Video: What we need is an even broader spending freeze, says … Pelosi?
posted at 6:58 pm on January 27, 2010 by Allahpundit
I’m at a loss. Her point, true to dovish form, is that Obama’s proposed spending freeze shouldn’t exempt the wingnut war machine at the Pentagon. If we’re going to trim the fat from domestic programs, she maintains, let’s trim all of it. Which is super keen, except that … it has nothing to do with her base’s core concerns about Obama’s proposal. Their problem isn’t the fact that defense is getting a pass, it’s that the idea of any kind of freeze flies in the face of Keynesian dogma about spending during a recession to stimulate growth. They don’t want any fat trimmed right now, let alone across-the-board trimming. Does Madam Speaker truly not understand that? Her colleagues seem to:
Some of the harshest criticism has come from the left, where interest groups and commentators have blasted the president for limiting spending during an economic recession. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said the proposal is similar to the kind of strategy “Herbert Hoover used in the ’30s to make the depression great.”
Liberal lawmakers also expressed strong objections.
“I’m just concerned that in a recessionary time, you don’t pull back government,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). “What does that mean for job growth?”
Exit question: What’s she up to here? Is this actually some sly maneuver to get House Dems to reject the freeze by painting Obama as some crony of the military-industrial complex or whatever? Or is she … really this confused about the left’s issues with the plan?
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back off…binge, it’s not going to work.
Daemonocracy on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM
looking for an excuse not to freeze anything.
rob verdi on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM
I just ate. I think I’ll wait awhile before I watch this.
JellyToast on January 27, 2010 at 7:01 PM
I’d go with simply confused in general.
Wethal on January 27, 2010 at 7:02 PM
It’s now official.
She. Has. Lost. Her. Marbles.
Knucklehead on January 27, 2010 at 7:02 PM
Yep, with troops overseas in war zones and enemies growing bolder throughout the world, this would be a great time for the demorat party to let their natural stripes show by cutting military spending.
Bye bye, demorat party.
Bishop on January 27, 2010 at 7:02 PM
The only valid spending cuts are from the military, in her opinion. In the SF dreamworld, all of the savings necessary could be had by dismantling the US military.
Vashta.Nerada on January 27, 2010 at 7:02 PM
shes insane. they are all in kamikaze mode since they know their days are numbered.
elduende on January 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Fiscal bulimia, I take it. What a maroon!
Dhuka on January 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Do your part Nancy, cut your Botox & Face Spackle budget in half.
portlandon on January 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Excluding defense and medicare/medicaid from the freeze defeats the purpose if the point was to lessen the expected debt. Unfortunately both parties love these things, so they will just keep going until China eventually demands we cut. Deny it all you want.
The Dean on January 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM
she wants her pie, and eat his too.
upinak on January 27, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Nancy “Tea Bagged” Pelosi.
Hening on January 27, 2010 at 7:04 PM
No, their problem is that while they aren’t smart enough to have any opinion on Keynesian dogma one way or the other, they don’t want to cut money for socialized healthcare, or the NEA, or a Woodstock museum, or whatever they are planning spending it on this week.
RINO in Name Only on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM
and as we all know the CIA routinely lies and misleads Congress
John the Libertarian on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM
“Everybody has to make a sacrifice.”Starting with POLITICIANS.
RealMc on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Tell the wicked witch of the West that we’ll take her pay and stop her air travel . . . that should save several million a month. It sounds like her anti-war slugs have been burning up her telephone.
rplat on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Just makin’ it up as she goes along.
Cicero43 on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM
They’re going nuts.
Itchee Dryback on January 27, 2010 at 7:06 PM
I don’t know how she ever got herself in the position to be speaker since she seems so daft.
myrenovations on January 27, 2010 at 7:06 PM
This is goona be epic!!
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
AO you IMo incorrectly assume HRC would run to the left of O, she can run to the right
b/w O and Pelosi./Reid we need a mod to run to the right and get back our cred on economy that Big Dawg gave us..
and we will clearly need a HAWK after comments like this form Pelosi
HRC won all of we mod Dems, blue collar, Catholics, the labor vote, the constituencies that went for Brown.
we will either be able to bring our party to the middle or it will be parody of itself by the end of O;s term.
we Tea Party Patriots are not all GOPers :)
ginaswo on January 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
What she meant was, broads should spend on Botox so their faces freeze.
It’s her way of stimulating the economy.
malclave on January 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
So will Queen Nancy sacrifice by downsizing from a Boeing 737 to a Boeing 736 1/2?
MB4 on January 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
ROTFLOL
This from the woman who just helped piss away how many hundreds of billions of dollars on a failed “stimulus?” What an absolute joke.
29Victor on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Maybe Pelosi would like to wear a burkha and be subjugated to Wahabi rule but the rest of us would prefer a strong defense.
fourdeucer on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
As Forrest would say “stupid is as stupid does”
dmann on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Try this…..cut your pay, Madame Speaker.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Pelosi looks pied,or on sumpin,shes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
to happy!!!
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Her face is frozen.
Philly on January 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Looks like both Obama and Nancy have their fingers in the wind. And it also appears that the wind don’t always blow the same direction in the land of “unicorns that drop skittles” as Ed saith.
ted c on January 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Pretty much.
They don’t care about fiscal responsibility, they just see a chance to do what they’ve always done. They keep their own leftist social engineering programs running and hurt the military and actual good institutions of govt at the same time. They just use conservative wording to dress up their leftist causes. If it makes no sense to us, that’s because we’re dumb peasants too stupid to see that the money is good for us, like Joe Klein said.
(Anybody ever notice his name, said fast, is Joke Line?)
CPL 310 on January 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM
I was looking forward to see her face spasm any time Obama talked about spending cuts…and now I read something like this.
stldave on January 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Keep in mind, I’m not talking about typical left wing pundits, who of course will take refuge under economic theories to oppose the freeze. I’m talking about the base voters, most of whom have never taken an economics class in their life, don’t have a clue who Keynes was, and are wondering why, since people are so short on money, the government can’t just print more.
RINO in Name Only on January 27, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t run a lemonade stand; but she couldtax and regulate every lemonade stand in America out of existence.
Doorgunner on January 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM
The NEA is going to start giving grants to rap “artists” and graffiti “artists”.
Maybe we could cut that.
Dhuka on January 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM
But the leftist press never reported that. Joe Klein in Time spent quite a bit of time telling us how stupid and uninformed we are. Several billion spent on phantom districts are ignored. Billions on leftist pork are ignored.
If the only thing reported in the major leftist press is her new stance for fiscal restraint, to those who aren’t political junkies, she sounds like she’s responding to the situation and doing the right thing, when in fact it’s lip service. And all that botox is making lip service more difficult for her.
Insert pie joke here.
CPL 310 on January 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Good point Nancy. Now let’s see, who should we start with? Hmmmm, think, think, think…
rihar on January 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Still just vying for democrat party liar of the decad..century.
jukin on January 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM
I am beyond 7 decades and I can remember that before the radical left took over the Party of the Democrats was an honorable and credible political entity. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case.
rplat on January 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM
What she really means is more of a spending freeze that also freezes the programs currently being spent on – so in reality it’s a freeze of all the outrageous spending that is already in progress…….(did that make sense?)in other words they won’t be able to halt any of the current programs and spending that is in progress- Yikes!!!!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM
I am tired of sacrificing for this government. I am tired of sacrificing my employment (which is in it’s 5th month now), my tax dollars to lazy and stupid people and projects, my country to the jihadists, my future and my kids’ futures. I am tired of having to consider sacrificing my future medical care, my ability to drive 500 miles to visit my sister on occasion (because their policies would make it fiscally impossible), my ability to keep my firearms and my civil liberties to satisfy these insane marxist agendas.
Instead, I would prefer that these people would sacrifice themselves and leave the rest of us alone!
JohnTheBuilder on January 27, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Sure…
… I believe her.
Seven Percent Solution on January 27, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Like the scrutiny you applied to the Copenhagen trip, with multiple military jets, and paying for 6 nights but staying for two?
Vashta.Nerada on January 27, 2010 at 7:14 PM
I am tired of sacrificing for this government. I am tired of sacrificing my employment (which is in it’s 5th month now), my tax dollars to lazy and stupid people and projects, my country to the jihadists, my future and my kids’ futures. I am tired of having to consider sacrificing my future medical care, my ability to drive 500 miles to visit my sister on occasion (because their policies would make it fiscally impossible), my ability to keep my firearms and my civil liberties to satisfy these insane marxist agendas.
Instead, I would prefer that these people would sacrifice themselves and leave the rest of us alone!
JohnTheBuilder on January 27, 2010 at 7:13 PM
rplat on January 27, 2010 at 7:15 PM
But that was waaay back then. That was before we knew what was in the stimulus. Besides, democrats didn’t start the stimulus. They inherited the stimulus. It’s Bush’s fault.
CPL 310 on January 27, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Time out- gotta go get coins for my bingo cards…..and raid the liquor cabinet
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM
have you ever been to california? Minues the people on here… it isn’t pretty.
upinak on January 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Now they comes the lying time that Rush talks about so much.
tomas on January 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM
I thought that was just when their mouths were moving or they were writing something down.
CPL 310 on January 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM
She is a nut case. Sounds like she’s saying wait a minute buddy, if you’re going to cut my special interest pork funding, the Pentagon is going down with me. And tell me again, Madame Speaker, how much was it you spent on the junket to Copenhagen to accomplish…absolutely nothing? Would the freeze include future junkets?
scalleywag on January 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Bella has the face for this Boeing classic!
(lol….707 on the time stamp)
dmann on January 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Is there actually a Mr. Pelosi? If so, he must be very happy when she is away from home.
farright on January 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Blast from the Past!!
Grinch Pelosi,from last SOTUA!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kdbdJ94ak
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I want clear statements from all the Washington savants about the sacrifices THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE.
Heard adn done all I can stand about MY sacrifices for he greater good und der Fatherland, but I see Congresscritters burning money needlessly for swamp mice, trips to Conpenhagen, etc., etc.
I think Pelosi is approaching her Marie Antoinette moment about the cake. I will settle for her retirement rather than the guillotine.
Harry Schell on January 27, 2010 at 7:19 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi#Early_life_and_career
Looks like there is. Didn’t know she was that rich, either.
CPL 310 on January 27, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Is she going to be hopping out of her seat and beatin her rat claws together like the friggin’ prairie dog she usually resembles?
ted c on January 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM
That she has to even make a statement like this – however insincere – shows how far they’ve fallen in a year.
As Instapundit says, faster please.
SteveMG on January 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Get this- my daughter called me in a RAGE today- she graduates from Cornell Univ. this May and guess who their graduation speaker is gong to be??????
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Totally agree with you on this, Pelosilla!
So why don’t you go ahead and make that sacrifice by resigning right now?!!!!
pilamaye on January 27, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Sacrifice people! That means tax!So, this is how it works. Implement a spending freeze, then bring up taxes that will eventually neutralize the deficit. Then they can wrap themselves in the cloak of fiscal responsibility and then spend into bigger deficits.
Nethicus on January 27, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Hey Nancy, sell the jet and start traveling coach like the rest of us.
yoda on January 27, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Its the Democrat Civil War. She’s essentially threatening Obama to include Defense spending in the freeze, or freeze nothing. She’s attacking him from the left.
Revenant on January 27, 2010 at 7:25 PM
I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.
redwhiteblue on January 27, 2010 at 7:26 PM
Maybe she’s using the Chewbacca defense.
Guardian on January 27, 2010 at 7:27 PM
That’s it–NOW I have to start drinking….
lovingmyUSA on January 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Pelosi: “I’ll take big spending programs designed to destroy a nation for $600 Alex”
OK Nancy, but remember the final jeopardy topic tonight is titled “Frozen Faces”
Rovin on January 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Hey we jacked spending off the charts on a lie …
And now the bills are coming due.
One thing they can’t rig is the unemployment. The number of neighbors on your block that are unemployed keeps climbing.
And really, who is going to spend $40k to hire someone so you can get a $4k tax credit. You need revenue to do that.
tarpon on January 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM
just got back from a long weekend in SF – don’t have any desire to EVER go back- what a total freak show!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Early Thread Theme warm up,
The Cars – Good Times Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOhdlVUg9uc&feature=related
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Let’s all raise our glasses to salute the fine voters of Massachusettes at 8 pm EST! CHEERS COMRADES!!!!!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:32 PM
The real Ellie Light (image of)
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http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=16021
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Nice!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Hey! But I think she should have to travel by bus and sit in the back!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Ah Houston,T-Minus 1:00 and 00:33 min. till Hopeys
Implosion!!!
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Screw the American public. Nancy has a credit card and by God she’s going to use it! Someone has to save the planet and the ‘Frisco Marsh Mouse.
GarandFan on January 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM
love to take that guitar and smash it over his head like the scene in animal house!!!!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Hey Nancy, sell the jet and start traveling coach like the rest of us.
yoda on January 27, 2010 at 7:25 PM
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Hey! But I think she should have to travel by bus and sit in the back!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM
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yoda:
huskerdiva: Throw da b*tch,under da bus!!:)
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM
It’s like ancient Rome when they used to pork out, throw up and sodomize one another… fiddling, burning and everything.
chunderroad on January 27, 2010 at 7:41 PM
There’s still a few of us here in CA that battle the lunitics daily upinak—-and most of us don’t live in the septic cities.
Rovin on January 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM
love to take that guitar and smash it over his head like the scene in animal house!!!!
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:38 PM
huskerdiva: hehe,yup,and may I have another!!:)
And,at your service!!!
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Classic Belushi – Animal House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JYq-mXprw
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM
“Everybody has to make a sacrifice, now get out of my limo.”
ronsfi on January 27, 2010 at 7:45 PM
You are soooo right- many folks in the outlying areas who aren’t stankin up the place, and my heart goes out to those who for whatever reason are living in that cesspool and still fighting the good fight – just don’t see much chance of taking back that city…..unless we can piss off all the stanky folks and get them to move to another country
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:49 PM
Took the words right outta my mouth :-)
huskerdiva on January 27, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Crazy Aunt Nancy. When you’re that nuts, you shouldn’t get drunk. There’s a layering effect that scares people.
Jaibones on January 27, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Expand that to all of liberaldom; where people can’t tell the difference between keeping the military budget on a leash and reducing our armed forces to a bunch of paper tigers.
Dark-Star on January 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM
No I think that she is vindictive and insipid. She sees a spending freeze as hurting her core interests. So she wants to push back hurt the right’s core interest, the military. In her worldview Democrat president or not the military is the constituency of the right and must be dealt a blow if any other domestic spending is cut.
Theworldisnotenough on January 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Throw Nancy,under da bus!!:)
yoda on January 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM
wow. you can just smell the stench of post MA focus grouping from all these Dem responses.
If any more evidence is needed to prove that the Democrats are dishonest and misleading in trying to achieve and maintain their power, this is it.
They have progressive convictions, but they are patently dishonest in attempting to achieve their statist ends.
rickyricardo on January 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Memo
To: Obama
From: Pelosi
No moving Gitmo to Illinois and no funding for your NYC Terror Trial.
TN Mom on January 27, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Throw Nancy,under da bus!!:)
yoda on January 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM
yoda:Perfect!!:)
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 8:15 PM
canopfor on January 27, 2010 at 8:15 PM
The President’s in Trouble. It’s going to be fun to watch him try to get out of this jam.
yoda on January 27, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Grandma got run over by a reindeer….sorry that’s the song that always pops into my head when I am shown a photo of Nancy Pelosi…Her Likeness is like a Rorschach Card. What does this make you think of…The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round. How about This? dead skunk in the middle road, dead skunk in the middle of the road…stinkin to high heaven.
Dr Evil on January 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Nancy’s missive about scarifice immediately reminds me of Rand’s maxim…
“…just listen to any prophet and if you him speak of sacrifice–run. Run faster than from a plague. It stands
reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And means to be the master.”
Archimedes on January 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Damn! thyat qoute won’t C&P correctly no matter how many times….
Archimedes on January 27, 2010 at 8:28 PM
What is Pelosi up to? The samething my 84 year old Aunt is…it’s called Dimentia
Niteowl45 on January 27, 2010 at 8:45 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Queen Nancy so flustered.
She’s usually, when cornered, defiant and drawing on her inner socialist for the answer.
She looks, here, to be completely destroyed by that @#$% mild-mannered question.
What a strange girl.
Tuning Spork on January 27, 2010 at 8:52 PM
She messed him up completely, he loathes her and she him.
Schadenfreude on January 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM
No Freeze!……….That’s like REFORM, it always costs more money. Cut spending! The unemployment rate is 10 plus %
then reduce gov. employees by that much across the country to start.
lilium on January 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM
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