Tone deaf? -- no Brain dead? yes

the Washington Times picks up the statement made by Nancy Pelosi on KCBS yesterday:

"There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded," she said. "How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we've been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City."

It is very telling that Pelosi calls the opposition to the mosque "ginned up". That was her first line of attack on the Tea Parties as well. Remember when she called them Astroturf? In other words, the Tea Parties were not real, but a front created by someone to put ideas out into the public arena that no one supported. Now, the opposition to the mosque, which polls something around three quarters of all Americans, is a phony movement created to distract from the real issues.

Pelosi will be no more successful with this garbage than she was with her attack on the Tea Party. The important thing here, however, is that the Speaker of the House, a national leader, is so far out of touch that she does not understand the opposition to the mosque. Alternatively, she is so dumb that she thinks she can bamboozle Americans into believing that to be the case.

Pelosi, at least, will be gone as speaker in November. She can do much less damage as the nut job from San Francisco that she can do as Speaker.