The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

I don't care for her or her politics, but the worst in 100 years? Where's the justification for that?

The fact that hardly anybody can remember who was Speaker about 3 weeks after they quit?

[Mik]

Pelosi
Ryan
Boehner
Pelosi
Hastert
Gingrich
Foley

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

Pelosi
Ryan
Boehner
Pelosi
Hastert
Gingrich
Foley

That time-scale is closer to 3 weeks than it is to 100 years.

OK, I should have said 'hardly anybody normal can remember...'.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

Pelosi
Ryan
Boehner
Pelosi
Hastert
Gingrich
Foley

After that I’d add Tip O’Neil and Mike Mansfield but I know I’d be skipping a bunch.

[Doctor Phibes]

'....hardly anybody normal who doesn't do math puzzles in their spare time...'

[Copper]

Including John Boehner, how many speakers have been of color?

[Mik]

@Copper said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

Including John Boehner, how many speakers have been of color?

snort

[Copper]

I can't recall another speaker whose weirdo husband hired a weirdo to pound him on the head with a hammer.

There may have been several, but I can't think of one.

[Jolly]

Can anybody name another Speaker in recent memory, who has been more divisive, engaged in more political blackmail or who has ridden roughshod more over the minority than Pelosi?

[LuFins Dad]

Can we agree that she was the worst in 100 weeks?

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

Can anybody name another Speaker in recent memory, who has been more divisive, engaged in more political blackmail or who has ridden roughshod more over the minority than Pelosi?

I'm with Mik - where's the justification? I realize she's been the boogeyman of the right since Hilary was out of the picture, but how different has she been than other recent speakers?

[Horace]

I thought it was quite inappropriate for her to tear up Trump's speech and make stink faces while he gave it.

[Renauda]

@Horace

A stink face and paper ripping is fuck all. There was a time in the not so distant past she might have given him a good caning.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

I thought it was quite inappropriate for her to tear up Trump's speech and make stink faces while he gave it.

Well, not all politicians can be as classy and unifying as Teh Donald.

Seems to me like there’s a double standard here. If Pelosi is so awful, what does that say about Trump?

[jon-nyc]

https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-sexual-abuse-illinois-dennis-hastert-99160a4428db66e86da8e275e57c8ec7

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-sexual-abuse-illinois-dennis-hastert-99160a4428db66e86da8e275e57c8ec7

That’s just locker room nonsense. Nothing like tearing up a speech.

[George K]

@jon-nyc I was going to comment on (as you called him) Cardinal Hastert's sexual...indiscretions?

That alone makes him a horrible person.

But does it make him one of the worst speakers?

[jon-nyc]

He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?

Somebody once said take no notice of what politicians say, but focus on what they do. Presumably we’re only focusing on what they do at work.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:

He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?

Oh no, not by any means.

I suppose my comment came off as "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..."

As a politician, was he capapble?