Nancy Pelosi is ruinning our country
One clear trend line has emerged in the California Democrat’s 2 1/2 -year reign as speaker, and that’s a slow but steady rise in unpopularity. Shortly after she became the first woman to serve as House speaker, just 25 percent of voters disapproved of her, according to a Post-ABC poll in January 2007. Now, almost twice as many people disapprove of her performance.
Republicans heightened their attacks on Pelosi after she charged the CIA with lying to her in a September 2002 briefing about which methods they were using against detained terrorism suspects. CIA documents appeared to show that she was fully informed that agency interrogators were using waterboarding and other harsh methods, while Pelosi countered that agency officials did not provide that information in an intentional effort to mislead her.
Pelosi can take heart in the findings among self-identified moderates — the voters who frequently decide close elections. Among that group, 43 percent approve of Pelosi’s job performance, with 40 percent not approving.
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