Feisty Nancy Strikes Again
by Joel Hendon(564)
Nancy Pelosi, the self proclaimed "most powerful woman in the world", is again in the limelight. She twisted arms, turned out the lights in the congressional assembly room, all in her effort to ramrod the enormous, worthless stimulus package through congress before anyone, including herself, had a chance to review it. She also brow beat and forced quick passage of the bailout monies and the exorbitant spending bills not allowing floor discussions. And after all of these catastrophes, one would think she might learn a smidgen.
A few days ago, a Democratic congressman was interviewed on TV and called for Nancy Pelosi to step down as Speaker of the House. He also said there were others who felt as he did, but it seems that many are afraid to challenge her. There are some 70 Democrat congressmen who hail from states whose constituents are almost equally divided between liberalism and conservatism, many of them very moderate either way. These congressmen, a number of whom are first term, are walking a tight rope trying to appease their constituents who are leaning more and more to the right, without having a showdown with the "Mouth".
According to all counts, except hers, there are not enough votes to pass the killer health care plan now before them before their August recess. However, reports say that she is commanding the newbies to lie down and "roll over" when she speaks. Here is a short blurb from a liberal Washington Post article that shows her attitude and confidence in her omnipotence.
"When I take this bill to the floor, it will win," Pelosi (Calif.) said on CNN's "State of the Union." "This will happen. "
The speaker, who has struggled to overcome a series of recent setbacks, raised the stakes by planning to restart talks Monday among bickering Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three House panels with jurisdiction over health care and where the bill stalled last week. Democratic leaders are newly confident that these differences can be resolved, possibly in time to bring a House bill to the floor before lawmakers depart Friday for the August recess, although Pelosi did not commit to a timetable.
The chaos underscores the difficulty of transforming a major sector of the U.S. economy in a single piece of legislation, and also the perils of rushing Obama's first-term priorities through Congress before concerns about the 2010 midterm elections take hold. "What we don't want is for the process to bog down here," senior White House adviser David Axelrod said on the same CNN program. "We want to keep moving forward, and I believe we will." (Pelosi Vows Passage of health-care overhaul: by Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane--Washington Post Monday July 7, 2009)
I am thankful there appears to be more level headed thinkers in the Senate who will perhaps modify this highly dangerous bill before final passage. Here is another short passage from the Washington Post article quoted above that bothers me more than any other thing:
The House and Senate are working on proposals that would expand coverage to up to 50 million people over the next 10 years, at a cost of about $1 trillion. Obama has insisted that the legislation be deficit-neutral and that it begin to "bend the curve" of skyrocketing health-care costs. To that end, Congress is seeking to cut up to $500 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid while improving their efficiency. The remainder would be covered by tax increases. (Ibid)
Notice that I have addressed this concern in another article but this 50 million people whom they plan to cover consists of some 11+ million illegal imigrants who have paid nothing whatsoever into these funds. Illegal alien=criminal. Then as many as 20 million of them are working young people who have the option of good health insurance if they would only agree to pay their share of the premiums as offered by their employer. Yet, they willfully choose not to take it by reasoning that their youth and good health would probably cost them much more in insurance premiums than they will encounter in medical bills. A real gamble.
And yet they plan to pay much of the cost of this massive undertaking from cost cuts for the elderly in Medicare and Medicaid. Those of us who worked hard and paid into this fund for 40 to 50 years, and a number of those years, I paid the maximum they would take out. Yes, I personally feel that it is very unfair. Those of you who are young may not consider this very important unless you have parents or grandparents who are affected. But do you consider the fact that your day is also coming?
I hope all of you will contact your Congressmen and Senators immediately to help rewrite this atrocity.
Webgazine Columnist.
Article submitted Monday, July 27, 2009 & read 37 times.
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» left by straight talk(78) (1 year 37 days ago.)
Joel, are we not getting lonely over here at Webgazine? One, perhaps two others. Is this banishmnet or what? Only kidding, at least a few read us, they just don't commnet. Its caller FEAR. That list you know. best wishes, hang in there.
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» left by Joel Hendon(564)
Hi Robert, well yes we've gone down considerably. Hopefully it will pick back up. I didn't post any articles or do anything to the site for over a week. Keep writing and maybe we can get it going again.
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