus, and instead what it really is, an economic reconstruction pkg. The point of it is simply to improve productivity and if that is done, then it will be possible to pay off the debts created and hopefully more than that. We really have little choice. Barney Frank, however, is another matter. Changing mark-to-mkt is not only unfair, it would certainly be a stab in the heart to the kind of confidence the president spoke about Thursday.

    8. Washington_Eric  03/16/2009 11:07 PM Report

      I don't get pxlpark's comment on Pelosi rhetoric regarding the Republicans. To me she seemed to be defending them. Various people in the media and other sources have indicated that they believe the Republicans have voted against some of the democrats' plans simply to be on the other side of the table so they can say, "we told you so" if the plans fail.

      She on the other hand said she believe Republicans did not vote for the bill not for petty reasons but because they do not believe the plans put forward are where they think we should take the country. Seems reasonable and very civil to me.

    9. tartufe  03/16/2009 09:00 PM Report

      We'll be ok. She and Biden et al went to the vatican. On our separated dime of course. To study the separation doctrine certainly. Pray for us or is it prey on us?

    10. charlizecourriers  03/16/2009 07:49 PM Report

      The perfect bubblehead for the bozos of Roseland.

    11. pxlpark  03/16/2009 02:19 PM Report

      It is not very often that one sees a true puppet at stage: center, with the camera recording the moment. A character of a proverbial parrot even, though I am sure she is a wonderful person, right down to her precisely manicured digits.

      I found it all too tiring to listen to Mrs. Pelosi's divisive, and frankly, immature rhetoric with regards to the Republicans. Not since escaping High School with skin intact, have I heard such childish language spoken in regards to such serious subjects.

      I hope in the next elections two years from now, that we swiftly get a new round of Dems in the house and senate, that posses the oratory fortitude and agility and the rational forward thinking of Pres. Obama.

      It would seem at this point in time, that Oscar Wilde hit it on the nose when he said, Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

    12. robertfmorrison  03/16/2009 11:53 AM Report

      you never get the truth from these pols.

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