Don't read this if you've just eaten. CBS's Rita Braver totally fawns over Nancy Pelosi in this piece.
Braver began the segment by declaring: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi is all business. Whether it's on her morning walk along the Potomac....Or showing off the private balcony outside her Capitol office." She then lobbed this softball to the "all business" Speaker: "Do you ever let yourself relax and just do nothing? Loaf a little?" Pelosi replied: "I think I may take that up, but not until after the election."
And then there's this:
Braver lamented how Pelosi's supposed effectiveness has made her a target for the GOP: "As the irresistible force who marshaled House Democrats to pass controversial administration policies – including the stimulus package, Wall Street reform, and health care – she's become a punching bag for Republicans." She added: "There's even a nationwide 'Fire Pelosi' bus tour." When Braver asked Pelosi about the RNC campaign bus, the San Francisco Congresswoman proclaimed: "Who cares? We've got to get a tow truck and tow it away just as we had to get a tow truck to pull the economy of our country out of the ditch that the Republicans drove us into."
Where to begin? You are "pulling the economy out of the ditch?" Does she really think people swallow that pap any more? Well, apparently if you work for CBS you do, but I'm talking about normal, thinking Americans. Everybody knows where the Democrats are driving us, Ms. Pelosi, and that's why you're about to lose your position as Speaker of the House. It would be delicious if you lost your job as Representative too, but I don't think there are enough normal thinking Americans in your district to hope for that.
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