Posted on 07/28/2011 2:04:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye
By: Seung Min Kim July 28, 2011 01:14 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi dialed up the rhetoric before Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt limit heads to the House floor for a vote, declaring it a “job-killer” and saying seniors could “kiss their Medicare good-bye.”
“If you believe in that the education of our children, the retirement of our seniors, the creation of jobs in a fiscally sound way, you couldn’t possibly vote for the bill that the Republicans are bringing to the floor today,” Pelosi said Thursday.
The speaker’s legislation, which slashes $917 billion over 10 years and increases the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit in two increments, is scheduled for a House vote on Thursday night.
House Democrats are expected to stay closely united against the Boehner legislation, with few – if any – defectors expected. If it passes and heads to the upper chamber, it faces opposition from all 53 Democratic-caucusing senators. Pelosi echoed those projections, saying she felt “very confident that if they’re going to have 217 votes … they’re going to have to be Republican votes.”
Now just five days away from the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline, Congress faces gridlock with dueling proposals from Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Pelosi said she hoped Congress could come together with the White House to resolve the stalemate.
“I’m hopeful that [once] everyone has made their statement, that we can again come together with the White House … [and] that we could come to terms as to how we go forward.”
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We certainly can’t possibly vote for the Democrat bill. There is NONE!
She’s twitching more than normal today. Does she need B-tox fix or is she experiencing TIA’s? I’m waiting for the day when she blows a gasket, she needs to go out in a straightjacket.
My Lord, what a vile, despicable woman.
I love to read that.
Can you post it again?
Good Gawd, how did that get all the way down to $917 Billion/10 Yr?
Aren't we going the wrong way?
completely irresponsible
Bugeyes Piglousy is now certfiably Insane! as if she was not when she took over the Speakership! She is a validation of the “Boobs for Brains Syndrome.”
Is she referring to the impact of O-holecare?
That's right. PELOSI.
Palliative End of Life Optimum Serenity Initiative (PELOSI)
Talk about empty rhetoric.
Someone needs to duct-tape her mouth shut and then hog-tie her. Her hate speech is divisive. She is making me want to vomit.
I think she’s just jealous of Debbie downer getting all the dramatic face time... :)
Nacy you and the Dems already gutted medicare in the Obamacare bill so don’t even try it.
What should my retirement plan and my children's planned future and education have to do with some senile old fart that is a virtual stranger to me saying that we are all going to die just because the old fart says so?
No wonder the forefathers drew up a document of freedom and rightfully so!
told him to let Nancy know before we kiss Medicare good bye we will kiss her and the entire Congress good bye...
VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN 2012
“She’s twitching more than normal today.”
Delirium Tremens?
Her Commiecare™ law does it.
THIS AMERICAN VOTER IS TIRED OF ‘THREATS’
FROM BOTH SIDES AND ESPECIALLY FROM THAT DUDE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
The really infuriating part is that social security “disability” and medicare would actually be viable and workable if the government had any interest in curtailing the fraud and abuse, mostly the abuse.
There are welfare queens that believe it is their “motherly duty” to get their child on “disability” so that they will have financial support all their lives.
$1 Billion in Year 9, $916 Billion in Year 10.
And I didn't spend last night at a Holiday Inn, either!
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