Oct. 31, 2006
The Dangers Of A President Pelosi
NRO: Rep.'s Record Could Be Problem If She Becomes Speaker
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Two Heartbeats Away
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi could become the first female Speaker of the House if Democrats win a majority in the upcoming midterm elections. She talks to Lesley Stahl about her style of leadership.
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Eye To Eye: Nancy Pelosi
Only On The Web: Katie Couric presents Lesley Stahl's interview with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who may become America's first female speaker of the House, then files her daily notebook.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (AP)
Everyone seems to be talking about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a new Speaker of the House after this year’s elections. But is anyone interested in what she has actually done in the past, as a guide to what to expect from her in a powerful position that also puts her next in line to become president of the United States after the vice president?
On immigration, Congresswoman Pelosi voted against tightening border security. Current House Speaker Dennis Hastert voted for it — and also led the fight that stopped the Senate amnesty bill from gaining approval in the House of Representatives.
On taxes, Congresswoman Pelosi has paid no attention to their actual economic consequences and instead repeated the standard Democrat’s line about “tax cuts for the wealthiest few, causing red ink as far as the eye can see.”
Cuts in tax rates have been followed by increases — repeat, increases — in tax revenues. This has happened not only during this administration but also as far back as the Kennedy administration.
Red ink comes from runaway spending, which can always exceed any increases in revenues. When a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to cut federal spending on welfare, Pelosi voted against it.
Upper-income earners — most of whom are not rich — have in fact paid more total taxes after the rates were cut because these cuts have spurred economic growth and higher incomes. But to admit this would be to abandon the twin pillars of liberalism, higher tax rates, and class-warfare rhetoric.
As regards the war on terrorism and the terrorists’ war against the west, Nancy Pelosi has opposed having international phone calls to and from terrorists monitored by American intelligence agencies.
The liberal spin is that this is “domestic spying” when someone on one end of the line is within the United States. Pelosi also doesn’t think we are treating terrorists nice enough at Guantanamo. She wants to give them “rights” that neither the Constitution nor the Geneva convention gives them.
This is from someone who, as Speaker of the House, would be two heartbeats away from becoming president of the United States. We can only hope that the president and vice president never travel in the same car or fly on the same plane.
Reprinted with permission from National Review Online.




As for this article....funny how the rant is on Pelosi being third in line...guess it's okay for the third in line person to be someone who covers up for pedophiles...really warped...
McCain Calls On Kerry To Apologize
Tue Oct 31 2006 11:43:14 ET
"Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks."
CHANGE THE SUBJECT!
BOO! Nancy Pelosi is coming!
SCREECH! The *** are getting married!
SOB! GASP! (CHOKE)! Immigrants are taking ALL the jobs! We need a big fence!
Generally, the National Review has good points to debate. But this is shilling of the worst sort. It is unseemly and at the base of it, dishonest.
VOTE based on your only personal best interets and not on this smear.
It's time to clean house! (especially the White House)
To One-America...wow the drudge report...now THERE'S credibility...you need to seek professional help and fast...God didn't give us these rights, Our Constitution did...while you're at that tractor pull getting a Webster's I also recommend an old history textbook...and turn off Fox News...they'll warp your brain even worse than you already have on your own....TOO FUNNY that you skimmed right over the DOCUMENTED facts of the Kerry, Bush and Cheney military (or lack thereof) records...talk about one sided....well it can be shared I guess...but that's between you and your proctologist..
Obama 08'. Its like Kennedy sort of, time for a new generation to take the reigns because the old has become so far stuck up its own political behind it cant smell the mess.
The rich start wars - the poor fight them. This hasn't changed for thousands of years.
Interesting logic there. I don't understand this unwavering loyalty to a party that puts thousands of troops in harm's way over a disasterous and ill-conceived war in Iraq, won't equip them properly (Rumsfeld's famous quote "you fight with the army you have, not the one you wish you had") and won't pay their health costs (thanks Republican congress). Yet, Republicans claim how much they "love" our military. But SAYING you love them and DOING something to show it are two different things. Republicans love sending them into combat, but don't seem to have much love for proper body armor, taking care of troops after they get back or relief from multiple, crushing tours of duty. Yet democrats are guilty of the horrible crimes of wanting to bring the soldiers home, of wanting to fund health insurance for reservists and more money for equipemt like body armor. Horrible liberals. I can see how much they hate the troops.
Ignorance is a dangerous thing. Arrogance is also a dangerous thing. Put therm together though, and you have a disaster in the making. Something the Bush admin proves every day.
Of the most ignorant and moronic things that any person can say, this garbage about dems/liberals wanting Osama to win because they don't believe in what I believe in or what the govt believes in blah blah blah is the most foolish thing that can come out of anyone's mouth.
There isn't a person in the house or senate, from the most liberal dem to the most conservative repub, who wants the terrorists to win. To even suggest overwise is idiotic. To question one's loyalty simply because they don't believe in solving certain problems (like terrorism) the way you believe in or the way the current govt believes in is complete ignorance not even worthy of a response.
We've had "spend & Spend" republicans for awhile.
We have had years of Fat-White guys trying to control women's bodies, force their brand of intollerent religion down our throats, equate moral outrage over single cell embryos as the same as dying children in Dafar, supported an ill advised war that is every bit a quagmire as Vietnam was, had the morals of a snake-oil salesmen and particiapted in ham-handed corruption, turned back years of enviromental and work safety laws while in the "employ" of big corporations, and in general set back democracy years. And we should be afraid of the Democrats.
Darth Cheney proclaims all manner of craziness and this guy thinks we should fear Nancy Pelosi. This administration attacks the wrong country and Nancy is the devil!
Give me a break.
What's scary is the number of people who buy into this nonsense.
that Republican Loser George W Bush & *** Cheney
got in as President & Vice President was running
that idiot windsurfer loser John Kerry for their
Democratic Presidential Candidate and making that
pair of losers Nancy Pelosi House Democratic
Leader and that crooked old fraud Harry Reid their Senate Minority Leader and we hope to Hell
that the Democrats learned from their mistakes &
get rid of Pelosi & Reid & not be dumb enough to
re-nominate that loser John Kerry in 2008 as we
don't need a Democrat version of George W Bush &
*** Cheney Or Dennis Cover Up Hastert or Bill The Video Doctor Frist again either! So Democrats
wake up and accept reality here will you?
I had to double check, then double check again, just to make sure this Pelosi report was realy on CBS.
If Kerry were a republican, his nasty remark would have been played and replayed instead of covered up under the lid. Katie's predjudice is showing.
Yes, being FRONT PAGE news everywhere is a good example of the story being "covered up".
Bad liberal media, bad!
Shame on me! Another death blow to civility...on the other hand, if National Review-er's language skills are on a par with Mr. Bush's (or Tony Snow's), the missile will whiz above their comprehension, doing no discernible damage.
Gee, I've managed offense and self-exoneration. I can see why the GOPers have become addicted to it. It really does simplify matters.
Also, Obama is the close friend of Tony Rezko who owns the lot next to Obama's home and has been indicted for some serious corruption matters. Rezco is also a close friend of the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich whose office is being looked into by Federal Investigators.
So, par for the course in llinois, corruption lives on, nothing changes, just faces.
Obama's friends. Go figure.
Things are beginning to make more sense and it is not favorable.
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by hermit22
November 2, 2006 3:07 AM PST
- Hi Shingles, Couric was specifically hoping that the Kerry deal would be a one day and thats enough type of story, and she complained that the Republicans would be keeping it going.That is what I was refering too.
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