Now Nancy, He's Not THAT Bad!

O.K., He's Worse

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 51 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - 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."

The Republican arsenal of caustic and malicious rhetoric will be entirely ransacked by people who normally just hate Nancy Pelosi. Her words were strong, but theirs will be stronger. Neocon bloggers will be inventing words. Ann Coulter(geist) will call Pelosi's statement every variant on treason ( including obscure Olde English ones). Michelle Malkin will start screaming at the top of her lungs. Rush Limbaugh will dig up every off-color remark along with a few chosen conservative pieces of Limbaugh Logic. Conservatives everywhere will be burning her in effigy. There may even be rioting in the streets of Crawford, Tex.

Advice to Nancy Pelosi: take some deep breaths, calm yourself, hire more bodyguards, take up martial arts. I thank you for being honest, but many in the conservative half of the country will be sticking pins in their home-made voodoo dolls. In other words, be afraid, Nancy, be very afraid.