We Are All Tea Partiers Now

Nancy Pelosi doesn't need a Weatherman to tell her which way the wind blows - she explained to Elizabeth Vargas of "This Week" that she shares views with the some of the Tea Partiers:

VARGAS: Let's talk a bit about the coming elections in November. You had recently-- and the Tea Party movement, do you think it will be a force to be reckoned with? You had said last summer that it was a faux grassroots movement. You called it the Astroturf movement.

PELOSI: In some respects it is. Uh-huh.

VARGAS: Is the Tea Party movement a force?

PELOSI: No - No what I said at the time is, that they were -- the Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party. And so there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots.

But, you know, we share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as -- it just has to stop. And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy, whether it's on health insurance, whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest.

VARGAS: So, common ground with many people in the Tea Party movement.

PELOSI: Well, no, there are some. There are some because they, again, some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters. Some of it is hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns that we have about the role of special interests and many Tea Partiers, not that I speak for them, share the view, whether it's -- and Democrats, Republicans and Independents share the view that the recent Supreme Court decision, which greatly empowers the special interests, is something that they oppose.

Good luck with that outreach effort, Nancy!

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[PD]

More gibberish from Her Nancyness.

Just once I wish one of these media people would say, "Speaker Pelosi, some of our listeners might not be familiar with the concept of Astroturfing. Would you explain to them what it means?"

[Jim Ryan]

An outreach effort that's a self-fulfilling prophecy: "You Tea Partiers are Republicans!"

orchestrated from the Republican headquarters. Some of it is hijacking

She's getting there. A couple more years of decent into crazy and she'll be a Truther.

[Jim Ryan]

**deSCent** I did a clarice-o.

[Clarice]

dumb da dumb dumb..and full of it, too.

[narciso]

"That word you are using (Nancy) doesn't mean what you think it does? Honestly what corner of the multiverse, are we in, and how do we
get back to sanity

[Mike Myers]

Nancy baby--you said that the tea partiers were Nazis as well. And now you want to make nice? Go away from me you deranged botox addled harridan! (That's a three syllable word--where a one syllable that begins with B would do).

[Milton Quaffalot]

Just for fun, the Tea Party should appoint Nancy as their leader.

[Jane]

I share no common ground with Nancy Pelosi.

[Captain Hate]

Does anybody really listen to this deranged scrunt? If you summed her and Olbermann's IQs would you reach double digits?

[Cecil Turner]

Even assuming she was good on special interests (like right, that explains picking the late unlamented Murtha as her lackey), it amazes me she can try to pretend that's the issue. As if the original tea party was a protest against the British East India Company (instead of the Crown). Suuure.

[Jim Ryan]

The Tea Party is not a populist movement. It wouldn't exist if the leaders of the country were competent, fiscally responsible lovers of liberty who upheld the Constitution. The Tea Party is an anti-incompetent, anti-economy-wrecking, pro-liberty, pro-Constitution movement. When Tea Partiers rail against "elites" this is because elites are destroying the economy, not because they are elites.

[Ignatz]

--And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy--

Yes Tesla and Fiskar and GE's windmills and the solar industry and all the rest nuzzling up to her federal teat have been fought tooth and nail by Madame Tussaud.

--whether it's on health insurance--

Same with AARP, the unions, tort lawyers, etc.

-- whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest--

Of course she doesn't mention she went out whoring to cut a deal with "Big Pharma" so they'd support Obamacare. Some fight. And the tort attorneys have nothing to fear from Nancy in this area either.

Special interests for me but not for thee.

[fdcol63]

Pelosi and her ilk can't get their story straight.

First, the Tea Party Movement was merely a creation of the GOP and Fox News.

Now, the GOP has hijacked it.

LOL