“Nancy Pelosi never lost a vote. She never once got so confused and lost such control of the group she was supposed to be leading that she did not know what they were going to do… She was good at her job. John Boehner is not good at his job.”
“John Boehner is, in fact, bad at his job.”
He is so bad, in fact, that he has resorted to projecting his own baditude onto the president. Of course, he also fails to acknowledge that Obama has been blocked at every turn by Republicans in the House and the Senate.
Nancy Pelosi:
“I don’t understand that, because he’s a gentleman, the speaker is. But that remark was — I mean, it was almost as if he was projecting onto the president his lack of being able to pass any bill that created jobs since he became speaker.“
Chris Cuomo:
“You think the speaker is projecting onto the president his own failure?“
Pelosi:
“Exactly… Because he hasn’t been able to deal with his own party. There isn’t anything that he passed that we haven’t delivered the votes for him that has been job-creating.”
I once spent alot of very expensive cell phone minutes waiting on hold to speak to Gallagher. I’ve never called into a radio talk show before but he was ranting and raving about how all the housekeepers (don’t think he called them that) don’t speak English and that he wasn’t leaving tips unless they spoke English and why in the WORLD are they taking Real “Muricans jobs? I was lived. My folks came over from Ireland and Poland by way of South America in 1960. When they got here the only jobs that were available to them were manual labor picking apples and cherries on a farm in Michigan. My mom spoke 5 languages (including English with an accent), my Dad 3 (including English with a HEAVY accent). That. Was. All. That. Was Available.
Manual labor and unskilled work is the stepping stone for those who don’t speak English. How do you get instructions from a boss if you don’t speak English? You don’t unless the the boss knows Spanish, which is more common now but still is a sticking point. If you’re hired as unskilled it’s pretty clear what you need to know, so no special instructions need apply and if they do you can work it out. I wonder what kind of jobs Mr Gallagher’s forebears worked when they first got here?
Sorry, I tend to get worked up over that second rate piece of slime. Via.
And because he represents those who voted for him (they did what again?), then clearly, many of his fellow Texans feel it’s acceptable to desperately resort to jokes about a fellow Congress member’s appearance.
Now, one last point I want to make — while I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed. Let me repeat: We can’t not pay bills that we’ve already incurred. If Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic — far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff.
People will remember, back in 2011, the last time this course of action was threatened, our entire recovery was put at risk. Consumer confidence plunged. Business investment plunged. Growth dropped. We can’t go down that path again.
Now Nancy Pelosi is going a step further by coming out in favor of using the Fourteenth Amendment if it comes down to that. The Hill:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday amplified her support for a constitutional solution to the debt-ceiling increase.
The California Democrat said that, given the opportunity if she were president, she would not hesitate to invoke the 14th Amendment in order to hike the debt ceiling without congressional support — a move the Obama administration has rejected outright.
“I’ve made my view very clear on that subject: I would do it in a second,” Pelosi said Friday during her weekly press briefing in the Capitol. “But I’m not the president of the United States.“
The amendment states that the “the validity of the public debt … shall not be questioned.”
As The Hill noted, the White House has already made it clear they won’t go there. In fact, Press Secretary Jay Carney said, “This administration does not believe that the 14th Amendment gives the president the power to ignore the debt ceiling — period.”
After all those years, all those hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on ads demonizing Nancy Pelosi, and it come down to this. The truth.
House Speaker John Boehner has now unseated his Democratic predecessor Nancy Pelosi as the least-liked major congressional leader, a title Pelosi has held for several years.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters now view Boehner unfavorably, while 50% feel that way about Pelosi. Just 31% have a favorable opinion of the Ohio congressman, compared to 37% who look favorably on the San Francisco Democrat.
Martha Raddatz asked if a deal without including an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy was acceptable.
Pelosi:
“Well, no, I mean, the president made it very clear in his campaign that there is not enough — there are not enough resources. What you just described is a formula and a blueprint for hampering our future. You cannot go forward — you have to cut some investments. If you cut too many, you’re hampering growth, you’re hampering education, our investments for the future. If it’s going to bring in revenue, the president has been very clear that the higher income people have to pay their fair share.”
As you can see, Martha Raddatz’s interview with Nancy Pelosi was on ABC’s “This Week,” and Pelosi flatly stated that without ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, by simply closing loopholes and capping tax deductions, there would be no deal on the “fiscal cliff” aka fiscal curb, fiscal slope, fiscal speed bump, etc.
Pelosi’s position puts her directly at odds with GOP House Speaker John Boehner, who said tax rate hikes would be ”unacceptable” during an interview with ”World News” anchor Diane Sawyer earlier this month. Boehner has said he is open to rewriting the tax code and closing loopholes, which would result in additional revenue for the federal government, but has ruled out rate hikes for the wealthy.
Pelosi made it clear that she also doesn’t want to go over that fiscal speed bump:
”The spirit at the table was one of everybody wants to make the best effort to get this done. Hopefully that is possible; hopefully it is possible by the middle of December so the confidence of the markets and most importantly the confidence of the consumers returns to infuse our economy with demand, which creates jobs.“
She made a good point: It’s consumers who are the job creators.
That said, Roll Call is reporting that the GOP is bending on taxes as fiscal speed bump talks begin, and that the impending fake-doomy, scary, catastrophic, omg the world is going to end Cliffageddon can be averted. Apparently, Congressional leaders don’t like the looks of the stock market these days, and you know what that means… magically breaking gridlock… sort of:
The four top leaders in Congress all expressed confidence that they could avert the fiscal cliff after Speaker John A. Boehner offered up revenue and Democrats agreed to pursue spending cuts during an hourlong meeting Friday at the White House.
The Ohio Republican told reporters that he proposed a framework for dealing with the cliff that would tie revenue to spending cuts “consistent with the president’s call for a balanced approach.”
Many of us Dems have been very concerned about ideas being floated such as raising the Medicare eligibility age above 65, a policy that is included in Paul Ryan’s Kill Medicare Budget plan. Here’s Nancy:
Pelosi hopes the negotiations will yield at least $4 trillion in deficit reduction, although she said she wasn’t speaking for everyone. Here’s more of what she told reporters after meeting with President Obama and congressional leaders, via The Hill:
“Even if we didn’t come out of the room with a solution … we came out with a plan of action, an understanding of what we wanted to achieve, a timetable for how to get it done [and] what would spring from those discussions… Each of us had some idea about how we can get this done in a way that instills confidence even as we proceed down the path.”
MSNBC is reporting that Republicans are still very resistant to letting tax cuts for the very rich expire, and that Democrats will still have to make “tough compromises.”
So will the tax break number move from those making $250,000 and over to a million and over? And what about Medicare and Medicaid? I’m not feeling as optimistic as I’d like.
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