Within a week's time, her conduct in office has been the focus of "60 Minutes" and she's made a fool of herself on "The Daily Show." Not bad. Not bad at all.
Regarding the latter, former House Speaker and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attacked Republicans for their opposition to debt ceiling increases, but defended President Obama for voting against a debt-ceiling increase when he was in the Senate, during an interview with Jon Stewart. Her effort to reconcile the two positions drove The Daily Show host to distraction. You can see the video below. (Note Stewart's face palm...)
...you know it's bad when "60 Minutes" tells you the real unemployment story in California isn't the ballyhooed 12.4 percent or even the 17 percent "underemployed." The real number, as correspondent Scott Pelley explains, is probably somewhere on the order of 22 percent.
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