The things I do for you guys. I was trolling over at the
Daily Beast (so you don’t have to - you’re welcome) and found this nugget of
wisdom from Robert Shrum entitled The Indispensible
Nancy Pelosi. The article is effectively telling the readers just how
wonderful the former Speaker was and still is. Here's a few slice of the
preverbal ra-ra- that passes for journalism from Shrum (emphasis mine as always):
Republicans turned the Democrats’ leader in the House into
the prime reason to keep a Florida district in GOP hands. No wonder they fear her: she’s
as responsible for liberal success in Washington as President Obama has been.
Honestly, I can give you no argument here Mr. Shrum, conservatives
do indeed fear her but not for the reasons you think. We fear given her role one as of the architects of the most crippling piece of legislation to ever come out of Washington and that it will eventually bring
down this great nation of ours if we don’t do something about it and soon. Our
fear runs deep and it runs long Mr. Shrum. What Mr. Shrum is touting as her ‘liberal’
successes is exactly why the GOP should be losing sleep over at night. More from
Shrum:
So Pelosi had to find her own path to progress - and she did.
As Speaker, she not only cajoled her
majority into approving the Senate version of Obamacare without amendments
- a disagreeable and nearly unprecedented concession from her own members and
the only maneuver that could rescue the
bill.
So let me see if I have this right, keeping in mind that Shrum’s
going in position is that Obamacare, first and foremost, was the right thing to
do (which clearly empirical evidence would suggest it is not). Second, even the
mighty Pelosi had to bring her caucus kicking and screaming to vote for this steaming
fly ridden pile of crap. Remember folks, the Dems had both houses of congress and the Oval Office and still she had to
whip them into voting for it. Wow, that was tough. No, they got this remarkably flawed legislation though the House and the Senate using dubious procedure at best and
most of that was done by Harry Reid not Pelosi.
The rest of the dems had no
idea just how bad this legislation was because nobody took the time to read it
before it was passed. All they heard was the leadership, Pelosi included,
touting ‘if you like your doctor’, ‘nobody will lose the insurance they have’, ‘bending
the cost curve down’, ‘it’ll be just like Travelocity’, etc. Now the vulnerable
Dems can’t seem to get far enough away from this toxic, career ending nonsense.
Finally, we get this Krugmanesque bit from Shrum (emphasis
mine):
Earlier, she had held virtually every Democrat in line, all
but 11 of her majority, to pass the 2009 Economic Recovery Act without a single
Republican vote. The GOP demonized the legislation - for the wrong reason: it wasn't as big as it should have been - but
it did prevent a second Great Depression.
Really, not big enough. It was almost $1,000,000,000,000.00,
and at that time an increase on the total US debt of almost 10%. Think about
that for a moment. The US was 233 years old, and Pelosi et al managed to
increase the total debt of the United States by 10% and Shrum is trying to tell
us that it wasn’t big enough?
What boggles my mind it that he now has the advantage
of hindsight and even the President said that the shovel ready projects weren’t
so, um, shovel ready. So it should be insulting to everyone who reads this tripe from this knuckle headed
elite liberals . Shrum writes a column extolling the great and wise
Pelosi without addressing her part in creating this mess she has made in the a) insurance
market, b) financial market, c) labor market… You get the picture.
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