Is Pelosi Panicking? Leaked Memo Lashes Out at Republicans

Human Events ^ | 29 January 09 | Connie Hair

[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:

[Obadiah]

...as in “anal leakage” Olestra???

[w1andsodidwe]

Wow. Not a single economist left who isn't a Marxist redistributionist. Who'da thunk it?

Reminds me of the last time I watch CBS News with Dan Rather (probably sometime in the late 80's). He made the statement "All Economists agree that Reagonomics does not work."

I saw no evidence that he had polled all economists in the US, let alone the world, therefore he was lying. But never again in my house.

[Tallguy]

I love this part:

* The national debt has almost doubled in the last eight years; the debt borrowed from foreign countries has tripled.

Their bill will add almost a trillion dollars directly onto the national debt in 1 jump, and they're saying GWB was irresponsible?

And which foreign investors, I wonder, are going to buy this debt? What I'm seeing & reading indicates that China is starting it's own national re-investment program. Who else is going to have that kinda bailout cash?

[Natural Law]

"Try reading the Constitution, and then, for good measure, the Federalist Papers."

Throw in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the Anti-Federalist Papers for good measure.

[reader25]

Nancy Pelosi needs to check her history. It was the Republicans that forced Clinton to sign legislation to balance budget, cut Welfare, create jobs in the 1990’s. This and lower taxes created the budget surplus, not Congress. When will these idiots learn that DC is not the center of the universe and their jobs exist at the will of the people of this nation. The only thing this stimulus does is to pay off their special interest groups for support. It does nothing to create meaningful jobs. If you look at the spending closely most of goes back to government for their infrastructure. They don't give a S**t about the American citizen as long as they maintain their hold on power. Makes me sick!

[Turbo Pig]

A hidden story here is that this vote was 14 votes away from failing. That’s almost as many Dems that voted against it. Amazing!

I heard on the radio this morning that some, if not all of the Dems voted against it because it wasn't aggressive enough in the government spending Dept. In other words it wasn't big enough, or liberal enough. I am not sure that they should be congratulated for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

[TomGuy]

Once again this week, as another Democratic President and Democratic Congress worked to address historic deficits and recession brought on by Republican mismanagement of the economy, not a single Republican voted for the legislation. There's a pattern here of Republican economic mismanagement and Democrats stepping up to do what's needed for the good of the country while Republicans acted in a partisan and irresponsible manner.

If the Republican fail to get ahead of this PR nightmare, they will end up being the losers anyway.

[pabianice]

What’s the outlook for Repub support for Porkulus in the Senate?

[prismsinc]

MSM spin The nay Dems were “Blue-Dog”

[MainFrame65]

There is a reason that the very first entry course to the study of economics - “ECON-101”, or the equivalent - is Macro Economics, which is entirely Keynesian. It considers spending by government and in the private sector to be completely equal in effect, and further, because it is based on aggregate measurements, it absolutely fails to consider the motivations and incentives of individuals and firms that make up those aggregates.

MacroEcon might be a reasonable place to start - after all, it does begin the process of analytical modeling using equations and graphs, which leads to an easier grasp of the data. But it is a TERRIBLE place to stop, because it offers only a false confidence in its superficial explanation of the effects of various economic policies.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“If they had the power, there is no doubt in my mind that they would implement ‘the final solution’ for ‘the Republican problem’.”

What makes you think they won’t have the power? The Germans in 1933 couldn’t have imagined what was to come either.

[EdReform]

"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."

She's either a pathological liar or lives in a very well sealed vacuum.

Hard to tell which, but she's definetly wrong:

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[2nd amendment mama]

More than 200 Economists disagree with Pelosi & Obama

[brytlea]

And those are her good points. Frankly, we should start ridiculing people who elect folks like Pelosi and Franks.

[redreno]

[tgusa]

precisely

[whodathunkit]

Wow. Not a single economist left who isn't a Marxist redistributionist. Who'da thunk it?

Not even I :)

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...

[jmcenanly]

Why would you need to repeat talking points in an internal memo? Do they normally use campaign literature for inter-office communication?

[Badeye]

Worth noting the so called ‘blue dog democrats’ voted with Pelosi almost 100% of the time in the last congress.

That makes them a ‘media myth’ in my opinion.