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Pelosi: 'I'm trying to save the planet' - David Rogers - Politico.com

With fewer than 20 legislative days before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, the entire appropriations process has largely ground to a halt because of the ham-handed fighting that followed Republican attempts to lift the moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration. And after promising fairness and open debate, Pelosi has resorted to hard-nosed parliamentary devices that effectively bar any chance for Republicans to offer policy alternatives.

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”

“I respect the office that I hold,” she says. “And when you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.”

Oh, in other words - "I'm trying to do good here, get out of my way!"

And if it craters the economy - well, she was only trying to do what she thought was right! (Never mind she wouldn't allow anyone else to have a say.)

Sigh.

There's people I really and sincerely believe shouldn't have been elected, because they're incapable of looking at anything beyond what THEY want, and the side effects of getting what they want doesn't matter - as long as they get what they want.

She's one of them.

The comments at the bottom are interesting... If Pelosi's reading them, I hope she gets a sense of how badly she's misjudged the situation. Because there's a great deal of anger - and it's not too far from the 'tar and feathers' stage.

She's not trying to anything but cause missery for eveyone. The poor, the elderly, and the children of this country are suffering because the Democrate lead Congress and Senate ( who are the ones who ACTAULLY MAKE LAW) are standing in the way of a NATIONAL ENERGY CRISIS. Jobs are being lost left and right because we will not develop our own energy. Look at the automotive industry. Look at the prices of food. How are people on fixed incomes going to survive? Now look at what Sierra Club has done: They helped block a Electric plant that would have been built in Ga. They stopped a gas well from being opened in Michigan. 80 electric plants are slated to built and 30 of them are litigation? Because gropus like Sierra Club against energy progress. Many groups say Solar is the answer...REALLY? The Beurea Of Land Management has put a TWO YEAR moritorium on a Solar power plants...so and EVRINOMENTAL IMPACT STUDY CAN BE DONE! Nancy's ECO warrior line " No Drill- NO Spill" is as tired as she is old. Technology improvements have reduced ecological horrors she screamed about years ago. I don't recall all alot of news about oil spills after Katrina hit and all those Oil Ridges werre turned over and laying at the bottom of sea. The Democrates gave Reagan a hard time about the people having to eat dog food........Well the Democrates keeping the people hostage to foriegn energy sources are focing them to very the same thing...Gas or dog food?

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As one of the richest women in America, Pelosi doesn't have to worry about the price of gas. Members of Congress have their cars and their gas paid for by the taxpayers. Why should those who never have to buy gas worry about the cost. Those of us that are finding it hard to pay for gas just to get us to our jobs are the ones that want to drill here, drill now, and then we will pay less! The Congress controls the purse strings of this country and the Democrats control Congress. Our economy was doing just fine up until two years ago. What happened two years ago? The Democrats took over Congress. We have gone down hill ever since. So, what should we do? We should NOT elect the Democrats back to Congress this November. If we do, then we deserve what we get! The Democrats will not allow the United States to develop and provide for its own energy. The United States will be a third world nation within the next few years. This country is not going to like Socialism.

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If this isn't one of the biggest loads of horse poop I've ever heard. This woman is an obstructionist, socialist, communist, and doesn't give a tinkers damn about the planet, or anything except getting liberal democrats into powerful positions so they can run amock with their idiotic ideas and destroy this country. They have a track record, but they have so many willing accomplices in the media that the truth seldom gets out, and when it does, the do their damndest to condem whom ever has the stones to stand up to them. What's a shame is that there isn't a spine in all of congress that will take these America haters to task. Break out the pitch forks, for the time is near! - Courteous Wolf

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She can't even save California -- Since she's been in office, California has gone into the toilet. Our economy is horrible, our public schools are the worst in the country, we are the gang capital of the WORLD, our beaches are continuously closed and unsafe due to sewage spills and our hospitals/emergency rooms are closing and/or overcrowded with illegal immigrants. We spend billions feeding illegals, yet she and buddies have voted to decrease funding for Senior citizens, the blind and the handicapped, yet if you're a 14 year old illegal, and pregnant, she rolls out the red carpet handing out money for any and all entitlement programs. Did I mention the litter and graffitti EVERYWHERE. Even our traffic signs are tagged in Los Angeles. Nancy -- go away. You are senile and sick, and dangerous to the human race. Try to clean up your own city! San Francisco has become a national joke. D.C. is full of morons from the top down and from side to side. There is no difference in the parties -- both are morally corrupt, arrogant, power hungery, and in the pocket of special interests groups. You too Harry -- do us all a favor and leave with Georgie.

Didn't wade through them all - just a hundred or so. Uniformly negative - so much so, I think, that out of the 700 I'd venture there's no more than about 20 or so positive comments... or attempts at refutation of other comments.

Pelosi and Reid - are you listening? Do you think the anger being expressed is in support of you? You still have a chance here to salvage things - but the window is closing fast.

J.