Nancy Pelosi wants the Placebocare bill passed. She wants it passed so badly that she has lost any ability to think rationally about anything other than passing the bill. As an example of Nancy’s irrationality, listen to this quote from CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday:
“They’ve had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard.” “Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint.”
Bipartisan huh? You mean like the amendments to prevent Placebocare from paying for abortions that were shot down? That bipartisan?
Or maybe Pelosi means the amendments to add tort reform that were shot down. Maybe that’s the bipartisan she refers to?
Oh wait, I know. I’ll bet Nancy is referring to the bipartisan nature in the way Congress agreed to have the Placebocare plans impact themselves just like any other American. Maybe that’s Nancy’s view of the bipartisan impact there has been on the bill?
If Pelosi’s definition of “bipartisanship” is the one that should be used rather than Websters, we’ll need to rewrite a few sections of history.
From now on, it will be understood that Germany’s invasion of Poland during WWII was actually a bipartisan effort. From now on it will be understood that West Germany influenced the erection of the Berlin wall enough to make it a bipartisan effort. Of course, it will forever more go with out saying that the US and its allies were wrong for using military force in Kuwait as the Iraqi occupation was bipartisan.
Representative John Kline spoke at the Republican convention I attended on Saturday. To paraphrase Kline, he said that there was only one good thing coming out of Congress and that was that Pelosi was not going to be Speaker after this term. That’s the kind of bipartisanship I can get behind!
If Placebocare passes via the reconcilliation path, it will need to originate in the House. There is a lot of speculation as to whether Pelosi can whip the required number of votes to pass Placebocare out of the House. While whether she does or not is yet to be seen, two things are certain, there will be no Republican votes passing it out of the House and there will be Democrat votes voting against it. I doubt this is what she had in mind but Ms. Pelosi, the only thing bipartisan about the vote on Placebocare will be in those who oppose it. I hope the bipartisan vote prevails!
Did you mean West Germany? If memory serves, the Berlin Wall was a joint East German/Soviet venture.
yes, yes….hard to tell one from the other late at night, without a program!
There is a fine line between bipartisanship and bipolarship and Pelosi straddles that line.
Given that she said this and on the same day said that the Republicans are taking over the tea party, I think Nancy has crossed over. It appears that all of her statements are now projections of what her fantasy world would have.
Germany’s invasion of Poland during WWII was actually a bipartisan effort.
Of COURSE it was.
Germany attacked AND Poland was defeated. See?
And that is exactly Pelosi’s and Obama’s, for that matter, definition of bipartisan i.e. I do what I want and you acquiesce!