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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: sickoflibs
Will Chris Matthews do a special on this left hatred against Pelosi like he is doing one on the Tea Party (called Rise of the NEW Right)?

Good one sickoflibs - laughing at the thought... Matthews is incapable of being unbiased.

81 posted on 06/08/2010 10:20:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: GOPJ

Actually in that case it was left hate against Israel.


82 posted on 06/08/2010 10:24:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: Sub-Driver
Most of us want to reign in Nancy Pelosi and her cronies!

Spend, spend, spend and blame it on George Bush (& Republicans). She thinks we are sooooo STUPID!

83 posted on 06/08/2010 10:27:03 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: sickoflibs

We know the left hates Israel - because dems talk to us. Is it that Jews don’t know because dems know what Jews look like and they’re not “real” with them? It is odd....


84 posted on 06/08/2010 10:31:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Sub-Driver

“She blamed the exploding national debt on the Bush administration”.....

News flash to Nan!.....Your excuses are beyond lame. Do you hear that train coming?....I’ts headed straight for you and your commie buddies!


85 posted on 06/08/2010 10:35:22 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

Democraps are for “job creation”.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, now THAT is funny. They are doing SO well at it.

(snort) NOT!


86 posted on 06/08/2010 10:35:25 AM PDT by bergmeid (Fumigate Washington NOW)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Pelosis is swamp gas!


87 posted on 06/08/2010 10:35:55 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

George Washington’s fault!.....


88 posted on 06/08/2010 10:36:45 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne
What concerns me is all this hatred on the left disrupting Pelosi’s Health reform pitch.

What makes this more fun for me is the memory of GWB dividing the GOP with amnesty. Can Pelosi, Obama, etc. divide the Dems that much?

89 posted on 06/08/2010 1:16:30 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

What bothers me about issues like this, is that all the Dems are for it. Then you have the titular head of the party (supposedly) on our side hawking the same nonsense.

Then people get upset because we call the guy a RINO.

Well, if not a RINO, we still don’t need friends like that.

And I’m sticking with RINO thank you very much. ;-)


90 posted on 06/08/2010 1:25:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: DoughtyOne

I didn’t mean the amnesty issue itself. I was talking about leftists throwing things (literally) at Nancy over health care issues. I guess they would call Pelosi a DINO.


91 posted on 06/08/2010 1:48:14 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Well sorry to address something you hadn’t intended. No, Pelosi couldn’t do something like this. Their party is on the same page. Ours isn’t.


92 posted on 06/08/2010 1:52:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: DoughtyOne
No apology needed, in fact you probably know I agree with you that certain GOP characters like GWB and McCain can be sacrosanct, and therefore dangerous to criticize even when they do the most outrageous things.


93 posted on 06/08/2010 2:38:18 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw; Tigerized; PLD; TwelveOfTwenty

You’re both so right. I just dug this up from the pre-2008 election:

How Much More Change Can We Stand?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100710/posts

I didn’t write this. Freeper PLD’s friend wrote it - I just did a little brush-up on it.


94 posted on 06/08/2010 5:53:48 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Sub-Driver
Democrats want to rein in big oil, the Republicans say no.

U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

Democrats wanted to rein in health insurance costs, the Republicans said no.

Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already

The Democrats are reigning in big banks and the Republicans are saying no.

Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown

95 posted on 06/08/2010 6:08:26 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: Fantasywriter; MNJohnnie

Did you mention breasts?


96 posted on 06/09/2010 6:26:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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