The Passion Of The Pelosi:

Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is in the process of making, along with the Democrats themselves, an amazing discovery. It’s like they, akin to the GOP, have to make miraculous discoveries election after election because they appear to:

1) Have no sense of history and
2) Have no memory.

Nancy Pelosi’s “honeymoon” is over; it lasted, what, just a hair over 24 hours?

Then she got slammed by her own kind, kinda like a big ol’ WWF Slapdown.

Hence my title: “Let The Reality Commence.”

Pelosi chose the aging reprobate and ethically-challenged Jack Murtha as her “second in command.” Murtha is a wanking Moonbat, to be kind. Yeah, he served in the military, blah blah blah. I wrote about her choice here.

Then Murtha got voted out as quickly as the Dems voted 175,937 to 0 to axe Mad Jack.

“It was a serious misstep and inexplicable to me,” former Republican leader Dick Armey chortled. “I just hope she does more of it.”

Pelosi wanted to push through lobbying and ethics reforms — but evidently didn’t get the memo stating Murtha thought her reform measures were, quote: “total crap.”

Additionally, as the Pelosi-Hoyer-Murtha battle was boiling, Democratic water-carrier and Major Dem Apologist James Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg — both of whom are close to the Clintons — loudly called on Howard Dean to resign as Democratic chairman, saying the party could have won more House seats if he had spent its money more wisely.

Will she listen? Will she realize what a dead anchor Howard Dean is truly?

She does, in my estimation, have one mindset to make things work on one level. It is a mindset I wholeheartedly wish the GOP had found within itself now, and in the future. Pelosi once said to some Time magazine writers a few months ago:

The Speaker-to-be puts it in more graphic terms. At lunch with a group of TIME correspondents a few months ago, she said Republican attacks on her would not work, because she wouldn’t let them. “If people are ripping your face off,” she said, picking at a chicken salad dressed only with lemon wedges, “you have to rip their face off.”

Good strategy. GOP: ARE YOU LISTENING?

Evidently not.

Heavy sigh.

Then there are more internal politics.

According to NewsMax.com, Hillary Clinton:

. . . fears that the California congresswoman will rival her as the leading woman in her party, a position Hillary held before the Democrats took control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Another concern for Hillary, according to a source, is that if Pelosi is seen as a failure in her role as speaker, that could convince many that a woman isn’t up to handling a top job in Washington. “Hillary loses whether Pelosi succeeds or fails,” the source said.

Others see more problems with the Hillary-Pelosi dynamic. Writing in the New York Post, Deborah Orin-Eilbeck states that Pelosi’s rise “might ruin Clinton’s 2008 dreams.”

According to the columnist, “Pelosi comes across as a shrill anti-military, anti-prayer, sharply partisan super-liberal who angrily insults Republican foes as ‘immoral.’

Here is another Reality Check for Speaker Pelosi:

It is very easy to criticize and kvetch from a distant point whilst those under the gun attempt to make critical decisions. And then, on top of that, offer no alternative decisions whatsoever other than the two letter word:

“NO.”

The Democrats are nothing more than the party of NO. No this, no that, no no no.

Here is the Democratic version of our future:

Speaker Pelosi: you’d best get your best minds together and corral them quickly. Because whilst you bloviate and speak in terms of wildly generic talking points, the best of the best Islamists are still planning and plotting and now looking upon this electoral turnover as only beneficial to them.

Why might that be?

Or are you even asking that question?

There is also this:

The Democrats have gained control of the House of Representatives, but the numbers show that they have a precarious hold on power, according to an analysis by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform.

The House now has 59 Democrats who were elected in districts that voted for George Bush in 2004. But there are only nine House Republicans elected in districts that went for John Kerry in 2004. Therefore, the 59 Democrats are in more difficult districts than the nine Republicans.

Norquist and his organization calculate that if the Republicans in 2008 won only those districts that voted 58 percent of more for Bush in 2004, they would gain 19 seats. And if they won only those districts that went 55 percent or more for Bush, they would pick up 33 seats.

You are now in a position of Power. You will have to make decisions; critical decisions. Now shoes are on other feet. You will have to provide ideas, alternatives, thoughts, plans.

I remain unconvinced the Dems and the DEM are up to it.

BZ