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So flash in the bedpan Nan was was cuttin' a rug with the koolaid krowd up there in DC Wednesday, yucking it up with members of Campaign for America, Code Pink, and a handful of other of our favorite crazies. She did, yet again, a masterful job of dancin' all around her inability to accomplish the only thing they elected her to do.

As the headlines go, apparently America's Mother-In-law™, Okinawa Jack, Dingy Harry AND the Dream Prez Hildebeast, all received stout rounds of boos.

Aww.

Courtesy CQ Transcripts, I had the opportunity to "look into the mind" of the 3rd most powerful person in the world.

Folks, we are in trouble.

More below the fold...

Opening remarks say bunches about where things are headed:

Thank you, Jack Murtha. Thank you, Jack Murtha, for your generous words this morning, but especially for your great leadership.

Jack Murtha had the courage to speak truth to power. It was a nightmare for the White House and it has been bad for them ever since.

Jack Murtha fought for our country on the battlefield; a decorated war veteran from Vietnam.

As a young man, he showed that conviction. As an experienced, respected chairman of an Appropriations Subcommittee, he continues to make that fight for the American people.

The men and women in uniform in America have no better friend than Jack Murtha. And he thinks their interests are served by bringing the troops home.

Everyone in America who cares about the immorality of this war owes a debt of gratitude to Chairman Jack Murtha.

Thank you, Jack, again.

Apparently scumbag Jack had introduced Nance, having said "She’s worked tirelessly to end" this war, to which a displeased defeatist shouted from the crowd, "no she hasn’t. Our friends in the surrender crowd may be crazy, but they sure are perceptive!

In response to the angst of the crowd, Nance once again puts her foot in it:

The biggest ethical -- when we talk about conducting Congress to the highest ethical standard, with the most fiscal discipline, no new deficit spending, and in the most civil way, we have to recognize that the biggest ethical challenge facing our country is the war in Iraq -- is the war in Iraq.

(APPLAUSE)

Let's look at this not only in opposition to the war, as I voted against it almost five years ago. At the time I was...

(APPLAUSE)

At the time I was the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, the senior Democrat, and therefore I was part of something called the gang of four, House Democrat and Republican Senate Democrat and Republican. We saw all of the intelligence, and I read it all. And after I saw it, I said, "I'm voting against the war because the intelligence does not support the threat."

There was nothing...

(APPLAUSE)

There was nothing in the intelligence that said that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. Nothing.

So with their scare tactics...

(AUDIENCE MEMBER SHOUTING)

PELOSI:
... scare tactics, that's why I say this is the most unethical -- how we sent our troops into war without the proper training, without the proper equipment, without a plan for success.

PELOSI:
Democrats want to have -- we do have -- a vision for stability in the Middle East. And the generals tell us, most recently in our response to the president, General Odom said, "Any strategy, any strategy for stability in the Middle East must begin with the redeployment of our troops out of Iraq, out of Iraq, out of Iraq."

(APPLAUSE)

And so while we don't have the 60 votes to overcome the other Republican in the Senate or we don't have the president's signature, we have the right position on this issue and the American people know it.

So what we have to do is we can't use, we can't accept the fact that 60 facts will prevent us from ending this war. We can't accept that the president will not sign the bill. Those are facts. Those are obstacles. But we have to overcome them and we cannot wait until November 2008 to do so.

(APPLAUSE)

We cannot wait until then.

So I hope that we can channel all of this energy, which I fully respect -- your impatience with the war is totally justified. Who would have ever thought May 1, 2003, the president says, "Mission accomplished"? Four years later and counting, four years later and counting, what a tragedy.

The war from the start has been a grotesque mistake, a grotesque mistake. We mourn the loss of life. That is our greatest loss. We mourn the loss of life. That is our greatest loss, over 3,500. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

(APPLAUSE)

They're all God's children, too. They're all God's children, too.

(APPLAUSE)

The opportunity cost of a trillion dollars and more that what we could have done for universal access to quality health care, the education of our children.

PELOSI:
Something very important to us we just did: $6.3 billion for victims of Katrina that we finally, a year and a half later...

(APPLAUSE)

But think of all that we could do in our country and internationally to stop the spread of AIDS and disease and alleviation of poverty and all the values that we have, not only domestically, but internationally.

Instead -- instead -- because of a stubbornness that is hard to explain, a president committed to a war without end, so deeply dug into the hole he cannot see the light of day, but we have to help him see the light. And we must do it as soon as possible. It is long overdue.

(APPLAUSE)

(AUDIENCE MEMBERS SHOUTING)

Now, first of all, if these were prepared words her speechwriters need to go. If this was off the top of her head, she is must be the biggest idiot to ever serve in Public Office.

She brings the Peter Principle to a whole new level.

Are we now to understand the Democrats' motivation for getting out of Iraq is because they want the money to redistribute to children and hurricane victims? It's crazy enough that these lunatics believe the best way to support the troops is to withdraw them from the fight, but to suggest their motivation is based on wanting to buy votes elsewhere and needing the war funds to do so is just patently absurd.

The idiot parade marches on.

Let me tell you this. Just getting back to the war now, if I may -- do you mind if I do that?

(LAUGHTER)

Philosopher Hannah Arendt said, government -- "some nations are on a flywheel of violence. They think that just one more act of war, one final act of violence will stop violence. But all it does is sow the seeds for more violence."

And that is what is going on in the world.

(APPLAUSE)

And we must stop it.

PELOSI:
In my travels -- perhaps you've read about my travels...

(LAUGHTER)

... in my travels, I've met with presidents and kings and prime ministers since I have become speaker. But the conversations that are most important to me are the ones that I have had with young people, especially throughout the Middle East, certainly in our own country.

And I know there are lots of young people here, and that's very exciting.

(APPLAUSE)

Let's hear it for the young people.

(APPLAUSE)

Whether I was talking to post-doctorates or people in Saudi Arabia or kids in the street in Damascus or young people in the Palestinian territories or people in Israel, wherever I was, Lebanon, kids, young people, are weary of war. They're tired of politicians who do not show the political courage to end war, to make the difficult decisions...

(APPLAUSE)

... to make the difficult decisions.

What they said to me is, "We wonder if our political leaders even know how to govern without having the excuse of war for not raising the standard of living, providing health care, educating the people, stopping global warming."

The impatience of youth is what gives me hope about the future of this world, of this planet. And that is why -- and that is why -- and they're saying, "End it. End it in Iraq, in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in Darfur and all of Africa, where all of that violence and conflict is, whatever's happening, any day of the week, something different, in Lebanon.

"End these conflicts. Focus on making the future better for the next generation."

These young people -- you hear it in our own country, but I'm telling you, you hear it all over. They feel cheated of a better future because these wars are constraining. And they question whether leaders who revert to war to occupy the public's attention really know how to raise the standard of living.

(APPLAUSE)

And the fact that some leaders don't want to engage in dialogue is a complete mystery to young people, I don't need to tell you, because young people are completely in dialogue, internationally, on the Internet. E-mails are almost obsolete we're on to so many other forms of communication.

So people are in touch with each other. So when they see leaders saying we won't talk to this one and we're not talking to that one, that is so of the past. It's not about the future.

(APPLAUSE)

In any event, we have an opportunity in the November elections of 2008, which are on now, and I know that you've been hearing from candidates for president of the United States -- you have seen the next president of the United States by the people who've come before you.

(APPLAUSE)

Our country -- I'd like just to enlarge this to a bigger place.

PELOSI:
Our country, for all the issues that we want to make a difference on, that add up to better public policy to improve the quality of life of the American people and make our democracy stronger -- for all of that, we also go to a larger place where we say, "This is a decision not just about those issues, important as they are, a decision for greatness, that our country will be able to say to the world: We are great because we understand our place in the world. We're not great just because we are strong. We are great because we have values, and we want to project those values to the rest of the world."

The world is waiting for America to assume its rightful place in the community of nations, a place where we're not condescending and disregard people's values and beliefs, but that we are cooperative, respectful and looking for ways -- I probably said this to you last year, because it's a constant inspiration to me.

When I was a student -- now this is ancient history to many of you, but it was my youth -- I was standing on the steps of the Capitol when President Kennedy made his inaugural address. And in his inaugural address, you all know, "Dear citizens of America, ask not what you" -- everybody in the world knows that statement.

But the very next sentence, the very next sentence in his speech, President Kennedy said, "To the citizens of the world, ask not what America can do for you, but what we can do working together for the freedom of mankind."

What we can do working together for the freedom -- cooperative, respectful, again, not condescending and disrespectful, a vast contrast to what is happening now in our country.

(APPLAUSE)

So you helped us become a majority in 2006. We think we're making a difference in taking the country in a new direction. That new direction cannot be complete until we bring our troops home.

(APPLAUSE)

And help us do that. Help us do that. We can't just say -- and it's a real reason -- we can't just say, "Well, we can pass whatever we can in the House, but they need 60 votes in the Senate and the president has the signature." Those are facts. Those are obstacles. But they cannot be insurmountable.

We have the will of the American people to end this war. We have the enthusiasm of the American people to end this war. Instead of fighting us -- which is your right to do -- let's all work together to convince the American people that this is possible.

(APPLAUSE)

Let's end the war. Let's bring the troops home. Let's make the decision for greatness in the election of 2008.

Whatever smarts this woman may have used to get where she is, San Fran Nan is by far the dimmest bulb on the tree...it ain't too hard to figure out the 2008 election strategy.

Bash Bush, demand an end to a war you refuse to end, find as many ways to say "for the Children", "for Katrina", "for the Environment", and "for the Children" (oops, I said that already, huh?) as you can...and sit back and let the right eat each other to pieces.

Maybe she ain't half-bright after all...