Says the woman who consistenly quoted the falling approval numbers of George Bush and Dick Cheney, and of course repeatedly referenced the disapproval of the Iraq war by the American people. But suddenly those pesky polls don’t mean crap to Nancy McBotox.

HopenChange, baby.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country.

And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.

“No, I don’t care,” Pelosi told POLITICO last Thursday, laughing heartily as she walked beneath the Capitol dome and plunged into a crowd of tourists.

Last week’s Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll brought grim news for Pelosi, revealing that only a quarter of Americans trust the San Francisco Democrat — putting her in the basement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Mention of the “trust” question halted the click-clack of Pelosi’s heels against Rotunda marble, and she turned to face the reporter who posed the question.

“I don’t know about ‘trust’ — I think I’m trusted,” she said.

“I certainly want to be trusted. I’m not particularly concerned if I’m liked.”

But month after month of polling shows that the speaker is neither trusted nor liked by the general public — even as she emerges from one of the most productive legislative periods any speaker has ever enjoyed.

That’s a large part of the problem. If she were to consistenly say that she doesn’t govern by polls, I could thoroughly understand that. But not only does she have a long history of quoting polls, but she really has no clue as to the public’s perception of her. She honestly thinks that she’s trusted by the American people.

As for, “one of the most productive legislative periods any speaker has ever enjoyed.”? That’s just a long-winded way of saying it has been one of  “the most expensive legislative periods”. The American people are already feeling the result of the Pelosi’s “legislative period” in their wallets.