Pelosi leaked memo lashing out at Republicans...

[posty 2,803]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30473

 

This is a memo from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Democratic members sent after the stimulus vote yesterday. Pelosi is apparently panicked at Republicans’ success in uniting against her hyperpartisan actions in shutting them out of the formulation of the stimulus bill and in peeling nearly a dozen Dems off to vote in opposition.

 

Here is the full text of the memo leaked to HUMAN EVENTS this morning.

 

Memo

 

To: Interested Parties

From: Brendan Daly

Re: The Republican Problem

Date: January 29, 2009

 

The House Republican Leadership put its Members in another politically untenable position yesterday: trying to reclaim the mantle of lower taxes and small government -- at the exact time when economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term.

 

So yesterday, while we are facing the greatest economic crisis in decades, Republican House Members ended up voting unanimously against:

 

* Jobs in their own communities

 

* Tax cuts for 95 percent of American workers

 

* Long overdue investments that will transform and grow their economies to compete globally

 

* Critical services in their own communities, such as police officers, teachers, and health care

 

Instead, their substitute did not create as many jobs and it increased the number of people subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax.

 

The hypocrisy of the Republicans complaining about the process does not obscure the record of recent Republican leadership:

 

* 2.6 million American jobs were lost in 2008 alone.

 

* The national debt has almost doubled in the last eight years; the debt borrowed from foreign countries has tripled.

 

* The Clinton Administration left a record budget surplus. President Bush turned it into the worst deficit in American history.

 

* We face an economic recession unrivaled since the Great Depression, as a result of years of failure to invest in our own global competitiveness, failures to bring common sense to Wall Street and our housing market, and tax policies that favored massive corporations and most affluent individuals.

 

This is not the first time the Republicans in the House have unanimously voted against a needed economic package. The last time, in 1993, when Democrats voted for tough action to clean up after Republican economic mess, not a single Republican voted for the legislation that produced record surpluses and a balanced budget.

 

Once again this week, as another Democratic President and Democratic Congress worked to address historic deficits and recession brought on by Republican mismanagement of the economy, not a single Republican voted for the legislation. There's a pattern here of Republican economic mismanagement and Democrats stepping up to do what's needed for the good of the country while Republicans acted in a partisan and irresponsible manner.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Moonbat.

[Voltaire 5,453]

If it's from Nancy Pelosi, why does it say it's from Brendon Daly? Who's Brenden Daly?

 

I mean it sounds like her, could be her, not really doubting it. Just saying ...

[DAVID RUFFIN 2]

[parrot 789]

A politician lashing out at the other side while giving her own side nothing but pats on the back?

 

Will wonders never cease?!

[BudBro 183]

all of those things could actually get accomplished with real tax cuts and none of this stimulus spending bill.

[posty 2,803]

all of those things could actually get accomplished with real tax cuts and none of this stimulus spending bill.

 

Agreed... Only problem is when has a Democrat actually cut taxes in the past 30 or so years?

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Agreed... Only problem is when has a Democrat actually cut taxes in the past 30 or so years?

 

Somebody promised 95% of America a tax break.

[FlaHawker 24]

Somebody promised 95% of America a tax break.

Change we can believe in

[Recliner Pilot 61]

That memo has to be bogus.

 

Pelosi is "non-partisan".

 

 

“I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.

 

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01...-stimulus-vote/

[swamp dog 0]

i'm still amused that people don't understand how the politics work:

 

1) the dems pad this bill with stuff that they can live without going in.

 

2) why? (answer to #1): so when the repubs whine the dems can make those repubs feel good by saying "okay, we'll take______________out" *wink*

 

3) the house gops know the bill is going to pass in their house and get together and agree that no one will vote for it. why? to send a message to the senate gops to ask the dems to take the padded stuff out of the bill...which the dems were always going to do anyway.

 

4) a news conference in a couple of weeks where both sides talk about working together and compromising, blah, blah, blah.

 

rinse. repeat.

 

let me put it another way. a wise captain once said "always leave a few things around for the coast guard inspector to find." why? so they had something to write up and thus focus their attention away from bigger issues.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

i'm still amused that people don't understand how the politics work:

 

1) the dems pad this bill with stuff that they can live without going in.

 

2) why? (answer to #1): so when the repubs whine the dems can make those repubs feel good by saying "okay, we'll take______________out" *wink*

 

3) the house gops know the bill is going to pass in their house and get together and agree that no one will vote for it. why? to send a message to the senate gops to ask the dems to take the padded stuff out of the bill...which the dems were always going to do anyway.

 

4) a news conference in a couple of weeks where both sides talk about working together and compromising, blah, blah, blah.

 

rinse. repeat.

 

let me put it another way. a wise captain once said "always leave a few things around for the coast guard inspector to find." why? so they had something to write up and thus focus their attention away from bigger issues.

 

 

So what you are saying is once this "stimulus bill" is finished it will only have "stimulus" and no pork.

 

My what a wonderful world you must live in.

[BLS 314]

i'm still amused that people don't understand how the politics work:

 

1) the dems pad this bill with stuff that they can live without going in.

 

2) why? (answer to #1): so when the repubs whine the dems can make those repubs feel good by saying "okay, we'll take______________out" *wink*

 

3) the house gops know the bill is going to pass in their house and get together and agree that no one will vote for it. why? to send a message to the senate gops to ask the dems to take the padded stuff out of the bill...which the dems were always going to do anyway.

 

4) a news conference in a couple of weeks where both sides talk about working together and compromising, blah, blah, blah.

 

rinse. repeat.

 

let me put it another way. a wise captain once said "always leave a few things around for the coast guard inspector to find." why? so they had something to write up and thus focus their attention away from bigger issues.

 

OMFG....somebody else DOES get it.

 

Nice work.