Clueless Hack

By Jim Lynch on May 2, 2007 in Congress, House, Leftourettes, Our Military, Politics, President Bush, Senate, The Left

But the question is who is the bigger clueless hack, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi? Here’s Harry Reid:

“The president understands that there is a separate unit of government that he has to deal with, called the Congress,” Reid said.

OK. Granted. Now do you, Senator Reid, understand that the President is Commander in Chief? I realize that it is the job of Congress to allocate funds, including the funds for the military. That in no way translates into the power to determine how to prosecute the war.

So what did Madame Speaker have to say?

“The president has turned a tin ear to the wishes of the American people,” Pelosi said during the hour-long debate beforehand. “The president wants a blank check. The Congress will not give it to him.”

I must have missed the “I want a blank check” speech.

Frankly, I just can’t make up my mind so I’ve opened up the poll booth over in the right sidebar. Have at it.

UPDATE: Fausta expounds on her vote.

Thanks to Don Surber and Chad Evans for the links!

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5 Comment(s)

They are both clueless. As I blogged yesterday, maybe we need Barney the dinosaur for Speaker of the House.

Cheers,

Bill

The Florida Masochist | May 2, 2007 | Reply
Harry hasn’t worn a scarf yet on any trips to the Middle East, so I voted for Nancy, who apparently’s heading to Venezuela and Iran next.

Fausta | May 2, 2007 | Reply
Have to go with Reid. Pelosi is just being Pelosi. Reid has changed who he really is, a somewhat reasonable, sort of conservative liberal, to be a stooge for the Nutroots.

William Teach | May 2, 2007 | Reply
It’s pretty much a toss up, but I would have to go with Pelosi. The trip to Syria and the head scarf were bit no-no’s.

I got an email from Marsha Blackburn (Rep. TN), who informed me that Pelosi signed this bill WITHOUT EVEN READING IT FIRST. Not sure how Ms. Blackburn know this.

Debbie | May 3, 2007 | Reply
Your Rep. Marsh Blackburn knows that due to deductive reasoning. That reasoning is based on the fact that after the House vote was completed, Speaker Pelosi announced that she was going to delay sending it to the Whitehouse so that she could read it in totality.

This of course was a blatant ploy to delay the veto’ing of the bill until the anniversary of Bush’s Mission Accomplished photo op, so the push back is the conclusion that Pelosi votes for high profile bills without complete knowledge of what they contain.

Joel Mackey | May 3, 2007 | Reply