Category Archives: Pelosi

Kick the Can


Here’s Obama telling congress not to kick the can down the road.  Here’s Obama kicking the can down the road last February.  Here’s the can.  It’s big.

Lockdown

The Democrats accused the Republicans of murdering women and children.  The president scolded everyone and called for grownups.  Meanwhile Paul Ryan slipped through the back door with a plan to rein in entitlements with $6 trillion in cuts through 2021.

Big Stick

Staying Power

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Nancy Pelosi seems to think nothing is changing except her job title – from “Speaker of the House” to “Minority Leader”.  Not all members of her party are going with the flow.  Mike Quigley of Illinois tells the Boston Globe she’s “politically toxic”.

My political pledge – no more melting metaphors.  UPDATE: Here’s a good explainer by David Broder about how the Democratic leadership changed its rules to avoid change.

Failure to Communicate

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Maybe a 55th speech on Obamacare would have set us straight. The Democrats blamed their problems on poor communication to the end.