U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi steps out of her SUV as Rep. Patrick Kennedy waits to greet her yesterday at the United Food and Commercial Workers hall in Providence. The Providence Journal Ruben W. Perez
Posted on 07/18/2008 7:58:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Speaker Pelosi in R.I.: ‘Things can be different’
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 19, 2008
By Felice J. Freyer
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE –– Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House, appeared before a cheering crowd of nearly 100 people in a steamy union hall yesterday to denounce the “record of failure” of the Bush administration and promise a better America under Barack Obama.
“We absolutely must win,” she said, urging everyone to work for the election of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Pelosi said she was “counting every minute of every hour of every day” until President Bush leaves office. Mentioning the declining economy, the federal deficit, the price of gasoline, the health-care system, and the loss of life in Iraq, she said: “Things can be different and they will [be].”
But she added later, “There’s a long road back from the damage the Bush administration has done to our country.”
Speaking at the United Food and Commercial Workers hall on Silver Spring Street, Pelosi was flanked at the podium by Frank Montanaro, Rhode Island AFL-CIO president, U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy and Steve Jennings, associate director of the AARP in Rhode Island.
She celebrated congressional action this week to override President Bush’s veto of a bill changing aspects of the Medicare health program for the elderly, including eliminating a 10.6 percent cut in physician pay.
As Patrick Kennedy nodded, she described, in dramatic terms, the arrival of his father, Sen. Ted Kennedy, to cast the 60th vote in favor of the Medicare bill. Nine additional Republicans then joined the Democrats in supporting it. Senator Kennedy is undergoing treatment for brain cancer.
“We had the support of every organization … except the health insurance companies,” Pelosi said of the Medicare bill. “People cheered across America. And the president vetoed the bill. What kind of value system do you have that you are against everybody and you’re in favor of health insurance companies? … He is so wrong.”
Pelosi touted a Democratic plan to stimulate the economy by rebuilding roads, bridges, schools and other aspects of the country’s infrastructure. “Let’s just spend as much on infrastructure in America as we are spending on infrastructure in Iraq,” she said to applause.
“If we could get the infrastructure bill, dirt would fly immediately,” she said. “… It would provide the jobs immediately.”
The speaker, a leading opponent of offshore drilling, also criticized President Bush for not releasing any of the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve to help lower gasoline prices. “The president says that’s for emergencies. This is an emergency, Mr. President,” she said.
“None of what we can do will be possible unless we end the war in Iraq,” Pelosi continued. “That war has cost us our military readiness.… There is not one combat-ready unit in our country.… It’s the biggest historic blunder –– national security blunder –– that you can name.”
Pelosi, a California Democrat who said her grandparents met in Pawtucket –– “My mother talked her whole life about her cousins in Rhode Island” –– heaped praised on Patrick Kennedy and on the event’s sponsor, the AFL-CIO and its Working Rhode Island coalition. “We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the AFL-CIO,” she said. “People who may never join a union benefit from what you do.”
After leaving the union hall, Pelosi headed to Jamestown, where she was to be the featured attraction at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm of U.S. House Democrats. The event was closed to the media. Money raised is used to support campaigns of Democratic House candidates in close election contests.
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi steps out of her SUV as Rep. Patrick Kennedy waits to greet her yesterday at the United Food and Commercial Workers hall in Providence. The Providence Journal Ruben W. Perez
Can you say “hypocrite”? I knew you could...but the Dem lapdogs in the msm apparently can’t.
You bet things can be different by voting the Democrats out.
bolsheviks always have the best.
no peasants would deny them that?
/s
The rules only apply to the ‘little people’ not to the almighty lunatic lefties who think we should walk.
They can kiss my .........I’ll run my life the way I see fit without any input from lefties which include so-called celebrities.
I had a boss that liked to use an expression: "Lack of planning on YOUR part, doesn't make it an emergency on MY part." Seems to fit Miss America's lack of planning (on energy) and lack of control or definitive action of her party's majority. Her lack of planning pushes it to the President's desk as an emergency? I don't think so.
This is one sick Witch (to be polite).
that’s so funny!
her mother talked all her life about her cousins in rhode island!
yeah, right! who cares?
at least michelle obama wears dresses most of the time.
pelosi’s in her hillary mao outtit.
Wow..some turnout..the sitting Speaker can only muster NEARLY 100 people to see her speak..I can't imagine Newt ever getting anything that small when he spoke..
This is a Monster SUV........
The image you posted shows a monster getting out of an SUV.
Just glad to help.
:)
Just had a thought, I’m not very bright … mayhap I can run for political office. I could pretend to be for America, and yet spout socialist rhetoric. I could also support Global Warming, and give my undying support for increased taxes. Think I would have a chance? And, did I mention that I was born a hypocrite? After all Nancy keeps wining on these same ideas.
And, she either wanted or has her own government jet!
The democrats don’t care about us, they make laws to keep us from doing things and then they just do what they want.
This is an emergency, Mr. President,” she said.I agree with your premise there, but she leaves an opening for the President to act on this emergency.Her lack of planning pushes it to the President's desk as an emergency? I don't think so.
Using her words for a starting block, he should declare a National Emergency and issue an executive order opening up all off shore pumping, drilling, and exploring as well as shale oil.
He should also take all potentially producing areas that have been locked up by liberals and put them in play.
And then he should open up the strategic reserves and put some of the oil there at the gas stations.
Of course, with all the production that would happen after his Executive Order, he could refill them almost at the same time.
Come on, President Bush sock it to her!
I’m laughing. If that’s what she flys in, why is she still around to bother us? Ha ha.
Uh reminds me of the saying, “Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
There is no emergency. Gas prices are high and they are affecting the economy.
We don’t have gas lines. We don’t have food shortages.
There are some things the government can do to bring down energy prices, but nothing the rats have in mind will lower gas prices.
Well, that’s right in line with what we were talking about.
Thanks for agreeing
This is good news. Queen Nancy and the Democrat-controlled Congress will soon be passing a bill to allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines. Right?
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