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Politics | 03/02/2009 9:30 am

Pelosi Keeps 'Disfavor' List, Checks it Twice

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t one for revenge, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t keep up with those who’ve wronged her.

Insiders tell Politico that Pelosi keeps a mental "disfavor" list of people who have stood in her way, like Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. Harman and Pelosi apparently don’t see eye to eye on matters like Iraq — and war in general — and, according to sources, that may be why Pelosi refused to give Harman a seat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Even Pelosi’s friends admit the "list" exists, but are quick to insist that Pelosi isn’t the vindictive type. Said one longtime colleague: “She’s not a vengeful person, per se, and she thinks that people who do bad things eventually get their due without her intervention. But that doesn’t mean she forgets.”

So, who’s on her list now? Well, Rush Limbaugh, of course, minority whip Eric Cantor, whose taken a hard stance against Democrat-led legislation, and the staff of the House Appropriation Committee, which apparently garnered her wrath for failing to remove politically thorny stipulations from the stimulus package.

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S.J. Morgan
Well she is on a million other peoples list today!!… I would pay money to charity to have a few words with her myself!
By S.J. Morgan on 03/02/2009 10:01 am
Beth Cornell
Not only would I tell her off, I’d tell her to go crawl back into a the hole she came out of. I can’t stand her!
By Beth Cornell on 03/02/2009 10:09 am
Lucinda Herbert
Good for her. Nancy Pelosi is on my disfavor list and I know she’s on plenty of other people’s disfavor list. as well.
By Lucinda Herbert on 03/02/2009 10:34 am
Lady Gator

Disfavor list?  I have another list with Pelosi’s name as #1 — and, since I don’t want to be deleted I’ll just say my list starts with an S.

By Lady Gator on 03/02/2009 11:40 am
Mimi Jones
SHE is one of the most dangerous people to our American way of life rt now—along with her buddy Harry Reid. Money to Starkist Tuna in American Samoa, money to protect a mouse, money for a bullet train from CA to Vegas?? Trip to Italy—and was there a side trip also to Switzerland where some Americans are frantically trying to scrub names off illegal bank accounts? An all that jumping up and down—I am hearing there are some medication problems going on?
By Mimi Jones on 03/02/2009 12:14 pm
Marjorie C.

 the "list" exists, but are quick to insist that Pelosi isn’t the vindictive type.

Her friends are too kind… as if they dare to be otherwise.  Why keep a list if you don’t intend to use it?  Nancy Pelosi is an embarrassment, and gives women in politics a bad name.

By Marjorie C. on 03/02/2009 2:30 pm
S.J. Morgan
"Pelosi isn’t the vindictive type"..ya right and if you believe that I’ve got a stimulus bill to sell you!
By S.J. Morgan on 03/02/2009 3:32 pm
Green Tears

Marjorie, again I agree!

To keep a ‘book of b*stards’ is such a guy thing, Nancy.

By Green Tears on 03/02/2009 6:48 pm
S.J. Morgan

 

 Loyal Opposition

by Bruce Bialosky

A constant theme among the Obama Gang suggests that questioning their path is reckless. Their followers say that my observations are questionable solely for existing and not for their substance. One person demanded I withhold commentary for a year. “Give him a chance” is the constant theme. “No” is the answer to that. Every American has an obligation to question where Obama’s proposals are heading.

 

 

You have probably noticed Obama’s use of the current economic situation radically changes the structure of our society. His bodacious proposals are staggering in their scope. Only an audacious individual would propose budget expenditures for ten years when he has only been elected for four.

Questioning the policies created stem from evaluating the source. Most of us work in the private sector. That has shaped our lives and created the most affluent society known to mankind. Yet, the people who want to revamp our existence barely know what we face. As I watched President Obama’s speech to Congress, key Democrats reveled in his proposals. I noted few if any have ever experienced the same challenges we in the private sector now face. They only know government and thus only know governmental solutions.

This is a President who showed his true colors by remarkably stating “A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy.” Either he completely missed the Bush era governmental budgets, or he is disingenuous. He, like almost all Democrats, appears not to understand the difference between tax rates and revenue collections. They were not happy with the explosion of revenues at the federal and state levels from the Bush tax rate cuts. They appear to discount the problem was out-of-control spending. They skip over these facts: more people were eliminated from the tax rolls, the middle-class paid lower taxes, and the upper income earners bore the highest relative tax burden in history.

We have an obligation to question Obama’s policy directions at every turn. He wants to nationalize our health-care system, pour more money into a challenged education system with little reform, and force us into a relatively inefficient energy system which will skyrocket our costs based on questionable scientific theories. Wait until his gets his hands on Social Security. That will be another tab for which all of us will pay with little benefit. Maybe, at least, he will admit that his political party no longer considers this a retirement program, but merely another transfer of wealth.

Each Administration enters office with a hallmark theme. Clinton stated he was going to have the most ethical operation in history. Obama keeps pitching transparency, which also translates to honesty. At every turn he has failed so far, only with the excuse he is moving too fast and his administration is too new to get it done.

Obama came into office complaining about Bush’s budget deficits, but his proposals mire us in debt for centuries. Accepting that the current deficit is due to the economy, can someone please explain why the outsized expenditures continue even into next year when they project a 3% growth in GDP? My thought would be that the expenditures are for political and not economic purposes.

So during the coming weeks I will be laying out critiques of the major areas that Obama wants to change. There will be no straw man scenarios as Obama has become fond of creating. We will analyze the proposals put forth by Obama and offer alternative facts and proposals. We will see that in the case of energy, health care and education, Democrats have created the crisis through misguided governmental policies. Now they want to offer us a cure by giving us more of the same.

The attempt to stifle policy analysis not only challenges our senses, but goes against American values. The current group in power railed against the Bushies because they said if you questioned the War on Terror, your patriotism was called out. Now they want to suppress us while they radically alter the federal government. We must all be the loyal opposition to assure our collective path secures our collective future. Anything less would be un-American.

By S.J. Morgan on 03/02/2009 4:12 pm
Elizabeth Bennett
Hey all, she is Speaker of the House.  Herding people to action is her job, so of course she has to know which ones will not be herded. 
By Elizabeth Bennett on 03/02/2009 6:56 pm
deber B

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

SOON THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT TO BLAMETHE OBAMA ECONOMY

"As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2.  Its highest level since the autumn panic.  Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997.  The dismaying message here is that President Obama’s policies have become part of the economy’s problem.

Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on.  But after five weeks in office, it’s become clear that Mr. Obama’s policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery.  From  punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence - and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth. "

WHO ELSE CAN HE BLAME NOW?   THERE’S NO ONE LEFT BUT HIMSELF.

By deber B on 03/03/2009 6:48 am
By deber B on 03/03/2009 5:49 am
Libra Lady
Deber…where is "tiny tim"  when you need him??  I wish he’d come out from under the desk in the oval office and do his job….oh wait…it’s income tax time…probably busy trying to download  Turbo Tax. wink wink
By Libra Lady on 03/03/2009 7:24 am
lavern reed

All of this hate from WOMEN?  It’s shameful.

Women get this kind of response on jobs and have for years.  Why are women tearing women down and all from Hear Say.  You don’t know Nancy Pelosi the only thing you know is what you hear?

As hard as we fight for women in the work place the responses are just shameful.

I hear a lot about Pelosi but since I don’t know her I will not bash this woman under any circumstances.  From what I see and the truth that is written she is doing an excellent.

Men simply hate this woman and that should tell women something.

Women we have a letter from a man and a post from a man that means she’s doing her job.  Don’t let these men talk you into destroying a good woman just doing her job.

Ask your self, and I keep up with the news and particularly politics, what do you really know about the Speaker vs. what you hear?

Hurting women in the workplace, by other women is not kosher.

Take a long look in the mirror stop buying what you hear and get involved, I am an avid political person and I can assure you that what you hear is not validated.  Write to her, check out her votes on Congress.org, check her record as recorded on Congress.org.  Have you done that?

If you had you would quit buying the GOP rhetoric about you sister Pelosi.

Time to get informed. 

By lavern reed on 03/02/2009 7:50 pm
Marjorie C.

lavern:  All of this hate from WOMEN?  It’s shameful.

Yes it is, isn’t it.  Put up an article about Sarah Palin’s gold fish, and you’re going to know what hate can be.  Hate for her children, her family, her religious values, the way she combs her hair, wears her clothes.  Oh, you haven’t seen hate until you contribute to a string about Sarah Palin.  Cindy McCain gets slammed about, too, but because she’s less of a threat, she fares a little better.

Sebelius and Pelosi are being treated with kid gloves in comparison. 

By Marjorie C. on 03/03/2009 5:31 am
Al ias
No surprise here - other socialists have done this for decades…
By Al ias on 03/03/2009 8:43 am