Pelosi sours on Senate

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

By Mike Soraghan and Manu Raju
October 17, 2007

Frustrated by lack of legislative progress in the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is increasingly touting Democratic achievements in the House.

Her statements represent a significant shift from the stance she took six months ago. In March, the Speaker celebrated the first 100 days of the congressional majority by stating, “Democrats have brought the winds of change to the Capitol.”

These days, she’s confined to claiming those winds are blowing on her side of the building. In the minds of her caucus members, the Senate is in the doldrums and House members are paying the price for Senate inaction on Democratic priorities.

When pressed on the slow progress of spending bills during ABC’s Sunday morning talk show “This Week,” Pelosi passed the buck to the Senate, saying, “In the House we’ve passed every one of our bills.”


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[SteppingRazor]

1. Given the House's failure to override the S-CHIP veto...

I think this is hardly the time for Speaker Pelosi to be dogging the Senate.

[havocmom]

2. Is she resorting to the tactic of thowing sand and pointing to the other guy

:banghead:

[Demit]

14. Er, they haven't had the vote to override yet. That's set for Thursday.

[acmavm]

3. Forget her and her whiney crap. She hasn't done a damn thing

either. At least, not what we wanted her to do. Now she has done quite a bit to help out her boy george.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Who raised the minimum wage?

:shrug:

[acmavm]

7. Whoa! BFD. The economy's tanking, the dollar's sinking, we're

still involved in two unwinnable wars.

Like I said, BFD.

[Zavulon]

9. It wasn't just Pelosi, but

Pelosi did manage to get an exemption for some Samoan tunal plant in her district. Color me unimpressed.

So much opportunity, and so much time wasted on crap like her vendetta against the Ottoman Empire and this ridiculous whining.

There's a reason why Congress has lower approval ratings than the chimp, and she's a large part of it.

[Zhade]

25. Who failed to index it to inflation to make it mean anything?

NT!

[Amonester]

30. How about a cup of tea or two more each day?

Yeah... Better than notin'... :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

5. Gosh-you learn well from the WH dissing.

[acmavm]

6. Give it a rest.

[KingFlorez]

10. Nonsense

It's an outright lie to say that she hasn't done anything at all.

[acmavm]

11. True. She has been the biggest political disappointment in my

lifetime. That IS quite an accomplishment.

[Kolesar]

17. Yeah. Show us a compendium of your lifetime political accomplishments

bet we'll all be *real impressed* :sarcasm:

[Xenotime]

20. What?!? She has accomplished more for international peace than any other speaker.

[Zavulon]

8. Congress's approval rating is lower than Bush's, so she's

running around pointing fingers? Christ, I didn't have a lot of hopes for her when she became Speaker, but I didn't think it'd be this bad.

Simply pathetic.

[acmavm]

12. See, I DID expect better. Shows you what I know.

[Zavulon]

13. I HOPED for better. I hoped to be pleasantly surprised.

Then again, I hoped for a fair election in 2000. Shows you what I know.

[Supersedeas]

15. if the House has passed everyone of them....then that leaves obstructionist in the Senate to blame

[Vidar]

16. Nobody listens anymore, Nancy. You've taken us from a 60% approval rating to 11%.

It's hard to be a bigger failure than Bush, but .....

[Kolesar]

18. "us"?

eom

[ryanmuegge]

19. In all fairness, they don't have the votes to do anything.

They can't override vetos, and the Senate is split 50/50 (if you count LIEberman as a Republican).

[AndyTiedye]

24. They Have the Votes to Cut Off Funding for the War

[Zhade]

26. REMINDER: those bills don't even have to go to the floor!

I know you know, but just to remind everyone, these funding bills could be prevented from even coming to a vote - if the Dem leadership were to decide to stop them.

They haven't. That says volumes.

[0007]

27. Like making love to a mannequin - The Dem's are satisfied

running around in circles.

[ryanmuegge]

28. Enough to override veto?

[AndyTiedye]

29. Don't Pass the Funding In the First Place

Vote it down.

Bush**'s veto doesn't come into play then.

[Seabiscuit]

21. Breaking: Americans sour on Pelosi! n/t

[Orsino]

22. Rep. Pot, meet Sen. Kettle. n/t

[southerncrone]

23. Apparently those "winds of change" were just

a BIG FART! :hurts:

[Amonester]

31. Or "dust in the wind" (to come...) - eom