Posts about Pelosi as of September 17, 2009

If you are not a fan of big, expansive, intrusive and special privilege granting government, you are a racist, a gay-basher, and now an assassin if you dare voice your concern about it. My favorite passage just smacks of some of the most delightful elitism I have ever seen: “I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made,” Pelosi said. Some of the people hearing the message “are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume,” she said.

  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has to go, and here’s why… On Monday, September 14, 2009, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to cut off funding to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). If you’re reading this, the odds are pretty good that you learned of this back on Monday when it happened. Also, the odds are that you don’t even work for the government, let alone work as a U.S.

Racism is kinda like art.  I know it when I see it. Some say the image of Obama dressed up as an African Witch Doctor with a bone through his nose is meant to be satirical, not racist.  Couldn’t they have made the same point with Obama dressed up as a cartoonish doctor, with one of those big reflector things on his head, holding a big needle and syringe with the word “TAXES” or “GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE” on it?  If it wasn’t meant to be racist, why go right to the “witch doctor” imagery?

             – Bitterly divided along party lines, the House formally rebuked Republican Rep. Joe Wilson Tuesday for shouting “You lie” at President Barack Obama during last week’s nationally televised speech to Congress. The rare resolution of disapproval was pushed through by Democrats insisting that Wilson, a South Carolina lawmaker, had violated basic rules of decorum and civility in his outburst. Republicans dismissed the vote as a political “witch hunt” and a waste of precious time and taxpayers’ money.

It was bound to happen, but it might have been the Orlando Sentinel’s TV reviewer Hal Boedeker that was first out of the gate to compare the obscenity laden tirade disgorged at a tennis match by Serena Williams to the no more than annoyed outburst of “you lied” from Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s healthcare speech. Apparently, according to Sentinel columnist Boedeker, there is no difference to pointing out that a liar is lying, as Wilson did, and losing one’s mind in a petulant, childish explosion of anger, as Williams did.

Last week, as the sniper shot rang out mortally wounding President Obama, the country woke up to the historical fact that idle words are indeed the devil’s playground. History will long note  and judge those, who while the ambulance was attempting to carry the dying man to the nearest hospital, surrounded the vehicle, only to have the Secret Service fire into the crowd wounding several, killing one. Some of the protesters stood idly by, crouched in prayer, not for the life of the man on the stretcher, but for the death.

Last week, as the sniper shot rang out mortally wounding President Obama, the country woke up to the historical fact that idle words are indeed the devil’s playground. History will long note  and judge those, who while the ambulance was attempting to carry the dying man to the nearest hospital, surrounded the vehicle, only to have the Secret Service fire into the crowd, wounding several, killing one. Some of the protesters stood idly by, crouched in prayer, not for the life of the man on the stretcher, but for the death.

Protesters flooded Washington today in what people in the crowd are calling “a conservative Woodstock”. Like the liberal Woodstock of the ’60s, thousands were rumored stranded on freeways. Some walked in to DC, ditching their cars and busses. I walked with a 5 deep 6 block long column of protesters from Pennsylvania who told me they had walked miles from where they were forced by gridlock to leave their busses. Networks including Fox News continued through the time I’m writing this at 8 p.m.