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Posted at 3:42pm on Dec. 18, 2007 An Act Of haystack Contrition: I Apologize Madam Speaker

Because I believe in being fair and balanced, and "squaring with the House"

By haystack

I recently wrote an article taking the Speaker to task over a grocery list of complaints including her having remarked that "Republicans like this war." I also spoke strongly and in negative terms about her capabilities, her accomplishments, and the degree to which I am embarrassed by her performance in running MY house.

Nearly 1200 words in length, it offered a rather long list of grievances, provided links to a few sources, and added the customary level and calculated degree of calm and reasoned commentary and analysis that everyone has grown accustomed to as things emanate from my keyboard.

Someone playing over at Nancy's sand castle had a problem with it, however, and after having been contacted by one of her peeps (whose name I'll kindly and graciously omit here) to point out where I erred in my article, and who further provided links to prove "his" righteousness in these matters, I return here to offer my sincerest and most heartfelt apologies for being wrong on 3 items. Although I listed some 20 examples of her miserable failure(s) during her reign to this point, these 3 seemed worthy of outreach in order to set the record straight. It must be safe to assume, then, that these are the only 3:

I was wrong when I said she didn't get the 9/11 recommendations implemented. I was wrong when I said she hadn't come up with the money to fix the bridges "Bush broke in Minneapolis and elsewhere"...well, half wrong-she DID get the cash for Minneapolis-we're still waiting for the dough to fix the others.

And I was wrong when I said that the Walter Reed Building 18 fiasco happened on her watch. Interestingly enough, I was corrected on the merits of that statement by being told it was the Republicans who were to blame...wait for it...because they removed Rep. Chris Smith as chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee...back in 2005. Can't quite wrap my brain around how this proves that the Building 18 fiasco didn't happen under Nancy's watch, given she was speaker when the story broke, but I digress.

Nance, babes? I apologize. No REALLY.

You might want to talk to your folks though. If they're going to challenge we obscure little writers out here in the netherworld about accuracy of content, don't ya think they should have offered proof that THIS statement was wrong?

[T]he most pathetically incompetent Speaker of the House in American history.

I know I sure would have...but what do I know?

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