Pelosi: Can You Spare $10 to Protect the Progress We’ve Made?
**Written by Doug Powers
If you were on the receiving end of this letter, it must have been a little like getting a plea for reinforcements from Custer the day after Little Bighorn:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an outgoing New Year’s Eve wish, asking House campaign supporters to give money to fight back against “shameful attack ads” that use her to target vulnerable Democrats.
In a new fundraising letter for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Californian thanks donors for their “dedication to making change a reality for millions of our fellow Americans,” without mentioning that Democrats lost control of the House in November and that in less than two weeks, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) will become Speaker.
Instead, Pelosi asks donors to “chip in $10” to combat “shadowy special interest front groups [that] are already up on radio and television with shameful attack ads aimed at reversing the progress we’ve made.”
[...]
Donations before the Friday deadline will be matched “dollar-for-dollar by a group of generous Democrats,” she added.
Pelosi led the charge to accumulate $3,220,103,625,307.29 of new debt in the last two years alone and she wants people to pony up ten bucks so they can try to double-down? The word? No!
Just to put $3.22 trillion in a language the No Radish Left Behind crowd can understand, that Pelosi-assisted new debt amounts to almost 22 times what some say are obesity-related health care costs in the US every year — a number that’s used as justification for increased oversight of Big Chef. If the Let’s Move types really want to trim the fat, they’re starting inside the wrong beltway.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Wow.
A politician STILL asking for campaign contributions after their party loses control? Color me shocked.
I must have missed the 2 year hiatus Republicans took from fundraising after 2006. But I’m sure it must have happened because that is the only way this piece would at all be in any way, shape or form worth noting.
Our local radio host in Corpus Christi, a conservative, got this letter and had it on his blog. He was having a good time with this. I don’t think he or our home will send any money to dear nan.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an outgoing New Year’s Eve
wishdemand,askingordering House campaign supporters to give money to create and useagainst“shamefulvicious attack ads” thatuse her totargetingvulnerable DemocratsRepublicans and conservatives.So it is only a shadowy front group if it is in opposition to liberalism….
“Donations before the Friday deadline will be matched “dollar-for-dollar by a group of generous Democrats,” she added.”
It was Dems generous with other peoples money who got this nitwit where she is.
I’d pony up a hundred to see her frog-marched in cuffs out of Congress.
Boehner should use a new gavel. Burn Nancy’s old one.
Nancy can dream on. Too bad we don’t burn witches any more.
I hate the word “progress”. Progress is not prosperity.
Isn’t she the Wicked Witch of the West? Tossing a bucket of water on her should do the trick.
On the steps of the Capitol in front of the cameras. With notes of “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead” playing in the background.
I have a better idea for disposal of that gavel, but I am a sweet little “old” lady and I will refrain from vulgarity.
Chap, I think Doug is drawing attention to Pelosi’s egregious and shameless pandering. The Dems raped our economy and then have the gall to pass the hat for more money from the Useful Idiot class.
Why doesn’t she just put a jar with her picture on it at the 7-11′s?
Happyscrapper…I’ll help you put the gavel…well, never mind. Nan would have a hard time sitting down if we were successful.
After the Dem losses in the last election, it would fit like a BB in a basketball.
Thanks for “noting”.
Can’t we at least throw her in the water to see if she floats or sinks?
Wow, it sounds like Pelosi is turning against the Black Panthers, SEIU, UAW and the Teachers’ Unions.
I think the Mafia calls it “Tribute”.
Nah, there are new scientific methods to determine whether or not she is a witch. First you get a duck and then you get a giant set of scales. You then check to see if she weighs as much as a duck. If she does then she is a witch. Monty Python figured that out a long time ago in the quest for the Holy Grail.
Hey Chap, are you on this list?
And again, you think this is in any way unique and/or limited to Democrats?
Nope. Any emails I get from politicians or political groups, and I do mean ANY, are sent to spam.
So you’re not a generous Democrat. (oxymoron alert!)
A generous democrat needs to spend other people’s money.
Obama: “I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, I drink other people’s.”
“Stay thirsty, my friends.”
Why doesn’t she ask that “shadowy” George Soros for the money?
She did:
To translate…by sending your money George Soros, Oprah, and Bill Gates will match it with their own money showing once again that they all are “good” rich people.
“I remember in past years, when, sob, telling the truth, sniff, created an atmosphere of intolerance…where, um, sniff, people not previously prone to speak out, started pointing fingers at us, ‘n stuff, and, sob, called us nasty names, and, brought up legislation that we wrote behind closed doors, and then shoved it down their throats, without so much as a glance through!
I just hope that this type of, sniff, free speech doesn’t get out of control, where anybody, can and will tell the truth about it, and we’ll have to defend ourselves using lies, obfuscation, and misdirection. I thought we had gotten stronger than that!”
What Nancy wants to say, but the timing is all wrong. She’ll wait until the truth starts coming out about the coordinated effort to circumvent the Constitution by Democrats get disclosed…that way, her claim to “victimhood” remains intact.
And who is going to bring out the “truth”? The MSM? Shadowy special interest front groups?
History will bring some truth but it may be too late.
T-Bone said:
Things always have a way of coming out. I was thinking more on the line of Congressional investigations…rats won’t go down on a sinking ship.
Yeah, I’m sure those Congressional shredders are, and have been working overtime, but I have no doubt someone will sing, or paperwork/computer files will turn up.
Now, if the incoming freshmen can force the GOB’s Club to do what’s right…and, maybe grow some stones while they’re at it…?
Chap wrote:
What’s funny about this is that by “shadowy interest group” they are talking about the Tea Party, Moms, Grandparents and the hard working people that Pelosi has been scamming for four decades.
You’d be hard pressed to find a republican who has done that.
Also, Chap, can you please explain to the rest of us imbelices in your eloquent style as to why all of the cheerleaders for the new health care law have waivers to be exempt from it? Why wouldn’t McDonalds and the government union workers want to be part of such a great utopian policy?
I am quite confused.
Nancy Peepea is a gazillionaire and she wants me to send her $10.00? She oughta send me $10.00. Get the money out of politics–Just say NO and not only NO but Hell NO!
Chap you’re just doing what libs do: redirect the subject away from the painful truth.
OT but looking for a way to tie it to nannystatism….
My hero, Sir WSC, once said:
“
HitlerRadical Islamists knowsthathethey will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up tohimthem, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
We could change a few words – as noted, and it is just as applicable today. A few other chances and it could be made into a staement against liberals and programs run amok at the cost of freedom, liberty, and dare I say, the very basis on which the greatest nation the world has ever known was founded.
Maybe it’s all one big mess and it is all related….but I would sooner pour $10 worth of a good Kentucky bourbon down the drain before giving it to the Wicked Witch of the West, home town Sodom by the Sea.
CW4
Nancy: I am sending you a special ExLax chocolate cake. Enjoy.
These people have unmitigated gall. Did you see the story about Rangel asking for help with his legal bills!!! Gads, I despise these politicians…but I REALLY despise the dolts who fall for their crap.
No, she’s not.
Then you aren’t looking hard enough.
I don’t know either whether they backed the law or why they asked for an exemption. I also don’t know why anyone would think that it is inconsistent to generally support a law but recognize that exemptions and exceptions are sometimes necessary and wise.
Um…there IS no painful truth here. A painfully OBVIOUS truth, maybe.
But anyone that thinks that what Pelosi is doing is in any way shocking, inconsistent or unique or even that bad is suffering under some mighty powerful delusions.
I’m sorry, I seem to recall death panels….er.um, I mean “end of life counselors” and connections to the 1930s Eugenics movement that wanted to sterilize all mentally ill people.
But I’m guessing the Maryland newspapers won’t report on it. Might make big ol Barb out there look bad.
Gotta love that liberal compassion.
And for the rest, just make sure you don’t get sick or hurt.
Golly gee, I was hoping you’d provide me with some examples. After all, the first reply liberals make in an argument is point at the GOP and say “See! They do it!” Doesn’t matter how stupid it is, liberals just want to feel included and to show the world they can take something and make it better, which of course, invariably means it gets much, much worse.
Sure you do, Chap! The Unions were all for this crap! And Mickey D’s, well, they had to get an exemption or thousands of their people would LOSE health coverage under the great Pelosi/Reid/Obama plan to cover everyone. In fact, over 215 companies had to.
(laughs)
But it was supposed to be free/affordable (mostly free) health care for all! It was going to solve ALL the problems and make everyone feel good, get well and all that other liberal fluff stuff.
Both your assumptions and your recollections are faulty.
My argument isn’t with politicians on either side. My argument is with your delusion that only one side engages in any sort of political activity.
No, it wasn’t. That is the absurd strawman the right throws up to avoid discussing the issue on its merits.
No, Chap. You are the one setting up and knocking down the strawman. You’ve stuck your foot in it and just can’t let it go.
You must not know what “strawman” means. You are not alone on that point. At least not here.
Let me help you out. Saying that ANYONE in any position of authority was claiming that health care would be “mostly free” and that it was going to solve all the problems and make everyone feel good is the very definition of “strawman.” Distort the other side’s position into an absurdity and attack that rather than the actual argument. And volia. A strawman.
Stuck my foot in what, exactly? Holding the position that politicians solicit donations even after their party has been defeated?
No, Chap. See my first post. You should give Doug more credit. I’m sure he knows perfectly well that Dems and Reps both play politics. He isn’t so shallow, as you make him out to be, that he’d point out bad behavior on one side only to have someone like you come along and accuse him of hypocrisy. You are responding to this thread as though no one can see the point you are trying to make. Everyone here knows that what you’re saying is true in that, win or lose, political parties will solicit contributions. That isn’t the point of this thread!!! Doug is drawing attention to the horrific debt that we’ve allowed the Dems to foist upon us and our descendants. You somehow refuse to see this and instead argue that Doug is complaining about the Dem-losers asking for money even though they lost the House.
Except that is exactly what he did, and does, on a regular basis.
No. Doug used that as an ancillary issue to mock Pelosi asking for contributions after her party lost the house. What do you think this means?
And just as an FYI, the last paragraph was not original. Doug added that in after I had originally posted.
Chap, ok. I’ll give you want you want:
Did you know that those evil Democrats kiss babies and promise the moon to get elected? Also, they are sexually promiscuous not only with the opposite sex, but the SAME sex. What a shock! Democrats commit adultery, lie, cheat, steal all the time. They use bribes, threats, and betray their constituents to further their agendas and political careers. Not only that, but those idiotic babbling Democrats are always saying stupid things in public.
Now then, let’s see you respond to that! It doesn’t occur to me what you could possibly find wrong in my accusations.
Jet J, of course you mean all Democrats EXCEPT our savior, the Messiah, the one and only who Neil Abercrombie KNOWS was born at Kapiolani…or was it Queens..medical center in 1961…that would be Barack Hussein Obama, Nobel laureate, world traveler and party animal extrordinaire.
He is the No ka oi President fer shore! He never said anything stupid in any of our 57 states or when he was speaking Austrian to those people in Vienna (Wein)…
Besides the fact that they are only slightly less banal than Doug’s?
Slightly? Come on, man. I mean, really.
I, along with my compadre Charlie Brown, got a rock at Hallowe’en.
The chimney was bare at Christmas.
As a self-employed individual, when my sector of the economy tanked–back in 2008–I was not eligible for unemployment “benefits” like so many societal leeches.
What did I do? Whine about it? No.
Beg for $10? No, and I sure as hell didn’t send $10 to San Fran Nan. I went out, and found three consulting/contract jobs to make my family’s ends meet.
If Nan wants $10, I suggest she write a cardboard sign and stand on a Berkeley street corner and beg for it.
I’d love to get a hold of her email distribution list and follow it up with one of my own, displaying her picture with a warning: “Do not give money to this woman.” [Along the lines of the old "don't cash checks passed by this person" warnings seen years ago in stores.]
She is a thief.