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[...] former is claiming that having a Speaker with a 39% approval rating will only help the Democrats in swing districts: The vice chairman of the House Democrats’ [...]

[...] Pelosi: 39 / 48 [...]

[...] Nancy Pelosi has similarly low approval ratings. Acording to a CNN/Opinion Reasearch poll, nearly half of all Americans (48%) disapprove of the job Peosi is doing as Speaker of the House [...]

[...] lower-hanging fruit on the Democratic tree. To wit, Madam Speaker's approval rating is now at Gingrichian levels and Harry Reid's in genuine trouble ahead of next year's Senate race. No, really: About [...]

[...] pertaining to aggressive interrogation and waterboarding, her approval numbers are starting to tank.CNN compares Pelosi’s poll numbers to Newt Gingrich, why don’t they compare them to GWB when their constant effort was to undermine [...]

[...] A cameraman, on a tarmac at Tuzla Air Base, shot down that ridiculous assertion with 30 seconds of B roll film shot in 1996. There are a lot more people who have access or were witness to the briefings Speaker Pelosi received. It has been reported that Pelosi's approval numbers (39%) are approaching Newt Gingrich's first year numbers of 37.... [...]

[...] CNN: Poll shows Pelosi with Gingrich-like approval ratings. [...]

[...] but had such a flawed singing voice that he aroused the ire of anyone else with a television set. CNN Poll: Pelosi facing Gingrich-like approval ratings Posted: 05:11 PM [...]

[...] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ... By CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart The Republicans are now trying to shift the debate to whether Nancy Pelosi knew about these crimes. Sorry, folks, the worst thing Pelosi did in this case is failed to report knowledge of a crime, which is not the same as committing the ... CNN Political Ticker – http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ [...]

JR May 18th, 2009 5:27 pm ET

So if Pelosi gets kicked out of the government, she can spend the rest of her days shooting off her mouth about things she knows nothing about, like Gingrich

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yes, she will stay the same.

The whole Democratic Party is just a house of cards built on anti-Bush rhetoric and Speaker Pelosi is a prime example. The funny thing is that once they fooled enough of the people once and finally have a little responsibility they are taking that opportunity to reinforce their reputation as out-of-control spenders and then making so many decisions exactly like the ones they campaigned against. I just hope we have already seen the worst of their 'leadership' problems, but I'm sure we haven't. I'm sure the big question they will have to answer come election time is," Where did all the money go?".

this nothing but one of many attempts by republicans to gain back power if they could blame barbara bush for their fiasco and win back seats in congress they would surely do it in a heartbeat.

Nancy knew about the torture, condoned it and now wants to backpedal and say she knew nothing. She is as crooked as every other politician out there. Vote ALL of the bums out and vote FOR term limits!

Bill ~ Down on the Bayou May 18th, 2009 5:37 pm ET
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Bill, if it's your daughter, then obviously she believes in torture as well. I would let the kidnappers go. Heck, I would send them medals for getting rid of a cowardly scum bag that endorses torture.

Cowards use torture. The land of the Brave should NOT. Incompetent, terrorist twisted cowards are the only ones who would choose to take a life of no moral code rather then die with honor.

I choose honor!

I think Nancy is a wonderful example of the Democratic Party,the media needs to continue bringing out the true stories of all of the Democrats so everyone knows who and what they are voting for in 2010.

I'm for saving American lives(yours and your families) and I think whatever it takes to achieve that goal is worth it,even if you don't agree,you will the next time we are attacked and it's you and your family that is involved directly.It's easy to be judgmental when your not involved.

Go Nancy, pull the rest of the Democrat party down with you!

No, Todd, you're wrong. We don't know beyond a shadow of doubt that torture took place. What everyone seems to be missing is that the memos "defined" what was torture and what wasn't. What was done was in accordance with those memos. We now have a new administration with new lawyers with a differing opinion on the definition of torture. All that is going on now is a debate on legal opinion. The next administration may reaffirm these memos or may decide that the bombing of Pakistan being done by this administration constitutes a war crime. This is what happens when we let lawyers rule the country. Maybe we should start electing more CPAs to Congress. Then maybe the economy would be safer.

@ marquis

You really need to look at other polls than CNN. You might even want to look at other news media. You might even want to get out more.

But here is a CNN result from the election

President Obama 69,492,376 votes 53%

John McCain 59,946,378 votes 46%

We don't even like McCain

Gingrich cheated on his wife while she was dying with cancer. Trash. Pelosi is arrogant, probably lies and is offensive. More trash. This is what I call a true bi-partisan effort !!!

Her popularity suffers because she's the everpresent bogeyman of the right. I doubt they'd attack her so much if she were not a woman. How absurd is it for them to be calling for her resignation for her alleged role in the torture fiasco when they refuse to acknowledge the much bigger role played by the Bush admin. Prosecute those who ordered and carried out torture. Then we can get to speaker Pelosi.

First, I don't care if we did toture these thugs. These Terrorists do not reserve any rights or protection, so screw wha the liberals think.

As for Nancy, she is worthless. A proven liar. And people though Palin was incompetent. What had Nancy Pelosi ever done or managed? Hmmmm, nothing but her 5 pounds of make up.

So dems...such is life as the majority party? Now you have all of your faults questioned and brought into the light...gone are the days of hiding behind the Bush Admin and the GOP...its all you now! The Democratic train wreck is a comin...

In 2002 we were still reeling from the worst terrorist attack upon Americans EVER (under GWB and Cheney's watch) and rather than them chasing the right guy, they decided to try to fabricate a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, waterboard prisoners of war (not to make Americans safer but to confirm the non-existent link) and embolden themselves where absolute power from the Patriot Act had corrupted absolutely. Now they're just using distractions trying to blame Pelosi for knowing what THEY were doing, just to keep us from noticing how many times Cheney publicly confesses his crimes.

CNN is full of idiots

You know if it wasnt for the media's obsession with Obama and their refusal to say anything critical about him the democrat party otherwise is a mess. The other leaders, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, John Murtha and Charlie Rangel are horrible leaders, the majority of them in scandals and if they were republicans, the media would have forced them to resign already. But oh what a double standard in the MSM.

Nancy has worked hard to earn her low approval ratings.
Newt's reason for low ratings? Having that "R" behind his name.

In fact, the very things that liberals praise about Bill Clinton were written with Newt's pen... for the president doesn't make laws, just signs off on those the congress has written.

But this is all silly Sunday morning talk show semantics... DON'T RE-ELECT ANYONE! Vote for your party's primary challenger. Send incumbents packing.

DON'T RE-ELECT ANYONE!

The Republican party is bankrupt of ideas for solutions to the problems in our country. Therefore, they must revert to the same bloodthirsty ruthless partisanship that made them the minority party.

I could give a ratzazz whether or not Pelosi knew about waterboarding.

And I won't take moral lessions from a former Speaker of the House who served divorce papers on his wife who lay in a hospital dying of cancer so he could marry his third extramarital affair.

Call Pelosi whatever you want, but she isn't a Republican hypocrite, and Newt is, along with about four hundred of his close friends.

There are 2 ways a person can become popular, known and get attention of others:

1. By doing something good or talking something good.
2. By talking against the person at # 1. above.

Republicans and their Leaders Rush Limbaugh, Cheney, Huchabee adopts the tactics at # 2. above to become popular, known and get attention of others.

......and this is the person who is pulling Obama's strings.

We continue to fall into the Republicants trap....in switching the focus oof this war crime call waterboarding. This is not about Nancy, who did not authorize the use of torture but is a direct hiton the Bush administration. Lets try and focus people!!!

Once again, numerous posters confound complicity with misprision. We now know that, without a shadow of a doubt, the Bush Administration engaged in torture. The Republicans are now trying to shift the debate to whether Nancy Pelosi knew about these crimes. Sorry, folks, the worst thing Pelosi did in this case is failed to report knowledge of a crime, which is not the same as committing the crime. Has she subsequently lied about what she knew and when she knew it? Perhaps. Regardless, that does not exonerate those that actually carried out the crime.

CNN, you can commission all the polls you want to create "news", daily if you need too, but it will not alter our political system to have citizens vote for House, Senate, and President every 2 and 4 years. You've shown yourself as cheapskates by using a 1000 person poll out of a country of at least 150 MILLION voters. Why don't you just ask the people in your own New York office ? That poll would be as relevant as the one you have "reported" here.
What is your fascination with Newr Gingrich ?
You become more and more like FOX Noise everyday. Irrelevant !

"Keep up the good work Pelosi…you gonna make it easy for us in 2010…We already are in a very good position!!!

Taking America Back from the radicalsin 2010"

Really? Less than 21% of Americans identify with the republican party and you think you are in a "very good position" to win back Congress? No wonder Republicans lost everything...hell simple math escapes you.

Ronald Reagan once said "a person who agrees with you 80%of the time is an ally not an enemy" ....Since 79% of America doesnt agree with the Republican Party...is America the Republican's enemy?

She ain't no Barack Obama, that's for sure.

Heck, she isn't even Hillary Clinton, and I don't even like Hillary.

Pelosi is possibly the biggest liability the Democrats have right now, and I totally understand why the GOP is going after her. Easy target.

And her abominable approval ratings are with a liberal media that will do anything to make democrats look good(as difficult as that is).

But this is what you get when you elect dumbocrats into power.

I've often said if you want to know what republicans are REALLY up to, just look at what they accuse the democrats of doing. I mean, come on, get real, Newt accusing Nancy of lying??????????

Don't forget the rest of the intell commitee...
Glad to see multiple people go down for this one...
Both sides have dirty hands... and if you don't believe it... you're just sheep

Just open up the darn briefings and we can see EXACTLY who was told what.

Has the CIA said anything about her request to do that?

Really? May 18th, 2009 5:35 pm ET

Prosecute Bush/Cheney because they knew about torture, but not Nancy Pelosi because…well, didn't she know about it also? Some of you left-wing nuts like Scott in Freeport, IL need to get a grip. Watch a tape of the morning of 9/11 again, and if you still feel that depriving someone of sleep or making them listen to loud music is torture, go to the nearest ER and have them shock your heart back to life.
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Not because Bush/Cheney knew about it, because THEY ORDERED IT.

What ever you think of Pelosi, she is not the big issue She did not order, preform nor could she approve or disapprove any of this.

The media takes the bait "what did she know and when did she know it" and the real culpits get away.

Are we dumb and the Bush adminstration and their agencies are playing us, the media and pundits like a "fiddle".

Republicans didn't object to Bush's approval for "enhanced interrogation techniques" because 1) they agreed with their use, and 2) he didn't lie about using them. We all knew about it.

The problem we have with Pelosi is that 1) she obviously knew about it too (and didn't complain at the time any more than Republicans didn't complain at the time), and 2) is trying to make an innocent party (the CIA) take the fall for her by claiming they lied to the Congress.

That's the difference!

This is the most ridiculous blame game. Have we been secretly transported to 2004?

These people have nerve. I can't believe these republicans have the nerve to blame Nancy Pelosi for allowing torture? Their audacity and lack of decency is mind-boggling. And now their asking her to resign??? I'm no fan of Nancy Pelosi, but this is one of the most ludicrous things I have heard.

"We tortured...a lot... but Nancy knew too and didn't reveal classified information, so Nancy should resign."

Those opposedto torture, here is the problem,,check it out.

Your daughter has just been kidnapped by five armed men. Three of them got away with your child, you have two of them in custody.

What methods are you going to refuse the interrigators permission to use. Are you prepared to see your child on Television with nasked, armed thugs with a knife to her throat?

We can force answers that will return your child unharmed.....the choice is yours, what methods will you withhold?

And I am prepared for all the stupidity I will encounter as liberals twist out of this one.

I am not crazy about the job she has done but for nitwits like Gingrich to think they can take the high road now is insane.

Get the documents out there and let's settle this thing. Then let's get past the distractions and get back to who really DID something. Let's not let ourselves get too distracted by this.

Pelosi makes even Obama look like a conservative. The country can't afford her and spend-thrift liberals like her–this series of lies about the CIA looks like as good an excuse as any to get rid of her.

It's not so much that she knew about Enhanced Interrogation Techniques – hell, I approve of them in some situations – it's that she knew about them while simultaneously whining about Bush era EIT policies. And calling the CIA a bunch of liars is not good, either.

I wonder if Pres. Obama would allow waterboarding on a terror suspect that had foreknowledge of an attack that would kill his wife and daughters? My guess is that he would. And so would most of you if it were your family, I'll bet.

So her approval rating is higher than Congress?

Incredible.

Prosecute Bush/Cheney because they knew about torture, but not Nancy Pelosi because...well, didn't she know about it also? Some of you left-wing nuts like Scott in Freeport, IL need to get a grip. Watch a tape of the morning of 9/11 again, and if you still feel that depriving someone of sleep or making them listen to loud music is torture, go to the nearest ER and have them shock your heart back to life.

Haha.... CNN thinks we care about Nancy Pelosi.... Allow me to dust off an old saying that I frequently used during the campaign. Ahem* YOUR POLLS MEAN NOTHING!!!
I don't care if Pelosi was complicit. And what do you think is going to happen if Pelosi is guilty? The repuglicans think that Americans will return to them and start putting them back in power?
Or will the Dems simply install a new Speaker of the House?
Do they think that if both repugs and dems got their hands dirty that we will suddenly stop caring?!?!
THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE

Keep up the good work Pelosi...you gonna make it easy for us in 2010...We already are in a very good position!!!

Taking America Back from the radicalsin 2010

This poll means nothing. While Pelosi's performance in the past couple of weeks is deplorable, it's also likely that many disapprove of the job she's doing as Speaker in concert with the general public disapproval of the performance of the Congress as a whole.

It is hard to approve of someone who is pretty obviously lying and pretty obviously trying to make the CIA take the fall for her. She doesn't rate too highly on the morals scale.

MS. Pelosi never ceases to amaze me, she consistantly makes blunders like this latest flap with the CIA, and, she is one of our leaders in DC. Manny of us can clearly recall her tantrums regarding her preferences of a Presidential jet to fly her, her family and her friends back and forth between DC and California.

What I cannot understand is how intelligent California voters keep her in office, well maybe on second thought.................

I am an independent voter and do not favor either party, I vote for the best, most experienced, intellegent non corupt individuals I can find, Ms Pelosi is not in this catagorie!

I don't love Nancy P., but she's not the real criminal here. The Republicans would love to divert attention away from the fact that it was their executive branch that committed these atrocities in the name of the USA. They assume that people who care about seeing justice done on this issue will simply change their minds if a Democrat is slightly implicated as Nancy might be, but on that idea they are dead wrong. If Pelosi does have any errors to face up to, they are not a tenth the size of those that should put Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove, Feith, Wolfowitz, Tenet, Yoo, Bybee, Bradbury, Addington, Armitage, Libby and Bush in the dock.

Well, if the Republicans are so set against Pelosi's information...uh, why didn't those REPUBLICANS object to Bush? They were just rubber-stamping Bush and have no right now to whine as usual. Boehner is a fake tan Republican goofball. And I don't doubt the CIA manipulated information to suit Bush...that's how Bush and Cheney worked and used as sneaky a tactic as they could to get what they wanted. And we all know the Republicans in Congress would've stifled Pelosi had she tried to complain back then...that's how Repubs work. So they need to "get over themselves" and do some HONEST work in Washington or go home.

Hmmm guess it is true, what goes around, comes around. Queen Nancy was so hung up on getting Bush, she didn't think the tables would turn on her....... I would love to see this nut job go away!
Guess the 39% will still continue to blame Bush, I am surprised that they haven't claimed that Bush waterboarded Nancy and that is why she is so freakin nuts!
She is definitely the poster child of why you should not do botox!!!!

I now support Pelosi. The more that those incompetent Republicans try to blame her for knowing what THEY were doing, the more I am for Pelosi. Why isn't Newt and the Republicans vocal about prosecuting Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the like. False intelligence to the U.N, torture of suspects to try and link al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein's regime... how disgusting? If that is what the last administration did then they are no better than Saddam. AND DON'T LIE AND SAY YOU DID IT IN MY NAME. I am disgusted as an American if that is what the Republicans did in my and my fellow Americans honor. Shame on the Republicans. And I'm not impressed with the obvious diversion tactics.

It still amazes me that people are so easily distracted from the issue here. The issue is not Nancy its Bush, the CIA, and their lawyers.

Its not about who was briefed on this issue or what they were briefed about. It is about the CIA and the Bush administration authorizing, instituting, and using torture on prisoners.

Torture is illegeal, immoral, and against everything we as America stands for.

Stop pointing the finger at Nancy and whoever else (repub and dems) were briefed and point at the Bush administration and their lawyers.

Good gawd woman...grow old gracefully, like Hillary. Enough with the botox already.

She's a phony, and an irrational idealist

one very simple answer to all of this: declassify the briefings end of story

Nancy Pelosi preemptively took impeachment off the table. Her responses to questions concerning impeachment were always unconvincing as to why she would keep it off the table. Was she afraid that a trial might find her guilty of inaction or worse in connection with the President's "alleged" offenses?

Her responses to questions concerning her knowledge of torture practices have always sounded carefully crafted – and therefore equally unconvincing.

If she is even complicit she should go and spare us the distraction so we can get on with the business of putting our country back together.

So if Pelosi gets kicked out of the government, she can spend the rest of her days shooting off her mouth about things she knows nothing about, like Gingrich.

Yikes...I wouldn't want to be in Nancy Pelosi's shoes right now. Good luck digging yourself out of this hole!!!!

I am neutral but if Pelosi goes into the guillotine, then the entire Bush Administration have to go with her.

Waterboard her till she comes clean!

By the standards that the Republicans are using, President Bush should be brought to trial for lying to the people; Rumsfeld should be jailed, and so should Cheney.

And, isn't it ironic that Newt – the serial adulterer and liar – should be the one making the most noise?

39 %?? must be the botox community

People need to stop falling for these shell games. What she knew or didn't know isn't nearly as important as what people DID.

Sounds to me like "Nancy Pants" approval rating is headed down the slippery slope to nowhere faster than a skunk trying to outrun it's own aroma.

Maybe she should try listening to folks instead of being the ultimate dictator and trying to impose her will on everyone else. She might just accidentally accomplish something good for the country.

"Huckabee writes poem attacking Pelosi"

THIS IS MY POEM FOR MIKE HUCHABEE.......

Bush lied to the American People, For his greed for Oil; Intelligence reports were fabricated, For misleading the American People…..

While the US troops were dying, Cheney was shooting people; The economy went shambles, Due to the cost of war……

Bush and Cheney are still out there lose, they need to be in Jail; Republicans have done Nothing in the last 8 years, Still they don’t shut their mouths…….

Bush is a criminal, Responsible for the unjustified war; Republicans are stupid, and their leader Rush Limbaugh is an Idiot…….

Republicans hate Pelosi, because she is going to put the Criminals in Jail; We support Pelosi, because she is not a crook like the Republicans…….

Well I dont care what the polls say, she may have known about the use of torture and she may have lied, but Im going to keep saying the same thing, they need to hold the right people responsible that is George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. This administration was doing what they wanted to the whole 8yrs they were in office, need I remind you about going to war, weapons of mass destruction, the illegal tapping of public phone lines. She may have known about torture and she may not have told the truth but why is she to blame? Remember Newt Gingrich left the Speaker of The House post in disgrace, so Republicans and I mean all Republicans leave Nancy alone and hold the right people responsible that is George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the whole administration, there the ones who allowed the use of torture and there the ones who got this country in the mess we're in now, and thats not only my opinion

Scott Stodden (Freeport, IL)

And Boehner, and McConnel, and ....

I'm against torture, and I'm against Pelosi. I do think she might truly be ignorant, and not lying. She is a drama queen and way to left for my likings.

The right wing lunatics can have a feeding frenzy with her as far as I'm concerned. The only thing that saves any face, is that she isn't HALF as bad as 90% of the republicans, and at worse, she's twice as good as the very worst of the republicans. But she really sucks, and is by far the most useless of all the republicans. Now do the math!

Another poster child for term limits, along with Franks, Reid and Dodd.