Nancy Pelosi To Maddow: Without Passing Healthcare “We May Have Lost More Seats”

Mediaite ^ | 1/19/11 | Matt Schneider

[Libloather]

Nancy Pelosi To Maddow: Without Passing Healthcare “We May Have Lost More Seats”
by Matt Schneider | 1:20 pm, January 19th, 2011

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC last night with Rachel Maddow and vigorously defended the healthcare reform bill that Republicans are intent on repealing. Also when asked, Pelosi agreed that any Republicans in Congress advocating repeal should in fact reject their own government provided health insurance.

When Maddow pressed Pelosi about her defensive strategy against Republicans, Pelosi insisted that making the case to Americans that the reform bill has many benefits and Republicans are trying to “sabotage” them should work. Maddow smartly questioned whether “the effort to sort of take a second stab at selling the virtues of the bill to the public, does that reflect a failure to have done that effectively during the initial debate?” Pelosi said Democrats in the House did not fail in any way, implying that Democrats elsewhere may have dropped that ball.

Maddow and Pelosi agreed that much opposition to the bill actually reflects people who feel the bill didn’t go far enough without having a public option. Yet regardless, Pelosi does not feel this past election was about healthcare reform and instead was about jobs, since “it’s hard to talk about health reform if people don’t have jobs.” Pelosi also declared “if we had not past healthcare reform we may have lost more seats for being ineffective.”

[Libloather]

I just don't know what to say.

[BenLurkin]

. Should Nancy be on a 5150 hold? Maybe someone should inform the local mental health authorities

[KarlInOhio]

Apparently you can get a prescription for lots and lots of medical marijuana for face lifts in California.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Talk about the delusional having access to weapons, it’s much more dangerous to far more people when the delusional have access to legislative power.

[Westbrook]

Breathtakingly delusional.

[jetson]

Crazy is too light of a word to describe old Nancy.

[mc5cents]

I don't either.

[massgopguy]

“Mr. DeMille. I’m ready for my close-up.”

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Madcow and Peloser together at last?.....Dumb and Dumber!

[donhunt]

It’s not just her though. How about all the rest of the Democrats who stand by her and voted her minority leader.
Man, we are in trouble.

[massgopguy]

“Mr. DeMille. I’m ready for my close-up.”

[dragonblustar]

Nancy Pelosi To Maddow: Without Passing Healthcare “We May Have Lost More Seats”

Let them keep dreaming. It will only help is in 2012.

[dragonblustar]

Let them keep dreaming. It will only help is in 2012.

help is

help us

[freekitty]

She is just plain crazy. What she doesn’t realize it is going to catch up with her.

[vpintheak]

Um, Nancy? I think you have that bass-ackwards. You would have RETAINED more seats if you didn’t pass that piece of unconstitutional garbage.

[DJ MacWoW]

Nancy and reality need to have a relationship. It seems they’ve never met.

[crosshairs]

If her constituency didn’t consist primary of moral degenerates, she would have lost her seat too.

[Typical_Whitey]

She is beginng to sound unbalanced.... Is she a registered gun owner??????? just checking...

[RobinOfKingston]

In other words, the trollop of California is saying that democrats are unpopular no matter what they do.

[paulycy]