Posted on 01/19/2011 1:37:54 PM PST by Libloather
Nancy Pelosi To Maddow: Without Passing Healthcare We May Have Lost More Seats
by Matt Schneider | 1:20 pm, January 19th, 2011
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC last night with Rachel Maddow and vigorously defended the healthcare reform bill that Republicans are intent on repealing. Also when asked, Pelosi agreed that any Republicans in Congress advocating repeal should in fact reject their own government provided health insurance.
When Maddow pressed Pelosi about her defensive strategy against Republicans, Pelosi insisted that making the case to Americans that the reform bill has many benefits and Republicans are trying to sabotage them should work. Maddow smartly questioned whether the effort to sort of take a second stab at selling the virtues of the bill to the public, does that reflect a failure to have done that effectively during the initial debate? Pelosi said Democrats in the House did not fail in any way, implying that Democrats elsewhere may have dropped that ball.
Maddow and Pelosi agreed that much opposition to the bill actually reflects people who feel the bill didnt go far enough without having a public option. Yet regardless, Pelosi does not feel this past election was about healthcare reform and instead was about jobs, since its hard to talk about health reform if people dont have jobs. Pelosi also declared if we had not past healthcare reform we may have lost more seats for being ineffective.
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# 1 Nitwit
I think Miss Nancy should be committed for a 72 hour psychiatric observation and evaluation. Maybe she can share a room with James Fuller.
Poor girl has lost it. She needs help and a room without sharp objects or hard surfaces.
wow. just wow.
Wonder if California has involuntary commitment to mental institution.
Holy Christ this woman is delusional!
A general understanding of the English language should be required before journalists are allowed to write crap.
Pelosi is absolutely secure in the knowledge that her constituency will either never hear her outrageous lies, won’t understand them, or won’t care.
Was she sleeping all during November?
Did she get the remote control from Adam Sandler and Fast Forward through the last few months?
whaddya know....those peepers of hers ARE due to peyote use and not bad plastic surgery after all....
Well, Nanzi, if you want to “retain” even more seats in 2012 I recommend hitting the gun-control issue as hard as you did 0-Commie Care.
How about people that elected them and put them in office? I agree with you, the country is in trouble. Frankly, I think it's impossible to coexist with these people. The Jared Loughners are in charge of the Democrat Party and they have the extinction of America as their goal.
Why should they reject their employer-provided healthcare? What a pair of dimwits Maddow and Pelosi are.
The Stimulus bill may have been the spark that set off Rick Santelli into his Tea Party rant. However, the explosion of the TEA PARTY as a political force is squarely attributed to Obamacare. If the dems didnt go for forcing healthcare, the TEA PARTY would not exist as it does today. The passing of Obamacare and the subsequent creation of the TEA PARTY is what defeated the dems.
Pelosi’s version of history, like most of her other views, is ass backwards.
Probably...She is in SERIOUSLY self-delusional Denial......
Just say what liberals always say. The voters are stupid and don’t know that socialism is good for them. They need to be controlled and oppressed and don’t know it because the are stupid.
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