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Facing poor economy and terrible polls, Pelosi turns to gambling

4:16 PM 10/15/2010
Jonathan Strong

Her Party may be facing slaughter at the polls on Nov. 2, and the jarring unemployment rate may be driving economic malaise across the country. But neither will stop Pelosi from the time-honored practice of betting on sports.

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Arlen Specter today announced that they have placed a friendly wager on the National League Championship series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants,” the Speaker blasted out in a press release Friday.

Pelosi, who remains steadfastly optimistic in spite of the conventional wisdom she will lose her Speaker’s gavel in a few short weeks, would win Hershey’s chocolate from Pennsylvania if her Giants beat the Phillies.

“San Francisco’s Ghirardelli chocolate will be safe from Senator Specter: the Giants are going all the way,” Pelosi said.  “I look forward to enjoying some Hershey’s – preferably, dark – chocolate while watching our beloved Giants in the World Series.”

One week ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the unemployment rate remained at 9.6%.

Tags: Arlen Specter, Bureau of Labor Statistics, California, Labor, Nancy Pelosi, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, People from California, Philadelphia Phillies, Politics, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, Sports
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  • sanjay

    Pelosi is a war monger open border big government high taxes and did I say war monger thug.

    This cancer must be excised but before that we must excise federal reserve and IRS who are eating americans alive.

  • recovered dem

    Pukelosi is the most despicable vile politician in the country. The majority of voters in San Francisco are as crazy as she is to keep electing such a sorry excuse of humanity.

  • carlos2010

    I am willing to bet the Nancy Pelosi will not be the Speaker of the House in the 112th Congress. Why? Here are my numbers – Joblessness, which was 9.6 percent in September, has barely budged since reaching a 26-year high of 10.1 percent last October. Under President Obama the GDP took a downward spiral, with real growth falling from 5% in the fourth quarter of 2009, to 3.7% in the first quarter of this year, to 1.7% in the second quarter of 2010. The budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2010 was just under $1.3 trillion for President Obama. The 2009 record $1.4 trillion happened while Democrats had control of both the House and Senate that’s 8.9% of the nation’s economy, a huge number, which are the two worst deficit levels since 1945. Truly the Democrats are the Party of “No Jobs!” Any bets?

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  • OthugoisaLOSER3

    I will NEVER let them STAND BEHIND ME……

  • ArianaHuffingPaint

    But in true Pelosi-Specter fashion, the loser gets the money from the owners.

  • artinflorida

    How does she keep getting elected?
    She hasn’t delivered anything to her supporters

    Art

  • Momma M

    “Time is Money” Pelosi says she doesn’t have time for a debate, but can certainly find time to keep up with a bet. Nice game-plan!

    Kiss my butt, Pelosi! You make me sick.

  • votersofny

    How is this moron speaker of the house. Imagine how stupid the rest of the house must be to elect a dope like her to that position.

    If you idiot voters that relected her last tiem do it again, you deserve her. You are close to being even more dumber than the Massachusetts voters who keep putting Barney Frankenstein and the murderer Ted Kennedy back in office.

    Check out dumbest politician dot com to vote for the dumbest of them all.

  • rfpzzzzz

    Specter and Pelosi are about the creepiest politicians ever.

    • panz

      I take it you haven’t seen that Blumenthal guy from Connecticut. Makes the hair on your head stand up. His ICK factor is triple digit. Kind of guy you can’t stand to look at but you know you can’t turn your back on him either.

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