On Monday’s “All in with Chris Hayes,” Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner had failed to do anything substantial during his tenure.
“I will say this about John Boehner, and I have a good relationship [with him],” Pelosi said. “If he were a woman, they’d be calling him the weakest speaker in history.”
“Well, because they don’t get anything done,” she said when Hayes asked her to explain the point. “Where are the results? What are the results? They’ve never been able to pass anything without our coming to the rescue except, in my view, their unprincipled budgets.”
“But when people ask me, I say you know what, if a woman was speaker and nothing was happening in this way, they’d say, ‘Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh,'” Pelosi said. “I’m just getting a little, shall we say, tired of some of the ways they take a pass on some and not on others. We get criticized for accomplishing things. They don’t get criticized for not accomplishing things.”