Posted on 01/29/2009 7:57:16 AM PST by Clinton's a liar
This is a memo from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Democratic members sent after the stimulus vote yesterday. Pelosi is apparently panicked at Republicans’ success in uniting against her hyperpartisan actions in shutting them out of the formulation of the stimulus bill and in peeling nearly a dozen Dems off to vote in opposition.
Here is the full text of the memo leaked to HUMAN EVENTS this morning.
Memo
To: Interested Parties
From: Brendan Daly
Re: The Republican Problem
Date: January 29, 2009
The House Republican Leadership put its Members in another politically untenable position yesterday: trying to reclaim the mantle of lower taxes and small government -- at the exact time when economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term.
So yesterday, while we are facing the greatest economic crisis in decades, Republican House Members ended up voting unanimously against:
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
“Why should Republicans provide them with cover? If Pelosi thinks her Democrat pork bill is such a great idea, why does she care what Republicans think?”
Excellent questions.
“* The national debt has almost doubled in the last eight years; the debt borrowed from foreign countries has tripled.”
And so of course Geithner has come out after the ChiComs, who may now AVOID our next treasuries auction next week. Way to go, 0!
Gold has jumped nearly $75 in 1 week. http://www.kitco.com/
“Once they create economic slaves of the American people, they’ll begin their agenda of dismantling our other liberties.”
Oh, 0 is going to appoint justices that will simply legislate from the bench to remove our liberties and dismantle the US. We will fall under the UN.
CRA - check
sub-prime mortgages - check
lawsuit argued by 0bama for ACORN - check
ACORN voter fraud begins - check
Fannie & Freddie relax standards - check
derivatives and other Wall St. greed kicks in - check
Orchestrated collapse occurs 6 weeks prior to American election.
Now we just wait for the complete control of the....
media - check
economy - check
defense - TBD
law - TBD
“borrowing from SS to cover debts is not a surplus...it’s like check kiting.”
...or by using SS dollars to ‘fight’ in Bosnia.
San Francisco would elect Adolf Hitler if he ran as a Democrat.
“Every time I see Pelosi on the news she has that silly grin.”
She’s been tucked and lifted and Botoxed so extensively that she is incapable of any other facial expression.
Don’t post drunk. It just makes you look like you don’t know what you are talking about.
I mean you sound like a European when you talk like that. Sleep it off, tiger.
Disagree with your assesment.
Infrastructure spending can be important to the right degree, for instance, Ike’s Interstate Highway bill, as opposed to FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s great society.
The difference is in the degree and the outcome.
Goverment spending can work, partially, as long as the ultimate outcome is not increasing government itself.
In the end, free enterprise must have the incentives to thrive, lest we all become bean pickers and hamburger flippers.
Or, take another example of spending your way out of debt without taking any more in..... pay all of your utility bills with credit cards, take the money you save on utility bills and use it on worthless "investments" like lotto tickets, and Obama Commemerative coins, (or if you're the gov't spend it on ACORN & welfare). Be sure to pay the absolute minimum balance each month... sell some of your Obie Coins if necassary, to make the payments.
Continue until you reach your credit limit... then just get another credit card and do a balance transfer. Repeat as necassary.... let me know how that works out for you. When things get real bad, take a 2nd or 3rd mortgage out on your house. Don't change any spending habits unless its to borrow more and spend more (remember you are working toward prosperity!!!!). Of course, you can mimic the gov't a step further and write checks that aren't based on anything (similar to the FED's obsession with printing money).
If you think those policies are so great I've got some ocean property in Reno I need to sell.... and no, I don't take personal checks.
There are not a few people that think trying to balance the budget in the mid 1930’s prolonged the Depression.
What are you talking about? "Balanced budgets" were the last thing on anyone's mind back in the '30s. The problem was NOT "balancing the budget". The problem was massive governmental intervention that sharply prolonged the Depression. Roosevelt and his cronies were economic idiots, and their efforts showed well during that agonizing decade. It took Hitler to pull us out of the doldrums.
To emphasize this point, let me remind you that at no point in the depression, from it's inception to our entry into the war, did unemployment fall below 14%. Not one month. How's that for the success for the success of the C's and the WPA?
For the GOP to take an ideological tack that is the wrong economic tack at this point could be bad for the US and bad for the GOP (as it was in the 1930’s and 1940’s).
Given the fact that the CPUSA Democratic party has an enormous Ministry of Propaganda (masquerading as the mainstream press) that FDR never had, you may have a point here. We'll just have to hope the alternative press works to our advantage this time around, though.
We'll see.
I support the theory, but right now Keynesian economics is the right move. The nuance of wanting to avoid wasteful spending and spending period is definitely lost on voters.
Huh? Keynesian economics still has adherents today?!? Nuance? Listen - these buffoons in office now, and the ones that preceded them, have given us a legacy of unbridled debt for as far as the eye can see. And these guys are just getting started. You think it's gonna end with this? If you do, I have a controlling interest in a large bridge you may be interested in purchasing....
Unless a way is found to fully repudiate that debt (and I'll leave that to your vivid imagination on how it can possibly be achieved), we will NEVER get out of this hole. Not us, not our kids, not our grandkids. This is the albatross that will drag this economy, this nation, and it's inhabitants, to the bottom of the sea.
You have no idea how much I fear for the future of this nation, and indeed, the Free World.
Moreover, as much as tax cuts sound like a good idea, the possibility that they would be spent (thus stimulating consumption and growth) as opposed to saved is a not 100% clear.
And what's the mechanism that's so desirable in this leviathan pork barrel? What do they hope to achieve with this, and how will they do it? What's the probability that this money will be spent in the most productive manner?
Here's a hint: Look at how the first part of the "bailout" package went, compared to what they said they were going to do, and then get back to me.
In the final analysis, it's our money, and we should be able to spend it as we see fit. After doing so for 200+ years, I don't really think the modus operendi will change.
If there had been any doubt the bill would be passed, I doubt that the GOP would have managed unanimity. On the other hand, the message sent is both good and bad. It is good that the GOP is sticking to its principles. It is bad that at present the message was one of blocking as opposed to coming up with alternative solutions.
First off, the Dems completely shut out the GOP in formulating this "bill" (well, actually "bill of goods"). For public consumption, ideas were bandied about, but the Republicans did not offer up a competing package because that's not the way they felt the problem should be approached!
Given that, the unanimous repudiation of this catastrophe can only be called good.
As for Pelosi - she is what she is. I don't feel the need to write that type of language here.
Heaven forfend - spare us any language or visuals that will give us nightmares!
CA....
And I bit like the 70’s when the brain-dead called Jimmy Carter,”J.C.”
“I wish she’d slip on some ice somewhere and knock some sense into herself.”
She has nothing upstairs left to knock any sense into.
Thanks for getting this story. It was nice to meet you at the counterprotest a couple of weeks ago.
Couldn’t be more wrong.
That was a typo. It was supposed to read
“The Kenyan's economics is the right move”
Don’t forget that when a Republican tries to freeze spending from one year to another, or simply cut the rate of annual increase (say, from 6% to 3%) rather than agree to the annual baseline budgeting hike, it is called a “Draconian Cut” by ty opposition.
People need quit worrying about “American Idol” and remember the “American Ideal”.
“economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term.”
A complete and utter LIE:
Talking points. A financial crisis, and this woman offers us talking points.
Democrats are stuck in power, but I keep wondering how long Pelosi will last. She comes off as having Sheila Jackson Lee’s intellect, and Reid doesn’t look that much better.
Pelosi, the power mad ‘Blago of the House’ not only stiff armed Republicans, she also stiff armed her own ranking members.
That's from "All in the Family." It was produced by Rob Reiner. He was a hard core lefty socialist, just like you!
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