Last Saturday afternoon in Washington , D.C. , an aide to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi visited the Bishop of the Catholic cathedral in D.C.

He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s Mass, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.

The Cardinal replied, "No. I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views."

Pelosi’s aide then said, "Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint."

The Cardinal thought about it and said, "Well, the church can use the money, so I’ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon."

As Pelosi’s aide promised, House Speaker Pelosi appeared for the Sunday worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the center aisle. As promised, at the start of his sermon, the Cardinal pointed out that Speaker Pelosi was present.

The Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation, "While Speaker Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some, the woman is not numbered among my personal favorite personages. Some of her most egregious views are contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends to flip- flop on many other issues. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker, and a nit-wit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat, and a thief. I must say, Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed. She married for money and is using her wealth to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both in Washington, and in California. The woman is simply not to be trusted.

"But, when compared with President Obama, House Speaker Pelosi is a saint."

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Flash back to the first George W. Bush term when Pelosi was just another pip-squeak congresswoman from California. It is just two years after the horror of 9/11 and America is in the grip of the Clinton recession.

This is an actual screenshot of Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional web site, at a time when the unemployment rate was 6.1 percent. For some reason she still has this press release on her site today.

Now, of course, Pelosi is heading a Democrat House united with a Democrat Senate and a Democrat White House. Official unemployment is near 10% and is projected to remain there for at least the rest of the year. Hispanic unemployment reached 12.6% in January and African American unemployment, already at a 25-year high, is projected to reach 17 percent by the third quarter. In all, more than four million jobs have been lost on the Democrat majority’s watch.

So I ask you, Ms. Pelosi, where the hell are the jobs?

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Today the press is gushing over Nancy Pelosi. After all, she has “survived” her first 100 days as speaker. [Was there a contract out on her? Snipers lying in wait?].

The LA Times praises her “forceful style that defies expectations”, proclaiming, “She has embraced a centrist agenda and built relationships with rivals.” ["Centrist"? I guess anyone in the center of the left wing appears "centrist" to the American media.]

Indeed, you have to hand it to Pelosi. After taking the Senate, Democrats were fractured and Pelosi’s power base was poised to splinter out from under her. She pulled them together and while this hasn’t exactly been an overly-effective 100 days [what happened to the "100 hours" that Pelosi and company were going to use to change the country? Hmmm . . . whimper and not a bang, I think], it is arguably at least as effective as the Republican effort was under Frist’s lead.

But of all the issues that Pelosi has faced — minimum wage, Medicare, taxes — the coming battle of attaching strings to funding the Iraq war will be the big one. Pelosi has got to keep her party together in order to maintain her popularity, and her power.

But cracks are beginning to show.

This, in spite the Pentagon announcing the extension of Iraq tours to 15 months, adding three months of wartime duty to a tour that already took our young men and women away from their families for an entire year.

The Pentagon announcement came as a surprise to Bush, so once again a government agency undermines the administration’s agenda, this time with really bad timing. [Would Rummy have allowed that to happen? I don't think so.]

Now that it’s been made, the announcement gives Democrats something to rally around, something to wave in Bush’s face when they meet to discuss the war budget next Wednesday.

Yet the GOP is “eyeing success” on the war funding vote.

And that will be very bad for Nancy Pelosi. Very bad indeed.