Pelosi? No bueno!

As if the spring and summer were not enough, this fall has shown the utter uselessness of our current Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi.

Yes, we were all atwitter when she rose as the first female Speaker in our nation’s history. Even the evil puppet of President Cheney had to acknowledge the historical significance of Pelosi’s rise to the Speaker’s chair. We even thought some good might have come of it.

How wrong we were.

Last week, expressing the exasperation felt by at least 70% of Americans, California Representative Pete Stark went off, and criticized our so-called president Bush. He said that our brave troops were dying for the “amusement” of the President.

Big fucking deal.

He went easy on this president. This president, through his own, countless, thoughtless comments (and no, I won’t link to them, I have a day job, you have heard them all on Air America and U-Tube and countless blogs) has shown that he does find casual amusement in the destruction and mayhem he has caused in the Middle East, as well as the American heartland.

He should have continued to berate this president for his outright lies, and the murder of countless Iraqis for the profits of his oil company friends.

Oh, wait…that should have been Speaker Pelosi’s job! She should be leading this fight! Not some aged, multi-term congressman from a large state’s innumerable districts, the Speaker! One of the goddam party leaders of the alleged opposition. THIS WAS HER JOB!

Does she at least back up Representative Stark?

Fuck no. She throws him under the bus the first chance she gets. She calls his comments “inappropriate.”

Now, is it possible that she found his words inappropriate? Sure! And it doesn’t matter one bit. She is once again, for the countless time, responding to a barrage from the right, instead of attacking failed policies like Pete Stark did. She is letting the MINORITY opposition set the agenda, frame the debate, and define what is important in the public arena, instead of steering the conversation towards the safe harbor of 70%. She is supporting Dick Cheney instead of one of her own. How fucked up is that?

It is really fucked up. And, it should cost her her job.

I have personally written Speaker Pelosi and asked her to step down as Speaker. I also think she should have the primary fight of her life in ’08. And how sad is that. Instead of consolidating gains, and ushering in a Democratic president with an ended war and restored trust, we go into the 2008 elections with the Democratic-led Congress lower than the worst president in our history, according to the polls.

Pelosi is the least effective Speaker I can remember in 30 years of paying attention. Go Cindy Sheehan, or any other primary opponents that can topple her. You may not be great, but it is hard to imagine worse.

Nancy, we were excited, but now I am as let down as I can be. You suck. Quit.