First, abortion and government giving free contraception is going to stimulate the economy. Now she is trying to explain how many people are threatened to lose their jobs this month. Of course she just got it wrong. But she is trying to alarm people with the notion of job losses in order to pass a government spending bill that has already died in the Senate. Read about that here.
“Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans will lose their jobs.” Nancy Pelosi
First, everyone already knows that this stimulus package is not going to stop people from losing their jobs next month, the month after that, or in the next year. In fact, its going to get worse. So why not take a moment to step back from all the special projects laden in this bill? Because then the Obama administration loses even more votes that they are trying to BUY in Congress. Without the pork, they cant get enough even marginally patriotic Democrats to buy into this boondoggle.
Funny how Republicans always think PORK is ANY MONEY spent at home! Lose 9 billion in Iraq, NO PROBLEM, spend 336 million on family planning and spark Republican outrage (hey, it’s only 8,664 THOUSAND MILLION less than disappeared in Iraq).
The video has Pelosi saying 5 million Americans will lose their jobs. Where does the 6 Billion claim of the headline come from? Is this another media alarmist mis-statement?
I’m sure Pelosi meant 500 thousand jobs a month (like in January), just more PHONY Republican outrage (ooooh, someone misspoke).
I thought Republicans were against abortion, doesn’t family planning (contraceptives) help prevent unwanted pregnancies? Oh, that’s right, it’s really sex and poor people they can’t stand.
Republicans KNOW all about ALARMING people, remember all those PHONY terror alerts and warnings against speaking out against the Bush administration. Oh, and remember how the economy was going to collapse if we didn’t give Bush and Paulson 700 BILLION dollars immediately.
Terry you’ve got a lot of nerve calling ANY Democrat an alarmist after the record of lies and “shock doctrine” practiced by the Republicans.
#2: Terry can obviously not count.
There aren’t even 6 billion Americans. But the number “sounds” so cool.
Terry indeed lives in an Alternate Universe, as I have suspected all along.
It is the BUSH recession.
If Mr. BUSH hadn’t spent billions on a war under false pretenses, we would be in a much better situation now.
The Republicans of course don’t want to clean up the mess they left behind. They just try to falsify the historical record.
Unless someone altered this video she clearly states losing 500 million, not 500,000 jobs.
She needs to compare notes with our Mayor Frank Ury. did she graduate from Notre Dame, UCI or USC?
I heard our grades were declining but have they stopped teaching basic math and US history?
We have somewhere north of 300 million residents
Terry –
You are such a dishonest blowhard. The number is 500 Thousand, we all know it, and we all know she simply misspoke. Dishonest crap like this says more about you than it does about Nancy Pelosi, who has forgotten more than ever will ever know.
No wonder you were a campaign manager for “Big Al” Snook, and no wonder he canned your ass and turned democrat right afterward.
Forgotten more than YOU will ever know, that is, Terry.
And Larry, you, Terry and Ron and Anna Winship are the Orange Juice Blog’s four stooges – entertaining sometimes, but all idiots, and the laughter is all at you, not with you.
Nancy Pelosi is a clown and an embarrassment to the dems. She flubbed the first go-round on the bailout by attacking Republicans.
And now she has placed her Stimulus Bill in jeopardy by not getting ANY Republican House members to vote for it. And that is not easy to do – some of those House members can be bought off pretty cheap.
She will lose dem House members in 2010 and lose her position as Speaker.
Art
We should give OCMARTINIMAN a spot on the BLOG Roster.
And, Al turned Reform Party and THEN Democrat as a last resort.
#10: junior:
“And now she has placed her Stimulus Bill in jeopardy by not getting ANY Republican House members to vote for it. And that is not easy to do – some of those House members can be bought off pretty cheap.”
So, are you saying that Republican House members are corrupt???
Nice to hear that from a Republican…
It then is a good thing that Mrs. Pelosi doesn’t play the corruption game, eh?
Anonster is right, I don’t remember Olympia Snow and friends Bitching when they spent three TRILLION dollars to kill a couple hundred thousand Iraqi’s on a “Gut Feeling”.
I love how the GOP trys to rally the troops with abortion and welfare warnings.