Like Marie Antoinette, Princess Pelosi enjoys luxuries but ignores needs of desperate people
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We are watching the birth of the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democratic Party.
After a week of blocking more money for American small businesses, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., decided it would be effective to show up on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on CBS to communicate her human side. It was a bizarre interview with the woman who stopped billions of dollars in aid for small businesses and their employees.
I served with three Democratic speakers of the House: Tip O’Neill, Jim Wright and Tom Foley. It would be unthinkable for one of them to be as tone-deaf as Pelosi. There she was, in front of her two Wolf Sub-Zero refrigerator-freezers. Frankly, my wife Callista knew what a Wolf Sub-Zero refrigerator was, but I sure did not. I Googled it.
Wolf’s own description is: “Find the best luxury refrigerators for your needs with Sub-Zero full-size stainless steel or custom panel refrigerators, freezers and undercounter refrigerators.” They range in price up to $20,000-plus.
So, while voting to starve small businesses, Pelosi wanted America to see her in front of “the best luxury refrigerator.” She then went a step further and explained: “And we just restocked the ice cream for Easter Sunday because we were, shall we say, enjoying – I don't know what I would have done without ice cream."
It was perfectly “progressive Democrat” of Pelosi to want us to share her pain when she was causing pain to millions of small business owners, their employees, and families.
While many Americans were gathered around their Easter tables praying and wondering what they would do without income or a job, Pelosi was blocking small business support and wondering what she would have done without ice cream. By the way, you, too, can get the ice cream she was bragging about having delivered – five pints for $58 before tax.
The Marie Antoinette parallel is a little eerie. You may be pinching pennies and eating peanut butter and crackers, but her highness, the princess of San Francisco, is smothering her anxieties with $11.60-a-pint ice cream while making you go bankrupt.
James Woods tweeted: “Her two refrigerators cost together $24,000 for her specialty chocolate ice creams, but she hates the small business owners of America. Let them eat cake.”
The Marie Antoinette parallel is a little eerie. You may be pinching pennies and eating peanut butter and crackers, but her highness, the princess of San Francisco, is smothering her anxieties with $11.60-a-pint ice cream while making you go bankrupt.
What makes the Pelosi attitude so infuriating is the fact that the small business payroll protection plan has worked far better than anyone thought possible. The Small Business Administration, working with the nation’s banks, has gotten nearly $350 billion into the economy in 14 days.
Before the Trump administration, $30 billion in an entire year was a major SBA effort. Now, it had managed to loan $349 billion in two weeks.
The Wall Street Journal captured the current reality Thursday: “For seven long days, Democrats have been blocking a $250 billion refill for the Paycheck Protection Program, and on Thursday morning the loan fund finally ran out of money. 'Every Senate Republican was ready to act today,’ Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday. 'But Democrats would not let us reopen the program.'
“On Thursday the Labor Department said another 5.2 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. That brings the total in four weeks to a mind-bending 22 million. The Paycheck Protection Program is meant to blunt this trauma, and so far it has approved 1.6 million forgivable loans to small businesses. The idea is to keep companies stable amid the pandemic, so they can retain workers. Without this cash infusion, it’s hard to fathom how much worse the economic data might look. ...
“The longer Democrats refuse to provide financing for small businesses after government cut off their revenue, the more Americans will have every right to conclude that Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. [Senate Democratic Leader Chuck] Schumer are responsible for the worsening economic destruction.”
Even a knowledgeable Democrat thought Pelosi was profoundly wrong. As Jim Saksa reported in Roll Call: “Karen G. Mills, who led the Small Business Administration during President Barack Obama’s first term, has a message for top Capitol Hill Democrats: Refill the so-called Paycheck Protection Program’s coffers now and ask questions later.
“The SBA program, established as part of the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 aid package to help battered small businesses, ran out of cash to make new loans on Thursday morning, barely two weeks after it began taking applications.
“'Congress has to act as soon as possible,’ Mills told CQ Roll Call in an interview Thursday, adding that she’s spoken recently with Democratic senators and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. 'What I’m saying is: Number one, get the money replenished.’”
The Washington Free Beacon also captured the trap the Democrats were drifting into when it said we are entering “the Pelosi Recession.”
A few more luxurious lifestyle appearances by Pelosi, while she’s killing small business, will make the election this fall a referendum on the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democrats. This will be a hard argument for Pelosi and the Democrats to win.
Further, in the midst of this crisis of the economy, small business, and unemployment, where is former Vice President Joe Biden? Does he support the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democrats? If he does not, when is he going to speak out?
The case is being made for a deep repudiation of an elite Democratic Party that now has total contempt for Americans.
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"Princess Pelosi." Really, CH4P? Her husband is the real estate magnate of the West except he never had to 'use' questionable Asian or Russian financial sources for his success such as the individual you use in your moniker who pretends to be a real estate magnate of the East.
The refrigerator thing? I do not know. Wealthy people have neat stuff. Hell, some of them even drive Lamborghinis. If you have an actual point it would be nice if you'd share it rather than the incessant excuse driven drivel almost irreverently put forth to shield or protect your incongruous moniker namesake which portends to be the leader of the free world.
Yeah sure. Am sure Mitch McConnell, Jim Jordan or even Sean Hannity and the rest of the 'nip tuckers' have stepped up to that imaginary plate. You ought to get a real job.
'Self Appointed Elites.' Them too huh? Limbaugh and his Viagra on his way to The Dominican Republic comes to mind.
The "Commander in Chief" on the other hand,
apparently with the blessing of SCOTUS,
has the authority
to take as much $$ from the military to continue his border wall construction,
so I see no legal obstruction preventing King Donald Trump from taking as much money from any other
government entity
to make whole every single resident of CONUS, regardless of legal status
to ensure the continued status quo of the USA.
That way you get your fresh strawberries and fresh lettuce
monarchy, law and order and racial superiority.
in a nutshell,
A-men!
Couple of thoughts:
Have you seen Trump's refrigerator? I can tell from his growing tum tum that it's quite full.
But let's take a look:
Opps... that's his modest living room. Just like the one you might have.
Ahh.. there is that modest kitchen with his Sub Zero fridge, you know the one like in your home, which averages about 14K-16K give or take a K. Nancy might want to upgrade.
Those small business loans that were already eaten up by multimillion-dollar corporations because there was zero oversight.
Wow, even Fox Business found this shocking. And on our Tax dollars!
So while you want to complain about Ms. Pelosi, maybe you shouldn't be throwing rocks. The bossman lives in a glasshouse, too.
Looks like one of Saddam Hussein's palaces.
Not since Dec 30, 2006.
No, apparently refrigerators are. I was doing a compare and contrast.
How is he helping? Those small business that should be there but were taken by fat big corporations? All the money is gone because of his lack of oversight and now you are trying to get more?
And the fact that he doesn't need 400K just means he has no idea of what it is like to run a small business, like I do.
Oh and btw, Blooomberg didn't take a dime to be the Mayor of NY, so really, not such a big deal.
Where in those pictures is he posing with his refrigerator or making videos holding up his ice cream that most people can't afford, especially during these times.
Hint,.....there aren't any
No shit, he doesn't endorse anything....well I should correct that and say that no manufacturer will allow him
to endorse their products because of his branding contracts, NDAs and general reputation
as the scorpion from Aesop's fables.
In all honesty, no POTUS is supposed to endorse any product, period. And they or their staffs usually go to great lengths to avoid any appearance of favoritism.
Rumored............who really knows?
Rumor is he shits gold to match. (-:
We wish,
Now that is a funny thread.
It's all that bronzer that has soaked into his system.
Except I am a small business owner. The daughter of a small business owner. Don't pontificate to me, since you have no idea how off you are.
“ For years we have been exposing the lucrative travel our leaders enjoy at taxpayer expense. We have long noted Pelosi ’s abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel,” Mr. Fitton wrote in an op-ed titled “Air Pelosi” for Fox News, providing numerous examples.
“We reported in 2010 that Pelosi ’s jet travel cost the Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period —
Of the 103 trips that Mrs. Pelosi led, 31 of them included members of the House speaker’s family, said Mr. Fitton , citing one trip to the Middle East for lawmakers and their spouses in 2008 that cost $17,931 per hour for the aircraft alone ."
Yup - let them eat cake sez the Queen.