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Life Inside Nancy Pelosi's Bubble

For feisty speaker, there are only Dems, donors and vote counts

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 2, 2009 12:33 PM CST

(Newser) – Nancy Pelosi is smiling that trademark mask-like smile as she sits down for the interview. A recent California poll puts her approval rating at 34%, a big plunge from 48% in March, but the speaker barely noticed. Whenever poll numbers come up she waves her staff off, saying, “I’ll take the hit, I’ll take the hit.” Pelosi lives in a bubble, explains Vanessa Grigoriadis of New York magazine. She cares only about Democratic members, donors, her family, and the White House.

That outlook put her at odds with President Obama this summer as he pushed for a bipartisan bill. “Nancy really doesn’t care about Republicans,” says one associate. “She doesn’t believe the whole bipartisan thing exists.” Liberals, too, drive her mad with complaints that her public option isn’t strong enough. “There they are, posing for holy pictures,” she says. “Oh, they want to be sainted.” For Pelosi, all that matters is the vote count, and what she calls her “historic work."

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, speaks about health care reform at a press conference at Chinese Hospital, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)

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Everybody got upset when she basically said the CIA lies, which isn’t exactly a controversial statement, as far as she’s concerned. - Vanessa Grigoriadis

Nancy really doesn't care about Republicans. Her attitude is, ‘God bless their souls, but these people don’t believe in global warming. They just don’t agree with us.’ - An anonymous Pelosi associate

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Nov 2, 2009 9:07 AM CST

cedarkey, I'll nominate a few other names ahead of her as worst Speaker in history: Howell Cobb, who used his Speaker position to push for the continuation of slavery before the Civil War; Dennis Hastert, who allowed GWB and Richard Cheney to run rampant on civil liberties, our economy, and the Middle East with nary a check or balance; Jim Wright, who was so embattled by fraud and ethics violations that he stepped down as Speaker and resigned from Congress; and Newt Gingrich, whose /Contract with America/ was apparently a promise to stop at nothing to expose the sexual deviancy of a president with a problem, only to later admit to his own immoral escapades.

Doctor-Zaius

Nov 2, 2009 8:19 AM CST

Dude, I know you're just a Freeper Fraud.

Doctor-Zaius

Nov 2, 2009 8:18 AM CST

At the risk of more dribblings, please be more specific. Please identify some specific acts of "prostitution" to the above mentioned organizations.

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