From Politco.com:

Nearly 20 Democrats abandoned their party’s pick for speaker of the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a sign of their concerns about supporting the unpopular former speaker and of the difficulty she will have in marshaling her forces in legislative battles to come in the next two years.

One reason might be the sheer balls of former Speaker Pelosi in terms of – ahem – “prevarications.”

In her “farewell” press conference on Tuesday the 4th, The Nancemeister said “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”

I read that a few times until it finally sank into my Wheelhouse. She really thinks this. She either thinks this (meaning that she is a totally unhinged Moonbat of the First Order) or it’s a Lie of the First Magnitude that she believes the DEM won’t call her on. Let me type that again:

Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”

If you’ll humor me for a moment, I’d care to point out the obvious: former Speaker Pelosi cast aside common courtesy in her failure to even begin to prepare a budget for 2011; she spent her last hours as Speaker in Hawaii on the Taxpayers’ Bones, to the tune of $10,000 per day.

Overall, she presided over the greatest swelling of the national debt in our history. If you recall, the US debt skyrocketed from $9 trillion to $14 trillion on her watch. It swelled by a trillion dollars in just the past seven months.

When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi’s Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 – a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi’s four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010.

I don’t know why, but Nancy Pelosi disturbingly reminds me of Katherine Helmond in the 1985 Terry Gilliam movie “Brazil,” a dystopian satire. But why believe me; let the illustrations speak:

BZ

P.S.
You have to admire Nancy Pelosi for one thing primarily: she exercised her power — and then some — when it came to supporting her party. No one can say that she wasn’t the quintessential advocate of her party, right or wrong, through thick and thin, through lies and crises, despite or because of various predicaments.

She held ALL the water of the Demorat Party.

Frankly, I can’t think of her counterpart in the Republican Party.

She was a fighter. I tip my hat to her aggressive stance and dogged insistence.

She’s nothing but a warrior. I acknowledge that. I wish the GOP had a host of warriors like her.

If for no other reasons than those, she deserves my respect.