Thursday - February 22, 2007

Nancy’s Hissy Fit

I have raised two boys. They are both fine men nowadays, having grown up and gone out on their own. It seems like just yesterday though that my afternoon reading or watching the news on TV was being interrupted by one or the other of them pitching what I call a “hissy fit”. That’s a Southern description of a person (usually young) screwing up their face into a horrible grimace, crying great big tears of indignation and screaming at the top of their lungs about some horrific evil that was just done to them - most often by a sibling.

My response to their hissy fits involved three steps: (1) slowly turn my head, make eye contact with the monster midget and give him “the look” (that patient but evil glaring look that only fathers know how to give), (2) if the wailing persisted I gave them “the growl” (that deep-throated Dad voice asking v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y “YOU GOT A PROBLEM?”, (3) if that didn’t quieten the storm I went to DefCon Three (reach out, grab the little brat, pick him up and put on my angry voice, yelling at him “THAT’S IT! I’M TAKING YOU BOTH TO THE ORPHANAGE AND GIVING YOU BACK!").

I rarely had to go all the way to (3) - fear trumps anger all the time. To this day they’re not 100% sure they weren’t adopted and can be traded back in any time. They also know not to pitch a hissy fit - especially around the Old Man.

It’s too bad Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a Dad like me. I don’t care if she is a grandmother nowadays. I’m afraid I’d have to DefCon Three all over her bony ass for this behavior. You can read what Cheney said below - seems to me he was just “tellin’ it like it is.” Little Nancy got her feathers all ruffled and went running to Daddy (Bush) who probably told his secretary to tell Little Nancy he was in a meeting and then ducked into the bathroom to avoid having to listen to a grown woman pitch a hissy fit. Sad, but true.

This childish behavior seems to be a trademark of modern-day Democrats. They pout and cry when they lose elections. They pitch hissy fits if the election was close. They call the adults names and get all indignant when they think someone is picking on them. They scream, wail, moan, cry, whine and just generally make life miserable for the adults (like you and me and Dubya).

Isn’t there some orphanage somewhere that we can return these obnoxious brats too?

Pelosi Calls Bush to Complain of Cheney’s
Comments on Democrats’ Iraq Strategy
_{WASHINGTON (FOX NEWS) - Wednesday, February 21, 2007}

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney’s comments that the Congressional Democrats’ plan for Iraq would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy.”

Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney’s comments wrongly questioned critics’ patriotism and ignored Bush’s call for openness on Iraq strategy.

“You cannot say as the president of the United States, ‘I welcome disagreement in a time of war,’ and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country,” the speaker said.

The quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., over their plan to place restrictions on Bush’s request for an additional $93 billion for the Iraq war to make it difficult or impossible to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq.

“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy,” the vice president told ABC News. “The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.”

Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney’s criticism of Democrats was “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support.”

“And you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to call the president and tell him I disapprove of what the vice president said,” Pelosi said. “It has no place in our debate.” Bush had previously urged her to call him when a member of his administration stepped over the line by questioning Democrats’ patriotism, she said.

Later, Pelosi said she had tried to reach the president but was only able to get through to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten. Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism or commitment to national security, she told reporters.

“I said to him perhaps when he saw what the vice president said he might have another comment,” Pelosi said. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Cheney “was not questioning anyone’s patriotism.” But she said Bush and Cheney believe that Pelosi and Murtha’s “position to immediately pull out our troops would be harmful to our national security and that it is the wrong strategy to pursue.”

Pelosi said she hopes “the president will repudiate and distance himself from the vice president’s remarks.” In the interview, Cheney also said Britain’s plans to withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq — while the United States adds more troops — was a positive step. “I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well,” the vice president said.

In response to that statement, Pelosi said: “If it’s going so well, we’d like to withdraw our troops as well.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 02/22/2007 at 03:51 AM   
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