Pelosi to the Lemmings: Follow Me Off the Cliff
ByMore from Madame Speaker.
Fox News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue’s massive role in this election year.
Lawmakers sometimes must enact policies that, even if unpopular at the moment, will help the public, Pelosi said in an interview being broadcast Sunday the ABC News program “This Week.”
“We’re not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress,” she said. “We’re here to do the job for the American people.”It took courage for Congress to pass Social Security and Medicare, which eventually became highly popular, she said, “and many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill.”
Gay Patriot points out that Social Security and Medicare were popular with the American people at the time they were enacted. Unlike the crap sandwich Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying to shove down our throats. (Not to mention that we can’t sustain Social Security and Medicare. How can we possibly afford even more entitlements?)
Rep. Paul Ryan reminds us that Pelosi doesn’t have the votes right now, but she’s very good at muscling votes.
Via memeorandum
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“Don’t worry, my pretties! My flying monkeys shall catch you mid-air!”
-Speaker Pelosi
So glad we have this transparent, ethical congress to root out corruption and work in our best interests now! Way to drain that swamp, San Fran Nan!
P.S. I notice a distinct lack of trolling here today, LC. Does this mean that the little drive-by trolls who’s wittiest rebuttal consists of something like “Oh yea…well the military-industrial complex kills and maims BILLIONS each year!!!!!1111oneoneoneevelen”. Do even they think San Fran Nan’s not worth defending, or are they too busy trying to call in and get their talking points out on the radio?
Yeah, they must be devising a plan to get past the call screeners.
The new talking point coming across the wires now from the Right is what I have been saying for 6 months now.
The left is so full of progressives right now that they are willing to RISK political suicide to get this done.
Remember GWB sent us into Iraq and the left went beserk…….but hes gone, the GOP was run out of town, taken out of power and heavily chastized for their war mongering.
BUT NOW…..whats happening NOW……the democrats are in charge…..they see that their actions are going to bring back the GOP to power and there seems to be nothing they can do about it because without their big 3 or 4 agenda items they are rudderless, lacking ideas and have no plans going forward.
So if the GOP can make a dazzling comeback based upon where they were just a couple years ago then……….
The democrats CAN TOO….hence health care will pass with a public option and a near repeal proof language written into it and the Dems will take their lumps at the polls knowing that IF THE GOP CAN MAKE A COMEBACK in a couple years…….THEY CAN TOO.
I predict the Dems will pass health care WITH a public option and then dive head long into the illegal immigration thing. It will be very important for them to legalized 12-20 million more democrats to help them out in the polls for what they are about to do.
Elections have consequences. Barak Obama is right about that. The consequences of electing a totally incapable president and then putting him in charge of a congress that is full of closet progressives leaping out like flying monkeys on the voters proves just how dangerous those consequences can be.
This issue is really consuming too much time and effort of everybody when there are still other important reforms to be made for the country. Can’t this be fast tract? We need to maximize the time to finish more.
Someone once said that a year is an eternity in politics, and so three to four years — the amount of time before the healthcare bill’s benefits kick in — must be even longer! Remember that Congress can change or reduce the healthcare benefits any time it wants to during the next three or four years without returning any of the tax money collected up to that point. You have to admire the political skill on show here — namely getting everyone to talk healthcare this and that when what is really going on is a tax increase. Once you realize the “healthcare” bill is really just a tax increase, the desperate attempts to pass this bill begin to make sense — Democrats want to avoid the budget trap that heavily blue states like CA and IL have fallen into as revenues decline during the economic collapse. The House and Senate leaders are talking healthcare for the same reason a stage magician waves his hands around and gestures toward the pretty girl on stage — they too hope that the audience doesn’t notice what is really going on.
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