Pelosi Fails To Understand
Nancy Pelosi has had a tough go as Speaker of the House. So far, her tenure is regarded as a failure by Republicans and Democrats alike. Today she lashed out against Republicans in a bizarre manner:
Congressional Democrats have lost their end-of-the-year showdown with President Bush, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) countered Thursday that the House succeeded in showing what Democrats can do, and would do, if a Democrat were in the White House.On Iraq in particular, Pelosi acknowledged at her Thursday news conference she’d misjudged the resolve of Republicans.
“They like this war,” she said. “They want this war to continue. That was a revelation to me. I had thought they would listen to their constituents and change their position.”
Pelosi confesses here to a failure of imagination that does her no credit. She really can't understand that most Republicans, and many other Americans, believe it is important that we succeed, not fail, in Iraq. Not only that, she can't understand how politicians can be guided by anything other than polls and concern for their own careers.
The idea that Republicans "like" war is weird at best. No one "likes" war, and the Iraq war has been disastrous politically for the Republicans. Nevertheless, Pelosi is unable to imagine that Republicans are doing what they think is in the country's best interests. If you think about it, it makes you wonder about what motivates Pelosi.
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