Pelosi: The meltdown

By Doug Powers  •  July 30, 2009 03:19 PM

It’s happening — opposition to Hope and Change™ is starting to take its toll. Nancy Pelosi is starting to act like somebody spiked her Botox with traces of arsenic, and the descent into paranoid madness is somewhat reminiscent of Captain Queeg on the witness stand in The Caine Mutiny:

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday ramped up her criticism of insurance companies, accusing them of unethical behavior and working to kill a plan to create a new government-run health plan.

“It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” Pelosi said to reporters, referring to insurance companies. “Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure,” she said, adding, “They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening.”

The Speaker will prove without a shadow of a doubt — and with geometric logic — that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist, but the private insurance companies took it!

Pelosi also said that private insurers oppose government health care because “they don’t want the competition.” The government doesn’t want competition either, Nance — that’s why people like Bernie Madoff are rotting in prison.

Nancy scoffs at her poll numbers (she’s tied in the popularity ratings with O.J. Simpson and genital herpes), but that certainly can’t be a comfort for her collegues up for re-election in districts that aren’t as safe as hers, and neither are polls like this:

The New York Times/CBS poll shows:

Sixty-nine percent of respondents believe Obama’s plan will hurt the quality of their own healthcare.

Seventy-three percent believe it would limit their access to tests and treatment.

Sixty-two percent believe Democrats’ proposals would require them to change doctors.

Seventy-six believe healthcare reform will lead to them paying higher taxes.

A whopping 77 percent expect their healthcare costs to rise.

Darn those private insurance companies!

Incidentally, if you vote out an old liberal pollutant next November, you’ll qualify for a rebate under the private-sector’s answer to the Cash for Clunkers program.

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  1. #101
    On July 30th, 2009 at 8:09 pm, Misscheryl said:

    I often wonder what Pelosi’s husband says to her when she comes home from a long day at the office.

  2. #102
    On July 30th, 2009 at 8:14 pm, simcoe said:

    U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday ramped up her criticism of insurance companies, accusing them of unethical behavior and working to kill a plan to create a new government-run health plan.

    OK. So, what’s the problem? It’s called lobbying.

    I guess in Pelosi-land you can only lobby in favor of Dem’s.

    …accusing them of unethical behavior…

    Boy if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle…

    If you lobby against the Dem’s you get accusations of unethical behavior thrown at you. It’s a wonder she can accuse someone else of unethical behavior without falling over dead.

    Watch and see if she looks down and to the left, down and to the left.

  3. #103
    On July 30th, 2009 at 9:15 pm, secondsight said:

    Hmm. Debtocraps are trotting out their new strawman/victim — insurance companies. Guess without a Katrina event on the horizon, they’ll just beat them to death.

    Used to be insurance companies stock was safe as houses. Better tell grandma and Calpers.

    H.Reid was on this topic today as well.

  4. #104
    On July 30th, 2009 at 9:32 pm, JConrad999 said:

    And California keeps voting this loser in.

    Let’s be honest. The problem isn’t the politicians. It’s the people who keep voting for trash like Pelosi.

  5. #105
    On July 30th, 2009 at 9:49 pm, jangar said:

    Let’s be honest. The problem isn’t the politicians. It’s the people who keep voting for trash like Pelosi.

    Most couldn’t pour pee out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

  6. #106
    On July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I often wonder what Pelosi’s husband says to her when she comes home from a long day at the office.

    “Stop scaring the cat.”

  7. #107
    On July 30th, 2009 at 11:16 pm, cabrerski said:

    Nancy scoffs at her poll numbers (she’s tied in the popularity ratings with O.J. Simpson and genital herpes)

    At least you can control O.J. (jail) and herpes (Valtrex).

  8. #108
    On July 31st, 2009 at 1:00 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    Military, Christians, Cops, Doctors, Farmers, Stock Brokers, Bankers, Insurance companies, Automobile Dealers… why is it that the only people that this bunch doesn’t insult and denigrate is Lawyers, liberals and zombies?

    Oh wait, those last two are redundant. Sorry.

  9. #109
    On July 31st, 2009 at 9:29 am, GraniteMan said:

    “It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” Pelosi said to reporters, referring to insurance companies.

    It didn’t take an insurance company to tell me that ObamaCare would bankrupt the nation, ration health care to seniors first and then younger folks, destroy the great Health Care industry of the US. All of it done for POWER!
    I figyrerd it out myslf Pelousy, you dummy!

  10. #110
    On July 31st, 2009 at 10:07 am, dan708 said:

    In one sense Comrade Pelosky is right; the insurance companies don’t face enough competition. But she is pursuing a bass-ackwards solution; replace the insurance companies with the government, thus eliminating ANY COMPETITION AT ALL!! Will someone please get this woman to the looney bin?!

  11. #111
    On July 31st, 2009 at 10:46 am, Ragspierre said:

    At least you can control O.J. (jail) and herpes (Valtrex).

    And the Cain Mutiny had its court martial.

    How do you bring Pelosi to answer for her crimes…high and low?

  12. #112
    On July 31st, 2009 at 11:54 am, RobM1981 said:

    Much more “aesthetic modification” and Nancy will even LOOK like Bogey.

    Great post, Doug. Queeg is the perfect analogy to Pelosi. Just like Homer Simpson fits Biden to a T.

    And don’t forget President Chauncey…

  13. #113
    On July 31st, 2009 at 1:10 pm, katablog said:

    And these are the people (the ones evading subpoenas right now) that want us to know how evil banks, wall street and insurance companies are.

  14. #114
    On July 31st, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Texhoma said:

    The Speaker will prove without a shadow of a doubt — and with geometric logic — that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist, but the private insurance companies took it!

    Ran over the Trillion Dollar+ tow line (Stimulus Bill).

    Turned the ship away from the beach (Cash for Clunkers Suspended).

    Can’t stand the thought of citizens eating the Ice Cream (good health care) intended for the ships officers (Elite Democrats and Congress).

    By the way, did anybody hear her clicking Obama’s balls during that press conference?

  15. #115
    On July 31st, 2009 at 5:10 pm, purealchemy said:

    Hey, there you rogue bloggers!

    Wanna help crack the 4,000 posting mark on the “Don’t Taze Me Bro’”thread?

    It’s two pages back on previous entries now

  16. #116
    On July 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm, nail49 said:

    At least you can control don’t see O.J. (jail) every night on your TV and dont’ get exposed to herpes (Valtrex) every time she does!

    cabrerski:

    FIFY

  17. #117
    On August 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 am, cabrerski said:

    Apparently, I stand corrected…

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