Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Pelosi's District Awarded 38 of 204 Obamacare Waivers in April

Quote of the Day: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it…” – Nancy Pelosi, March 9, 2010, referring to obamacare

Counter Quote of the Day: "Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821

The Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services awarded 204 waivers from obamacare in April. 38 of these went to businesses in ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi's current congressional district. The unusual part of this story is the presence of luxury restaurants, hotels and boutiques in the winner's circle. One restaurant had entrees ranging from $15.00 to $60.00, definitely not a Mickey D's franchise. Usually, these waivers go to businesses with low wage jobs such as fast food restaurants and nursing homes. Most of the 38 winners did not return calls to the DailyCaller who reported this interesting coincidence. If memory serves me correctly, Nancy Pelosi was one of Obamacare's biggest supporters and called opponents of it astroturf and Nazis. Yes, folks, Nancy Pelosi, cheerleader emeritus for the 2500 pages of pork, earmarks and bribes known as Obamacare called people who objected to the nationalized and socialized aspects of this nightmare brought to our health care delivery system Nazis. Nazis were nationalist socialist led by Adolph Hitler in WWII. Maybe Pelosi meant it as a compliment. Maybe after reading the entire act Pelosi decided it was a mistake and was discretely cheering the TEA partyers on to victory. Right, Yeah!!

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