The Pelosi Meltdown
Yesterday Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The topic was the stalled talks on another stimulus package for Americans who are suffering. Ms Pelosi responded with name-calling and attacking Blitzer as an apologist for Republicans. I don't know where the fortitude to ask the speaker real questions came from but I think I'm actually going to have to give Blitzer credit for acting like a journalist.
As the more rational Americans already know, The White House has already offered $1.8 Trillion and Nancy Pelosi is not negotiating in good faith. She is asking for a lot more than help for ordinary Americans and has no intention of allowing any help going to Americans this close to the election - especially if it's going to have Donald Trump's signature on it.
"Pelosi told The New York Times in March that she would prefer that a phase-four package include some kind of rollback of the limit on the state and local tax deduction. Part of the 2017 tax law, the policy change especially hurt high earners in states like New York and California, which Pelosi represents."
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-nancy-pelosi-wants-in-the-next-stimulus-package-2020-8#whats-in-the-houses-stimulus-bill-1
"The most divisive topic so far has been the amount of additional funding for states and cities struggling to cope with hemorrhaging budgets as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi alluded to the divide in comments yesterday. “We’ll get back together tomorrow to see how we can find common ground on how we again help state and local government play the role that it does,” she said .
Democrats have reduced their initial ask of $916 billion by more than half, proposing $436 billion in the updated Heroes Act. While this is still three times higher than Senate Republicans have offered, it is actually less than what the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus proposed in its $1.5 trillion plan a few weeks ago.
It is unclear what Mnuchin may come back with, but given previous obstinance by Republicans, don’t expect much movement by Mnuchin on this topic just yet."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/09/30/stimulus-update-mnuchin-to-counter-pelosis-22-trillion-stimulus-package-will-he-include-1200-stimulus-check-and-statecity-aid/#4d1d136c3f3b
From her point of view, democrats might just win it all on November 3rd and then she can pass an enormous stimulus full of all the progressive pet projects including a bailout for incompetent blue states. In the meantime she can sit back with her $12 pints of ice cream and wait for election day.
Prepare yourselves, you may not believe that this happened on CNN:
Nancy Pelosi is asked a simple question, and she immediately resorts to name-calling.
Here is the key question:
Speaker Pelosi: Why not make a deal? Millions of Americans are hurting while you single-handedly block support for workers and families.
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She really lost it yesterday and it happened on CNN!
She just said that the President of the US isn't that important?!?! That role is the most important position, no matter who is in it!
"We know them..." I don't effing think so! Let her live in the projects that "she represents" for one week on what they're given by the US government. She has no idea whom "she represents."
Yes, it's an easy game isn't it? Divide and conquer and she is a master of it!
Guaranteed she wouldn't make it out of the projects alive and it wouldn't be of anyone else's doing; she'd have a heart attack. She wants to see what giving people money and free shit offers; that would be the way to do it. If you keep providing hand outs, they'll just keep asking for more and see no need to get out of that situation. When people aren't forced to provide for themselves, why would they?
Creating dependency is an old reliable tool for the democratic party. It destroys the value of self worth in those it claims to help.
You are correct, we can't blame those who find themselves in dire straits.
Nancy is quite polite to everyone 97% of the time. She is forgiven a rare loss of temper.
Rare loss of temper?
I was waiting for "You're damn right I ordered the Code Red!"
She's normally a polite person. I'm not gonna lie about her.
The kind that says a prayer for those she defames & destroys.
I'm not gonna lie about her.
That's much appreciated
Why not. [deleted]
Just admit the truth about her. She's simply an awful human being
Good ole Nancy. People are hungry, they can’t pay rent and she just keeps smiling. She doesn’t care about the people.
It sounds like things are bleak in Trump's America.
No wonder people are itching for new leadership...
Which people? The ones being polled - who suspect all their neighbors are voting for Trump?
Nancy is hard at work making them as bleak as possible. So what if people are hungry and homeless as long as Trump looks bad right?
Go on! You guys can keep calling her a bitch all you want because next year Nancy Pelosi will still be The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Chuck Schumer will be The Majority Leader of the United States Senate and Joe Biden will be The President of the United States of America...
Its downright weird to watch these people attack Nancy Pelosi on decorum when you think about what they have for leadership at the head of their party.
It could be....I think Sen Ted Cruz had it right - it's going to be a wave either red or blue. The attendance at Trump/Biden events may be the tip-off on which was it goes.
You left out the boat parades. Trump thinks he's winning because of boat parades.
I left nothing out, John.
Just a reminder.....It's about Pelosi becoming unhinged
Keep doing what you are doing, digging a deeper hole. Women voters are already turned off. The way you guys are going the gender gap may be enough to cost the gop across the boards!
Do tell? How do you think they felt about the harassment of Amy Coney Barrett?
A Woman just asked you the relevant question in 3.2.2.
Care to answer?
Then I must be a man!!! HEY where's my penis? I want to be able to stand up to pee!
Sorry Vic. That's meta. You can delete if you need to; I understand.
Or all the derogatory comments about any women in the Trump family and administration. We notice those too not just that someone called Nancy a bitch.
Who "harrassed" Barrett?
Ivanka Trump took part in misleading prospective condo and office space buyers about the properties they were interested in. She came within a hairs breadth of being indicted for fraud. And she did it repeatedly, misleading prospective buyers was a feature of the way the Trump's did business.
Then there is her devotion to the worst president in American history. Ivanka gets criticized a lot but I'm not sure how much of it is undeserved.
Neither is the criticism of Nancy undeserved.
It's no where the line, even if it was, I try and let as much as I can stand.
What you are questioning is relevant when those who claim to speak for women dismiss them.
The Senator from Hawaii for one:
“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”
Care to explain it?
And then claim that they're not sexist or misogynistic. I've dealt with a lot of misogynists in my life working in "man land" and while I see far less than I ever have before, it still very much exists and I can usually pick it out pretty quickly even in the face of the person stating that they're not and providing reasons why they're not.
So, I assume attacking the President's daughter in defense of Pelosi wouldn't be a good look.
Watching the treatment of Judge Barrett is very telling. I think that's what you are talking about.
I truly hope Judge Barrett's children, especially the oldest ones, weren't present when Mazie asked those despicable questions.
Not sure, but I think they were there for the entire 11 hours.
Mercifully the question/inquisition part of this will finally end later this evening.
Hell yes. I don't bash Pelosi, but some of the things she says are astonishing.
Rep Doug Collins is also astonished:
"Republican Rep. Doug Collins has introduced a resolution calling for the removal of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi based on what he perceives as her mental decline – days after Pelosi announced legislation to look into President Trump’s physical and mental health.
“Nancy Pelosi’s unwillingness to abide by the Constitution, combined with her recent actions, call into question her own mental fitness. It’s critical that the House of Representatives demand her removal from the line of succession,” Collins tweeted .
Collins’ resolution is not expected to move forward in the Democrat-controlled House, and Pelosi’s efforts, which attempt to remove the president based on the 25th amendment, will not pass in the GOP-led Senate."
She answered every question, and also told them why she can't give specific answers to certain questions.
What harassment? Compared to recent SCOTUS hearings this is the most civil I have seen in decades.
In other words, it's just political gamesmanship for partisan sake.
More of the same crap raised to an uncivil level by my cousin Newt Gingrich.
Don't you believe that with reproductive choice, marriage equality, protections for preexisting conditions and the survival of Social Security and Medicare on the line people have a right to know how a judge thinks regarding the most important issues of our times?
A very low bar!
I never thought I'd see the day when someone from CNN would have the spine to ask Pelosi a hard question that would make her so angry! The old gal almost spit out her dentures!
She showed that she doesn’t care about the American people. She is only concerned that the check they need to help them may have Trumps name on it.
Or that they might not use the check for what she intended them to use it for... how many times did she mention child care and paying for that? I had to pay for child care out of pocket. Don't poor families get money from the state for child care already? It's rhetorical. I already know the answer, because I have friends that get child care credit already.
Pelosi's package wants millions to bail out blue states like CA, NY, etc that have mismanaged their money for decades AND to give millions to illegal aliens for anything they want and other things unrelated to Covid-19.
Trump wants the money to go Covid-19 related relief for small businesses that are struggling and US citizens/legal residents.
Remember that in the first relief funding, Pelosi wanted hundreds of millions for Planned Parenhood and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ... neither of which were Covid related.
I figured as much.
nope they were "spot on"
I watched the exchange and the fact remains, Democrats passed a stimulus bill, it's Republicans who refused to even have a vote on it in the Senate. Just because Blitzer thinks Democrats should just capitulate to Republican demands to cut the stimulus bill in half and leave out hundreds of thousands of Americans in need just so some can get a tiny band aid that Republicans will approve now doesn't mean it's smart or good for America. Passing a half-measure bill to address this crisis and tries to punish Democrat States as the spineless Republicans are suggesting in their bill is both ignorant and dangerous but Blitzer didn't want to hear anything about that, he only wanted to pressure her into bending the knee to Moscow Mitch and the incompetent moron in the white house he shills for.
"House Democrats pass $2.2 trillion stimulus bill over GOP opposition; bipartisan talks continue"
Republicans are the ones at fault for financially effected industries and workers suffering regardless of how much they whine and complain. They could afford a $6 trillion tax cut for the wealthy and corporations but refuse to pass a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill that helps American families during a national emergency.
Whatever....but the voters are blaming Pelosi and the Dem idiots for the shutdowns and job losses.
And now they are also getting a very public picture of Pelosi "resisting" and holding up the financial aid
Only the dumb ones. The patriots and rational Americans know who to blame and that's the party in power who is refusing to approve the money Congress has approved for the American people during this emergency.
Of course she resorted to name calling and attacking. Is anybody surprised? God forbid she do anything that would benefit the people of this country. Not that she's done anything in the first place.