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Chris Matthews: Pelosi Was ‘Strongest House Speaker’ in 50 Years

Jul. 8, 2011 12:01am Tiffany Gabbay

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.

But that’s not Pelosi’s only “accomplishment.” The budget deficit before she became Speaker was a mere $160 billion. When she stepped down, the deficit had increased tenfold to an almost unthinkable $1.6 trillion.

The total federal debt when Pelosi was given the gavel was $8.7 trillion. When she handed it over to current Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.), the debt had increased 61 percent to $14 trillion.

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Uncivil Peasant
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:21am
Who is Chris Matthews?

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- NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:59pm
  The WORST host MSM hast to offer (period)
  
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rightwinglefty
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:10am
The stimulus package has stimulated the Chinese Economy like nothing else ever has. Spread the wealth around the world. There are so many poorer countries we must stop our evil ways and lower our standard of living. The good news is we will be so poor no one will want to immigrate here. We will be sneaking into Mexico.

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rightwinglefty
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:06am
We should send Ms. Pelosi to Russia and China to teach them her ways and then we wson’t have to worry about our enemies.

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SewMom
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:02am
When I hear and read stuff like this I just shake my head and wonder what people like Chris Matthews is putting in his coolaid. I may be a conservative but truth is still truth and lies are still lies in my book. Nancy needs to get out of Dodge and let someone who knows what they are doing go to work. She has been one of the greatest forces in destroying this country in a long time.

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- gman4691
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 6:26pm
  Makes me wonder why on earth people in her district keep voting for her. Who ARE these people?
  
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ILUVJESUS
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:55am
Congress must investigate her: her origin, her money, her family’s money etc. Americans deserve to see justice!

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CatB
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:54am
I find it “amusing” that they don’t even TRY to hide their BIAS anymore. Could it be he is getting a “thrill up his leg” from a woman? .. nah!. Chrissy you are a TWIT.

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likwidlizard
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:48am
Chris Marxist mumbling Matthews likes to lick her toes after she’s come out of the hog trough.

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cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:41am
“There’s never been a stronger speaker, I think, since Sam Rayburn than the speaker
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Sam Rayburn , huh ?
This Sam Rayburn ?
( from his bio on wiki) :
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He entered Congress in 1913 at the beginning of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and served in office for almost forty-nine years
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Key words –Woodrow Wilson
No wonder P1$$y <3 Rayburn …..

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Do The Right Thing
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:30am
Speaker vs spender, Hmmm …I think there was a typo on his prompter, But what the heck, its only two letters

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cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:29am
Looks like ” strong ” is libberish for anti-Amreican.
See , we all learned a new word of libberish today !
Thanks Lardball

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abbygirl1994
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:28am
Since the day Pelosi took office as the speaker this country got in debt faster than with any other Speaker. The woman is a blooming lineral marxist. A sixtys hippie with the plan to destroy the America we love. I hope we never see her in that position again.

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RepubliCorp
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:26am
Moonbat Pelois? even Obama looks at her like she is nuts…….

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seeker9
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:26am
Good lord! msnbc also claims to be an honest news outlet. There has never been bigger crock of BS unleashed on the American public. Pelosi still has not offered her millions to “help the middle class”. Nor has yachtsman Kerry. They are there to loot and pillage the middle class! There is no mistake about it!

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enoughsaid
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:25am
Definetly the strongest in 5O yrs, Bad breath, arm pits, feet, butt gas, bad politics, mental issues, etc..etc..etc.

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enoughsaid
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:21am
Definetly the strongest in 5O yrs, Bad breath, arm pits, feet, butt gas, politics,etc..etc..etc.

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Mizpah55
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:14am
Wish we could put all of these idiots in a room, lock it and lose the key. They are all dipsticks!!!

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poorrichardsnews
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:14am
Pelosi (along with Obama) gave us the stimulus package, which stimulated nothing. And today we find out that Project Gunrunner is right there in the middle of the stimulus package: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/7364121234/oh-my-project-gunrunner-was-directly-funded-by-obamas She was a strong speaker alright.

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sportlock
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:13am
If ya think about it my friends, she very well may be. I mean, come on, she rammed so much s&%t down America’s throat in her time as speaker. Think about it or a second

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- turkey13
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:53am
  Right and while doing all this she became 7.3 million dollars richer. I think Chris was talking about a speaker of the house making the most profit while in this position. All speakers get richer but no one can compete with nancy.
  
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cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:11am
What you people don’t understand is that when Piglossi campaigned in 2006, she promised to
” drain the swamp ”
and
end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and bring troops home in 2008.
She kept both her promises…oh wait ….:D

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sbish
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:09am
She looks rail-thin, but she can squat 450 pounds and can bench press twice her weight. That is pretty strong in my book.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:07am
If by Strong he means she is -

Completely mad
Completely depraved
Completely power hungry
Completely immoral
Completely ruthless
Completely psychotic
Completely pathological
Completely dishonest
Completely anti America
Completely Big government

Then yeah she is the strongest in the area of all the wrong reasonings.
http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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- TEIN
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:32pm
  If by Strong he means she is -
  
  Completely mad
  Completely depraved
  Completely power hungry
  Completely immoral
  Completely ruthless
  Completely psychotic
  Completely pathological
  Completely dishonest
  Completely anti America
  Completely Big government
  ________________________________________
  
  Snowleopard stated my though very well….
  
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wordweaver
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:06am
Matthews orders “special” mushrooms on his pizza.

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- Bearone7777
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:08am
  This is “GREAT” and I really do not think he has EVER really stopped eating those “SPECIAL” pizzas. Great post.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:05am
sorry i meant to say bothare idiots

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whatthecrazy
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:03am
What an idiot

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- UPSETVET
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:12am
  Does anybody seriously care what this nutjob has to say. How can ANY “news media” employ a brain dead person like Chris Mathews. He’s made a LOT of foolish and untrue comments,but “Nancy Pelosi the best Speaker of the House since Sam Rayburn” just proves what most people already suspected, Chris Mathews is INSANE and totally out of touch with reality.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:02am
Pelois has definitely been the WORST since 1776

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- sbish
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:08am
  She looks rail-thin. but this woman can squat 450 pounds and can bench press twice her weight. That is pretty strong in my book!
  
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- ILUVJESUS
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:56am
  This man is an embarrassment to American broadcasting. He needs mental help badly. Where are his family?
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:27am
  I think Mr Matthews is giving us a peak into a fetish he has concerning a 70+ year old dominatrix wearing Patton Leather boots with 3 inch heals with matching whip.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 4:04am
  Yeah, right. That’s why she’s still Speaker. Americans realized what a great job she was doing and made sure to vote to keep her in power.
  
  I guess to Mr. Matthews, “strong” means getting socialist legislation passed in spite of the will of the VOTERS! Real smart. Real “strong.”
  
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- So
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:35am
  An idiot speaks about an idiot. Breaking news.
  
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- jcknccmret
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:36am
  Did Mathews major in STUPIDITY in college or was he born that way?
  
  John
  MasterChief USN Ret
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:45am
  Just shows how disconnected these ObaMSN BOZOS really are !!
  and to believe they have the right to SPEW this type of disinformation
  to their empty headed liberal audience..
  The Wicked Witch of The West….you have to be kidding !!!!!!!! POS…
  
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- JRook
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:50am
  Oh so when its a Republican President, the economy is the Speakers fault, but when it is a Democratic President the economy is the Presidents fault. This is the type of nonsensical spin and completely void of the facts positions that make Independents think political parties and movements like the Tea People are all full of it. Any chance we can get some mature, intelligent adults in the room who don’t let their ideology get in the way of facts, real debate and actual solutions. Might be useful in this analysis to show the number of public sector jobs that have been shed in the past 6 months that are placing a drag on the economy.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:56am
  ChrissyTingles is delusional
  He needs immediate psychiatric help
  
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- Morris
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:30am
  Chris Matthew you are a MORON,If you thing that Pelosi is so great,you are a A$$ HO–!
  Pelosi,is like all of the other lying morons of Dictator Barack Hussein Obama Administration!
  “WE THE PEOPLE” Must IMPEACH DICTATOR OBAMA NOW,SAVE OUR AMERICA!
  
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- easyed598
  Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:58am
  Even Matthews can`t believe that-Looney Chris is suffering the ill affects of drinking the liberal Kool aid. Can you imagine that at one time he actually filled in for Rush Limbaugh.Makes you wonder when he fell off the deep end
  
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