Hey, Pelosi: Shakespeare called, he wants his witch back

An interesting tidbit from the politics desk today: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the presidential race during a short break from bending over for Bush on the war and looking like Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest." The venerable Democrat emerged from her cave to declare that an Clinton/Obama ticket was as impossible as cutting funds for a meaningless war:

(CNN) — A so-called "dream ticket" scenario - the idea that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could join forces this fall — may have gripped the imaginations of Democrats nationwide - but you can list House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a skeptic.

"I think that ticket either way is impossible," Pelosi told a New England Cable News reporter Tuesday, pointing to comments from Clinton and her campaign that implied Republican John McCain would make a better commander-in-chief than Obama.

She spoke bluntly about her view that a joint ticket was not in the cards, she said, because "I wanted to be sure I didn't leave any ambiguity."

The California Democrat, who has remained neutral throughout the party's primary process, said she remains an uncommitted superdelegate.

Pelosi should know a thing or two about elections. For instance, this one election when the American people handed both houses of Congress over to Democrats in a wave of despair over Republican rule and the Iraq war, and in response Democrats put on their game faces and ... wait, they passed more funding for the war? Well that just doesn't make sense!

Anyway, I'm not sure I disagree with her on a Clinton/Obama ticket (or Obama/Clinton), but I really just wanted to poke fun at her ability to take an election fueled by hope, and proceed to fuck it up royal.

McCain is a tough adversary for the Democrats given his image as a moderate who can negotiate to get things done. But in order to even win over his own base, he will fly his conservative (and most likely his religious) colors across this nation, and that could easily alter the moderate perception, especially when the media starts paying attention to his record. Take a look at it here.

Honestly, despite Pelosi and the record unhappiness with Congress, I think the Democrats could run a circus monkey for president in '08 and still win. Americans are still a little bit bitter about the lying, war-mongering and economic suicide perpetrated by the Bush administration. Besides, gas will be so obscenely expensive by November that nobody will bother to drive to the polls. The election will surely be decided by the people of the great states of Oregon and Washington state, who will honor their rich history of voting Democrat with their mail-in ballots.