"What on earth is your problem with Pelosi?"
I despise her, on one count, for the same reason I despise her opposite, Mr. Boehner, in the House, and Bill O'Reilly and Jesse Jackson in the news circle...
They're all rather radical sects of their party.
As the violence in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, and, well, let's just say the entire Middle East essentially right now shows...
Radicals are a bad, bad, BAD thing--
When in power, they're destructive, when out of power, they destroy the image of their platform.
The world is built by moderates, Putin.
I'd even go to your personal ideological roots and argue that if a supposed American proletariat exists, it is a moderate body.
They are not Far-Left, condescending, simpering, sneering vampires like Pelosi...
They are not Far-Right, callous, cold, elitist, WASP-ish monstrosities like the Randian Right members of the House, Boehner, and indeed, Paul Ryan...
They are Center-Right, Center-Left, or Center.
They are MODERATES.
For any progress to come about in this country, both the Right and Left--which both have flaws, let it be said, and yet both have strengths in their ideologies as well...
For any progress to be made, both sides and ideologies must work together at some level, DESPITE their ideological differences.
And the Radicals like Pelosi and the Stonewall-It-And-Always-Say-No-style Republicans are what MOST Americans are fed up with, Putin.
Who here agrees with that, if I may appeal to the rest of the Panel, as it were?
Who here agrees with that sentiment or would at least concede the average voter would make such a statement, that they are sick of the stonewalling and no-compromise rhetoric back and forth in Washington?
YOU, Putin, have argued the idea that the two parties are NOT the same, at all.
I agree with you 100% there.
But to the average voter, they COME ACROSS as being so far, far too often, because...
When they look at the parties now, who do they see, besides the President?
The Radicals!
They see Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!
They see Newt the Coot and John Boehner!
They see Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity!
They see Chris Matthews (who I wish would find his integrity again) and...well, they USED to see Keith Olbermann, but we all know how that ended.
To THEM, to the average voter, it's a lot of people in suits shouting at one another like radical, spoiled children.
^THAT is the harm of the radicals, and that is the first and most prevalent reason I despise Pelosi--
She is an insult to the idea of bipartisan cooperation that the Houses of Congress are dependent upon,
She is a symbol of all that is wrong with partisan politics, as is Boehner,
She is someone who the average voter--and even some registered Democrats such as myself--see as reflecting badly upon the Democratic Party in the public sphere,
She is someone who, one a personal level, again, comes across as condescending, simpering, and altogether a sickeningly-forced kind of "sweet" every time she laughs or smiles or sneers that sneer of hers.
She and her GOP equivalent, Boehner and Co., are KILLING political cooperation (if there ever was any to begin with) in this country, and BOTH need to be shoved to the sidelines and make way for cooler, more reasonable heads, that they, the Moderate-Left and Moderate-Right, can work not for the Blue States of America or Red States of America but the UNITED States of America...
Let the Pelosi/Boehner/MSNBC/FOX game of Red vs. Blue be consigned to Halo games.
Red vs. Blue is a childish attitude I find the above figures childish figures, and politics is a matter for adults...
And any adults here that are married will tell you compromise is CRUCIAL, Putin, to a lasting, beneficial relationship, and a sign of true maturity.
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