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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi isn’t fairing well in opinion polls:

Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. voters now have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including 42% Very Unfavorable, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. A growing number of her doubters seem to be fellow Democrats.

The Republicans aren’t doing any better, however:

While these are Pelosi’s highest negatives yet in the current session of Congress, Republican congressional leaders haven’t been the beneficiaries. Their numbers remain virtually unchanged.

In my political memory, which is shorter than others at United Liberty, the two political parties have almost always been led in Congress by stooges. Nancy Pelosi, John Boener, Harry Reid, Tom Delay; these are not people that inspire confidence or respect. Political hacks like these are a staple of democracies and republics; the United Kingdom is currently being led by one.

The only possible exception in recent American political history is former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who, even though he launched quite a few unnecessary and thinly veiled political crusades throughout the 1990s, is at least intelligent and intellectually provocative. If the two parties were led by people that were guided by their beliefs instead of a lust for power, Dennis Kucinich would be the leader of the Democrats and Ron Paul would be the leader of the Republicans.