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Speaker Will Keep 'Villains' Money (Pelosi)
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/notepad/2009/07/speaker-will-keep-villains-mon.html ^

Posted on 07/31/2009 10:52:22 PM PDT by kcvl

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called health insurers "the villains" in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting up an anti-insurer theme trotted out by President Obama earlier this month and encouraged by other Democratic leaders in Congress.

"It is somewhat immoral what they are doing. Of course, they have been immoral all along how they have treated the people that they insure," MSNBC's Luke Russert quoted her as saying. "They are the villains in this."

Pelosi, of course, has accepted campaign contributions from said villains this year and in the past, as have most of her Democratic colleagues. Pelosi's campaign committee, for example, took $2,500 from AFLAC's political action committee on April 13. But she's not giving the money back just because she thinks the sources are immoral and villainous.

"As the Speaker's opposition to the health insurance companies being in charge of American's health care shows, there is no link between political contributions and positions on policy," said her spokesman Brendan Daly.

Besides, a quick look at her records suggests that health insurers make up a fraction of the money she accepts from the broader insurance industry and place her fairly low on the list of recipients -- particularly given her longtime spot atop the Democratic Party -- according to a study released earlier this year by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Pelosi ranked 55th among members of the 111th Congress in contributions from health insurers since the 1989-1990 election cycle, according to CRP, having taken in $186,750 (less than $20,000 per two-year cycle).

The real trick -- as Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., has shown -- is to turn your entire enemies list into your fundraising pool.

The targeting of insurance companies is a political natural, as Americans view them with great skepticism in polls. In one recent Gallup survey, only 4 percent of respondents chose insurers over doctors and hospitals, Obama and congressional Democrats, and congressional Republicans as the entity they most trust to reform the health care system.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; bloggersandpersonal; pelosi; sourcetitlenoturl

1 posted on 07/31/2009 10:52:23 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Sounds like they’re not to worried about losing campaign contributions. But she’s certainly not complaining about her own health coverage...nor is she saying that she’ll go on the government plan.


2 posted on 07/31/2009 10:55:27 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (PALIN - Supports a "path to citizenship" for ILLEGAL ALIENS.........DeMint/Sessions, 2012)
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To: Kimberly GG

socialism for thee but not for me.
(Pelosi)


3 posted on 07/31/2009 10:57:59 PM PDT by ak267
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To: kcvl
I am so sick of these lying scumbags. Insurance companies make almost no money on their insurance products. They are regulated to death and need to carry very high reserves in order to pay claims.

Want to know what the average Health Insurance company makes on it's insurance policies. 1%, That's right 1%. They make their money on investments.

What about Mutual Companies? They are NON_PROFIT. Many if not most of these companies lead the pack in the Health care industry.

Government Health Care: All the efficiency of the DMV and all the kindness and humanity of the IRS.

4 posted on 07/31/2009 10:59:44 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: kcvl

If the voters got up on their hind legas and demanded that the President, Congress, the bureaucrats and the judiciary must be enrolled in ObamaCare, along with the “peasants”, you’d never hear another peep about it in your lifetime!


5 posted on 07/31/2009 10:59:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("I won't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass." Admiral IsorokoYamamoto)
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To: kcvl

She sounds more power mad than Mussolini. Il Duce with botox. Evil witch.


6 posted on 07/31/2009 11:00:19 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: kcvl

Pelosi ranked 55th among members of the 111th Congress in contributions from health insurers

Uhhhhhh....If I'm not mistaken, there are 435 members of Congress, so 55th would place her fairly HIGH on the list wouldn't it?

7 posted on 07/31/2009 11:01:10 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Jim from C-Town
Government Health Care: All the efficiency of the DMV and all the kindness and humanity of the IRS.

That just about sums it up!

8 posted on 07/31/2009 11:12:33 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If the voters got up on their hind legas and demanded that the President, Congress, the bureaucrats and the judiciary must be enrolled in ObamaCare, along with the “peasants”, you’d never hear another peep about it in your lifetime!

Exactly! They would NEVER agree to do that, ever! That should tell us all we need to know about the healthcare they want US TO LIVE with.

9 posted on 07/31/2009 11:14:33 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Pelosi is getting sound bites from Hugo Chavez.

Birds of a feather and all that.


10 posted on 07/31/2009 11:24:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Frantzie

<Il Duce with botox.

ROFLMAO!

I agree with a previous poster; she must not need the campaign contributions. What an idiot - on the other hand, there are a lot of Dim idiots who will take her badmouthing their industry and continue to vote Dim.


11 posted on 07/31/2009 11:34:14 PM PDT by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just as "Global Warming" was debunked, the socialists changed the phrase to "Climate Change". Takeover of industry remains the goal.

Now, "National Health Care Reform" is being changed to "Insurance Reform".

It is the same bill, HR3200. It is still Socialized Medicine.

Do not be deceived.

yitbos

12 posted on 07/31/2009 11:41:44 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Jim from C-Town
Notice that Sen. Dodd conveniently came down with a cancer that will unfortunately make him incognito during the entire summer recess.

He will not be available to his constituents for anything but campaign contributions.

yitbos

13 posted on 07/31/2009 11:45:58 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: kcvl

The real villians are in the government.

Their tongue wagging and finger pointing is

a ruse to divert attention from their own plots

to deceive and cheat the people.


14 posted on 07/31/2009 11:47:56 PM PDT by MadStoic (If you want Obama 'in'.....include me 'out'.)
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To: kcvl

The Crats have got “The dog that caught the Bus” syndrome. The only way they got elected was on the “America Sucks” platform. In other words America Sucked because Republicans were in charge...Well now they are totally in charge and if America Sucks it is their fault. Alinski never got to the part of what to do after you are in charge. Look for a complete Crat Meltdown. We as a country are going to learn a very hard lesson.


15 posted on 08/01/2009 12:23:03 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: screaminsunshine

Dog catches bus.

Dog urinates on bus.


16 posted on 08/01/2009 12:27:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: kcvl

Right after they send their kids and grand kids to public school nightmare they created.


17 posted on 08/01/2009 2:07:31 AM PDT by momincombatboots (The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: kcvl

Don’t be fooled by the righteous anger. This is always how the shakedowns start.


18 posted on 08/01/2009 2:11:23 AM PDT by tanuki (The only color of a leader that should matter is the color of his spine.)
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To: kcvl

This witch needs to be forced back on her broomstick for a ride to oblivion.


19 posted on 08/01/2009 4:21:13 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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