Posted on 02/04/2009 9:16:00 PM PST by SmithL
The drama over President Obama's pricey stimulus package has put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at center stage. And when the curtain comes down on the final plan, the reviews may come to this: Did she play the uniter or the divider?
Pelosi, who has consistently talked about working across the aisle, led the charge last week as the initial $819 billion version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act emerged from the House - approved without a single Republican vote.
And Republicans managed what some had thought impossible: a show of unity and steely resistance to the speaker little more than a week after the popular Democratic president took the oath of office.
Fired up by a Rush Limbaugh-led charge against what they called a "Pelosi-Reid" pork-laden package, GOP leaders took to the airwaves and the blogs to lambaste items such as $335 million in funding for education against sexually transmitted diseases and a makeover of the National Mall. They talked up the need for more tax relief, which they said would bolster the economy and howled that they were shut out of the process.
"The Republicans who seemed so lost and so in disarray all of a sudden grasped the upper hand," says Hoover Institution research fellow Bill Whalen. "They've managed to change the focus from what the package will do to what's in the package - waste and pork."
With new Gallup polls showing that only 38 percent of Americans support the plan without major changes - and nearly 80 percent believe the current plan will not stimulate the economy enough - it now appears the president "is slowly losing the high ground on this," he said.
"Speaker Pelosi lost round one in the message war,"
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Enough with this financial blackmail of the taxpayers.
The economy is bad and it’s going to get a whole lot worse. Neither Obama or Congress or anyone can change that no matter how much fantasy money they throw at it.
No more TARP! No more government meddling of any kind!
Let us go down with some dignity and then pick ourselves up again.
Pelosi isn't that smart, she's pure partisan.
Am I imaginging it or are both her eyeballs different colors, thats bizzare.
But so are most democrats esp now that its been proven that LIBERALISM is a form of MENTAL DISEASE!!
This nut case has no idea how much $1 billion dollars is.
We lose 500 million jobs every week in the US. Ah!!! OK.
Only in California. If she has any brains at all she will be sitting on them.
This nut case has no idea how much $1 billion dollars is.
We lose 500 million jobs every month in the US. Ah!!! OK.
Only in California. If she has any brains at all she will be sitting on them.
An incremental build up of:
Appearing Holy but denying God's Power and Will
Thinking man's way is correct, rejecting God
Abortion
Promiscuity
Adultery
Apathy
High divorce rate
Perverting what God attempts to join together (One male one female)
Irresponsibility
Loving money more than anything else
Self righteous, narcissistic do gooders who are in the charity business strictly for the purpose of stroking their egos and worshiping their own vanity
etc...
Actually it was a rhetorical question and I ‘forgot’ to add the /s/.......
"The Republicans who seemed so lost and so in disarray all of a sudden grasped the upper hand," says Hoover Institution research fellow Bill Whalen. "They've managed to change the focus from what the package will do to what's in the package - waste and pork."
I say let That One, Pelose and Reid own this one. They’ll see soon enough whether or not ‘the people’ get behind them.
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