This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Nazi Nancy Pelosi said That the failed Republican policies of George Bush drove the USA into the recession and financial meltdown of 2008. All during 2009 and 2010 she praised Obama nonstop for his relentless efforts to attain his legacy with the takeover of the health care industry by him and his fellow socialists. Obama, Biden, Pelosi and their comrades need to be reminded that Bush inherited a great big mess from Slick Willie Clinton. One country offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to The USA for his attacks on U.S. embassies during his administration. He refused the offer, wanting the Saudis to take custody of Bin Laden. One of my worst "what if" scenarios is what if the Supreme Court did not uphold Bush's election in 2000 and Al Gore was president when The September 11 attacks occurred. I doubt Gore would have responded half as quickly and effectively as Bush did.
Also, the Bush Administration tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the House Financial Services Committee stonewalled his efforts to protect their 2 cash cows. Click here and here to view my earlier posts on this subject.
Someone videotaped Nancy Pelosi ranting at the GOP for their fiscal responsibility acts. This was a fund raiser on August 21, 2011. This was after Standard & Poor downgraded the USA's credit rating for the first time since 1917, when S&P first started coverage of the USA credit worthiness. I guess Ms. Pelosi was so busy teaching Girl Scouts how to camp or sell cookies to notice the downgrade. Either that or she does not care about passing $14+ trillion in debt on to the next generation(s) of Americans, i. e. our children.
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!!
Here's an amusing video clip of Nancy Pelosi speaking on the virtues of unemployment insurance benefits. Yes folks, she did find two good things about unemployment compensation. It helps people who lost their jobs pay for food and shelter. When people spend their unemployment benefits they "create" jobs. It is an interesting idea that she claims has the support of many economists. Except for the fact she and these economists have it all wrong, I would support the idea too. The problem is unemployment benefits are 50% of a persons wages in a recent 12 month period. So unemployed people are stimulating the economy less because they have to cut back on their spending. Ms. Pelosi would really help stimulate the economy by putting her mind in gear and her mouth in neutral. If she would help repeal obamacare and other job crushing tax bills she would see unemployment start to drop. Every time congress finds a new way to spend the taxpayers money, they send more jobs offshore. IF she would sponsor real immigration reform and cut down the number of illegal immigrants taking jobs from American Citizens. Oops, I forgot, immigration amnesty is encouraged by democrats like Pelosi in hopes the immigrants will vote for them. Stop taxing the citizens who are already here and you wouldn't need to import votes.
The end of days is near, folks. Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the House of Representatives and ardent critic of the Bush Administration's failure to quickly capture OBL, (see my 5/3/2011 post) called George Bush (he is such a lucky ducky) to thank him for his efforts that made OBL's capture possible. What's next? Hopefully, Obama will morally rejuvenate himself and admit the patient care and protection act is a 2000+ page pile of porkulus in dire need of repeal. Ha Ha Ha, I'm such a dreamer.
What better way to celebrate Halloween than a visit with the wicked witch of the west, the current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Here are a couple YouTube clips of her. She must be a narcissistic foot fetisher and a very limber lady to be able to put her foot in her mouth as she does.
Video clip 1
She states that without Obama'a economic recovery package, 500,000,000 Americans will lose their jobs. According to the CIA World Fact Book, the US population size was 310,232,863 (July 2010 est.) Now here's the truly scary fact of life. The US Presidential line of sucession goes first to the VP currently Joe Biden then to the Speaker of the House, currently the WWW, Nancy Pelosi. As much as I disagree with the President, I pray for his continuing health and safety.
Video 2
In this clip Speaker Pelosi ignores a reporter's question about the fairness of the Health Care bill's individual mandate to buy health insurance. She also evades his question about whether people who do not get health insurance can go to jail. Finally, she just ends the press conference and ignores the reporter.
Also, her defense of the insurance mandate is that without it, people will go to emergency rooms and pass the bill on to others. She said the mandate was fair because it provides subsidies for people who cannot afford health insurance. These subsidies are taxpayer funded, so the mandate will not spare people having to pay for other people's medical bills, it just changes the way the taxpayers subsidize the underinsured medical bills. That is just another redistribution of wealth scam on her part.
Because they lack the bargaining power that large businesses have and face higher administrative costs per person, small businesses pay up to 18 percent more for the very same health insurance plans – costs that eat into their profits and get passed on to their employees.
As a result, small businesses are much less likely to offer health insurance. Those that do tend to have less generous plans. In a recent survey, one third of small businesses reported cutting benefits. Many have dropped coverage altogether. And many have shed jobs, or shut their doors entirely.
This is unsustainable, it’s unacceptable, and it’s going to change when I sign health insurance reform into law. President Barack Obama Weekly Address to the Nation 7/25/2009 Available at www.whitehouse.gov/
When I take this bill to the floor, it will win. But we will move forward
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on CNN State of the Union July 26, 2009 Transcript available here.
First, I am absolutely delighted that President Obama realizes the importance of small business in the American economy. He cites a rather long study by the Council Of Economic Advisers to support his concern. The report is also available at whitehouse.gov. It is dated July 25, 2009 the day he gave his weekly address. Too bad the CAE didn't publish it sooner, I'm certain it would have dispelled any and all concerns about a negative impact of health care on small businesses. (slight sarcasm!)
For Speaker Pelosi, a point of clarification please. You stated that when you take the bill to the house floor you will win, which I presume is your goal. Then you say "But we will move forward." The way I interpret this remark is that the health care bill is a move backward, if you move forward after it is passed by the house.
And now a question for both of you. Imagine you are not professional politicians for a moment but small business owners. Which would be easier for you to understand and comply with, a bill that is 10 pages long, 100 pages long or 1000 pages, the length of the current Health Care Reform Bill? Do you see my point? I believe you will have better success if you break it up and try to get the least expensive and burdensome parts of the bill passed first. But then, what would I know? I'm not a professional politician.
