The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years
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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?
@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?
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I thought it was quite inappropriate for her to tear up Trump's speech and make stink faces while he gave it.
Education is extremely important.
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I thought it was quite inappropriate for her to tear up Trump's speech and make stink faces while he gave it.
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I thought it was quite inappropriate for her to tear up Trump's speech and make stink faces while he gave it.
@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?
I was only joking
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“Don’t make me repeat myself”
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@jon-nyc said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:
That’s just locker room nonsense. Nothing like tearing up a speech.
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@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?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?
“Don’t make me repeat myself”
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He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?
@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.
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He might have raped children in his free time but made the legislation run on time. Is that what you’re suggesting?
@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?
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@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?
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:
@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?
Stink faces are never appropriate.
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@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?
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:
@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?
I don't think Donald has ever been Speaker.
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@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?
@George-K said in The Worst Speaker of the Last 100 Years:
@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?
No, it doesn't.
