"I'm trying to save the PLANET Boehner!"
Posted on 09/13/2008 8:31:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 09/12/2008 Pelosi Responds to Boehner Letter On Energy, Economy and Rangel
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter to House Republican Leader John Boehner in response to his disingenuous and inaccurate letter of September 9 on energy, the economy and Chairman Charles Rangel.
Below is a text of the letter:
September 12, 2008
The Honorable John A. Boehner
House Republican Leader
H-204, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Leader Boehner:
It is with great curiosity and concern that I read your letter of September 9, 2008.
It is cause for concern that you and your colleagues in the Republican House Leadership are in denial about the failure of the Bush-Republican Congress to grow the American economy. The record is quite clear that, with your complicity, the George W. Bush Administration now shares with the Administration of George H.W. Bush the worst record on job creation since Herbert Hoover in the 1930s.
It is curious that you would consistently side with the Big Oil companies against the U.S. taxpayers and consumers both on the House floor and during the recent recess.
It is also curious that you characterize the August District Work Period as a paid vacation. Perhaps you are projecting your own use of it as a vacation onto others who spent their time meeting with constituents to hear their views and, I would hope, to spend time with their families.
Your unfair and intemperate attack on one of the most distinguished and beloved Members of the House, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, is curious in light of the number of Republican Members whose ethical behavior has been under serious question and on which you have remained silent. Surely you are aware that Chairman Rangel immediately requested a review of all allegations by the bipartisan Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, and has pledged his full cooperation.
Your letter is an act of desperation that is inconsistent with the facts concerning the state of the economy. Since the Bush Administration took office in January 2001, with a Republican Congress, nearly 3.5 million Americans have lost their jobs, and the unemployment rate has increased from 4.2% to more than 6%. Hundreds of thousands of men and women have exhausted their unemployment insurance. Median household income has decreased, and real wages have remained almost flat. More than 5.5 million more Americans are living in poverty than at the end of the Clinton Administration. That is the record of the Bush economic policies that your Party pledges to continue.
Americans instead want us to go in a New Direction in response to the great harm the Bush Administration’s policies have caused in the economy, energy, national security, housing and historic growth in the deficit.
The American people expect, deserve and need us to work together to grow the economy and create good paying jobs. We accomplished that with enactment of the economic recovery legislation earlier this year, which provided urgent Recovery Rebates to 130 million American families, and is credited with having a beneficial impact on the economy at a critical time. In the days and weeks ahead, I hope we can again agree on another economic recovery initiative that includes:
· Investing in the American infrastructure to create good-paying jobs here at home;
· Assisting Americans in paying for the rising cost of essential energy through LIHEAP;
· Aiding the states to help meet the health care need of millions of Americans;
· Extending unemployment benefits for those who are losing their benefits because of the long-term downturn in the economy;
· Increasing investments in nutrition programs like food stamps to feed the hungry in our country, many of them seniors.
As you know, all of these provisions were proposed earlier this year for the first stimulus package. The need for this second phase of the stimulus is even greater now, and I hope that we can again find bipartisan consensus on these initiatives to serve the needs of the American people while promoting economic growth.
We have demonstrated that we can pass legislation to assist the American people. The strong bipartisan support that won passage of the stimulus bill was also demonstrated in the historic energy law that raised efficiency standards for the first time in three decades and promoted home-grown alternative fuels; the largest increase in college student assistance since the GI bill, and the largest increase in veterans programs in over seven decades. These and other achievements have won strong support from many in your Republican Conference over the past year and a half, if not from the Republican leadership.
I look forward to working with Members of the Republican Conference in support of legislation to serve the American people, and hope that the next weeks of the session will be marked by cooperation and bipartisan efforts rather than by partisanship.
Thank you for your letter.
best regards,
NANCY PELOSI
Speaker of the House
??????? Say what?
"I'm trying to save the PLANET Boehner!"
Does Nancy write for Scrappleface?
Just words, Nancy, just words.
“Assisting Americans in paying for the rising cost of essential energy through LIHEAP; “ That’s why she doesn’t want drilling on the California coast? Look at the Gulf and all the drilling rigs that are shut down due to the hurricane. There’s an old saying about “All your eggs in one basket.” We need more production of our own oil around the country. We need more refinerys around the country. It’s dumb to have them all in one place.
What does her Bill do to get one more barrel of oil??
If you like $4/gal, Thank Congress. If you want $10, Vote Obummer.
Pray for W, Mccuda and Our Troops
As a good general said a few years ago. “Don’t get stuck on stupid.”
Oh, it’s to late for puhlosi she has been there for a long time.
Old Douche Bags never die. They just rot from the inside out.
Old Douche Bags never die. They just rot from the inside out.
Yes She Does! Because That Is The Way The MSM Reports It Day After Day - Night After Night!
It's a heap of lies allright
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Footnote: United States means Democrat tyrants like you.
This sounds like it was written by a 9th grader. What is the matter with this woman?
Democrats want to increase the cost of fuel and provide subsidies to citizens. This keeps them firmly in control of the economy and creates dependency on government handouts.
Republians want to lower the cost of fuel and reduce taxes. This allows the free market to work and citizens to become independent.
Once again a Democrat demonstrates her belief that citizens are incapable of supporting themselves and are reliant upon government benevolence. Except, of course, government is not benevolent and citizens do not want to become slaves to Democrat authoritarians.
Nancy, you can’t stand in the way of every solution the President has proposed and then criticize him for lack of implementation!
You and your co-conspiritors in the Senate seem to believe that you can block and stall every conservative solution offered and then stand back and assign the blame to the President.
Nancy, your idea of “investment” is to bribe the voters with their own money, through tax funded giveaways, instead of letting them keep their money and remain independent.
Nancy, the American people wouldn’t need government assistance, if you had stolen from them in the first place.
The private sector is much more efficient at creating jobs than the government ever will be. But you and your cronies keep insisting on stealing money from the corporations, small businesses, and individuals who are in the best positions to create those jobs and eliminate those needs that you profess to be so concerned about addressing.
Nancy, if you were honestly concerned about healthcare costs and access to healthcare, you would support tort reform, so that the ambulance chasing attorneys no longer add 30% to the cost of healthcare.
Nancy, get out of the way of producing the energy we need today! Don’t embarrass yourself with stories about inefficient, unproven technologies, that have no hope of providing the energy the American people and the American economy need TODAY!
This was most likely not written by Pelosi, but by one of her minions.
However, the minion-writer, knowing Pelosi would want to read and approve it before distribution, wrote it in a language Pelosi could understand.
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