Nancy Pelosi's "Smack-Down"

October 8, 1:21 PMPhoenix Conservative ExaminerScott Martin

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Earlier this week the National Republican Congressional Committee released a statement on Nancy Pelosi's sudden departure from her insistence that the war in Afghanistan was the "real central front" in the war on terror:

"If Nancy Pelosi’s failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place."

Nancy Pelosi and her fellow democrats responded like, well... liberals. They ignored the facts and made an emotional appeal. They ignored the first part of the statement, and played up the meaningless ending. In short, Pelosi played the girl card.

 

"It's really sad they don't understand how inappropriate that is," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. " I'm in my place. I'm the Speaker of the House, the first woman Speaker of the House. And I'm in my place because the House voted me there. That language is something I hadn't heard in decades."

We're seeing our future if we're not careful. Language that brings attention to a liberal's deception and incompetence is language that shouldn't be heard.

Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida said earlier in the week the comments proved Republicans “long for the days when a woman’s place was in the kitchen.”

So the libs responded by crying and playing victim. Yes, Nancy, you are the Speaker of the House. One of the most unpopular House Speakers in history, I might add. And one whose advice on all things military should be dismissed.

Predictably, the New York Times blog, responded like, well... liberals,spinning Pelosi's statement as a smack-down.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday smacked down the notion — raised by a Republican statement — that she needed to be put “in her place” for her views on Afghanistan and General Stanley McChrystal’s recommendations.

But who gave the real smack-down, the one crying about language, or the ones using facts? Decide for yourself. Here's the Republican response.

Asked if the NRCC regretted its choice of words, Spain said the committee stands by its release.

“The Speaker of the House is taking on a highly decorated general who has outlined a strategy in Afghanistan that she once claimed to advocate. This is the same San Francisco liberal whose military foresight — or lack thereof — led her to oppose Gen. [David] Petraeus’s successful surge strategy. Up until it became politically inconvenient, Pelosi and her puppets were referring to Afghanistan as the ‘real central front’ in the war on terror; now their excuse is that there is just not enough political will to keep America safe. Nancy Pelosi might think she’s a general, but she’s playing out of her league and she knows it.”

 

To me, that's a smack-down. And Nancy Pelosi needs to stay in her place. I just wish she knew where her place is. She doesn't know the military, she doesn't get economics, she's the worst Speaker in history, and she can't sell her book.

You're running out of time, Madam Speaker. Isn't it time to find something you're good at?