Post by Johnny Q Public on Jan 26, 2009 21:23:27 GMT -6
Okay, I'm giving the current congress a chance but the following exchange makes no sense whatsoever:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.
The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
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I have no problem with a stimulus package, I don;t think it will work but I'lkk see what happens.
Someone please explain to me how investing millions in contraceptives is going to stimulate the economy.
That MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER
Also
Call me silly by Obama looks like exactly what he campaigned against when he took a pot shot at Limbaugh. If the repbulicans shouldn't listen to Limbaugh according to him.
See the the below:
www.nypost.com/seven/01232009/news/politics/prez_zings_gop_foe_in_a_timulating_talk_151572.htm
The shouldn't he tell the democrats to not listen to Chris Matthews and MSNBC?
Gee do the words double standard ring a bell?
Obama didn't look presidential doing that.
Nor did he look presidential here:
When the GOP questioned his package he responded tersly "I WON" basically implying it doesn't matter what the GOP wants he is the Pres and fuck bipartisanship.
Now I'm going to still give the man a chance, but his promises of governing from the middle, and trying to reach across the isle don't look right.
Additionaly, I agree Gitmo needed to be closed, but he closed it without saying what is going to be done with the deatinee's.
Plus one of the guys that was released is now deputy leader of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch .
Ooops he kinda go caught with egg on his face.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.
The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
***************************************
I have no problem with a stimulus package, I don;t think it will work but I'lkk see what happens.
Someone please explain to me how investing millions in contraceptives is going to stimulate the economy.
That MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER
Also
Call me silly by Obama looks like exactly what he campaigned against when he took a pot shot at Limbaugh. If the repbulicans shouldn't listen to Limbaugh according to him.
See the the below:
www.nypost.com/seven/01232009/news/politics/prez_zings_gop_foe_in_a_timulating_talk_151572.htm
The shouldn't he tell the democrats to not listen to Chris Matthews and MSNBC?
Gee do the words double standard ring a bell?
Obama didn't look presidential doing that.
Nor did he look presidential here:
When the GOP questioned his package he responded tersly "I WON" basically implying it doesn't matter what the GOP wants he is the Pres and fuck bipartisanship.
Now I'm going to still give the man a chance, but his promises of governing from the middle, and trying to reach across the isle don't look right.
Additionaly, I agree Gitmo needed to be closed, but he closed it without saying what is going to be done with the deatinee's.
Plus one of the guys that was released is now deputy leader of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch .
Ooops he kinda go caught with egg on his face.