Nancy Pelosi on Letterman

This video of Nancy Pelosy on the David Letterman Show is a prime example of how liberalism is a mental disorder. The first thing I want you to notice is that liberals VERY RARELY show up to debate with people who disagree with them. Instead, they prefer to circle jerk with their own supporters from the safety of shared beliefs.

I will break down the dishonesty in this video one by one.

1. Social Security

Mrs. Pelosi states that she would rather have President Bush “phase out our involvment in the Iraq war and leave Social Security alone.” With this statement she offers no explanation of why it would be beneficial to leave Iraq immediately, nor does she provide a description of any of the consequences of that action. She also fails to mention that our Social Security system is failing and will crumble under its own weight if a solution is not created. She also fails to mention that she was against privatization of the system, even though it was the most viable option for saving it.

2. “Stay the course is not a strategy, it’s a slogan.”

In fact, stay the course is a broad strategy. She apparently wants Bush to detail specific strategies, which are detailed by Donald Rumsfeld weekly; which she also scrutinizes and argues against. The only slogan here is the subliminal message “vote for me” which she would like to reach every audience member with. The only problem is that her message lacks a reason to vote for her, unless you feel that criticism and inaction is better than any action at all. In reality, her opinion on this issue is meaningless, it does nothing to further the cause or offer a solution. Mrs. Pelosi, please stop wasting our time.

3. We want to work with the president to take Iraq in a new direction.

Mrs. Pelosi only wants Iraq to go in one direction, downhill. If you notice, she uses the abused talking point-term “redeployment.” This word is used to spin a statement in the direction of “mass appeal.” Nobody wants to “withdraw” troops anymore because that sounds like we’re running away, retreating, and losing. Instead, we would like to “redeploy” our troops, which is exactly the same thing with a little sugar on top. In fact, if you are planning on bringing troops back to the United States, you cannot be “redeploying” them, you simply “withdraw” them. As long as the voters don’t figure this out it’s all fine though. Anyway, withdrawing troops from Iraq is to support civil war and massive civilian casualties. Why doesn’t anyone ask her if she supports causing the death of millions of innocent Iraqis? Why doesn’t anyone ask her why she is against using our military in Iraq to its full potential to make sure we get the job done quickly with minimal troop losses? Remember, Pelosi and her party wanted our troops on the ground rather than our planes in the air. And now they want to complain about troop losses? The real fact of the matter here is that Pelosi wants our troops “out of harms way” so we can finalize our loss in Iraq and the news can be added to all the Democrats’ campaign speeches in 2008. Please Mrs. Pelosi, stop using the troops in an attempt to magnify your political success.

4. It’s the wrong war.

She claims her party will protect our country when it is necessary. As I look back in history, specifically during the Clinton Administration, I don’t seem to get that same warm and fuzzy feeling of security she’s describing. Four terrorist attacks and zero responses.

5. This isn’t part of the war on terror.

In truth, you could throw a dart at a map of the middle east and if you attacked nearly any country it landed on you would be fighting the war on terror, with the exception of Israel. There is no intelligent or viable reason to regard Iraq as NOT being a part of the global war on terror.

6. This war doesn’t make our people safer.

This statement is pure opinion. Making this opinion at a time when the United States has not been attacked a second time since 2001, when previously it was attacked 4 times, is quite dishonest.

7. This war has increased terrorism.
Islamic terrorism has been around for thousands of years. George Bush did not single handedly increase terrorism by attacking Iraq, as Nancy Pelosi, and many other democrats would have you believe. If they thought the public might believe them, they’d probably even shoot for trying to make us believe that Bush actually created Islamic Terrorism, most likely to get rid of poor people.

8. The 9/11 commission is non-partisan and they gave the administration Ds and Fs.

If you believe the 9/11 commission is actually non-partisan, please review the tapes of the interviews and questions of our administration officials. When the commission wasn’t busy drowning us in their own liberal political viewpoints, they were heckling and badgering conservative officials. I know this commission was “supposed to be” non-partisan, but come on; non-partisan? More like non-sense.

9. We want to eaves drop, outside the law, on our citizens.

This is a direct and outright fabrication. The wire tapping policies in use are not used on our citizens in general. They are used SPECIFICALLY on people in the United States (not necessarily a citizen) who are making INTERNATIONAL calls to those on terrorist watch lists, or the other way around. The democrats would have you believe that the weekly call to your grandmother is being listened in on by the NSA. If you aren’t on a terrorist watch list, you’re fine. This statement by Pelosi disregards all facts and logic.

10. We aren’t safer five years later because…

She offers a lot of reasons why we aren’t safer, yet fails to leave out something. Let me rephrase her sentence and see if it still makes sense to you. “We aren’t safer five years later because we haven’t been attacked again.” – Does that make any sense to you? She can list and list and criticize and list, but she doesn’t have any explanation for why we haven’t been attacked again. Why would you pass up the main aspect of a discussion to describe all the little aspects? While we DO have many things that still need to be fixed, improved, and taken care of, bypassing the simple fact that we haven’t been attacked again while trying to make people believe we aren’t safer is dishonesty at its highest level.

Mrs. Pelosi. One show, 6.5 minutes, 10 reasons not to vote for you. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder. Oh, and by the way, she did offer one suggestion among her entire list of criticisms – diplomacy. Genius.