House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers

Oh I hope they do. It’s very unpopular with the American people and they simply do not have the Dem votes to pass the bill. Continuing to push along this path will only harm them as a party.

Likewise I truely hope they try to push through other unpopular things like amnesty for illegal aliens and homosexuals in the military. While they are at it, a new gn control measure might be nice too. All these are losing causes that will only serve to alientate an already alienated voting majority and will help to assure that the Dems loose huge in Novemember and put the adults back in charge.

So please, please, please listen to Pelosi!

At least Obama, Reid , and Pelosi have the guts to go “all in” on behalf of their liberal base.

If only the GOP controlled Congress and George W Bush would have had the same guts to go “all in” on behalf of their conservative base by taking an axe to federal spending when they ran the show.

If only the GOP controlled Congress and George W Bush would have had the same guts to go “all in” on behalf of their conservative base by taking an axe to federal spending when they ran the show.
Posted by Power_System_Oper
2010-02-28 21:25:47

Don’t forget, Bush and the GOP had the full support of Obama and the other Democrats in Congress. In other words, Obama supported deficit spending before he opposed it.

Interesting how you always seem to forget that part. Don’t worry, we’ll always remind you.

Stupid americans, don’t know what’s good for them. The whole “election” process is really foolish, as it forces our betters (senators and the like) to listen to the unwashed masses instead of steering us in the right direction.

Maybe if we could concentrate untold new powers in the hands of unelected government bureaucrats. Maybe by convincing the people that the world is ending and this is necessary to save us . . .

Mr. Smithwick, I’m curious..exactly how does their being Senators make them our betters?

At the end of the day, they’re people…elected by other people. The people who are elected–regardless of common belief–do in fact represent the population that votes them in.

How does that make them our betters? Because they can lie with saucy words that sound tantalizing when they say it? Because they wear nice suits?

You sound a bit star-struck, here.

Am I saying the average Joe would do a better job than these schmucks? Oh hell no….again, they’re people. Pretty much I find both equally incompetent.

Hack-the-Rouge, um….the GOP also loves spending like drunken sailors; and despite common belief, that doesn’t just go for the folks who got a foot in the door in DC, I also refer to the rank-and-files( they’ll never admit it, but it’s true).

‘Know why? They’re HUMANS, and humans spend like drunken sailors, and have been doing it since the days of Aristotle–and worth noting in that time there have been economies 1000 times worse than anything Bush, Obama, Andrew Jackson, FDR, JFK, Hoover, and their ilk could ever even try to attempt.

The spending will never stop–neither by politicians or the “geniuses” who elect them.

Learn that, and fast, and you’ll go very, very far.