Pelosi gags Republicans to save Dems from embarrassment
posted at 6:00 pm on July 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Nancy Pelosi in November 2006:
This year, voters elected Democratic candidates from every region of America, giving Democrats the majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and entrusting us with a great deal of responsibility for building that future.
With their votes, the American people asked for change. They cast their ballots in favor of a New Direction.
They called for greater integrity in Washington, and Democrats pledge to make this the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history.
The American people called for greater civility in how Congress conducts its work, and Democrats pledge to conduct our work with civility and bipartisanship, and to act in partnership – not partisanship – with the president and Republicans in Congress.
Nancy Pelosi in action, July 2009:
In their zeal to protect their members from politically hazardous votes on issues such as gay marriage and gun control, Democrats running the House of Representatives are taking extraordinary steps to muzzle Republicans in this summer’s debates on spending bills. …
The tradition has often meant laborious debates. But it has allowed lawmakers with little seniority to have their say on doling out the one-third of the federal budget passed by Congress each year. It was a right the Democrats zealously defended when they were the minority party from 1995 through 2006.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., insists the clampdown is to prevent debates from dragging on and on. Republicans, however, have agreed to limit the amount of time debating the bills.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., acknowledged in a brief interview that one reason for restricting amendments is to save members of his party from having to cast politically painful votes. …
Even some Democrats are chafing at the heavy-handed clampdown on debate. Abortion opponent Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., on Thursday lashed out at his party’s leaders for denying him and others a chance to vote on restoring a long-standing directive by Congress blocking taxpayer-funded abortions in Washington, D.C.
At least the Associated Press is reporting this kind of hypocrisy these days.
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This broad burns me up
and not in the good way
blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM
That face is your healthcare future. Live it up America.
lorien1973 on July 16, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Pelosi gags Republicans…
Frankly, she gags just about everybody who gets a glimpse of her.
coldwarrior on July 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM
The AP may be reporting it, but my local daily paper will never pick up this story. The prefer one liberal hit-piece after another.
Hunt035 on July 16, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Why do you always make her head so big that it falls at the bottom of the screen? I don’t wanna see her pores!
upinak on July 16, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX, Dist 22) is having a townhall meeting this Saturday in Pearland. I’m going to confront him on this, and why the GOP once again has caved.
madmonkphotog on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
If there is a terror attack that this administration lets happen, please let it happen in San Francisco and get the kids and pets out first. What in the hell is wrong with these people that elect her?
suzyk on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Honestly, the Apocalypse cannot be far off.
jimmy2shoes on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Then, election over, it was back to business as usual in the fetid swamp that is Washington DC.
mchristian on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
This pic of Pelosi looks like that weirdo cult guy who was waiting for the comet to take them all home, they all drank the kool-aid and died……hey wait a minute….
portlandon on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Politically painful votes? What does that mean exactly? If you are for something than you should vote for it, otherwise say no. It seems like such an easy concept. Both parties are spineless weasels who want to tell everyone that they are on their side. What annoys me the most is that the Republicans agreed to it. I just wish someone would grow a backbone on the Right and tell the Democrats exactly what they can do with their ideas.
txaggie on July 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM
“At least the AP is reporting this kind of hypocrisy these days.”
Doesn’t matter, even if your are the most left-leaning person on Earth,if you say anything the idiots democraps don’t like,you are lying.There is only one truth,the democrap truth.
DDT on July 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM
This is the face of the person that’s going to make the healthcare decisons for your family on a plan that she is going to impose on us but in which she refuses to participate in.
Why won’t she pledge to use the healtcare plan she and Obama is foisting on us????
elduende on July 16, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Republicans, however, have agreed to limit the amount of time debating the bills.
That just pisses me off.
txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 6:08 PM
me too
blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Gagging republicans ….. that’s torture. I demand a hearing, and miranda rights be read to all republicans from this day forward.
fogw on July 16, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Now where did that “Minority Bill of Rights” go, Pelosi? Remember that?
Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 6:10 PM
No, no – the Dems are all for allowing debate on the issues…remember this stunt back in May, in the interest of bi-partisanship?:
From Rachel Maddow (I threw up a little in my mouth typing that!): The newest staffer in Congress works for the House Energy Committee, has the lowly title of Staff Assistant, and would not give his name to the Wall Street Journal when a reporter asked for it last night. The one thing we know about this new staff assistant in Congress is that he works for the Democrats and he’s a speed reader. Professionally. He is a professional speed reader. He can read an entire page of text out loud in 34 seconds.
The reason he’s been hired is because the Republican plan to block the Democrat’s Global Warming Bill is allegedly to force all 946 pages of that bill to be read aloud followed by the text of all the several hundred amendments the Republicans plan to offer to the this Bill, even though they know that basically all of those amendments will fail. The plan is to make the process of passing the Bill take so long that it fails through shear exhaustion. Hence the Democrats hiring a speed reader.
You know, sometimes Congress is just one big game of “Oh Yeah,” … “Yeah” … “Oh Yeah,” … “Yeah!”
Throw all of the a$$clowns out, starting with Ms. Botox!
rhbandsp on July 16, 2009 at 6:10 PM
GOP screams: Palomino!
lorien1973 on July 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Politically painful votes are those that your leadership wants, your constituents don’t and that might get you un-elected. As we all know, getting re-elected over and over is the purpose of getting elected in the first place.
mchristian on July 16, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I have no idea where you live, but I think most people at HA would agree that it really doesn’t matter – your quote applies most everywhere! I know it does in my area (Tampa Bay area). BTW, since you’ve read the paper today, what’s the latest with Michael Jackson? /sarc
rhbandsp on July 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Regarding that picture there….is that like a half-black pearl necklace she’s sporting there? :|
Patrick S on July 16, 2009 at 6:14 PM
I live in Riverview!
lorien1973 on July 16, 2009 at 6:14 PM
By agreeing to time limits, they took away the excuse the dems had to silence the Republicans. The excuse the Republicans will not play nice holds no water. It was a great move by the Republicans to expose the dems.
Wade on July 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM
The headline says “Pelosi Gags Republicans”
I think Pelosi gags anyone with good sense.
Travis1 on July 16, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Good to know they are willingly accepting the gag. I wonder what would have happen if they told her to stick it where the sun don’t shine? I know that would never happen but I can dream.
jmarcure on July 16, 2009 at 6:16 PM
I knew there was something I liked about you, aside from your usual wit! I live in Dover and work in Tampa.
rhbandsp on July 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM
What do you mean what’s the latest? Has something happened to Michael that I should know about? Oh my GOD…what is it?
Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I’m glad this is the era of Obambi-inspired bipartisanship. This crap would be hard to take otherwise.
Cicero43 on July 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
yep, there it is! Three links deep in the Houston Chronicle with that last paragraph to send you off with the notion its the repubs fault they can’t participate.
Meanwhile all the hater blogs are prominatly featured two or three times on the front page of the e-edition. How long do these rags have?
DanMan on July 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
They should shout this from the roof tops.
SouthernGent on July 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
?
The Democrats don’t give a rat’s ass about hypocrisy. “I won” says it all.
GarandFan on July 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
They don’t read the damn bills, so why should they listen to debate about them?
Cicero43 on July 16, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Will this woman ever admit to her own hypocrisy?
kinky…..oh.
FontanaConservative on July 16, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I would bother to comment on this latest atrocity, but I am much too busy sharpening a slew of shiny new pitchforks.
Dave R. on July 16, 2009 at 6:28 PM
As a result of over-stimulation, he is now stable.
ICBM on July 16, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Generally speaking…
History has show that when a government tries to silence a minor populous (/party) it does not work out very well in the long run.
/Just saying
F15Mech on July 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM
we all know she’s the friggin swamp dragon, but seriously i don’t know who’s uglier her or pig nose waxmen….sheeeesh.
SHARPTOOTH on July 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Pelosi borders on the criminally insane, which is a dangerous psychosis to have given her virtually immune position in government.
marklmail on July 16, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Bad week for California Democrats
birdhurd on July 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM
waxman by far…he is one of the “ugly” people
spacewife on July 16, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Does Pelosi own the Capitol steps? NO. If hand wringing republican congresscritters have ANY testosterone left they would be out on the Capitol steps with microphones and loudspeakers voicing their objections around the clock non-stop. We the People don’t really give a damn whether you’re in the house chamber or not fighting back. Take it outside and make a scene. NOW is the time to be the party of NO (or die in shameful obscurity)!
Fletch54 on July 16, 2009 at 6:41 PM
I don’t know about you all, but she looks like a grandma or great aunt that gives you a birthday card with a booger in it.
Key West Reader on July 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM
They want a one party state, they are close to getting one, and they’re acting as though it’s already happened.
Rebar on July 16, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Pelosi, maybe as the first woman, has marked out her territory as heavy-handed.
I don’t blame on gender issues.
AnninCA on July 16, 2009 at 6:46 PM
No, she is the poster child for congressional limitations on Botox, laser resurfacing, mini lifts, eyebrow lifts, microdermabrasion, neck lift procedures, and crow feet removal procedures.
I wonder what she looks like from the neck down. Oh wait, NO, I DON’T. That’d be a man made disaster. Like her face.
Key West Reader on July 16, 2009 at 6:46 PM
So, you’re saying that she’s spraying her catbox which in “her world” is America?
Nah. She’ll fail.
Key West Reader on July 16, 2009 at 6:48 PM
This is the people’s House. This is not Pelosi’s Politburo. /Thaddeus McCotter
The dingbat is disenfranchising 1/2 the country!
Sometimes I think their fascist madness is designed to make us “right-wing extremists” lose it.
Rae on July 16, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Didn’t you mean for the title of this post to be
Pelosi “gags on a” Republican to save dems from embarrassment
coak11 on July 16, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Missss Pelosi your time is up.
thmcbb on July 16, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Heil Hitler….
DL13 on July 16, 2009 at 7:10 PM
She has the same effect on me.
Guardian on July 16, 2009 at 7:18 PM
According to the new communist health care rules … Pelosi has reached the end of her productive life. She can’t have any children and treatment to cure her or keep her alive would just not be cost effective.
Off to the old folks graveyard with Nancy … maybe a little wine and morphine to ease her pain.
darwin on July 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Vote. The. Democrat. BUMS. Out.
Signed,
We The PEOPLE
TN Mom on July 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Nancy Pelosi is the one who should be gagged. Literally.
pilamaye on July 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I’m not sure this voting thing works anymore. I say we drag them out of the halls of Congress right along with any Repubs who have their careers in a higher priority than the nations.
darwin on July 16, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Where did you get that information?
Wade on July 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Fixed.
CurtZHP on July 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM
That picture sure as hell gags me.
Mr. Grump on July 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Maybe Congress needs to break out in an all out brawl. Winner makes the rules.
darwin on July 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM
That pic of her reminds me of the image of the green alien at the very end of the trailing credits of the original Star Trek TV show.
pfamis on July 16, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Thank you.
csdeven on July 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM
With the current climate across the country, One would think that if someone in congress just stood up and tried some principled leadership, they would have untold support and a loyal following. It is just so irritating to watch as our freedoms are legislated away and the electeds do little to nothing. This is not the time to give up though. WE the People still have the responsibility to turn this around.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on July 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Payback is a bitch. If conservatives ever get the majority again, I say we take no prisoners and ram down their throats every damn thing we need to in order to get our house in order no matter what the opposition cries about. This is what we deserve for playing patty cake with thugs.
javamartini on July 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Let me guess… You haven’t figured out yet that the republicans are every bit as corrupt as the democrats???
doriangrey on July 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM
12 September, people.
Be there.
Fletch54 on July 16, 2009 at 7:54 PM
hhuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh???
lol
bluelightbrigade on July 16, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Hopefully she will die soon.
echosyst on July 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I have 3 words for every politician who is running for an office in 2010……..CAN YOU READ?
yoda on July 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM
I’m a Republican. I live in Palm Beach County, Florida. My representative is Ron Klein, a Democrat, so I effectively, the way the rules are played now, have no representative in Congress. I know the press would never allow the Republicans to do this, even if they had the same margins. That’s what I really find amazing. This last election had more consequences than most people ever thought possible. It gave Pelosi & company the right to steam-roll the Republicans, pass bills no one reads, and spend the country into oblivion.
I hope the Republicans are taking notes because, if this continues, they will be taking over again in 2010 and I hope they treat the Democrats the same exact way and call them every time they cry. I also hope they lay it on the press for their silence, while Pelosi, Obama, and Reid were pulling their tricks.
bflat879 on July 16, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Trust me – she gags just about everybody.
Vashta.Nerada on July 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Never happen. Current Repub leadership, House and Senate, are chicken shit. Nancy has a bigger pair than all the girlie men put together. I hate her positions but I love her trench warfare. She has power and she uses it all the time. She could care less what we think.
patrick neid on July 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM
If that’s the only way Nan can keep order, her days are numbered.
jeanie on July 16, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Rs have a decent shot at retaking the house next year given the economy’s free fall. Should they do so, they should pay this treatment back in spades. But I won’t hold my breath, it is the Stupid Party after all.
Speaking of stupid, another thing that’s just plain dumb is the argument that Rs shouldn’t do X (e.g. nuclear option) because that sets the precedent for the Ds to do it when they get power. THEY WILL ANYWAY IF IT SUITS THEM, YOU IDIOTS.
edshepp on July 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Gagging Pelosi would be poetic justice.
blr2449 on July 16, 2009 at 9:01 PM
The only thing more frightening than Nancy Pelosi …
Is Nancy Pelosi in a bikini.
HondaV65 on July 16, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Pelosi makes me hot!
Think about it…Nan in nothing but spiked heels and a zorro mask!
crash72 on July 16, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I think this has been asked before. Was posting that picture really necessary?
Wolfen on July 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Your mis-reading even though they agreed to limit time and not talk on and on as claimed by democrats. The Democrats have cut off any time allowed for junior congressmen. They have silenced them completely.
Ed Laskie on July 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Boot this b!tch out of office.
BillaryMcBush on July 16, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Pelozi is a muslim sympathiser
I would not be surprised to find her
out she was working for IRAN..
veteranoutrage on July 16, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Hey madmonkphotog. I live in Clear Lake. Where in Pearland will Pete be having the townhall?
slug on July 16, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Fixed that.
realitycheck on July 16, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I hope
the Republicans areWashington is taking notes because, if this continues, We the People will be taking over immediatelyagain in 2010Much better.
realitycheck on July 16, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Somebody should fill a water balloon with holy water and wing it at Pelosi – see if she shrieks and starts melting.
Dark-Star on July 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I like the cut of your jib.
cjs1943 on July 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM
My ship is wrecked, but I wish the both of you fair winds with all my heart!
Dark-Star on July 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Every time I see that picture of PEE-LOUSI, I throw up in my mouth a little bit….
Vntnrse on July 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Because these guys and gals don’t want to see their income evaporate in higher taxes anymore than we do. The social stuff that doesn’t really cost much they will support no matter how screwed up it is.
It’ll be interesting to see exactly how much ‘bucking up’ they will do in the face of seeing $ with little wings flying out of their wallets.
Dr. ZhivBlago on July 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM
WTF?
In our Republic you do not have the authority to deny reps of the people to be reps of the people.
We are a Republic not a Democracy.
DSchoen on July 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM
she could do a horse and not gag, this woman is a cheap whore.
workingforpigs on July 17, 2009 at 8:17 AM
I hope the Republicans are taking notes because, if this continues, they will be taking over again in 2010 and I hope they treat the Democrats the same exact way and call them every time they cry. I also hope they lay it on the press for their silence, while Pelosi, Obama, and Reid were pulling their tricks.
bflat879 on July 16, 2009
Problem is, when Republicans are in control they spend like Democrats and cave to their demands for power-sharing so that they appear “civil”. These gutless poltroons won’t get my vote until they grow a pair.
SKYFOX on July 17, 2009 at 8:49 AM
As always, the Republican leadership is more interested in getting along, than in getting things done.
Tell me again why we are supposed to abandon our principals in order to support these guys?
MarkTheGreat on July 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Let’s take a close look at the issue, the Demoncrates need to silence any opposition because they never have a logical rebuttal to the questions we pose.
However, those with an (r) after there name need the fortitude to show they have logical solutions to capitalize on the (R)eal ideals.
MSGTAS on July 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM
When will the GOP get a back bone? When the dems growl the GOP cowers. Where is the outrage from the Republicans on what’s going on in Washington? I get mail almost daily to contribute to the party and they are not going to get a dime. Maybe I should send a barrel of ink to them with the note, “It’s the power of the pen that changes things”.
mixplix on July 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM
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