The Futility of Being Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi rises from her crypt to pronounce on Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity. From The Weekly Standard:
The Democrats' leader in the House of Representatives tweets:
The #GOP Ryan budget is a path to poverty for America's seniors & children and a road to riches for big oil #GOPvalues
And her office released a predictable press release. Brace yourself: Paul Ryan's mean budget hurts old people, kids, the disabled....and....um......
....Oh, sorry. I guess I nodded off there. That happens when I'm forced to read old material.
Nancy Pelosi would have a lot more relevance -- and standing, frankly -- if during her last, sorry, failed term as Speaker of the House she had managed to bestir herself from her old lady ramblings, her partisan witchery, and her delusional perquisites, and actually passed a budget of her own.
She didn't. They didn't. They punted, like the cowards and shiftless operators they are.
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Re: The Futility of Being Nancy Pelosi
Ah, yes. I love it when Rob gets irritated.
Jun '10
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Just thinking of kids and old timers being forced into poverty makes me grin and twirl my Dick Dasterdly moustache.
Sep '10
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I watched the video on youtube so that I could see some the really great comments that you see there. It appears that the meme is that this will raise taxes on the poor and that is why it is a bad thing. I looked through the section on taxes and did not see nearly enough detail to let me figure that out. They have space to cover the debt commission's recommendations but not their own. Cut corporate tax - OK, consolidate brackets - OK, Capital Gains - OK, but where do we find the information that would combat the basic accusation that this raises taxes on the poor?
The lie is going to go around the world before the truth can get its pants on.
Jan '11
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Getting close to the Code of Conduct abyss aren't you.
Oct '10
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Chiseling seniors and children? Sort of like Obamacare choice-maker Ezekiel Emanuel's "complete lives system" which "produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15-40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."
I'm sure Nancy tweeted a snarky misinterpretation of that as well.
Some more great philosophies from E.E:
"treating them [old people] differently because they have already had more life-years is not [ageist]."
"Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not received these investments."
Nov '10
Re: The Futility of Being Nancy Pelosi
I wish Republicans would avail themselves more often of the word demagogy to describe what Dems are doing. So it was indeed refreshing to hear Paul Ryan employ the term yesterday. After all, 'tis fitting description for the party that ever since Calhoun has in one sense or another been the party of slavery.
There. I said it. My completely imprudent, thumotic utterance for the day. But it felt damned good....because it's, well, essentially true.
Edited on Apr 5, 2011 at 2:26pmAug '10
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This era will forever be seen as one in which the mentally imbalanced and corrupt at the core merged to form an unstoppable juggernaut, thanks to the apathy, spinelessness, and indecision of the electorate. The fact that Nancy is still around slandering, distorting, and spouting off is shocking and highly disturbing.
Jan '11
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And again, we are simply returning to the less insane 2008 spending standards. These cuts are not draconian. We are just going back to the over the top spending that everyone accepted as normal before the Democrats went on their obsessive compulsive spending spree. You know, the one we needed to avoid the specter of high unemployment rates? I'm thinking that ship has sailed. We still have trillions of dollars of debt that must be cut. We still have attocious waste that hasn't even been touched. We still have deficits which will force my children into a life of indentured servitude. We still have miles to go before we sleep.
Rock on Rob. Kick butt and take no prisoners.
Sep '10
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Turing test: Nancy Pelosi = computer
Sep '10
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Hurts old people, kids, and the disabled. Did she forget to say it's anti-woman and racist? She must be slipping in her old age.
Edited on Apr 5, 2011 at 3:20pmMar '11
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Nietzsche once remarked that in dark times there is always the solace of suicide. For the irate taxpayer/producer there is always the solace of tax revolt. But I'm not there yet. The Ryan budget is a flag around which to rally, apply our war paint. Now the job of matching up a candidate, a campaign and generating some synergy.
Oct '10
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And it's just wrong too.
Look at the record. Democrats, progressives and leftists, what do they support? Abortion, euthanasia, political murder and eugenics. Of course, most oppose some and a few oppose all. But how many actively disassociate themselves from, for example, Che Guevara clad street protesters? Whose bookstores celebrate Mao? What factions provide material support to violent "anarchists" and environmental "activists"? Which academics have offered moral equivalence cover to Qadaffi? To Assad? To Ahmadinejad? What constituencies deny Israeli legitimacy and champion Hamas? Whose contributors fete George Soros and champion $4 gas?
From these people I care to hear nothing about the "poor," the "children," the "weak," and the "elderly." They'd allow them all to die for a cause.
Edited on Apr 5, 2011 at 4:28pmMar '11
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The test failed. No one would believe that anyone could code something that badly.
Oct '10
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I just hope the American people don't need a bond market crisis to make the case that, yes, we do need to do this.
Sep '10
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I guess we know what's in it, before it is passed.
Apr '11
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Rob, I love your Tude! We need more just like you.
Dec '10
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Vance Richards: Hurts old people, kids, and the disabled. Did she forget to say it's anti-woman and racist? She must be slipping in her old age. · Apr 5 at 3:18pm
Edited on Apr 05 at 03:20 pm
And homophobic, and...
Dec '10
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The necessity of Congressman Ryan's budget proposal seems self evident, at least as a starting point. It's a shame we have to "sell" it not only to the opposition but to the weak kneed moderates who will buckle at the first media shot fired across their bow. We have to stay saddled up beyond 2012 and not let this thing ever get derailed or lose sight of where we are hopefully going.
Feb '11
Re: The Futility of Being Nancy Pelosi
I see your DD and raise you a Snidely Whiplash.
Jun '10
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"I see your DD and raise you a Snidely Whiplash."
You win......Snidely was definitely more evil.