Will they pass a bill that isn't even there?

What are Pelosi and the House Democrat women up to now?; Update: Dems aim for Saturday vote, but where’s the damned bill?

None of this surprises me. Pelosi was my representative during the 23 years I lived in San Francsico. She believes firmly that "The ends justify the means". She will do whatever it takes, any underhanded thing, to get what she wants, if she is allowed to get away with it.
     

Pelosi's Bill: "The worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced"

The Worst Bill Ever
Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.

In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.

Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan "reform" and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be "universal coverage." The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country's fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity. [...]

The rest of the article explains the how and why of it. It would be the end of health care as we've known it, and would necessarily create rationing and becomes unsustainable. Let's not go there.
     

Why Ordinary Americans are becoming so angry

It doesn't help when our politicians refer to them as Nazi's:

Marine Corps Vet Blasts Dem Congressman for Calling ObamaCare Protesters 'Brown Shirts'

On August 5, Congressman Brian Baird (D-Wash.) likened recent town hall meeting protesters to Nazis:

"What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics. I mean that very seriously."

On Tuesday, at such a political gathering in Vancouver, a Marine Corps veteran named David William Hedrick blasted the Congressman for this disgraceful depiction. [...]

David Hendrick points out what should be obvious. Nazi's were National Socialists. Look at what they did, and where it lead. Look at what our government is doing now. Where is it leading us?

I left the Democrat party many years ago, because of what I considered to be "brownshirt" tactics. Now the Democrat leadership is using that word to tar ordinary Americans. Too ironic. And unbelievably ugly.
     

Congressional Motor's New Car of the Future

From IowaHawk: Lemon.

It's in the way you dress. The way you boogie down. The way you sign your unemployment check. You're a man who likes to do things your own way. And on those special odd-numbered Saturdays when driving is permitted, you want it in your car. It's that special feeling of a zero-emissions wind at your back and a road ahead meandering with possibilities. The kind of feeling you get behind the wheel of the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition from Congressional Motors.

All new for 2012, the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition is the mandatory American car so advanced it took $100 billion and an entire Congress to design it. We started with same reliable 7-way hybrid ethanol-biodeisel-electric-clean coal-wind-solar-pedal power plant behind the base model Pelosi, but packed it with extra oomph and the sassy styling pizazz that tells the world that 1974 Detroit is back again -- with a vengeance.

We've subsidized the features you want and taxed away the rest. [...]

Do follow the link and read the whole thing, it's deliciously rude!


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DEMOCRATS TO CHANGE 185 YEAR-OLD HOUSE RULE TO ALLOW TAX HIKES WITHOUT HAVING TO VOTE

From Jonah Goldberg at National Review:
Pelosi's Gambit

[...] In a stunning move, House Democrats today revealed they will attempt to rewrite House rules that have gone unchanged since 1822 in order to make it possible to increase taxes and government spending without having to vote and be held accountable. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today vowed Republicans will use every available means to fight this unprecedented change.

“This is an astonishing attempt by the majority leadership to duck accountability for tax-and-spend policies the American people do not want,” Boehner said. “The majority leadership is gutting House rules that have been in place for 185 years so they can raise taxes and increase government spending without a vote. House Republicans will use every tool available to fight this abuse of power.” [...]

Absolutely frigging unbelievable. But hardly surprising, really. Socialists like Nancy Pelosi prefer not to be encumbered with things like votes and accountability. I lived in Pelosi-Land (San Francisco) for 23 years, and know this only too well from experience.

Socialists like her dominate the Democratic party now, and I think you will find they have no respect for American traditions and institutions; they just wish to abolish them and institute their own socialist agenda.



Pelosi promised the American people that Democrats would have the most honest and most open government. This is exactly the opposite, and just goes to show that socialists like her will say ANYTHING to get into office, and then just do what they want, trashing our institutions to advance their agenda without our consent. Do read the rest of Jonah's article for the dirty details.

(Hat Tip to Pat at Born Again Redneck Yogi)
     

Hizbullah TV in Lebanon, courtesy of Iran

The following clip shows excerpts from music videos aired by Al-Manar TV during the parliamentary elections campaign in 2005. Al-Manar is the Hizbullah TV station in Lebanon. Hizbollah recieves most of it's funding and support from Iran.


#713 - Hizbullah TV Music Videos during Parliament Elections
Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 6/2005 - 00:03:59

Campaign music videos are supposed to inspire voters to vote for the party making the videos; the videos are supposed to show what the sponsoring party is all about, and what they intend to do. These "music" video clips show quite clearly Hizbullah's intentions. It's no coincidence that the following year, they launched missile attacks from Lebanon against Israel.

Up until the 1970's, Christians were a sizable group that wielded a lot of power in Lebanon; Beirut flourished, and was known as the "Paris of the Middle East". It was a prosperous, tolerant country. That all began to change with an influx of Muslims who would not assimilate. From Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who lived through jihad as a child:

[...] In the early '70s, Lebanon was a majority Christian country . . . a republic very much like America. We prospered. We focused on growing our economy. We were multicultural, fair and tolerant, and had an open border policy. We welcomed everybody into our country, because we wanted to share the westernizations we had created in the Middle East. . . . Sadly, many people who came didn't want to assimilate and adopt westernizations, but wanted to drag us down to their tribal Islamic culture. . . . By 1974, Christians stopped traveling. We became prisoners in our homes and cities because Muslims would set up fly-by-night checkpoints. . . . Our religion is written on our national ID. . . . So, Muslims would stop cars, look at their IDs and if a Christian family was traveling, they would shoot them in cold blood. The whole family. . . . Extremist Muslims started coming from all around the Arabic world to fight alongside the Muslims in Lebanon. [...]

The extremist Muslims in Lebanon are now controlled by Iranian supported Hizbullah. Few Christians run for office in Lebanon anymore, because they are assassinated. Nancy Pelosi said during her recent so-called "fact finding" trip to the Middle East, that the road to peace in Lebanon lies through Damascus. Since Syria also supports Hizbullah, how is that supposed to work?

Pelosi's recent visit to Syria, one of Iran's proxies, has gotten widespread press coverage in the Middle East. It's excited many tyrants, as they now believe they no longer have to deal with the Bush Administration, but can appeal directly to the Democrat Party instead. Iran is even talking about inviting Pelosi to come visit and "talk".

Here is a recent clip from Hizbullah TV in Lebanon:


#1433 - Anti-American Filler on Hizbullah TV
Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) - 4/28/2007 - 00:00:29

Looks like they got Pelosi's message loud and clear. No wonder Pelosi and the Democrats think we need to talk to Iran. They have so much in common ideologically.

Nancy Pelosi, the good dhimmi

Nancy needn't bother to cover her head when she visits Middle East Tyrants; they will still think she is a whore. But they will like her anyway, because she is THEIR whore.

If you think that's harsh, note that I'M not saying that ANY woman is a whore for not covering her head. I do however see a political element of prostitution in letting yourself be used by misogynistic tyrants to further your own political ends.


If the Democrats succeed at assuring we lose the war, they will also have to deal with the aftermath and all that follows. If they win the Whitehouse in 2008, they will have to deal with the consequences directly. Just as they have no plan now, they seem to have no clue as to what would follow. What would they do? I hope we don't ever have to find out.
     

President Pelosi continues to over-reach...

Not content with stumbling in Syria, it seems "President" Pelosi is considering posturing in Iran, too:

Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran

Someone needs to explain to this woman that she is second in command to the President and Vice President, not the Second President.


What's her excuse? Posturing, of course. It's the Democrats specialty nowadays.


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Pelosi does Syria; no legal consequences

There has been a lot of talk on conservative blogs about Pelosi violating the Logan Act by her visit to Syria. They say she broke the law.

But did she? In an previous post, I maintained that Pelosi is a hippy and a socialist at heart, and that means she will do whatever she likes, flouting any laws and traditions, as long as she could get away with it. In this instance, clearly she can do just that. How can that be?

Michael Dorf has an excellent post, outlining four reason as to why, legally, Pelosi will get away with it:

Did Speaker Pelosi Violate the Logan Act?

Prosectuing the Speaker for this would be very tricky, and highly unlikely. Surely she knows this too. There may indeed be consequences to Pelosi for her actions, but they won't be legal ones.



However if Pelosi and the Democrats continue pursuing a separate foreign policy, there will indeed be consequences for us all.




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Pelosi over-reaches, makes many mistakes
     

Pelosi over-reaches, makes many mistakes

Nancy Pelosi, the good little dhimmi
I was surprised when Pelosi wore a headscarf. Yes, she didn't wear it when meeting with Assad, yet as a foreign dignitary she wasn't required to wear it at all. I guess it shows how far she was willing to go to suck up to the Syrians. But from a feminist viewpoint, it was a shameful step backward.

From Tammy Bruce:
The Result of the American "Feminist" Movement

In other words, not feminist at all, but quintessentially leftist: that pit where the dignity of women is sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism. Pelosi's visit to Syria did more than encourage a murderous dictator, her wearing the hijab legitimizes and honors the world's most entrenched oppression of women--the Islamic man's insistence (in the name of 'religion') that women are too dangerous, too dirty, too ungodly, to be allowed to be seen in their entirety in public.

Great work Nance. Now if you would just come over to my house and do my dishes, make the bed, and wash my feet, we'll be batting 1000. [...]

Tammy, an authentic feminist, has more to say on the matter. But in the larger picture, what other mistakes has Pelosi made here? Quite a few, it seems. Nancy really was in over her head, misinformed about what she was dealing with, and misunderstanding all she saw along the way.


From Fred Barnes at The Daily Standard:
Pelosi Abroad: The new speaker stumbles in Syria.

[...] Pelosi's visit to Damascus for talks with Syrian president Bashir Assad showed her ill-equipped to deal with the longstanding conflict between Israel and neighboring Arab states in the Middle East. She made three serious mistakes.

Pelosi got off on the wrong foot by stating beforehand her belief that "the road to Damascus is a road to peace." Not true. In the struggle between Israelis and Arabs, the road to Damascus has not been a path to peace--quite the contrary. In fact, Assad and his father, who preceded him as president, have never made more than a minimal effort to reach a peace settlement with Israel.

Pelosi seemed to think it would be easy to get the Israelis and Syrians together at the bargaining table. It's not and never has been. The complicated nature of diplomacy in the Middle East eluded her. She was in way over her head. She didn't understand what she was dealing with. This was her first big mistake. [...]

And there are several others too, I can't repeat them all here, but it's worth reading the whole thing.

When Pelosi was up for nomination as House Speaker, there were doubts by some Democrats that Nancy was the best choice, because they felt she would be a loose canon. Perhaps they were right, and this is just the beginning.


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