Chris Matthews: Pelosi Was ‘Strongest House Speaker’ in 50 Years
- Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:01am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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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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Comments (232)
Uncivil Peasant
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:21amWho is Chris Matthews?
Report Post »NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:59pmThe WORST host MSM hast to offer (period)
Report Post »rightwinglefty
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:10amThe 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.
Report Post »rightwinglefty
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:06amWe should send Ms. Pelosi to Russia and China to teach them her ways and then we wson’t have to worry about our enemies.
Report Post »SewMom
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:02amWhen 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.
Report Post »gman4691
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 6:26pmMakes me wonder why on earth people in her district keep voting for her. Who ARE these people?
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:55amCongress must investigate her: her origin, her money, her family’s money etc. Americans deserve to see justice!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:54amI 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.
Report Post »likwidlizard
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:48amChris Marxist mumbling Matthews likes to lick her toes after she’s come out of the hog trough.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:41am“There’s never been a stronger speaker, I think, since Sam Rayburn than the speaker
Report Post »——–
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
End quote
Key words –Woodrow Wilson
No wonder P1$$y <3 Rayburn …..
Do The Right Thing
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:30amSpeaker vs spender, Hmmm …I think there was a typo on his prompter, But what the heck, its only two letters
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:29amLooks like “ strong ” is libberish for anti-Amreican.
Report Post »See , we all learned a new word of libberish today !
Thanks Lardball
abbygirl1994
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:28amSince 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.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:26amMoonbat Pelois? even Obama looks at her like she is nuts…….
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:26amGood 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!
Report Post »enoughsaid
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:25amDefinetly the strongest in 5O yrs, Bad breath, arm pits, feet, butt gas, bad politics, mental issues, etc..etc..etc.
Report Post »enoughsaid
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:21amDefinetly the strongest in 5O yrs, Bad breath, arm pits, feet, butt gas, politics,etc..etc..etc.
Report Post »Mizpah55
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:14amWish we could put all of these idiots in a room, lock it and lose the key. They are all dipsticks!!!
Report Post »poorrichardsnews
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:14amPelosi (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.
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:13amIf 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
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:53amRight 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.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:11amWhat you people don’t understand is that when Piglossi campaigned in 2006, she promised to
Report Post »“ drain the swamp ”
and
end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and bring troops home in 2008.
She kept both her promises…oh wait ….:D
sbish
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:09amShe looks rail-thin, but she can squat 450 pounds and can bench press twice her weight. That is pretty strong in my book.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:07amIf 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.
Report Post »http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
TEIN
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:32pmIf 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
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Snowleopard stated my though very well….
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:06amMatthews orders “special” mushrooms on his pizza.
Report Post »Bearone7777
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:08amThis is “GREAT” and I really do not think he has EVER really stopped eating those “SPECIAL” pizzas. Great post.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:05amsorry i meant to say bothare idiots
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:03amWhat an idiot
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:12amDoes 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.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:02amPelois has definitely been the WORST since 1776
Report Post »sbish
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:08amShe looks rail-thin. but this woman can squat 450 pounds and can bench press twice her weight. That is pretty strong in my book!
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:56amThis man is an embarrassment to American broadcasting. He needs mental help badly. Where are his family?
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:27amI 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.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 4:04amYeah, 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.”
Report Post »So
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:35amAn idiot speaks about an idiot. Breaking news.
Report Post »jcknccmret
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:36amDid Mathews major in STUPIDITY in college or was he born that way?
John
Report Post »MasterChief USN Ret
MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:45amJust shows how disconnected these ObaMSN BOZOS really are !!
Report Post »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…
JRook
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:50amOh 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.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:56amChrissyTingles is delusional
Report Post »He needs immediate psychiatric help
Morris
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:30amChris Matthew you are a MORON,If you thing that Pelosi is so great,you are a A$$ HO–!
Report Post »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!
easyed598
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:58amEven 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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