"I don't speak to that," Pelosi said. "I'm the Speaker of the House. I don't get into the popular culture."
Politico has the video. As Glenn Thrush notes, the conservative pair "spent much of the week nitpicking her stimulus bill on issues ranging from STD prevention funding to cash for the re-sodding the National Mall."
Also this morning, Pelosi appeared on CBS' The Early Show, where she discussed the uniform Republican opposition to a bill that President Obama hoped would generate bipartisan support.
"Republicans asked for several things so that they could participate in the process, and we gave them all of the opportunities they asked for," Pelosi said.
She added: "...when you're failing on the policy argument, you talk about process. And after that, you talk about personalities. They are failing on the policy aspects."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn’t come to Washington to be “bipartisan”, one day after shuttling through an $819 economic stimulus bill without a single Republican vote.
“I didn’t come here to be partisan, I didn’t come here to be bipartisan,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. “I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.”
Pelosi expressed no regrets over passing the stimulus measure without any GOP support. Republicans followed their leaders in objecting to the bill on the grounds that it was put together without GOP input, and that it would not do enough to stimulate the economy.
Repeating the term “nonpartisan” on more than one occasion in describing the bill, the Speaker said her goal was to put President Obama’s vision on paper for the good of the country regardless of the type of support it garnered.
“The president’s agenda is reflected in this legislation,” the Speaker said. “People vote for what they believe in. Clearly, Republicans did not believe in [that] agenda … I think they probably voted their conscience.”
And she quickly defended her handling of the bill, which was criticized by Republicans and some Democrats as too one-sided.
“We reached out to Republicans every step of the way, and they know it,” Pelosi said. “They know it.”--------------------------------------------------------------------------WAIT!!!!!!!
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-Robert James Bidinotto
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