Nancy Pelosi emerges from her bunker today to headline a New York fund raiser, a last-gasp stab at scaring up support for House Dems.
And scare is in the script.
Speaking in Pittsburgh yesterday, she fired up what’s left of the Steelworkers’ Union there by prophesizing calamity in the event of a GOP landslide.
That, and laying blame — at the feet of President Bush.
And the Chamber of Commerce.
“We have lost millions of jobs to outsourcing under President Bush,” said Pelosi — who then blamed her party’s woes on foreign donations allegedly used to fund the pro-business chamber.
The foreign-money meme is part of a White House scheme to raise campaign cash of its own — a scheme even The New York Times conceded last week was a baseless slander.
Pelosi doesn’t care. She’s flailing desperately, trying to blame things on someone even more unpopular than she is.
But the numbers don’t work.
With a 15 percent approval rating, she’s about as popular as the Taliban. And now even her foot soldiers in Congress are turning their guns on her.
Right in the steelworkers’ backyard, just north of Pittsburgh, Blue Dog Democrat Jason Altmire is seeking re-election by running against the Pelosi agenda.
And upstate Dem Bill Owens is touting all the times he voted against Pelosi in his campaign ads. Clearly the ship is sinking: The rats are deserting.
When the returns come in, Pelosi can thank herself for the drubbing the Democrats seem about to receive.
Not that she’ll admit it.