Nancy Pelosi is third in line to the Presidency?

God help us! This woman knows next to nothing, and thinks she is on a mission from God! She just sat down with Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press, and gave some very strange answers (when she even bothered to address his actual questions). Among others, she thinks that natural gas is an alternative to fossil fuels, when it is of course a fossil fuel. She still is adamantly opposed to oil development, especially drilling for it in the US, and she wants to tax the profits of oil companies. She also mentions how she and her husband have a "small" investment in natural gas, in the range of "$50,000 to $100,000". Note to Nancy, when your investment exceeds the average US household income, it isn't small. Never mind the fact that oil and natural gas are extracted in virtually the same fashion, sometimes from the same well even, and the burning of natural gas produces a range of gases that are undesirable. But somehow it is ok to drill for this resource, but not others that we have, in the speculative hope that we can transform the entire American automotive fleet from oil-based gas burning to natural gas burning engines. Imagine what it would cost to change every gas station over to supply natural gas as well. And the ultimate irony is that some of the newer natural gas extraction techniques are decidedly unfriendly to the environment. Does she have any idea how things work in the real world?

She also claims that the Catholic Church cannot decide for itself when life begins, despite the fact that it has been established in Catholic doctrine since the very beginning of the church that abortion is unquestionably a sin. Funny that she claims to be a practicing Catholic yet has no idea about the history of the church. She even badly mispronounces St. Augustine while attempting to quote him. Even the Bible speaks about the born and unborn using similar words in the original Greek. This implies that there is no distinction between the two; it even goes so far as to say in the New Testament that sin begins at conception. If life does not begin at conception, then why wear a condom or use birth control? Pro-choice people just need to admit that they are taking a life, plain and simple. They have just decided that other concerns outweigh that life. But they are afraid to admit it in public.

All these folks like Nancy Pelosi run around scaring everyone that Roe v. Wade is going to get reversed. Even if it was, the situation in America would not change substantially. Does it really make sense to have such an important right resting on the screwy logic of one Supreme Court decision that would probably be reversed under any type of impartial close scrutiny? Have Congress establish basic standards for the practice, and then let states regulate it themselves. Many are already doing this anyways. Funnily enough, that is what the Framers intended.