Pelosi: Shut up, America, and let me do my own thing!

It’s been a rough year for liberals. They’ve gone from soaring highs, after Obama’s election win and inauguration, to down in the dumps with low approval ratings, an angry populist uprising across the country and congressional Democrats dropping like flies.

Evan Bayh. Byron Dorgan. Chris Dodd. Patrick Kennedy. Etc., etc.

So what is the narrative now, both from the media and the Democrats? Washington is too partisan we’re told. Washington is broken.

Which is convenient, no? Back when Obama and his liberals were still popular, and Pelosi and Reid were busy cramming the big government agenda through Congress, everything was hunky dory. But now that Americans are rejecting that agenda, the upcoming midterm elections are looking to be a bloodbath for Democrats.

Well, suddenly partisanship is a problem?

What a joke.

Partisanship isn’t a problem in Washington, D.C. Politics have always been a nasty, back-stabbing business, even in the earliest days of this republic. The problem is that the liberal agenda has stalled and liberals want to blame anything but their agenda.

As majority Democrats gear up to use the controversial reconciliation maneuver to cram a health care bill Americans don’t want down their necks, a poll reveals that just 10 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.

Of course, approval numbers for Congress are always low. Individual members of Congress no doubt have higher approval numbers. It’s the old “Congress sucks, but my congressman is OK” thing.

Even so, this is an ugly poll for incumbents, and Republicans who are hoping to become the majority in Congress had better be ready to govern better than Democrats, should they find themselves in the majority in one or both houses of Congress; which goes to show that at least 10 percent of the population is either terminally stupid or woefully dishonest or both. How anyone could approve of what the current, and to be fair, past couple of Congresses have done is beyond rational thought.

Personally, I’m not one to get that worked up about bipartisanship, mostly because the less the politicians get along, the less they get done. And the less they do, generally speaking, the better, because who said that action was always a good thing? Sometimes there are excellent reasons to do nothing.

But “bipartisanship” has been the buzzword in politics for some time now, especially from the Democratic side of the aisle as of late; so to hear Pelosi say something like this is knee-slappingly hilarious.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the health care bill and should accept that the bill will go forward.

“They’ve had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning. “Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint.”

Take the public option for example; it has been stripped away from the health care bill because Republicans were so up in the air against it, as Pelosi would put it.

“They’ve had a field day going out and misrepresenting what the bill says,” Pelosi said. “But that’s what they do.”

On ABC’s “This Week,” just a few days after the bipartisan health care summit, Pelosi said, “What’s the point of talking about it any longer?”

So, in Pelosi’s world, bipartisanship means the other side agreeing with everything you want. Of course, that wasn’t the tune she was singing back when her party was in the minority.

It is just nice to see these comments in the media because she is slowly showing Americans she was a part of an epic failure of an innovation. Although, not throwing the towel in yet, Democrats are still scrambling to add in those details you readers wouldn’t be able to see; and why should they care? Our generation will be the ones paying for it, not them.

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