Nancy Pelosi's Trillion Dollar Ego

The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours ^ | 10/01/08 | Winged Hussar 1683

[Winged Hussar]

Do Democrats still want to ask if Sarah Palin is ready to lead???

This Monday, the stock market lost a trillion dollars in market capitalization after the House of Representatives rejected bipartisan legislation to restore the flow of credit upon which American business depends. Republican and Democratic leaders had both worked to get what they expected to be enough votes from their respective parties to pass the legislation, even though many Representatives have valid misgivings about the expenditure of $700 billion to bail out private businesses. Many of their constituents do as well, and they told their Representatives. In other words, Republican and Democratic leaders had to work hard to overcome this constituent-side pressure.

Finally, all was ready. Democrats and Republicans had agreed on bipartisan legislation, and they thought they had enough votes to pass it. Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the individual who is but two heartbeats away from the Presidency, said this:

Madam Speaker, when was the last time someone asked you for $700bn?

It is a number that is staggering, but tells us only the costs of the Bush administration's failed economic policies: policies built on budgetary recklessness, on an anything-goes mentality, with no regulation, no supervision, and no discipline in the system.

Speaker Pelosi, a woman in late middle age who supposedly has the character and maturity that come with a lifetime of experience in working with other people, began her speech by slapping the Republicans who had agreed to support the legislation despite their misgivings. She then brings "Democrats" into the picture at a time when both parties have to come together to solve a problem.

[Winged Hussar]

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The article concludes,

Today we will act to avert this crisis, but informed by our experience of the past eight years, with the failed economic leadership that has left us less capable of meeting the challenges of the future.

We choose a different path. In the new year, with a new Congress and a new president, we will break free with a failed past and take America in a new direction to a better future.

Perhaps that "new Congress" would be better off without Nancy Pelosi, who not only succeeded in blowing as much market capitalization in a single day as Al Qaida did on 9/11, but who cited "the failed economic leadership that has left us less capable of meeting the challenges of the future." That failed economic leadership includes the most powerful member and purported leader of the House of Representatives, and this is one case in which we agree with Obama/Biden that "change" might really be a good idea.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Speaker Pelosi, a woman in late middle age...

Elderly. Go ahead, say it. ;)

[kellynla]

Pelousy will be replaced as Speaker next session of congress, her “15 mins” will be up and she can go back to San Francissyco and lay her line of BS on the girly-boys back there.

[marron]

no regulation, no supervision

Regulations created the mess, and the supervisors gamed the regulations to make themselves incredibly wealthy.

They made Enron look like amateurs.

The "supervision" have names. We should name them at every opportunity. And they have congressmen and senators protecting them for hire. We should name them too.

[mass55th]

There needs to be a regulation on Pelosi’s handing over PAC money to her husband’s company for the past 10 years.