Does this look laughable to anyone else?

The Democrats seem to have lost their fire. Not that the Republicans are any better, but it used to be that the Democrats at least had some capacity for rabble-rousing. But this recent speech by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sounds just as vague and limp as Bush's calls to "stay the course" in Iraq. Just look at this crap.

"Today as Americans are making New Year's resolutions, our Democratic New Year's resolution is to renew America's promise," the California congresswoman said.

WTF does "renew America's promise" even mean? Does anyone know? It can mean whateverthefuck you want it to mean.

"The federal budget should be a statement of our national values," Pelosi said. "Sadly, the Republican budget fails that test."

National values? What national values would you be referring to?

The budget proposed by the Democrats protects the middle class, reduces the deficit and reflects our American values, Pelosi said.

With this plan, she said, the government could wisely invest in issues that are important to Americans, such as education, health care and keeping energy costs down. Proposed spending cuts for these programs has drawn fiery debate in Congress in recent weeks.

So American values are education, health care and keeping energy costs down. Yep, we won our independence from Britain so we could pay less than a buck for gas. Thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for being an uninspired party hack.

Pelosi drew on several religious references during her address. She also mentioned a December rally of religious leaders who traveled to Washington to protest the proposed budget.

"Religious leaders told Congress that they are drawing a moral line in the sand against the Republican budget's misplaced priorities."

It's obvious that the Democrats have been salivating over the masses of idiots that have been voting GOP "becuz Bush is a Christian OMGWTF" and trying to figure out a way to get all the idiots to vote for them instead. But please... could you guys be a little less blatant? Seriously... and while I myself am a liberal Christian, let's be honest here-liberal Christians lack the capacity to fire up stupid fundamentalist Christians. Really. Let's just admit it, guys-until we can somehow find it in ourselves to be fucking idiots morally outraged because two guys kissed each other or that they're not teaching creationism in schools, we can't touch the fundie vote and it's useless for Democrats to use us to try.

Because if you ask Joe Bible Thumper what he gives more of a damn about, chances are he'll say some dude's meat in another dude's ass gives him far more chills at night than the makeup of the budget. And besides, Democrats, didn't you listen to them? Liberal Christians are going to Hell.

"We must draw a fiscal line in the sand. And we must join the religious community in drawing a moral line in the sand," Pelosi said. "Nothing less is at stake than the well-being of America's children, the strength and soundness of our economy, and the respect that America commands in the world."

I hate, hate, hate the phrase "America's children" being used in conjunction with politics. It's as bad as the Republicans labelling anyone who doesn't agree with the war or the USA PATRIOT Act as "unpatriotic." It's just some shitty little emotional appeal that you can slap on anything. Vote for this tax increase or you hate children. Vote for these spy initiatives or you hate America. What a crock of uninspired bullshit.

Nancy Pelosi, someone needs to replace your ass with the next Howard Dean, and but soon. At least Dean made interesting reading material, and I understood exactly what the man thought. You're nothing but emotionalism, buzzwords, and pathetic pleas to the fundies to come back.