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In her speech to rally the troops to vote for the Rescue package, Nancy Pelosi accepted no responsibility for past actions by either herself or any member of her party. She put the entire blame on a situation that has festered for thirty years solely on Republicans. And, then, to top it off, gave a highly partisan speech to Congress while insisting on bipartisan support. The world was shocked when the Republicans slapped her upside the head with it.
I wrote a piece about how amazing her speech was. Either she is really that stupid, blinded, or she intentionally did not want it to pass solely for partisan reasons. Only the latter gives her any credit at all.
Now, I am amazed once again. Steny Hoyer wrote an article for The Hill Blog. In it, he talks about how we need to quit the blame game, come together, and pass this legislation. Towards the end, he tosses this in:
OK, here we go again. Blame the Republicans while asking for their help. Clue here Steny, as most America does understand simple math, 60% support of the majority party means 40% voted against their leadership. That 40% was what killed it. The minority party is never the one that kills anything. Let me make it simpler. There are 232 Democrats. It took 217 votes to pass it. That’s fifteen to spare. Not one single Republican had to vote for it. Nancy Pelosi failed to deliver her party. That is not a Republican issue. Every Republican that did vote for it just made her job easier. She still failed. By intentionally harassing those votes that would have made it easier to pass the legislation, she intentionally made it harder. By not delivering her party, she made it impossible. By then playing the blame game while telling others not to play the blame game makes it obvious that this all a partisan political issue and that you and Nancy never had any interest in seeing this legislation pass.
I’ll help Steny and Nancy here since they can’t seem to grasp the concept of bipartisan spirit even though they use the word a lot:
bi·par·ti·san [bahy-pahr-tuh-zuh
n] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
The key words there are including members. If you’re going to include them, you have to be appreciative of their help. That means you have to play nice. At least, of course, until after the vote. Then you can go back to petty party political games. But, I am quite certain that the average person out here is just as perplexed as I am by the double-talk being so blatantly illustrated.
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