During the “debate” over Obama care Nancy Pelosi infamously said “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.” Never have truer words been spoken. OK, that is an exaggeration. Lots of people have said truer things, but I don’t think anyone has said anything quite so stupid while at the same time being so amazingly prophetic.
Well, it looks like now that the bill has been passed, we are finding out more and more about what an absolute disaster this bill is going to be. It seems that a loophole would allow middle-class families to receive a provision of Obama care for free.
“Having the respect of your constituents is fundamental for a member of Congress. In light of Anthony Weiner’s offensive behavior online, he should resign,” Pennsylvania Rep Allyson Schwartz, a member of the party (democrat) campaign committee’s leadership, said in a statement that was quickly followed by similar expressions from other Democrats.
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By day’s end Wednesday, at least six House Democrats had called for Weiner to step down.
Schwartz was the first, and politically the most significant because of her position as a senior leader on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
I certainly was a bit premature about this and I stand here with hat in hand. But past indiscretions by democrat vs. Republican has nearly always been harder on the Republican, in both the media and the court of public opinion.I refer back to a previous post where I compared a Republican politician and the outcome of his indiscretions vs. a sitting President and his tryst in the Oval Office.
Nancy Pelosi is a nit-wit, just no two ways about it. My blogger-in-arms, Donald, over at American Power begs to differ about whether Pelosi is a nit-wit and he makes a valid point.But I still think they only place she could ever get elected is in a city like San Francisco and they tend to elect folks that are a little, um, different, shall we say. So how about knucklehead?
The other day Pelosi gave a speech at Tufts University discussing the current political environment. This is a short excerpt.
At the 25 second point Pelosi said:
“To my Republican friends, take back your party so that it doesn’t matter so much who wins the election because we have shared values.”