What America’s daughters need to know about Nancy Pelosi
My syndicated column today compares Nancy Pelosi’s sanctimonious self-help advice for America’s daughters to her obstinate inaction on energy policy and feckless refusal to allow up-or-down votes on GOP drilling proposals.
Thanks to everyone who sent their fish-in-a-barrel, five-minute photoshops of “Know Your Power.” I’m including some of the best below with the column.
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Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
What America’s daughters need to know about Nancy Pelosi
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
The Democrat Speaker of the House–and a co-author hired to try and add flavor to bland Beltway establishment oatmeal–have penned a self-help book for “America’s daughters” to help them “Know Your Power.” It’s a dreadfully pedestrian text (“As long as we recognize the power within us, we will continue to have choices, and we will continue to lead”), surpassed only in its dreadfulness by the rather unfortunate timing of its publication.
With congressional approval ratings at an all-time low and the Democrat Congress under fire for taking a five-week vacation instead of working on energy policy, perhaps this wasn’t the best time to send Nancy Pelosi jetting from coast-to-coast to tell our daughters how to save the planet, manage our households, and run our government.
Sorry, Nan. There aren’t enough carbon offsets to compensate for this tree-wasting dud and its accompanying gas-guzzling, hot air-emitting publicity tour.
Intended to inspire young women to public service, Pelosi’s preachy tome (“Courage springs from the heart”) stands in stark contrast to her refusal to stay and work this summer in Washington on a host of energy bills and drilling proposals. “Know Your Power” merely underscores the true message of Pelosi’s actions (or rather, inaction): “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Photoshop credit: David Johnson
While Madame Speaker advises America’s daughters to “never draw a line in the sand,” she refuses to return to Washington and allow up-or-down votes on Republican energy proposals.
While Madame Speaker advises America’s daughters “to defend your position with facts,” she has demonstrated blinking ignorance about the price of gas in her own district and the laws of supply and demand.
While Madame Speaker advises America’s daughters to “treat one another in a civil way,” she has resorted to business-as-usual demagoguery against her ideological opponents. Over the weekend, Pelosi jeered at the conservative revolt on the House floor last week to object to the Democrats’ five-week recess as “a war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies.”
While Madame Speaker advises America’s daughters that “you have to know what you’re talking about, you can’t grandstand,” she gave a pitiful performance on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” when pressed repeatedly to explain her stubborn stonewalling of up-or-down votes on energy bills.
Photoshop credit: PBlakeney
In classic grandstanding style, Pelosi mischaracterized GOP proposals as drilling-only, blustered about drilling not having an immediate effect on lowering gas prices, criticized Republicans for not divining the right parliamentary moves to get their legislative plans through, and then sniffed imperiously that “they’ll have to use their imagination as to how they can get a vote.”
Spoken like a true leader filled with “courage,” fueled by “passion” for public service, and driven by her caring for struggling families feeling the impact of high energy costs and limited access to American oil.
Assailing Republican bills as “diversionary,” Pelosi spent 10 painful minutes attempting to divert a simple question:
PELOSI: “…This is a diversionary tactic from failed energy policies.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: But if you feel you have the better arguments, why not give a straight up or down vote for drilling?
PELOSI: Because the misrepresentation is being made that this is going to reduce the price at the pump. This is again a decoy, it’s not a solution.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, if you’re right, why not let it be debated out and have the vote?
PELOSI: We have a debate every single day on this subject.
Except on the House floor, where Pelosi forebade debate on GOP amendments and where the lights and cameras have been darkened to prevent debate.
Rather than exercise her power responsibly by calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to address Americans’ concerns about gas prices and energy independence, Pelosi has dismissed oil and gas drilling as a “hoax”—even as she reportedly encourages vulnerable Democrats to embrace drilling to bolster their electoral prospects. In 2006, she blamed a Republican congress for high gas prices. In power for 19 months, Madame Speaker now blames the Republican minority for gas prices that have nearly doubled.
Nancy Pelosi’s real lesson for America’s daughters: Women in power are just as capable of mastering Washington double talk, blame avoidance, and partisan hackery as men.
Imagine that.
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I do believe I would keep Botox Nancy away from my children as I would a snake or fire. Apology to snakes and fire as they do serve a purpose unlike GayBay Pelosi, but they are all dangerous to my children.
My congratulations to the fine Photoshopers and their handiwork.
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His Messiahship be mocked
Allie OOP OOP be praised
Darth Hillary agrees with this comment
And I agree AZ, those were some excellent 5 minute photoshops.
Stupid statement.
Lines in the sand are what get things done. Sort of like poop or get off the pot. If she isn’t going to poop, she needs to go back to her cesspool hometown and let someone else get it done.
Luckily my daughters don’t need or want any “messages” from San Fran Nan …
I truly dread the next few years with this woman still in charge of the House of Representatives … I honestly do not know if we will ever recover from the reign of Madame Botox …
Pelosi, Reid and Obama will undo in 4 years what has been accomplished in all the years since Columbus first set foot on Western Hemisphere soil …
They must be stopped …
Pelosi is a far greater walking obscenity than any of the dicks in an uncensored Zoombietime clip of a SF Gay Parade.
San Fran Nan has just got to quit power drinking before she does these Sunday morning news shows.
My daughters can learn a lot from Speaker Pelosi.
A negative example can be educational too.
Brilliant, Michelle. And thanks for the entertainment provided by the Photoshop wizards, too!
Fixed.
The Democrats refused to pass the President’s energy policy in favor of their own. So who’s “failed energy policy” is it?
Good read, well done MM.
Huzzah! Michelle you are awesome, as always!
You asked what our Congress GOP in action can do whilst the Dems hit the beach, well, you hit the nail on the head: HAVE THEM READ QUOTES FROM NAN’S BOOK ON THE FLOOR. Well, they’re her words, and as you proved, there’s something in that “treekiller” she published that can stand as “debate”…
Pelosi thinks her book will help increase the supply of young women involved in public service. She knows full well that increasing supply is “a decoy, it’s not a solution.” Besides, it will take years for all those young women to become productive adults. It’s not going to do a thing to help us right now.
In the past, many have inspired our youth to public service, but it’s never enough. We always want more. Attempting to drill our youth for even more public service is a “failed policy” and a “hoax”. It has become clear that we need to get off public service and switch to an alternative form of service that is not carbon based to save the planet. /sarc off
I think we can relax on the eco front, MM. Not that many trees are going to be wasted. [grin]
Blinking ignorance?? Oh, c’mon. We’re talking about San Fran Nan, the Botox Queen.
I doubt that she’s blinked in at least a couple of decades.
I am curious to see how thick the layer of dust will accumulate on her book at the Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange, where it is so prominently displayed.
..at least I think its her book, I didn’t really look of course……..
“Know Your Bo-tician”
Anyone who injects infectious substances from the very cattle that are condemned for farting up too much methane and threatening life on the planet as we know it, is a blithering toadie.
Pelosi Galore is an international disgrace. Her loser bro colleague in the senate HairBall Reid is just as much one as she.
There are so many heroic Americans in this country who are catching hell economically- yet, they get up each day and hit it to make a better life for themselves while these Neros fiddle in front of the firestorm.
And a 30 per cent tax increase is on the way if ONoodle is elected?
Buy some gold, people. Your paper is going to be worthless if the Pubbies crumble in November.
Bear 1909 out.
Great column Michelle. San Fran Nan has been acting like a coward and a fool. I think most of America’s daughters see her for what she really is, just another career politician lusting for power.
Know My Power: Better Than You.
Pelosi does have one advantage she brings to women and feminism:
No other female Speaker of the House could ever possibly be worse than Nancy Pelosi. She has set the bar so low that any other woman speaker will surpass her.
We should call it “the Pelosi Principle.”
I have used madam blinky as an example in my household. Do and act just the opposite of her, and you will achieve a great deal in this great country of ours…
If I had to choose between a michael moore movie and pelosi’s book, I’d take the movie, at least that way I could catch a nap.
Nancy Pelosi, not what leadership is about.
Once again, a great article and to the point Michelle.
That’s pretty good too, Papa Louie. Goes well with all the fanatastic photoshop entries.
Pelosi is the female equivalent of fellow elitist Barack Obama. Together, they will reduce America to a backwards socialist bastion of political correctness.
I get sick and tired of hearing the Democrats using the same word “failed” every chance they get when referring to President Bush and the Republicans. If they want to see failed policies all they have to do is go back to the New Deal and Social Security and start counting from there.
I thought they were against Chinese water torture and waterboarding. Their use of the word is like a steady drip.
Firsts:
Janet Reno – Attorney General – failure.
Madeline Albright – Secretary of State – failure.
Nancy Pelosi – Speaker of the House – failure.
Thank heaven we’ll hopefully be spared a Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidency.
I hear Pelosi likes the PR.
I may have missed this, but did anyone suggest Abuse Your Power as an alternate title to Pelosi’s book?
Nancy Pelosi = Epic Fail
Nancy Pelosi’s real lesson for America’s daughters:
First, contrive to be born into one of America’s most powerful political fiefdoms;
Second, marry money; failing that, marry the brother of a member of San Francisco’s powerful board of supervisors, who can help you build your successful real estate career by making you one of the few who are allowed to develop property in a town where real estate is king;
Third, contrive to lead a band of incompetents so your own incompetence will not be as obvious.
She is such a liar. She makes me physically ill.
Either one would be a great waste of money. Besides, theater seats aren’t all that comfortable, anyhow – leastways, what I remember of them. Haven’t been in a theater in a goodly number of years.
I don’t believe publishers usually print more than fifty thousand copies of a book in the first printing. That equates to maybe one, possibly two trees.
That pretty well sums it up. “BI” Pelosi.
No they don’t, thats the point. Not very smart is she?
Here is Pelosi’s plan.
Don’t hold your breath.
englishqueen01 said it best !!
Abuse Your Power
The worst kind of politician. She hasn’t forgotten who she works for, she just totally doesn’t care.
Her motto – “Power to the Nanster”
Thanks for the summary. Now I don’t have to buy the book.
Nancy Antoinette,”Let them ride bikes”.
I know many people who write beautifully and purposefully who would love to be published, but because they aren’t well known, no publisher will touch them. I’ve read excerpts of Pelosi’s “book” and, even though I’m no book critic, I’ll not waste my time reading it.
Well the messiah said all we need to do is check our tires often and the problem is solved, and who are we to question the messiah????
Great female leadership.
Great female hero (I am biased on this one!)
know your power, she knows her power all right. she knows she has the power to hold back a straight up or down vote. she believes bush won’t call congress back to session and that her fellow dems will not sign the petition.
how to know your power and use it in the most absolute way. absolute power corrupts absolutely san fran gran nan!
After reading the article’s quotes from the book (that is all I shall read), it seems the title for the book should be “The Hyperbole of Hypocricy”
It will get cold this winter but this is expensive kindling…I am going to take a pass.
I wonder how Pelosi feels this morning, knowing that she has been supplanted as “the most powerful woman in America” by Paris Hilton. Ms. Hilton not only laid waste to Speaker Pelosi’s obstinate refusal to consider drilling in addition to future alternative energy sources, but based on past video experience, she also laid claim to the title of ideal spokesperson for “Drill Here, Drill Now.”
Paris, unlike Pelosi, certainly knows her power.
Pelosi epitomizes the wannabe male female, who lacks all understanding of political interaction. She thrives on the power of her position shamelessly, embarrassing herself regularly without even knowing it. We have all worked with women who acquired jobs during the era of mandatory hiring of females. While most were capable, smart, intuitive, hardworking women, many were like Pelosi, out of place and lacking all understanding how things work. She is a rich, snooty, arrogant buffooness. It is scary that she is so close to the position of POTUS. I feel sorry for her husband.
This is an act of war. Where the F^&* is our military????
bear1909: “Pelosi Galore.”
Meh. Heh heh. Heh. HEH. HAHAAAAHAAHAA.
BWAAHHAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!
What a beautiful way to start my day.
Everytime I hear some politician describe their career, which comes with perks, benefits and prestige most American can only dream of, as “public service” it make me want to puke. This self-serving expression makes it sound as if they are suffering dearly in their humble jobs, and all in the name of doing the peoples business. In reality it is a sure sign they are devoted to accumulating personal power and avoiding real work in the private sector at all costs. While we are always going to have career politicians like Nancy Pelosi couldn’t they at least stop pretending they are martyrs working for a higher cause?
jsr..
Well put!
I am not sure anyone cares about that today. I believe today is Worry-About-What-Paris-Hilton-Has-To-Say day.
This morning, on one of the business shows, I saw the CEO of one of the smaller American oil companies state that if his company, or any other company, doesn’t drill on a lease that they are granted within a specific time period (I think he said 7 or 10 years), then the lease gets cancelled, and somebody else has to buy it.
This is just another example of the misrepresentations being used by the Dems when they talk about the 85% of leased land that hasn’t yet been exploited. First of all, the oil companies aren’t going to drill where they don’t think there are any resources. And secondly, if they don’t drill, they lose the lease.
I guess that’s just one more thing Nan and Hairball don’t know about the oil bid’ness.
Leadership? As we used to say back in the day, I wouldn’t follow those two to the head.
Bear1909, good to see you again.
I’m not that good with photoshop, but if I was, I’d just take out the word “Your” on the book, so it simply read “No Power”. Would go quite well with her little stunt last Friday
They know, they just prefer to lie to the American people.
Where in the world did you get that figure?
How many bookstores exist in the United States? And how many copies of Pelousy’s books do you see in your local Barnes and Noble?
Methinks they probably published at least a million copies. You’ll see many of them on remainder tables by next year.
In the book “To Set the Record Straight” (Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler), the authors tell the story of the publication of the book “Unfit for Command” in 2004. The publisher at that time(don’t remember who it was, since I’m at work and can’t verify it) said that normally, the first printing is only 50k copies, particularly if (a)the author is unknown, or (b)if the subject matter is controversial. If the book sells, they can always reprint it.
You all need to run over to American Thinker and read
The Imperious Nancy Pelosi
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
She really rips on Princess Pelosi
It used to be said that if women were in charge, there would be no more wars. Oh really? Does anyone else remember when women were physically beating each other to get the first Cabbage Patch Kids?
San Fran Nan is an affront to all women. How can she say she’s working for all women, or in all womens’ name, when she hasn’t gotten anything done? I’ve never heard as much feminist drivel as I’ve heard from this one particular woman when she uses feminism to defend her shallow record/positions as a politician.
Nancy, if you’re truly working for women and the country, why haven’t you “sincerely” tackled the following issues:
1. Drilling that complements a balanced energy package
2. Education reform.
3. Health care reform.
4. Making sure military voter ballots count.
5. Immigration enforcement.
6. Pork barrel spending reform.
7. Ethics investigations into the likes of cronies such as Rep. Jefferson
I could go on with the empty plate of promises this woman has made and not delivered on. Most ethical congress ever? In your dreams, lady.
cpodug:
Apples and oranges. Regnery is a small (conservative) publisher.
Pelosi’s book is published by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, which is the largest English language publisher on the planet.
Believe me, Pelosi’s first printing of this book numbered in the millions.
Yeah, that adage is a pile of crap. To paraphrase Camille Paglia, if women were in charge, we’d all still be living in grass huts.
As I recall, The democrats went after
Newt’s book deal and made it an ethics issue. I’d like to know the details of nono-Nancy’s deal? Amount of advance? Conflict of interest – business before congress? Ghostwritten?
The shame of this is, the MSM is allowing Pelosi a free pass while brandishing McCain an economic dullard for not being able to deliver a thesis-level response to a single reporter’s impromptu question on the state of the U.S. economy.