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Nancy Pelosi blames Republicans for nation’s ills
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Posted on 06/08/2010 8:23:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Nancy Pelosi blames Republicans for nation’s ills

By: Simmi Aujla June 8, 2010 10:40 AM EDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking to a friendly audience of progressive activists, was ready to cast blame for the country’s troubles Tuesday morning.

She blamed the exploding national debt on the Bush administration and said Democrats’ push to invest in education, job creation and health care would bring America out of its financial troubles.

“President Obama and the Democratic caucus have saved this country from a financial crisis created under the Bush administration,” Pelosi told the America’s Future Now gathering in Washington.

She blamed Republicans for de-regulating big oil, assuring the receptive crowd that BP would be held accountable for its handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

And she had harsh words for Wall Street, as the House and Senate get set for a final conference committee on a financial reform bill.

“No longer will recklessness on Wall Street be able to cause joblessness on Main Street,” she said. “No longer will those on Wall Street be able to privatize the gain and nationalize the risk, send the bill to the taxpayer if things don’t go their way,” she said.

She said the oil spill crisis highlighted the difference between Republicans and Democrats approach to problem solving.

“It seems to me the choice is clear,” she said. “Democrats want to rein in big oil, the Republicans say no. Democrats wanted to rein in health insurance costs, the Republicans said no. The Democrats are reigning in big banks and the Republicans are saying no.”

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To: Sub-Driver
So the $160 billion deficit the last GOP Congress left you Nancy is why your current projected deficit is 1.6 trillion?

Is anyone still stupid enough to fall for this?

21 posted on 06/08/2010 8:28:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: Sub-Driver
So the $160 billion deficit the last GOP Congress left you Nancy is why your current projected deficit is 1.6 trillion?

Is anyone still stupid enough to fall for this?

22 posted on 06/08/2010 8:28:25 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: Sub-Driver

Republicans made me take that jet and run up expensive bill on it. Republicans made me pass the health care bill so quickly that I didn't have time to read it.

23 posted on 06/08/2010 8:28:28 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: AD from SpringBay
Right on Nancy! It’s only been seventeen months.

Actually 41 months the dems have owned Congress.

24 posted on 06/08/2010 8:28:29 AM PDT by ScottinVA (RIP to the country I love...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Nancy, may you look like Helen Thomas.

Actually, you’ve got a solid start.


25 posted on 06/08/2010 8:28:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

DAMN THAT BUSH!!!


26 posted on 06/08/2010 8:29:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Sub-Driver
Delusional. The Republicans need to show where the country was economically in 2006 when these clowns were originally elected and where we are now. Case closed.
27 posted on 06/08/2010 8:29:10 AM PDT by redangus
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To: Sub-Driver

January 2006 Nancy. Are you taking your meds?


28 posted on 06/08/2010 8:29:14 AM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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To: Fantasywriter

IT’S THAT DAMNABLE BUSH!!!


29 posted on 06/08/2010 8:29:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nancy you ignorant slut. Donkeys control the house, the senate and the oral office. How can it be the GOP’s fault?


30 posted on 06/08/2010 8:29:34 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: listenhillary
BUSH!!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!


31 posted on 06/08/2010 8:30:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Drango

DAMN YOU TO HELL, BUSH!!!!!


32 posted on 06/08/2010 8:30:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Sub-Driver
let me see if I get this straight...

Bush is to blame for 9-11 even though it happened only 8 months into his presidency... but Obama is not to blame for anything, the economy, the spill response... or anything else over a year and a half into his presidency...

...

got it.

33 posted on 06/08/2010 8:31:51 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Sub-Driver

I blame it on the Democrat victory in 2006 on. ...And I’m right. Pelosi is wrong.


34 posted on 06/08/2010 8:32:23 AM PDT by pallis
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To: colonialhk

“Chronic crack use is leading her down the same path to insanity followed by Marion Barry and the rest of these nutbag socialists.”

I don’t think there’s much doubt she’s on something. Crack? I don’t know. If we could institute random drug tests on our DC delegations, we could fix most of the problem right there.


35 posted on 06/08/2010 8:33:36 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Sub-Driver
“President Obama and the Democratic caucus have saved this country from a financial crisis created under the Bush administration,” Pelosi told the America’s Future Now gathering in Washington.

"She's over here, Officers..."


36 posted on 06/08/2010 8:33:53 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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To: Drango
Nancy you ignorant slut. Donkeys control the house, the senate and the oral office. How can it be the GOP’s fault?

Even the terminally stupid have begun to question her sanity.....

37 posted on 06/08/2010 8:34:16 AM PDT by cbkaty (Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy---W Churchill)
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To: reagan_fanatic

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/08/pelosi_heckled_at_dc_event_over_lack_of_federal_funding.html

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is heckled by Code Pink at an event in Washington, D.C.

“We supported Obama, we supported you, now 21 states are begging for money to help us save the community,” a woman screamed at Pelosi.

“You have made your point,” Pelosi said in an attempt to quiet the protesters.

An aide informed her that they are “throwing stuff.”


38 posted on 06/08/2010 8:35:41 AM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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To: Sub-Driver

But didn’t she say the healthcare bill would fix EVERYTHING? Could it be that Nancy is...duplicitous?


39 posted on 06/08/2010 8:36:21 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Lazamataz

I must be doing something right. I’ve finally had a post replied to by the famous and infamous Lazamataz. :)


40 posted on 06/08/2010 8:36:46 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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