Pelosi whines about Catholics having “this conscience thing”

Obama stressed the importance of returning her to the speakership.

“I am here because there are very few people in public office who I am more fond of and respectful than the person who just introduced me, Nancy Pelosi,” Obama said in his remarks. “She is thoughtful, she’s visionary, she’s as tough as nails. She is practical. She never lets ideology cloud her judgment.”

Obama and Pelosi are both liars.

I think we need to take every opportunity to highlight what the Democrats said about deficits and deficit spending during the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama were very, very vocal in criticizing Bush (both cycles) and the Republican Congress (in the 2006 cycle) for “piling trillions of dollars of debt onto our children and grandchildren” and “the four worst deficits in the history of America”. The largest deficit of any Republican-majority Fiscal Year was less than $413 Billion in FY 2004.

The annual deficits actually decreased in FY 2005, 2006, and 2007.

The last Republican-majority defict, in FY 2007, was less than $161 Billion.

It was not until Pelosi and Reid took majority control of the budgeting process that the annual deficit roughly tripled (in FY 2008) and then tripled AGAIN (in FY 2009).

The Democrats won the 2006 elections by promising “Fiscal Discipline” and “no more deficit spending”, and then did the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they promised.

2006:

Over the past decade, the Republican controlled Congress took our nation in the wrong direction. Too many Americans are paying a heavy price for those wrong choices: record costs for energy, health care and education; jobs shipped overseas; and budgets that heap record debt on our children. For millions, the middle-class dream has been replaced by a middle-class squeeze…

Democrats are proposing a New Direction for America…

With integrity, civility and fiscal discipline, our New Direction for America will use commonsense principles to address the aspirations and fulfill the hopes and dreams of all Americans. That is our promise to the American people….

Our federal budget should be a statement of our national values. One of those values is responsibility. Democrats are committed to ending years of irresponsible budget policies that have produced historic deficits. Instead of piling trillions of dollars of debt onto our children and grandchildren, we will restore “Pay As You Go” budget discipline.

Budget discipline has been abandoned by the Bush Administration and its Republican congressional majorities. Congress under Republican control has turned a projected $5.6 trillion 10-year surplus at the end of the Clinton years into a nearly $3 trillion deficit– including the four worst deficits in the history of America. The nation’s debt ceiling has been raised four times in just five years to more than $8.9 trillion. Nearly half of our nation’s record debt is owned by foreign countries including China and Japan. Without a return to fiscal discipline, the foreign countries that make our computers, our clothing and our toys will soon be making our foreign policy. Deficit spending is not just a fiscal problem – it’s a national security issue as well.

Our New Direction is committed to “Pay As You Go” budgeting – no more deficit spending.

2007:

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay-as-you-go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

- New Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 01/04/2007

2008:

“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”

- Barack Obama July 3, 2008

The Democrats have held majority control (holding 2+ out of 3 of the House, Senate, and Presidency) since January 3, 2007.

After 6.25 years of Democrat majority control, the total national debt is now over $16.8 Trillion.

Obama said adding $4 Trillion in debt was irresponsible and unpatriotic.

Pelosi promised, in writing and from the Speaker’s rostrum on C-SPAN, “no more deficit spending”.

But Pelosi and Obama added $7.8 Trillion in new debt, and now claim that we don’t have a debt problem. LIARS.

In their view, $5 Trillion –> $9 Trillion: BAD (when it was Bush),
but $9 Trillion –> $16.8 Trillion: GOOD (when it was themselves doing it).

Pelosi promised “no more deficit spending” and then added more debt than any Speaker in history.

We need to remind people of this any time Pelosi’s name is mentioned.

ITguy on April 4, 2013 at 1:15 PM