Minority Leader Pelosi: Democrats Lost Election Because of Bush (Video)

Pelosi: Democrats Lost House Because of ... BUSH!
via Erica C on FB It's only fitting that Pelosi is leaving the Speaker's position of the US House the same way she went in - blaming Bush. From Fox Nation: "We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let's take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives, Tax Cuts are for the wealth, recklessness by some," Minority Leader Pelosi told CNN. Bush didn't bring down The Economy. Nor did ...

Job Killing And Job Creating
The Republicans have been using the phrase “Job Killing” as an adjective before describing any Legislation from the past two years so often that you know that there had to be a memo telling them to do so.  But in the wake of the employment data announced yesterday, they should probably save the term “Job Killing” for the Bush Administration and use “job creating” for the Obama Administration. Responding the jobs report, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ...

Nancy Pelosi: Democrats lost because of George W. Bush
Real Clear Politics reports that, continuing her descent into unreality, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has found a way to blame George W. Bush for the Democrats' own version of Wounded Knee on November 2nd. Listing as accomplishments ObamaCare and Wall Street reform Legislation, but omitting the stimulus package and its tons of pork, Pelosi says "We still would have lost the election because we had nine and a half percent Unemployment," and goes on to blame Bush for that. She still hasn't f...

Nancy Pelosi Pins the Blame on Bush For Democrats Losses
This is rich - Nancy Pelosi is blaming George W. Bush for the loss at the polls suffered by so many Democrats last year. “We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives, Tax Cuts are for the wealth, recklessness by some,” Minority Leader Pelosi told CNN. If you care to see it, video is available at Real Clear Politics. Via Fox Nation...

Video: Jim Webb Defends His Vote to Extend Bush Tax Cuts
It's interesting, just when you think that politicians like Jim Webb don't read the blogs or care, you get an event like Chap Petersen's Business Leaders Breakfast this morning, where you get called out by name by the guy you "drafted" for Senate (and helped raise $4 million online for), because of criticism on your blog. In this case, I had questioned how Webb could reconcile his commitment to "Jacksonian Democracy," as well as his repeated (and passionate) talk in 2006 about how America was br...

Methinks Greg Ip Pulls His Punches...
Greg Ip writes: Paul Ryan and American fiscal policy: Paul Ryan, Deficit hawk or dove?: FOR politicians, power is usually its own reward. But doing the right thing sometimes comes at the expense of power, which means they need other incentives, too. This seems to be the thinking behind the "FI$CY", awarded to policymakers who lead "on confronting our fiscal challenges." The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Comeback America Initiative and the Concord Coalition handed out the awar...

Obama created more jobs in one year than Bush created in eight
Looks like Cheney’s pro-pollution, pro-rich policies aren’t as effective as even Obama’s modest Clean Energy, middle-class-oriented ones.  ThinkProgress has the story in this cross-post: This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 Private Sector jobs, knocking the Unemployment Rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate since July 2009….  October

When one year beats eight
WHEN ONE YEAR BEATS EIGHT.... Back in April, Ron Brownstein made an observation that seemed hard to believe: "If The Economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency." Of course, that was before crises in Europe caused an international slowdown. It was easier to make that kind of prediction in April, when job growth lo...

Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Lost Election Because of George W. Bush Video
While talking to CNN’s John King, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush and his policies for the devastating defeat of the Democrats. “If we hadn’t done Health Care, if we hadn’t done Wall Street reform…We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives.” ...

Washington Week
The Senate and the House convened the 112th Congress, passing and adopting mostly routine housekeeping measures and conducting leadership Elections. The Senate opened to a bit of acrimony when the two leaders differed on whether the Senate rules should be changed and how to go about these rules changes without trashing 200-plus years of Senate history. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made an impassioned Speech about how the Senate Democrats have abused their power by how they have legislated over t...

Pelosi Blames Bush For Losing Her Speakership
Give it a rest, Nancy. (RCP)- We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives, Tax Cuts are for the wealth, recklessness by some,” Minority Leader Pelosi told CNN. I believe that Democrats desire a line of History, going back in time, and going forward which points directly to Bush. He is the center of their Universe, and the scape goat or all ills...

My $0.02: the Mona Lisa and War on Poverty edition
Another piece of historical trivia for January 8th… In 1964, LBJ declared a “War on Poverty” in the US. (Link takes you to an essay hosted on blackpast.org.) Who has taken up the call to fight the war on poverty today? Hillary spoke of and to “invisible” Americans when she ran in 2008, but the powers-that-be railroaded her and kept her powerful voice off the domestic stage. John Edwards tainted his “Two Americas” Rhetoric on poverty with his “narci...

Pelosi said what?
In a CNN interview with John King former Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed the Bush policies for her and fellow Democrats getting the boot. Was Bush to blame for the high Unemployment? Technically yes, he did sign the huge Bailout and largely ignored all the warning signs but the former President had his own agenda at the time. It’s hard to say if he knew or not. To get to the root of the problem you have to go all the way back to 1913 when President Roosevelt signed the Federal Reserve Act. In ...

"Worst Week in Washington": Nancy Pelosi
The best of the best of state-based political blogs -- as of April 2009. The first "winner" of our first"Worst Week in Washington" award of 2011 is Nancy Pelosi , the woman who went from speaker of the House to Minority Leader this week. But, the handover of power wasn't that simple. As we write in our "WWW" piece for Sunday's paper: The rebellion of her Democratic colleagues -- 18 voted for someone else, one voted "present," and another didn't vote -- was a sign of the enduring discontent direc...

Lofgren To Stay On At Ethics Committee For Now, But Wants Out
The Hill reports today that Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) will stay on as ranking member of the House Ethics Committee, but has made clear to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that she wants the position to be temporary. Lofgren reportedly told Pelosi in no uncertain terms that she wants wants to be out by February. In the meantime, leadership must find someone else to be the panel's top Democrat. Pelosi's office confirms that Lofgren's position on the committee is temporary. The committee has been in t...

By the Skin of Pelosis Clenched Teeth
As if it wasn’t bad enough for Democrats, still licking their wounds from last year’s Elections, the party’s House Caucus leadership still finds itself in a state of obnoxious disarray and factionalism.  The signs of bitter internal fights are still apparent, from anxious Progressives clearly dissatisfied with the current political playing field and bitter moderate Blue Dogs blindly grabbing through the darkness of a Capitol Hill abyss. Months of circular Firing Squads and...

Video: Pelosi blames Dem loss in midterms on
Via Jeff Dunetz, who says Nancy Pelosi has gone “mad,” but this isn’t madness as much as it is calculated denial. What’s she going to say — “Man, I really screwed up?” She got elected leader of her Caucus and is now going to be the DCCC’s poster girl, which is supposedly based on her utterly indispensable brilliance.  Who else can she blame but … “We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let’s tak...

Video of Pelosi Blaming Bush for Losing Election
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US adds 1.3 million private sector jobs in 2010, holds lessons for 2011 policy
The December jobs report showed the Unemployment Rate down to, 9.4 percent, the Lowest Level in 19 months. It showed that 103,000 jobs were added to The Economy, the 12th consecutive month of growth in Private Sector jobs that added 1.3 million Private Sector jobs, the strongest Private Sector job growth since 2006. Indeed, jobs have been added to the economy for just about every month since Obama got the stimulus program passed, reversing the decline in jobs that had occurred every month for Bu...

In defeat, Dems & GOP do same thing: blame Republicans
When Republicans and Democrats lose Elections, they do the same thing, albeit in a slightly different manner; they blame Republicans.  Shortly, after their loss of Congress in 2006, Republicans began engaging in a bit of introspection, introspection which was intensified when they suffered further setbacks in 2008, coupled with the loss of the White House. Introspective, many Republicans asked what had they done wrong (AKA “blaming” Republicans).  This week, we learned (yet again...

Jason Altmire (D-PA) votes against the Speaker he ran against
Altmire spent the 2010 campaign distancing himself from Pelosi and President Obama, with ads that portrayed him as independent. Indeed, at some points he seemed to be running against his own party, rather than the Republicans. In September, he accused the Democratic leadership of overreach: 　 "Even though the leaders in Congress understood that a lot of these things are not going to be popular, they were at a point in their careers where they realized that this is what they have been wait...

Obama to GOP: Stop the symbolic battles in Congress
Stumble This! WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged newly empowered Republicans on Saturday not to wage "symbolic battles" against him but to instead work together to help spur job growth and economic recovery. Obama issued his appeal in his weekly radio address after Republicans took power in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting up potentially fierce fights with the president and his Democrats on spending, Debt and healthcare. "Our fundamental mission must be to accelerate hi...

American Way: Forget the tears and the tan. Barack Obama underestimates John Boehner at his peril
One of the first rules of politics is: “Never underestimate your opponent.” Back in 1996, a Veteran Illinois State Senator called Alice Palmer forgot this when she faced a challenge for her seat in Chicago’s Hyde Park from an upstart community organiser called Barack Obama. Running for re-election, she assumed she could coast to victory without working for it and failed to ensure that her nominating petition was in order. Obama spotted his opportunity and challenged hundreds of signature

Whom are you going to believe - Pelosi or your lying eyes?
It's always been ridiculous, just on the face of it, to think that the Federal Government could extend a massive entitlement to millions of people, yet spend less money doing so. But that is what the Pelosi and Obama Democrats would have you believe. The WSJ explains this once again for those who haven't been paying attention for the past year and a half.The Accounting gimmicks are legion, but we'll pick out a few: It uses 10 years of taxes to fund six years of subsidies. Social Security and Med...

Legislative fireworks, not protest drama, expected for this health vote
A week into the new Congress, Democrats and Republicans have sharpened their messages on the Healthcare Reform law as House Republicans prepare to Repeal the overhaul next week. Democrats, who have been criticized by party members for not defending the law before the Midterm Elections, have assembled an offense portraying the Repeal effort as a time-waster, a promise-breaker and dangerous to Americans. Republicans argue they were swept into office with a mandate to Repeal the reform law, which...