House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi praised President Obama’s “non-partisan” speech in Kansas, calling it a “tour de force,” and she embraced “the 99 percent” while criticizing the Supreme Court for exposing American politics to corporate corruption.
Pelosi directed reporters to Obama’s Kansas speech — “it was a tour de force about who we are as a country in a non-partisan way,” she said today, — when asked about the message of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
“We have to move forward to empower the 99 percent to offset the impact of the Supreme Court decision of money in campaigns,” she added. “‘Corporate expenditures have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs,'” Pelosi said, reading from the Theodore Roosevelt speech that called for laws against corporate political spending. “Much of that had been wiped away; the Court restored it.”
She said that position is “part of the statement” of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
