|
|
|---|
|
American Politics Journal Atrios Barry Crimmins Betty Bowers Buzzflash Consortium News Daily Howler Daily Kos Democatic Underground Disinfotainment Today Evil GOP Bastards Faux News Channel Greg Palast The Hollywood Liberal Internet Weekly Jesus General Joe Conason Josh Marshall Liberal Oasis Make Them Accountable Mark Morford Mike Malloy Political Humor - About.com Political Wire Randi Rhodes Rude Pundit Smirking Chimp Take Back the Media Whitehouse.org More Links |
Attack of the 50 foot Pelosi
Beware! Nancy
Pelosi is a colossal tax-dollar-engorged monster who ravages small
towns and
must be brought down by Republican ray guns. Or at least that is what a
cartoon version of the
House speaker looked like in "Attack of the 50-Foot Pelosi," a
television ad that a conservative
group called Right Change aired in Pennsylvania last month.
A new Web site by the National Republican Congressional Committee
portrays her as a
malevolent puppet master, yanking the strings of 10 vulnerable House
Democrats.
And a video from GOP House candidate Harold Johnson of North Carolina
makes her sound like
someone out of those creepy cable ads for burglar alarms. "If you're a
small-business owner,"
Johnson says, "you get up every morning and you put your helmet on,
because you think that
Nancy Pelosi is going to come into your bedroom and hit you over the
head with a baseball bat."
This is the kind of problem that J. Dennis Hastert, Carl Albert and
Frederick Gillett never had to
deal with. House speakers, with a few exceptions, have been such
colorless legislative insiders
that the mention of their names in most of America would have received
no reaction beyond quizzical looks.
Not this year, and not this speaker. "If you go to almost any grass-roots event and you mention
the speaker's name," said Bill Flores, a Republican who is challenging
Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Tex.),
"you will get a huge response from the audience." Which is why, by
Flores's estimate, he manages
to drop Pelosi's name into his speeches about as often as he does President
Obama's.