Cross-posted at Brendan Calling
Talking Points Memo reports that Nancy Pelosi is calling George Bush “a failure”
President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.
Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.
“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for “challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.”
Nancy Pelosi is so full of shit, her hair and her eyes should be brown. Oh wait…
The fact is that President Bush has been highly successful in getting what he wants. It is unfortunate, dreadfully so, that everything he has wanted has been so incredibly damaging to our country. Let’s look at the record.
On FISA, warrantless wiretapping, and the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, it’s not Bush that failed: it’s Congress. In fact, they failed on purpose: the bill was dead in February, and Steny Hoyer brought it back to life.
On war funding with no strings attached, Bush is no failure: Congress failed. Repeatedly.
Ignoring subpoenas and diminishing Congress to the point of meaninglessness? I think we can agree that Bush succeeded at that, unless “sternly worded letters with no consequence” count as oversight.
Legalized torture? Score another one for Bush, who got that out of congress too.
S-CHIP? Another Bush win, because the Democrat-led Congress couldn’t manage to override his veto.
They won on overriding Medicare cuts, and even then just barely.
Am I missing anything?
“A failure”. Please. I’d laugh in your face Nancy, but you’d probably have me tortured.
