Give 'Em Hell, Nancy!

Remember what Harry Truman's response was to that cheer?

"I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell!"

Nancy Pelosi is not letting Alan Grayson have all the repug-bashing fun.

From TPM:

In an interview on MSNBC this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mentioned that the root of the financial crisis lies in the policies of the Bush administration.

So, reporter Chuck Todd asked whether voters would tire of hearing Pelosi and her party blame today's problems on the last president.

"When do you feel like that runs out with the public?" Todd asked.

"It runs out when the problems go away," Pelosi said.

President George W. Bush, she said, "brought us to the brink of financial crisis. He brought us to the bring of deep recession, ignoring issues related to climate change."

Todd asked whether she would make "what happened then" an issue in November.

"It continues to happen now," she said, referring to Republican filibusters of health care reform and financial reform.

"Republicans said no. We didn't get a single vote from the Republican in the House on the Wall Street reform legislation ... so it's a continuation of those Bush policies in the Congress, but they have their roots, and the problems were caused during, the Bush administration," she said.

Then came this:

At her weekly press event this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaffirmed her commitment to holding BP fully accountable for the spill, and backed a legislative initiative to lift a $75 million liability cap on oil companies...but she also snuck in a pot shot.

Asked by a reporter to respond to Boehner's contention that any changes to the liability law should be kicked down the road, Pelosi couldn't resist.

"Is that when he said that the taxpayer should be paying for it? Was that the same speech? When he said BP and the taxpayer should be footing the bill? Was that the same statement?" Pelosi asked rhetorically. "I disagree."

SNIP

"What we've learned in that period of time is that BP misrepresented what their technology could do. They misrepresented the...amount of oil that was being spewed forth into the gulf."

"When they start telling you to cut your hair and send golf balls and diapers for the cleanup, you know that's not the technology of the future...unless you're changing diapers, getting a haircut or playing golf."

And when you're getting beaten daily by a little old San Francisco grandma, you might want to hedge those big bets on November.