Posted on 01/31/2014 8:09:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This appearance by Nancy Pelosi on The Daily Show starts to run off the rails almost immediately. Jon Stewart starts off by asking Pelosi about why people talk about politics rather than policy, to which Pelosi answers by … complaining about Republicans. Stewart doesn’t take the bait, though, and starts pressing Pelosi for answers as to why big-government politicians can’t produce competent government — and gets stunned by her admission that she can’t explain why ObamaCare failed:
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Stewart said that Democrats are then required to make a stronger case. He said that Democratic governance now appears “chaotic” and their execution of legislation appears to “lack efficiency.” When Pelosi again blamed Republicans for this condition, Stewart became even more agitated.
When he asked why it was so difficult to get a company to execute the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchange website “competently,” Pelosi replied, “I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know? How do you not know?” Stewart asked laughing.
To which Nancy Pelosi responded: “It’s not my responsibility.” Hmmm. Who ran the House when the ObamaCare bill passed, with only votes from her party? Who claimed at the time that we couldn’t know how awesome this bill would be until it passed, because you couldn’t expect politicians to actually read a 2800-page bill before they voted on it? Given that this passed entirely on votes from her own party, and with some procedural chicanery thrown in for good measure, does she feel no responsibility at all for the results of this legislation she herself championed?
That’s a pretty good answer to Stewart’s broader point. He cites the ongoing problems at the VA as evidence that there is “clearly something systemic” in government incompetence:
“Do we have a foundational problem? Is there a corruption in the system that needs to be addressed?” Stewart asked. Pelosi went on to detail the issues with bureaucracy and the failure of departments to communicate with each other. “Okay, do something about it,” Pelosi said.
“I was actually going to say that to you,” Stewart interjected.
The systemic problem is the fact that big-government regimes like ObamaCare won’t work because central planning of large economies never work, for reasons laid out by economist F. A. Hayek decades ago in The Road to Serfdom. History has only proven Hayek correct over and over again, while utopians keep insisting that the problem is just the people involved in its implementation. And Hayek predicts why incompetents and bullies end up at the top of those systems, too. Maybe Stewart should read it. It’s far too late for Pelosi.
An example of the “feelgoodism” of the leftist ideology.
Her job was done once she felt good about herself for providing “affordable healthcare for the poor”.
It’s not her responsibility. She didn’t read the bill.
Should have asked her if she knows what’s in the bill she passed yet.
Of course it is. Anything that doesn’t work is a part of the bill she passed without reading
“Pelosi says she is not responsible for Obamacare failure”...roflmto. She is the most INCOMETENT and DELUSIONAL Woman in politics, unbelievable.
Also, I thought that the word "ObamaCare" was verboten, a racist dog-whistle intended to alert the midnight riders of the TEA Party.
IMO, Eyeballs Pelosi is the poster hag for incompetence, wanna bet?
Idiot & what’s up with her giggling like a little girl.
What a total moron this woman is.
Not a big fan of Stewart but at least he asks the questions the lapdogs won’t.
Of course - that's why the Bill-Naming Committee puts such sweet-sounding names on them - so the members don't have to actually READ them.
WOW.
The RATS are in more trouble than I thought.
One of the “Faces of Obamacare” .... in other words, ‘mug shots’. There really should be a ‘wanted poster’ of everybody who is responsible for the crime of inflicting this on the American people.
And she continued. "the poor are so wonderful, I thought we could just make more of them by passing this bill. Then we'd feel even better about ourselves".
....THEIR INTERNAL NUMBERS must really be bad....the more she’s mentioned the better
Exactly
Obamacare is such a loser, RATs are clearly backed against the wall & running scared...
I’m glad the GOP is going to do nothing this election season but hammer them on Ocare..oh wait, they’re pushing amnesty instead.
Boner & gang are worse than this loon.
For the rest of my life I will remember the footage of Pelosi holding that ridiculously over-sized gavel and intentionally walking with that “F You” expression through that crowd of peaceful American protestors.
Pelosi is possibly the person who had the MOST to do with getting that Act passed. Without the House’s maneuvering it would never have become law.
The day that she goes to the grave I will have a celebration in my home that will rival Thanksgiving-Day and the 4th, combined.
You signed a fraudulent document saying he was constitutionally eligible.
You realized that made you legally vulnerable, called it back and issued a new document that said he was eligible, deliberately dropping any reference to the Constitution.
And now you claim no knowledge or culpability?
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