Pelosi hits back on NRCC
Posted: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:51 PM by firstread
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Luke Russert
from NBC's Luke Russert
In her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded to a claim by the National Republican Congressional Committee that Afghanistan Commander General Stanley McChrystal should “put her in her place.”
“It’s truly sad that they really don’t understand how inappropriate that is. I am in my place, I am the Speaker of the House the first women Speaker of the House and I am in my place because the House of Representatives voted me there. But that language is something I haven’t heard in decades,” Pelosi said.
Many Democrats have decried the NRCC comment as sexist and an unfair attack. So far the NRCC has been unrepentant. According to the Wall Street Journal, the NRCC said today that Pelosi, “would rather make party politics a higher priority than our national security” and that the Speaker “self-righteously believes she is better suited to craft our country’s military policy.”