Posted on 12/11/2014 1:04:01 PM PST by maggief
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent her colleagues a letter Thursday afternoon saying it’s "clear" that House Republicans do not have the votes to pass a $1.1 trillion spending package.
Shortly after coming out against the package in a speech on the House floor, the California Democrat thanked her troops for giving Democrats “leverage” to demand changes.
"This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision," Pelosi wrote, referring to the two Republican amendments that have fueled the Democrats' revolt.
"However you decide to vote in the end, I thank those who continue to give us leverage to improve the bill."
House GOP leaders delayed a vote on the funding package, after Pelosi announced her opposition, going behind closed doors to plan their next move.
Entrenched opposition from the minority Democrats is significant in the "cromnibus" fight because dozens of conservative Republicans are vowing to buck Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and oppose the measure.
GOP leaders had banked on Democrats to bridge the gap, but the policy riders sparked an outcry from the liberals who dominate the caucus. On Thursday, Pelosi joined them in vowing to oppose the package when, or if, it hits the floor.
"This a moral hazard. We're being asked to vote for a moral hazard," Pelosi said, referring to the Dodd-Frank provision that critics say would put taxpayers at risk of another Wall Street bailout.
"It will not have my support," Pelosi said on the House floor.
That position puts Pelosi at rare odds with President Obama, who is supporting the package to fund the government through fiscal 2015 — a division the White House is downplaying.
"The president's respect and affection for Leader Pelosi are no secret," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. "That said, it's clear that we have a difference of opinion here."
so Nancy only hates 2 things about the Bill , well it must be a real Turkey
Let’s get real here and it’s been reported in the past:
“The freakin Senate Intelligence Commitee was apprised of this as it was occuring”.
No one said “Hey, that’s not what we’re about. Stop”
Here are just some examples of what really happened and don’t fool yourself about any lady or grandmother being saintly and sweet.
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
“...on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
“The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.”
The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).
http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/74915-hill-briefed-on-waterboarding-in-2002
See any freakin democrats on that list?
Fk them and their pure as the driven snow and high moral standing.
They approved of it and wondered if we could do more.
Like what? Serve em a birthday cake?
Cuz the sure in the hell wasn’t what they were asking.
None of the other lawmakers briefed raised formal objections. Those lawmakers included former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), former Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-WV), former Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KN).
“Individual lawmakers’ recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support,” the Post added. ‘Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing,’ said Goss, who chaired the House intelligence committee from 1997 to 2004 and then served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006. ‘And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.’”
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pelosi_did_not_object_to_waterboarding_1209.html
There are more articles detailing just who knew and approved of this but, suffice to say if George Bush was such a bastard what does that make Pelosi and Rockefeller?
Dianne did not do her friends any favors and I hope the alternative media, at least, picks up on this.
If the Democrats want to serve as moralists, in hindsight, then let’s put everyone on the same pile of crap they are shoveling.
When GOP leaders are counting on Dem votes to pass an omnicrap bill after an historic blowout election, something ain’t right.
“The president’s respect and affection for Leader Pelosi are no secret,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. “That said, it’s clear that we have a difference of opinion here.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Translated :
Lord Obama’s respect and affection for LeaderPelosi are no secret,” Imperial Court of White House herald and jester , Josh Earnest Josh said Thursday.” That said, it is clear that we are not amused with Pelosi’s opinion.”
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Pelosi will go under the bus very quickly.The Dark Lord has commanded it.
democrats know how to run as a minority party better than the republicans know how to run a majority party.
The Hastert Rule, the operating principle of former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, requires support from a “majority of the majority.”
GOP doesn’t have the votes
Good! Do continuing resolution until February and let the new Congress do its’ job!
wrong thread?
Nope.
I saw her name and wanted to remind everyone just who knew and approved of operations.
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‘The Hill’ is trying to give her the credit that should go to the conservatives who defeated this.
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After all: “The Tea Party Is Dead” is the meme of the year...
An aroused electorate can accomplish miracles.—James Buckley
(signed)Call a recess until January 1st and then come back and take up the task of funding this bloated out-of-control monstrosity of a government again - except by then you will do it from a position of strength instead of with a gun to your heads.
The American People will survive a government "shutdown" for a month or two (or three, or four...). In fact, we would relish it,... nay, we crave it!
P.S. See how easy that would be to do something right for a change!!??
Another budget year and Boehner and McConnell have played it so the Democrats will get everything they want and the GOP looks like a bunch of selfish bumbling fools. Since Lee Atwater died, the GOP has not been able to put together a winning public relations spin on any issue or in response to any opportunity.
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