While filling in for Mark Levin tonight, Tom Marr discussed with Michelle Malkin her column and thoughts about House Speaker Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi’s turning out the lights on the oil and energy House debate and private jet book tour:
In classic grandstanding style, Pelosi mischaracterized GOP proposals as drilling-only, blustered about drilling not having an immediate effect on lowering gas prices, criticized Republicans for not divining the right parliamentary moves to get their legislative plans through, and then sniffed imperiously that “they’ll have to use their imagination as to how they can get a vote.â€Â
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Pelosi’s father would likely roll in his grave at the current antics of his daughter, which now more resemble those of the fascists Benito Mussolini, and Hugo Chavez than any Speaker of The US House of Representatives. The media and democrats would criticize Tom Delay, the Majority Leader, as the “Hammer“. Based upon that assessment she would have to be called the “Godmother†rather than the “Grandmotherâ€Â, from the fictional work that Mario Puzio almost wrote, as a sequel, except for the fact that the plot and main character was too violent. She is the one that figuratively threatens to put cement shoes on all those blue–dog democrats who don’t fall in line behind her broomstick. Who gave her the unilateral power to substitute how the people’s representatives would vote, with her vision of planet earth’s future, based upon her vast knowledge of climatology, oceanography, geology, chemistry, biology and physics? You act this way with your own children and possibly with your grandchildren, if their mothers let you, but not as Speaker of the House. That is where you are supposed to be an organizer and a moderator, maintain House order and discipline and announce where procedure is supposed to be implemented. Nowhere is it stated in the Constitution that you become the sole ruler and master of one-half the legislative power of Congress and use the gavel as club so as to dominate everyone else’s viewpoint no matter how pertinent and reasonable they may be.
Obviously her book tour, during this energy crisis, serves more to indicate how power can be abused and misused and as such undermines any credibility that her book might otherwise imply. When you are the first women, the first Italian, the first black, the first catholic, or first anything, you try and make yourself a prestigious example so that you forever dismiss any preconceived assumptions about performance for those that follow after you. You would have to first have two or three good House Speakers, who are women, to undue the damage that this one is now doing to any other future women candidates. But then again I vote on issues and political philosophy and, as such, gender would never be of concern for me or any other conservative. Pelosi, is far more than a woman, she is first and foremost an extreme left wing ideologue well trained in the methodology of the fascist and Marist bullies and despots of the past that know everything so thoroughly they can decide what is best for the rest of us despite how we may otherwise feel and understand. In fact, for those who disagree, I think she made it pretty clear that, from her perspective, regarding energy, you can go say it in the dark and suck up some wind in the process.
We as conservatives believe in the will of the people as long as it doesn’t trample on the rights of the individual. Pelosi believes in the power of one person and doesn’t give a damn about the will of the people or the rights of any individual.