Saturday morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson on his weekly Rainbow PUSH program, prior to her endorsement of Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) in this month's Democratic primary.  The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, WLS AM, and the local affiliates of NBC and ABC all covered the the event.

Moments after saying it's "a badge of honor" for President Barack Obama to be known as the food stamp president, Pelosi made an incredible assertion (video here):   

Look, remember the inauguration? Remember that, OK.  There he was, saying I'm calling for swift, bold action now to create jobs, to educate our children. you know the list goes on, to protect our seniors, (garbled).  One week and one day after the president's inaugural address, the House of Representatives passed his recovery stimulus package.  And that, not by us, don't take it by me, by the economists who studied this, three and a half million jobs saved or created.  And that was the beginning of taking down this 800,000 jobs being lost on a regular basis.  He had inherited a terrible thing.  Professional and statesman that he is, he was about getting the job done rather than pointing fingers, but I'll do it for him.

Obama doesn't point fingers?  That's absurd.  He's repeatedly blamed President George Bush, and there are many examples of that.  Here are but a few. In his very first presidential press conference, Obama said: "What I won't do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place."  In August of the following year, CNN's Ed Hornik asked, "Will Bush-bashing help Democrats win over weary voters?"  From the article:

President Obama has made a point recently to invoke Bush's name in what many say is a calculated effort to remind voters of the previous administration's economic policies, which Democrats argue led to the worst recession in modern history.

In June of last year, the Washington Times headlined, "Obama wants credit for cleaning up ‘big mess.’"  The article begins:

President Obama told supporters at a fundraiser in Miami on Monday night that he deserves credit for cleaning up the mess he inherited.

“My job over these first two years has frankly been to clean up a big mess,” Mr. Obama said at a $10,000-per-ticket event at a gated mansion in Miami Beach.

Yet Pelosi's ridiculously over-the-top contention wasn't reported by any of the news outlets.  Serving as stenographers, they dutifully detailed the Pelosi-designated story of the day, her endorsement of the younger Jackson.  When it comes to satisfying the wishes of liberal Democrats, the mainstream media can be most compliant.  

On MSNBC's Political Nation Friday evening, host Al Sharpton interviewed Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post.  They spoke about House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH):

GRIM: So, you`re right, the record that he is amassing is probably one of the most extreme records that a House Speaker has put up in decades.

SHARPTON: Well, based on your last statement, he being probably the most extreme Speaker we`ve seen in decades, should President Obama even bother negotiating with him?

GRIM: No, he probably shouldn`t. He should do the opposite approach.

If these guys really think Boehner is probably the most extreme speaker in recent history, they must have mighty short memories.  Does the name Nancy Pelosi sound familiar, Reverend Al?

She served as speaker from 2007 to 20011.  Before the election that brought her to power, she said she didn’t “really consider ourselves at war” with terrorism.  That may partially explain her votes as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee.  In the years prior to 9/11, despite her having inside knowledge of the threats confronting the U.S., she regularly voted against intelligence funding.

Dependably pro illegal immigrant, pro abortion on demand, and pro big labor bosses, Pelosi voted more liberal on social policy issues than 96 percent of her colleagues, according to the nonpartisan National Journal.  Her grade from the National Taxpayers Union for the year before Democrats took control of the House was an F, as it had been for the entire previous decade.

Her extremism even extended to for the Boy Scouts.  The president of the U.S. serves as honorary president of that organization.  In 2000, she and ten other members of Congress wrote to President Clinton, requesting he resign from the Boy Scouts because of the organization’s “unacceptable” policy of banning homosexuals from leadership positions.  Out of over 200 House Democrats, fewer than a dozen Democrats signed the letter.  Pelosi was one of them.

As speaker, she shoved through ObamaCare, about which she remarked, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it."  She pushed Obama's stimulus.  These are but two of the many reasons why the national debt increased from $8.7 trillion to just under $14 trillion during her term as speaker.

In light of all this, John Boehner is probably the most extreme speaker we've seen in decades.  The Rev and Grim should take their comedy routine on the road.  They'd probably have a bigger audience.