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Pelosi: Democrats in Congress are in a battle for the very soul of our nation!
email | 03/22/2005 | Nancy Pelosi

Posted on 03/23/2005 2:49:53 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Democrats in Congress are in a battle for the very soul of our nation with Republicans whose arrogance and abuse of power have made a mockery of Congress. As House Democratic Leader, I should know.

We must ask ourselves, do we want to adopt corruption, indifference to suffering, and contempt for democracy as American values? Will we allow the progress America has made over the past five decades under Democratic leadership to be erased in a few short years by an extreme right-wing Congress run amuck?

The Republicans in the House of Representatives, Senate, and White House are awash in scandals involving everything from bribery and intimidation on the House floor to vicious attacks on America's most vulnerable. Are these the "moral values" that the Republicans like to crow about?

They are not my moral values.

This morning, my fellow House Democrats and I signed the Pact for Progress, a simple statement of unity in defense of the American ideals and democracy we cherish. I ask you to join me today as a Citizen Co-sponsor of this Pact in a strong statement that we will not stand by as Republicans try to turn back the clock on all that America has accomplished as a nation:

http://www.democraticaction.org/pact

The Republicans' arrogance and abuse of power have risen to new heights in this 109th Congress. Never before has the institution of the House of Representatives -- which is supposed to represent all of the American people -- been used so cynically by one party to protect its own power.

Here are just a few examples of Republicans' abuse of power...

The Assault on Social Security. Social Security is the most popular, most successful government program in history, and now the Republicans are attempting to turn this cornerstone of the New Deal into a raw deal for millions of Americans by privatizing it, which would slash benefits by more than 40 percent while adding trillions to the debt. A new study from Yale University informs us that 71% of recipients would likely lose out through privatization, and yet Republicans charge on without a care.

A Reverse Robin Hood Budget. President Bush and House Republicans are pushing a budget that will shortchange housing, education, and veterans, while heaping even more tax cuts on the extremely wealthy and handing out sacred lands that belong to all of us as prizes to their political contributors in the oil industry. Nowhere is our government's morality tested more starkly than in the hard numbers of the federal budget, and this year's proposal fails this test miserably.

http://www.democraticaction.org/pact

The Gutting of Medicaid. President Bush and House Republicans have targeted the social program providing the most basic health care to struggling Americans, with a staggering $40 billion cut that will have repercussions for virtually every state in the union. The Republicans hope to dismantle our great social contracts, destroy our very moral fabric, and make America into a country that leaves its most vulnerable destitute -- even as tax giveaways for the super rich are given the highest priority.

Leading an Unethical Government. Judging by the steady stream of scandals revolving around Republican House Leader Tom DeLay, involving everything from bribes and intimidation on the House floor to junkets paid for with millions in extorted casino money, ethics must somehow be the opposite of moral values. This comes after three separate ethical condemnations last year and the looming threat of indictment for shady corporate fundraising in Texas. But rather than curtail his corruption or humble himself, Tom DeLay and his loyal rubberstamps in Congress have simply rigged the ethics rules to protect him and purged from the Ethics Committee the Chairman, Members and staff who held him accountable last year. The American people do not conduct their lives in an ethical vacuum, and our Representatives should not either.

These are not my moral values and I am sure they aren't yours either. In fact, they're an affront to the values of tens of millions of Americans who believe their government should work for all -- not just the well connected and the very wealthy. We are for progress, we are for REAL reform, and we will not tolerate attempts to turn back the clock on our beloved country and our democracy

In the last Congress, House Republicans became the most arrogant, unethical and corrupt majority in modern Congressional history. Tragically, this profoundly immoral behavior is continuing without a pause in the first few months of this Congress.

Please be a Citizen Co-sponsor for the Pact for Progress and stand with us:

http://www.democraticaction.org/pact

Thank you so much, and I look forward to fighting along side you.

Sincerely,

Nancy Pelosi Democratic Leader


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To: Jim Robinson
Ironic that she stole that quote from Rush. That's the line he's been using since "The Way Things Oughtta Be."
We are in a battle for the soul of America.

Unfortunately, Pelosi is too blinded by her desire for Statism to see that the people have finally risen up and are beginning to return fire after being attached for decades. We were not the ones to begin this war. But end it we will. Victoriously.
41 posted on 03/23/2005 3:01:00 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Jim Robinson

These are not my moral values...

 

Of course they aren't Nancy. You and your fellow travelers have no moral values to begin with.

Oh, and you're ugly too.


42 posted on 03/23/2005 3:01:18 PM PST by Fintan (Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
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To: Bernard Marx

Perhaps she's amphibian in nature and can rest underwater.
She can wax poetic about the joys of having no eyelids.


43 posted on 03/23/2005 3:01:43 PM PST by Darksheare (Gravity - Fear = SPLAT!)
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To: Jim Robinson

As Savage says: Soulless Ghouls


44 posted on 03/23/2005 3:02:01 PM PST by Ben Chad
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To: Jim Robinson
Slouching and babbling to irrelevancy.

SanFranNan will turn off any thinking American.

45 posted on 03/23/2005 3:02:09 PM PST by TUX (Domino effect)
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To: Echo Talon
OUCH!

LOL

46 posted on 03/23/2005 3:03:10 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Jim Robinson

This woman is an absolute delusional loon.


47 posted on 03/23/2005 3:03:23 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Blurblogger

"woe unto them who say evil is good, and good, evil."

Perfect! The Democrats are without a doubt the most hypocritical entity in America. What's more they are the most destructive force in America. Like Satan, they take bits of the truth and mix it with lies to confuse, and weaken the resolve and spirit of their victims. Sound strong?, I don't care, I believe it.


48 posted on 03/23/2005 3:03:52 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Somebody pulled her face too tight!


49 posted on 03/23/2005 3:04:09 PM PST by kdot
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To: Jim Robinson

Unfortunately for Nancy, we all remember the way Tip O'Neill and his boys ran roughshod over the Republicans and Bob Michel for years. Too bad for her that she's now up against a Republican Majority Leader who's at least as ruthless as Tip was.


50 posted on 03/23/2005 3:04:29 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (Mindless BushBot)
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To: Jim Robinson
Pelosi is the most shameless, arrogant, demagogue in Washington. She is no less than a snake oil salesman who would sell her mother's soul for political power. When I see something like this it makes me very angry that such lies are allowed to percolate without challenge from the MSM. All of these dogs lying together in this cesspool of big government, big media slime are going to wake up one day and see that the food bag has been cut off. They will fade into mist like the Wicked Witch under a bucket of water. GRRRR!
51 posted on 03/23/2005 3:04:29 PM PST by groanup (vhat have you done vhit moose and squirrel?)
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To: Jim Robinson
...the progress America has made over the past five decades under Democratic leadership...

Let's see...

The AIDS epedimic, multigenerational welfare dependency, rising teen pregnancy and illegitimacy, rampant electronic pornography, the dumbing down of America, a fifty percent divorce rate, high taxes, homosexual marriage, religions in schism, reality TV, kids suspended from school for plastic butter knives, shooting sprees in our schools, less Godliness everywhere.

Yep, real progress there, lady.

52 posted on 03/23/2005 3:05:19 PM PST by polymuser
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To: Jim Robinson
A battle for the soul....





Perhaps the Dems are looking for that which they have already lost....
53 posted on 03/23/2005 3:06:19 PM PST by StoneGiant
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To: nopardons
OUCH!

LOL

Yea its funny now, it wasnt then! reminds me of a Jerry Lee Lewis song...
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire
:D

54 posted on 03/23/2005 3:08:50 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Jim Robinson
Nancy is confused about the body parts that reflects her Democrat constituency...

It's not the soul......she was confused, because it rhymes with the actual part: A$$hole..

Semper Fi
55 posted on 03/23/2005 3:08:54 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well, I just lost an argument/bet with a fellow realist, that the lefties would have to realize how irrational they are by 2008. They are just shifting into a higher gear of froth and frenzy; it has to be too late already to stop the locomotive.

I can't imagine our nation caring about her right to live, even though she is obviously brain-dead. Thanks for the post.


56 posted on 03/23/2005 3:09:41 PM PST by Mother Goose
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To: Jim Robinson

George Bush, the Republicans, the Federalist Society, and the VRWC are "Rolling Back the 20th Century".


57 posted on 03/23/2005 3:09:58 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Hurrah!


58 posted on 03/23/2005 3:11:27 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Echo Talon

"Nancy would you please STFU..."

No, No, let this nutter alienate even *more* voters!
Just like Dean. Let these kooks speak. Let them be heard.

This kind of nutjob rhetoric is sinking the democratic party. The more extreme they get the better.

I know it sounds crazy but its working. They have no idea it's their *own fault*


59 posted on 03/23/2005 3:11:45 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Jim Robinson
If some murderer had confessed to raping and then killing twelve people, but there was some due process flaw in his conviction, the left would decry his execution as a crime.

But this innocent woman can be killed, and no one correct any error by the the Florida courts.

60 posted on 03/23/2005 3:14:09 PM PST by Montfort (The Democrat Party -- The Party of Death)
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