NRCC: Pelosi Should Be "Put In Her Place" By McChrystal

The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday mocked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for daring to question Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

"General Pelosi has no problem sacrificing her own credibility as the Obama administration and liberals in Congress attempt to walk back a strategy they strongly advocated just months ago," said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. "Nancy Pelosi continues to make party politics a higher priority than our national security. Rather than listening to a four-star general's assessments on Afghanistan, General Pelosi somehow believes she is better suited to craft our country's military policy."

If Nancy Pelosi's failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place.

For whatever reason, the NRCC did not criticize Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) who called McChrystal's recent public statement "pretty odd."

"I think the place for a woman is at the top of the House of Representatives," responded Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.): "It's evidence [Republicans] long for the days when a woman's place was in the kitchen. Now a woman is third in line for the presidency... But it's not surprising, coming from a party that's 80 percent male and 100 percent white."

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[miguelobrien]

Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand and
Make him understand­...

Life on you depends.
--Jim Morrison

If we had a woman President, we wouldn't have an atom bomb. we'd have a bomb that makes you feel bad for awhile. And every twenty-eight days, there'd be some intense negotiations.
--Robin Williams

Among the Plains Indians, and most others, probably, women decided when to go to war. As bringers of life, they had the authority to decide about the taking of life.

Think about it, Darlins.

I just continue to be shocked, awed, and sickened by what I hear, see and learn about Republicans. And I really could care less about politics; I live and work on a ranch, away from it all. Except for my HuffPo addiction.

[miguelobrien]

This goes to the heart of Repub fear of strong women. Pelosi should be put in her place--back in the kitchen, baking cookies. But she's too old and rich to be barefoot and pregnant. So what to do?

Ridicule and hate, the Rethug way. Like the Obamas, she's just too uppity.

We need a lying general to put her in her place. But, indeed, has he shown any inclination to do so?

[miguelobrien]

Some Republican, please help me understand how killing people in Afghanistan "protects our national security?"

The terrorists who scare me, since I live in a secluded place, are the punks with boards and knives who kill innocent people right here. We have a war on terrorism, all right, but not over there; it's right here.

Against the thousands, maybe more, meth heads, we are growing in our midst. Wanna bet those NH former boy scouts, and wannabe missionary, found some meth instead.

Then there's the father who said, lightly, that his son only went to rob, not kill. Well, that's certainly different.

[Aerows]

She's in her place - the Speaker of the House, and third in line for the presidency. I don't always agree with the woman, especially since the "impeachment is off the table" years, but she not only has the right to make decisions, it's her duty. I realize that Republicans hate that, but that's what happens when you lose elections. Losing elections has consequences as Shrub was so fond of saying.

[Levittown]

The NRCC is a joke. They belong on the Comedy channel.

[boyoboy]

Isn't that what NRCC stands for? National Republican Comedy Channel.

[MJHammonds]

Okay, nothing in this article indicates that McChrystal made any remarks against Pelosi. The report that he wrote was leaked, and not by him. Do we have ANY evidence that McCrystal has made any public or private accusations against Pelosi, or is that simply the interpretation of the NRCC?

Since this report was leaked and has been interpreted in a myriad of ways, I am reluctant to accuse McCrystal of anything other than his job, which is to give his recommendations to the Commander in Chief.

Is there any evidence that he attacked the speaker of the house? From what I can see from this article, it was the NRCC who did that.

[ReedYoung]

I agree. Nothing I know suggests that McChrystal is getting political. Republicans are trying to use his comments to score easy political points against Nancy Pelosi, ironically committing the very offense of which they accuse her. Classic GOP crap.

[tiredofit10]

Bob McDonnell in VA feels the exact same way about women. any women who votes or belongs to the republican party has to have their head examined!!!!

[Madmac]

I guess McChrystal's place would be having to answer questions from Pat Tillman's lawyers as to how his death was covered up?

I'm not saying that ALL republicans are sexists, but if you're sexist then you're probably a republican

[VegasWolf]

Ha, very good! Same thing is true for racists also.

[MJHammonds]

Tru-dat on both counts.

[budanatr]

Maybe it is time to just stop giving republicans any air time, print time, blog time or any other time. That should help put them in their place. Wherever that is.

[jde]

CUT TO:

McChrystal, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, getting Nancy a beer.

[moongal6]

I like it!!!!!

[Burkelbile]

" But RICKYYYY,
I need more troops to be in the showwwwww.­..
.... wwwwaaaahh­hhhgggghhh­!!!!"

[MJHammonds]

Let's keep it in perspective- it was the NRCC criticizing Pelosi, not McCrystal, right?

[SurrealPumpkin]

It was the NRCC that said that, not McChrystal.

[jagoneely]

Pelosi gets a lot of heat, but she's stood up for Progressive ideals. She stood for the public option, and she's not backing down on Afghanistan. I think the Republicans hate her for a reason. Wasserman Schultz nailed it.

[MJHammonds]

Never gave it much thought, because it seems like such an antiquated notion, but I think you are correct. I've always loved the ability of Pelosi and Baxter to stand up and call 'em like they see 'em, instead of playing it safe like most of the old men in our governing bodies.

[VegasWolf]

America has put the NRCC in its place, the backseat.

[maumeeone]

The Hell with the backseat - let's try for the trunk!

[PDinCA]

Time to put them in the trunk. Enough back-seat driving already.

[ReedYoung]

Heh, the road ahead is bound to be pretty bumpy, because of them. So definitely, stuff 'em into the trunk! I like the idea of hearing their muffled whimpers instead of their amplified lies.

[dans5843]

Does anyone trust the republicans at this point?

[MJHammonds]

18%...and shrinking

[DoTheMath]

Whose failed economic policies? The NRCC wants to talk about whose failed economic policies?

[PDinCA]

Stunning, isn't it?

[MJHammonds]

They think they can lay it on her doorstep because the dems won a narrow margin in 2006...so of course it is all her fault, regardless of the fact that the policies put in place put us in a recession a bare 9 months later in the fall of 2007.

[theborg]

Let's see. Is it McChrystal or Westmoreland? Um-m-m, it's hard to tell the difference.

[Burkelbile]

Good one. Excellent analogy.

I was around and active for Vietnam (" ... just a few more troops, Mr. President ... that's all we need ...")

and this Afghan / Khyber-Pakistan thing is similar in so many ways, it just makes you shake your head.

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
- George Santayana (1905) Reason in Common Sense, volume 1 of The Life of Reason

[MJHammonds]

I have no links to verify this, but I heard an interesting interview on NPR right after the McCrystal report was leaked, and the person being interviewed said that McCrystal's leaked report was being misinterpreted in the sense that it was calling for more troops to play the same gameplan, as opposed to support the Afghan people by staying in place and helping to train their forces.

Of course, this strategy is difficult considering the volatile and corrupt existing government. Just food for thought, wish I could provide evidence, it was a very thought provoking interview, just can't find it. :(

[ReedYoung]

And if we keep electing them, I guess the rest of us deserve to be doomed to repeat history with them, too.

[Write4U]

Dictionary:
Sedition; conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a State.

At which point does Free Speech become Sedition?
Seems the Far Right are treading close, if not already over the line!

[Aerows]

They crossed that line already. There was a Newsmax article just the other day that wasn't advocating the armed overthrow of the government, except that is exactly what it was doing. I've yet to hear a "conservative" denounce that.

When you've reached the point where you are so desperate for power that you start discussing overthrowing the United States government, you are the wrong person to have that power.