Is Nancy Pelosi Trying to Lose the House?


Racist, Sexist, Anti-Semitic, Homophobe Takes Over for Rangel

Ask yourself this question: if Nancy Pelosi were trying to lose control of the House, what would she do differently? Elevating her extreme liberal California pal Pete Stark to temporary leadership of the Ways and Means Committee is a great way to further alienate independents and divide Democrats.

Stark is next in line for the post in seniority, but his maverick personality had led some to question whether he would get the gavel even on a temporary basis. Stark has made many controversial comments over the years, and when Republicans controlled the House, Stark challenged then Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) to a fight during a Ways and Means Committee hearing.

Stark in 2007 called President George W. Bush a “liar” on the House floor, adding that Bush was amused over U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq. Pelosi condemned the remarks and Stark subsequently apologized.

The Hill has barely even scratched the surface of Pete Stark highlights. It’s worth a little more detail. Stark didn’t just call President Bush a liar; he said Bush was sending troops to Iraq so they could get their heads ‘blown off’ for his personal amusement:

He didn’t just challenge Scott McInnis to a fistfight; he called him a ‘fruitcake,’ and worse. Eventually the Capitol Police were called to clear Stark and others out of a committee hearing room.

Stark is the man who called the black Secretary of Health and Human Services ‘a disgrace to his race.’ He blamed the first Gulf war on cheerleading from his ‘Jewish colleagues.’ He said a female colleague learned what she knew about medicine from ‘pillow talk‘ with her physician husband. He accused a California official of wanting to ‘kill children.’ Just last year he secretly taped the ethics investigators looking into the tax break he claimed for establishing resident in Maryland, and he berated and insulted them while he did so.

He’s also been a low-level star of the YouTube era, with ‘highlights’ you have probably seen before.

Threatening an interviewer who asks him to explain why he thinks the national debt makes us wealthier:

Telling a constituent he’s not worth as much as Stark’s own urine:

Attacking a constituent who disagrees with him on Iraq:

Pete Stark is an extreme liberal, who has demonstrated time and again that he’s better at dividing than uniting. He’s got no significant achievements to his name during nearly 30 years of service. That’s quite a resume in itself – a testament to both his extreme views and his inability ever to work with colleagues on shared priorities. And he’s the person Pelosi picks to take over for Rangel at a time when Democrats are desperate to pass health care and a ‘jobs’ bill? It’s as if Pelosi’s given up already.


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This is incredible.

comrade_terry Wednesday, March 3rd at 1:50PM EST (link)

I think Nanzi has finally taken complete leave of her senses. What was she thinking? No, please don’t answer that!

 

Good. Looks like a perfect albatross...

MacAoidh (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 1:50PM EST (link)

…among a flock of ‘em.



Check out MacAoidh’s commentary on Louisiana and national politics at TheHayride.com

 

Brian is being delicate about the 'and worse.'

Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 2:05PM EST (link)

So is CNN, which called it a ‘vulgarity.’ The word in question was a three-syllable sexual slur – and, when directed against a man, a gay-baiting one.

 

Not To Much Ideological Diversity Between Stark and Rangel

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 2:11PM EST (link)

TweedleDick and Tweedle Dum.

” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis

 

Are you kidding?

neoavatara (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 2:23PM EST (link)

This is great.

Rangel, a man that I have met, is a nice guy, with ethical problems.

Stark is an ass, who is an extremists who hates conservatives, and has ethical problems.

If I had to choose which guy is better for conservatives, I would have picked Stark. This is going to be a political goldmine.

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agreed

reaganliveson Wednesday, March 3rd at 5:27PM EST (link)

I don’t understand her, it’s like she doesn’t even care anymore. But this new guy’s gonna become figure A to why we need to run Nanci and co. out of power. Not a bright move.

 
 

I think at this point she knows she is going...

erod (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 2:55PM EST (link)

to lose. So why not put a nut job in there? They have what, a couple of months left until we kick their arse out?

disagree

MF (Diary) Thursday, March 4th at 12:51PM EST (link)

First, she’s not going to lose, unless she loses in the primary. Her district no longer likes her very much, but it is so heavily blue (probably around 80%) that there is no way they will vote in a Republican. They will vote for Pelosi like most of us voted for McCain in the 2008 Presidential election – lesser of two evils (in their view).

I also disagree that someone like her thinks she is going to lose. Pelosi and many of her ilk are narcissistic and egomaniacs. She believes that the world revolves around her, and rightfully so (IHNSHO – in her not so humble opinion).

 
 

See Hillbuzz today

patriotparty1 (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 3:19PM EST (link)

They have a great idea for targeting dem big ticket funders.

Let’s do this!

“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”

 

I would say something nice

Gmac Wednesday, March 3rd at 3:20PM EST (link)

about him, if there were something nice to say.

San Fran Nan, the political gift that gives almost as much as VP Biden.

 

Great move Pelosi

johnnylobster Wednesday, March 3rd at 3:52PM EST (link)

She was actually able to find someone worse than Rangel to take his seat for a while. By making Rangel look normal in comparison he’ll probably have an easier time getting around his ethical shortcomings. Of course, now it is likely that by the time Rangel is no longer under investigation the Dems may have lost the House but long-term planning is not really their strong suit anyway.

 

More Alinsky...

larryp Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:12PM EST (link)

Rules for /Radicals….Throw the values of the middle class back in their face, use it against them, confuse them
We think that maybe that Nancy would pick some one that wouledbe better than Rangel to weild the gavel. but no, she mocks the proicess and picks some one worse, someone apalling. she has no respect for the congress. More alinsky.

 

Pelosi and her kind are pathological

RedBeard Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:28PM EST (link)

The naming of Stark, as execrable a piece of human debris as has ever graced the Capitol, is proof that she cannot think nor reason outside her little agenda-driven bubble.

That said, I look forward to a boatload of general hilarity as a result of her handing a big wooden hammer to that miserable cretin Stark.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

 

Listening to Stupak now

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:47PM EST (link)

And he looks like he is very shakey on voting against this thing. He is staing that the Senate bill is dead in the house, but he thinks that they can play fast and loose with the rules to put in any changes that they want.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

 

picture the roller coaster heading down.....

larryp Wednesday, March 3rd at 6:10PM EST (link)

that is the donks standing up for America and not voting on this.

 

Nancy is crazy AND an idealogue, bad, bad combination.

archer52 Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:10PM EST (link)

She’d be saluting with an out stretched right arm and clicking heels sixty years ago. Just because we are Americans doesn’t mean we are immune to the dangers of fascism, socialism and even things worse.

Read my book. It just hit Amazon today. The photo of the cover is still being built.

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No doubt about it, Stark is a really nasty piece

throwback59 Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:21PM EST (link)

of work, but when did calling someone a “fruitcake” become a federal offense?

I didn't print the word Stark used

Brian Faughnan (Diary) Thursday, March 4th at 8:01AM EST (link)

But it was worse than ‘fruitcake.’

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-joke-or-exaggeration-rangels.html

 
 

Count your blessings...

wannabeanncoulter Thursday, March 4th at 5:15AM EST (link)

Pelosi was pretty much locked into the choice, given the priority that seniority takes in these matters. Then again, seniority gives Pelosi an acceptable excuse for not picking someone else, because once she goes outside the senority protocol and picks someone else, she’s gonna tick off people.

Ah, sweet politics.

Ways and Means is a bruising assignment. If nothing else for the Dems, Stark (“Raving Mad”) is a seasoned pol and knows how to fight.

I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter

 

pete stark is the worse

sarge324 Thursday, March 4th at 5:33AM EST (link)

you put a gun in pete starks hand and he would shoot the people who disagree with him.putting him in charge of the ways and means.pelosi knows he is a head case and she dont care.its like lining up the republican party and let stark and grayson with swords and let them hack away.and there is no doubt in my mind they wont.nancy pelosi is a mindless obamaite.

That'll boost C-SPAN's ratings!

wannabeanncoulter Thursday, March 4th at 7:47AM EST (link)

you put a gun in pete starks hand and he would shoot the people who disagree with him.

I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter

 
 

Losing the House

bigboy Thursday, March 4th at 1:16PM EST (link)

Many factors are involved in these moving situations. 1. We have left God out of all decision making–human wisdom alone will not make it. 2. We have an elected leader of our country who diesires all power, that of a dictator. Regardless of who is in the House or Senate, he wants power over all. 3. We have an American electorate who is asleep, or simply don’t care. WE MUST REBEL AGAINST PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HONOR OUR FLAG OR OUR COUNTRY. 4. Where is our checks and balances in government. O, I understand Congresas. The Dems are like little sheep being led to the slaughter. They don’t have minds of their own to use..They are just lambs who can easily be led astray. 5. Too many in our Congress are registered as Socialisty or Communists..What can we expect?

 

Pete Stark already stepped down

spes Thursday, March 4th at 8:35PM EST (link)

I saw it on CSPAN about the time of this diary.

 

Pete Stark is a great representative

Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, March 4th at 9:12PM EST (link)

of the bullying Democrat elitist mentality.

I watched all three videos. Stark seems unhealthily concerned about the amount and source of education of those who try to communicate with him.

He went to MIT. So did my son. He was in the Air Force for 2 years. I was in for five. He has an MBA. So do I. I have never owned a bank. I think I’ll move to California and whip his a** in the next election. The little fruitcake.

He defeated his first opponent because the guy had been in Congress too long (28 years). Stark’s been in office 38 years this winter. And he’s only the 8th most senior member of Congress (maybe 7th now, with Murtha gone). Rangel has been in Congress half his life! Time for term limits.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964