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Nancy Pelosi embraces the Tea Partiers. Here’s an interesting compilation of news clips featuring the Speaker of the House commenting on the Tea Party movement.

This is so laughable one wonders how Ms. Pelosi can even say these things with a straight face. After repeated well documented comments last summer in which Pelosi tried to downplay and disparage the Tea Party movement, referring to it as “AstroTurf” and “faux-grass roots” and mischaracterizing it as swastika carrying hate-mongering, now we find the House Speaker singing a different tune. When reminded of her remarks in an interview over the weekend she responded, “No, what I said at the time is that the Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party and so there was a lot of shall we say AstroTurf as opposed to grass-roots.”

Oh really? So that’s what you meant. You didn’t really mean to belittle the entire Tea Party movement, just those who are supposedly taking their marching orders from the Republican Party. You know, all those conservatives and independents and moderate Democrats that are showing up by the droves.

But then came the crème de la crème, the pièce de résistance. Nancy went on to say, “But you know we share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the roll of special interests in Washington DC and that just has to stop.”

Wow. This statement is so outrageous even the interviewer can’t resist chuckling, “So common ground between Nancy Pelosi and the Tea Party movement.”

Now I don’t know which is funnier, Nancy Pelosi feigning agreement with the Tea Party movement or Nancy Pelosi suggesting that Tea Party goers are protesting special interests in Washington. You go girl!