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.
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Not bad, not bad at all. I do like your idea of moving whole departments out of the D.C. area. I can imagine lot’s of heads exploding. From the drones to the Real Estate Agents.
Next let’s require each state to provide state of the art teleconference centers for their Senators and Representatives so they can stay at home in their districts and be available to their constituents instead of hiding in D.C. most of the year.
Watch the demeanor of Pelosi, watch the body language, her mouth, fidgeting hands, her diversionary responses which clearly indicated she wanted to end the topic.
This woman is fraud, a phony and a poser.
What is ANY Democrat responsible for? Ever?
““People” in California reelect and reelect this idiot. What does this ay about those “people”?”
Wrong! The “people of her district” which is in San Francisco reelect her. Most of California outside SF and LA is a RED STATE! Just like the “people” of New York City control the politics for the rest of that state, which is also RED.
Big goverenment always promotes incompetence....that useful idiots like Jon Stewart haven’t figured it out yet is proof that their are blissully ignorent and therefore incompetent themselves.
I LOVE your ideas!!
The rats are scared. Even Dirty Harry is now worried he will lose his Senate Majority leader spot. He is distancing himself from Obama/Obamacare.
Obama, Dirty Harry and Nancy Pelosi are THE MOST RESPONSIBLE for this atrocity of a law. They were the ones that forced this thing through the congress. They used every dirty trick they could pull to make it pass.
THEY OWN IT, now choke on it.
pelosi = crazy beach
Wow. It’s like watching a fireman at a fire who says, “You know, somebody should try to put out that fire.”
don’t worry....the gop-e will bail them out!
The democrats will be pushing her to retire very soon. In all seriousness, she is loosing her mental abilities and is turning the corner into dementia. Just listen to her and it is apparent. This is the new worst kept secret in Washington.
Caaaarap!!!
I lay the blame for Nancy Pelosi and Obama squarely in the lap of Jon Stewart himself!
Jon Stewart is responsible for a lot of LIVs voting democrat what with his 10 years of constantly berating Republicans and biased support of democrats.
He made voting democrat/voting against Republicans “cool” and “trendy”. Screw him. I hope somehow he gets seriously burned for it.
So Stewart, this is the logical outcome of your political ideology. Suck it.
OH NO...never, please.
One more thing.
Seal our borders and start deporting.
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