Bias knows no bounds, especially when it comes to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. The Hardball host, who seems to drop a new jaw-dropping bombshell near daily, now asserts that there hasn’t been a “stronger” House Speaker in the last 50 years than Nancy Pelosi.
NewsBusters points out that Pelosi was House Speaker during one of the nation’s worst recessions in decades, causing unemployment rates to double and the debt to increase by 61 percent.
Matthews stated: “There’s never been a stronger speaker, I think, since Sam Rayburn than the speaker — just recently was speaker. That’s Nancy Pelosi.”
NewsBusters continues:
Consider that the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent when Pelosi was sworn in back in January 2007. When she gave up the gavel four years later, the rate was a staggering 9.4 percent with over 8.5 million more people out of work.
Let’s understand that the economy was booming when the Democrats and Pelosi took over Congress in 2007. By the end of their first year in charge, a recession began that many claim to be the worst since the Great Depression.
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I guess Nancy just doesn't have the right chemistry to get his leg tingling though?
You never know about crissy, he has other than ordinary desires.
Chris Matthews should be listed under comedian in google searches.
Everyone knows Mr. Tingly is a complete idiot and everyone knows that Pelosi was the worst speaker the House has ever be forced to endure.
I agree that Nancy Pelosi was the strongest Speaker in the last 50 years–but smell is overrated as a measure of strength
Nancy Pelosi must have sent a tingle up Chris Matthews leg?
Naw, not the right chemistry. I think that if Chris lived in Chicago he would've stopped
at the club Rahm and barrry frequented.
I'm curious as I don't have msnbc and don't care to watch his show on NBC on Sun. morn.,
but just wonder if he has any attraction for Barney Frank?
Lo! Gary i agree! What can i say? Chris may just belong to The Man's Club in Chicago? I definitely think that Barney Frank & Chris Matthews would make such a sweet couple.
But I also think Chris likes his coffee black, so to speak. Barneys a little too pale.
AGREED.
When people told her to go Pee up a Rope, they were talking about both her and Mathews. Neither of them could track an elephant with a nosebleed in an 8" snowstorm.
You sound envious….Could it be because she's better looking?
1oldcoyote no i am not but Polosi does look like something you would hang with.
And there hasn't been a louder moron in the past 50 years than Chris Matthews.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi was the strongest speaker ever to publically demonstrate what an idiot she is. It's also a reflection of the low intellect of the voters who keep her in office.
Pelosi is the most corrupt speaker I have ever seen!
What should we expect from someone who's mentor was none other than "Jimmy Carter"???
The Only One That Made Any Money While Pelosi Was In Charge As House Speaker Was Sweet Nancy, Yikeess, With Her Company USA Private Jet And Friends Trips With Her Chinese Credit Card, Now We Have Pres Obamacare And Fat Cake With Her Friends Using The Ugly Witch Pelosis Chinese Credit Card, Wake Up America And Get Rid Of Obama/Soros Goons Nov 2012 Election.
one problem with him is mouth goes 100mph an is brain does 10mph in all my 80yrs he take the cake for a no brainer
Question?
You have James McPherson & his alias Ellen, Ireuel & 1Old Coyote 2 in a dark room.
How many of them would it take to install a light bulb?
Zero!
None of them know how to install a light bulb!
Being the "biggest manipulator/blackmailer" does NOT make one the "strongest" anything, other than a THUG!
Being the "biggest manipulator/blackmailer" does NOT make one the "strongest" anything, other than a THUG
Signs that will point to the world that you are a liberal/progressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRuh3BXW9wA
For those on this thread who may not have seen it, there is a new, updated report out from Paul Irey, a typography and type face expert.
New Report — Presentation of the Evidence: The American Typewriter – Obama’s ‘Typed’ Long Form Birth Certificate is Forged | by Paul Irey – Type Face Expert
Read and download your own copy of Paul Irey’s New Full Report Here. Please post the link and circulate this new report as widely as you can. Email, postal mail, or FAX it to your Congress members. Get them this new information and report which is independent of the analysis of the PDF file manipulation analysis and was done on the flattened JPG image ciruclated by AP and the press. I have sent it to my reps in Congress and key committee leaders and of course Speaker Boehner. We need to keep pounding on them in addition to all else we are doing. Here is the link to get the new report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/59624694/Presentation-T…
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My comments: We Have a Criminal and Forger in the White House! Why Isn’t Speaker John Boehner Investigating? Call or Write and Ask Him Why He’s Not Investigating! Boehner Needs to Stop Whining and Obfuscating and Lead. Demand an Investigation be Started by the U.S. House of Reps That He Leads! – 27 Jun 2011 Wash Times National Weekly pg 5. See and Get a Copy of the Ad Here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58789325/We-Have-a-Crim…
Further proof the Obama long form BC from another expert, Doug Vogt a digital image and scanner expert, that Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate that was posted on the White House servers and of which xerox copies were given to reporters on 27 April 2011 is a forgery: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58721290/Obama-Birth…
Flattened or layered the "birthday caked up document" Obama proffered to the world on 27 Apr 2011 via the digital manufactured PDF file and via the xerox copies handed out to the reporter is a FORGERY!
This is not a fringe issue of concern by only a few Americans. In the latest poll, 50% of the American people said they want Obama investigated by the Congress. It is time for U.S. House Speaker Boehner to take action and call for investigations in the House of Reps of Obama’s criminal activities: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&am…
CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) http://www.protectourliberty.org/ http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/
On Irey's "proof": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubfKDbhk94
James this is so lame! You key in only on Irey ? No need for me to comment further. Ridiculous post by you!
There will naturally be small differences.
And beside that it was in the papers at the time and those were not classified ads.
Those postings had to be confirmed by the paper before they could be posted and
three Republican officials confirmed it.
James what are you talking about? Could it be that you are talking about some article in a newspaper? If so then what is the article? What postings were confirmed? What three Republicans & what exactly were they confirming?
Cute, whoever did this–using my photo and Ellen's name. I guess if your own arguments have no merit, you have nothing left other than to play silly games. I have taken the liberty of reporting you to the moderator.
She was Speaker of the House during the worst economic time since the the great depression. If they can say it about President Bush it also applies to The leader of the House that is also in charge of the spending in Washington. Who was the speaker 50 years ago that held that title? I must research this.
Funny they seem to always leave out the Jimmy Carter Total meltdown that I remember quite well. I guess when a Democrat fails, like Barry is today they get a mulligan.
Search result. Interesting article as you will read below.
Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas said that the recession was the worst since the Great Depression—though in February 1961 unemployment was 6.9 percent and GDP had fallen by only about one percentage point.
Oh now I see why she was the best since another Democrat. Note the words he used in 1961. Sound similar doesn't it. This is the Democratic play book. The Worst since the Great Depression again. Hey Barry you are a lying and people are a dying.
PS: Barry, Hows that little war going in Libya? Not so well is it?
I guess you just have to say "The worst economy since the great depression" and that makes you a good Speaker of the House.
WOW Washington is the problem, without a doubt. We are still using tactic form the 1960's the same decade this useless President was born to Flower child mother that dumped him on his Grandmother doorsteps.
I'm impressed with your post ireuel.
Even though i dislike you it was good.
Because most of the people that were adults in that gen. have already
passed. – R.I.P., nobody remembers. It is easy to sell off a tactic that nobody
remembers.
I'll admit, I was born just a couple years after barry, myself, so I really don't
have much memory of anything and just some childhood memories of late 60's.
And mine were psychedelic.
Well, as they say, "If you remember the '60s, you weren't there."
There were a few of us still clear headed. Very few.
Didn't happen till the 80's either. But no more.
A few tries was more than enough.
This is the most important statement in this read:::::
Consider that the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent when Pelosi was sworn in back in January 2007.
Anyone wanting to run in 2012 should answer every question asked, no matter the question they should just say this;;;
"Consider that the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent when Pelosi was sworn in back in January 2007."
Case will be closed
"Let’s understand that the economy was booming when the Democrats and Pelosi took over Congress in 2007. By the end of their first year in charge, a recession began that many claim to be the worst since the Great Depression."
It's not the McDonalds BigMac that you ate at noon that you dump at 1 pm…
Mathews, you are only part correct: The strongest and THE WORST!
Nancy Pelosi is a liar and communist sympathizer! I can’t believe that someone would hire and continue to let Chris Matthews spout his lying ass all over the news media! Number one, no one cares what Matthews has to say and definitely doesn’t believe anything that he reports. As far as Pelosi is concerned, she will go down in history as a communist liar who hated America and everything that it stands for!!