Pelosi Responds To Cat Food Commission

[lame54]

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/stick-fork-catfood-commission-its-done

Commission Recommendations:

Their recommendations are more or less a list of the third-rail issues of American politics, including cuts in the number of federal workers; increasing the costs of participating in veterans and military health care systems; increasing the age of Social Security eligibility; and major cuts in defense and foreign policy spending. They also encompass a range of tax system reforms that have been floated by many in Washington for years to little effect, including funding tax rates reductions by eliminating many beloved credits and deductions.

You can read the whole report here if you have the stomach for it http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/Illustrative_List_11.10.2010.pdf

Pelosi's Reaction:

This proposal is simply unacceptable. Any final proposal from the Commission should do what is right for our children and grandchildren’s economic security as well as for our nation’s fiscal security, and it must do what is right for our seniors, who are counting on the bedrock promises of Social Security and Medicare. And it must strengthen America’s middle class families–under siege for the last decade, and unable to withstand further encroachment on their economic security.

[Dragonfli]

1. It would be nice if our president felt the same way and expressed it loudly

[lanlady]

2. amen to that

He really needs to run away from this steaming pile.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. He's currently out of the country.

I'm sure the timing was pure coincidence. :puke:

[Lasher]

13. That hasn't stopped him from weighing in

to encourage radicals like me to be 'open minded' about this outrage.

[tavalon]

14. Who?

I can't remember who is running the DNC since Howard Dean, I don't see how you can expect me to remember the name of the equally absent President.

[Lasher]

4. This is why Obama doesn't want her to be part of the new Democratic House leadership.

She would become a rallying point for those of us who expect our Democratic elected officials to behave like Democrats.

[Monique1]

5. Do you have a link

to Obama does not want Nancy Pelosi to be part of the new Democratic House leadership?

[Lasher]

7. How Pelosi's determination could hamper Obama

November 6, 2010

Just when President Obama thought he had all the problems he could handle, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might have handed him another.

Pelosi stunned many Democrats on Friday with the announcement that she will run for leader of the new Democratic minority in the House. If her colleagues and the smart money in Washington thought she would retreat and resign after the Democrats' 60-seat loss Tuesday, Pelosi reminded them that she didn't become the first female speaker in history through timidity.

The question is whether she has significantly complicated life for Obama as he prepares to deal with the Republican majority in the House and Senate Republicans led by someone who spent the week hurling thunderbolts at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. From outside reports, the White House was conflicted about whether it wanted her to stay or go, torn between loyalty to the speaker for all she did during the past two years and its own political needs in the wake of Tuesday's loss.

Pelosi would be a symbol of resistance and liberal opposition to the Republicans. If Obama wants a House leader who will help draw bright lines of distinction with the new House majority, Pelosi could be exactly the right person to lead House Democrats. If he wants more room to maneuver, to make deals with Republicans as well as confront them, she might not be at all what he wants.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110507192.html

[Denzil_DC]

9. That article does not quote Obama stating that at all

Indeed it doesn't quote anyone saying anything of the sort except an unattributed "Democrat with wide experience in the House" who could be someone with their own agenda about this.

[Lasher]

11. You are correct, it does not.

Regardless, I believe it sufficiently supports the opinion I expressed.

[lame54]

8. I hope she becomes minority leader

[Lasher]

12. Me too.

I think I'll email my rep to say just that.

[Romulox]

6. Good cop / bad cop. nt

[alsame]

10. Pelosi would get lots of unrecs on DU for not being

pragmatic.