Tony Snow's planned replacement, Lesley Stahl speaks to Nancy Pelois and on behalf of the GOP and Whitehouse.
Pelosi has called her Republican colleagues “immoral" and "corrupt,” and has said they're running a criminal enterprise.
"I mean, you're one of the reasons we have to restore civility in the first place," Stahl remarks.
"Well actually, when I called them those names, I was being gentle," Pelosi says. "There are much worse things I could've said about them."
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"It sounds personal," Stahl remarks.
"This isn't personal," Pelosi says.
"He's "incompetent", he's…," Stahl continues.
"Well, I think he is," Pelosi states.
"Well, that's personal," Stahl points out.
"Well, I'm sorry, that's his problem," Pelosi replies.
"How does this raise the level of civility?" Stahl asks.
Lesley, as a professional, when you're being assessed on your job performance, the term incompetent isn't personal. It's business. Bush was hired to do a job he was vastly unqualified for and gone way out of his way to prove his incapability to grasp even the most obvious clue. The restoration of civility is going to be an uphill battle given the damage done to date. The civility of the 2006 election has seen the GOP attack both directly and indirectly; African-Americans, Gays (ironically), Hispanics, and the disabled. This doesn't include the fast number of scandals, corruption, and outright cover-ups.
You want to restore civility, stop stoking the fires with your kerosene soaked rags.
Posted by kerry at October 27, 2006 03:06 AM