US Congress speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'

WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called President George W. Bush a total failure in every department and said that he has no idea that what he has to do.Nancy Pelosy, who met with President Bush on Thursday said that his failure is evident in every matter whether it is war or economy or energy. In an interview with a US tv, Pelosy severely criticized Bush and said: “God bless him, bless his heart, the president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject." The speaker was especially critical of Bush's proposal to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling as a means to ease the current fuel price crisis, calling it a ploy to draw attention away from his failures.

"We have seven and a half years of failed energy policy by the Bush administration. We have a faltering, downturning economy. The president needs a decoy."So he's going out there, he even has the nerve to say the economy would be better off if we could drill in protected areas offshore," she said, adding the Democrats' proposal to free up the US strategic petroleum reserve, which she said is 91.5 percent full."And we're saying let's take 10 percent of that ... and use that to put on the market so that we increase supply, reduce prices, and when the price comes down, we can buy back the oil at a lower price."