Why do you say that?
Posted on 10/29/2010 5:52:18 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
To the speaker, health-care reform was a hill worth letting her members die for.
After ordering Pickett’s charge, Robert E. Lee reputedly mingled on the Gettysburg battlefield with his soldiers fortunate enough to have survived the debacle. “It’s all my fault,” he said.
Will Nancy Pelosi have a similar moment of regret after next Tuesday, when — whether Republicans take the House or not — many of her troops won’t be coming back?
For now, she maintains that “we haven’t really gotten credit for what we have done,” which is axiomatic as far as it goes. “Credit” is not typically what a party gets for passing signature legislation consistently opposed by the public, as Pelosi did with malice aforethought on health care. She considered a few of her members expendable in the glorious cause, but appears to have gone overboard with the expending.
Pelosi needed to flip key moderate Democrats who initially voted “no” on the health bill to “yes.” She might as well have asked them to quit on the spot. The Washington Post finds that in the eight districts where a Democrat switched from “no” to “yes,” a Democrat is favored to win in only one. In the five districts where a Democrat switched the other way, the Democrats look stronger.
If Pelosi had the political interest of her embattled members at heart, she should have brought health care up only as a vehicle for as many as possible to vote “no.” Since Labor Day, the Democrats who have included health care in their advertisements have tended to be the “nay” votes touting their opposition.
Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota briefly was an exception. Now, he’s up with an ad saying, “I know I’ve disappointed you with a vote here or there.” As if to say congressmen occasionally slip up and vote to create a disruptive, $1 trillion new entitlement program sold under brazenly false pretenses.
West Virginia governor Joe Manchin, running for Senate, has cut a winding path. He supported the law earlier this year. When it began to drag him down in his Senate race, he talked of repeal. Now, he says he regrets supporting it at all. The logical endpoint of this progression is shooting a hole through the law, as he did with the cap-and-trade bill in a famous TV ad. He might want to bring a howitzer.
Democrats insisting the health-care bill is on the cusp of popularity strike the same note of wistful hopefulness as Brooklyn Dodgers fans of old waiting for next year. Its imminent embrace by the public is always just over the horizon. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found the law “is particularly unpopular in the districts that matter most in the Republicans’ effort to retake the House.”
The desperate Pomeroy is telling voters “I’m not Nancy Pelosi,” an ingenious defense but one not available to Nancy Pelosi. A New York Times poll finds 43 percent of voters have an unfavorable view of her and 15 percent a favorable view. Her numbers nationally are arguably worse than Christine O’Donnell’s in Delaware, and she’s a seasoned leader who is the face of the entire congressional wing of her party.
Vulnerable Democrats can’t run away fast enough. Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi says he won’t vote for Pelosi for speaker again. Neither will Rep. Jim Marshall from Georgia. Even Bill Keating, a Democrat running in a heretofore safe district in Massachusetts, doesn’t want to say whether he supports her or not.
Taylor complains that the speaker “veered” to the left, but if Pelosi were really to veer to the left, she’d end up in the Socialist Workers party. She’s been the kind of speaker you’d have expected — indomitably and heedlessly progressive. Moderate and conservative Democrats were her enablers, and she returned the favor by making them cannon fodder.
Pickett’s charge reached the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge before falling back. It’s called the high-water mark of the Confederacy. Pelosi’s charge established the high-water mark of progressivism, and she’ll have the bodies to prove it.
I hope this witch loses her election in addition to losing her gavel. She belongs in prison.
I'm surprised opinion's that good for her. I've never known a Speaker who tries harder to get TV face time than she does. I've often wondered how she got elected to that position in the first place. My guess: Political blackmail supported by her mob connections.
Losing her gavel will be such a big hit to her ego, she will retire from the House. However, in January investigations should be begin by the Republicans as to how she possibly verified Obama’s constitutional elegibility to be POTUS. Obama Sr. was never a citizen of the US, and if the birthdate is correct his mother was not legally able to confer citizenship to Obama Jr. Therefore, Obama is not the legitimate father. That might make him constituionally elegible to be POTUS, but then he has committed fraud using an alias. And the whole issue surrounding use of multiple social security numbers leads me to believe Obama is in deep with money laundering, corruption, etc.
Why were Barry and Nancy so intent on having Health Care “Reform” passed before this November election? There was no burning crisis or public clamor to do something so quickly and irrationally. Could it be the Trojan Horse of our time — stuffed full of evil things that have nothing whatsoever to do with govt. takeover of health insurance, which in and of itself is evil enough. Just one tidbit that I heard last night for the first time on one of my God shows: In 2013, if you sell your house, you wil pay a 3.8% federal tax off the top. That is just one of multiple other taxes in the Health Care Reform act that have nothing to do with the main purpose. Anyone else heard about that?
Why do you say that?
I cannot wait to see God unmask this traitor.
That should be INVESTIGATION NUMBER 1. All others pale campared to that. That should open a sack of cats that Nazi Pelousy doen’t want opened. It should open so many other doors that could lead to the expulsion of THE 1 from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. All it takes is the righ amount of pressure applied to the righ areas and the whole corrupt administration of the Kenyan usurper falls. Getting Pelousy to admit, under oath, to the facts she, along with others were key members or the biggest fraud perpitrated on the American people in the entire history of the Republic. She needs to be dragged through the mud for her role in it. The fate of the country is at stake.
Then go after some other issues. Let the party begin.
I disagree. I believe that come Nov. 2nd, the democrats are going to get all the credit and recognition they deserve.
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