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Rep. Nancy Pelosi On Budget Cuts: “Republicans Put Women And Children Last”

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Former Speaker of the House Democrat Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the House and declared her strong opposition to proposed cuts to the Federal budget. Regarding certain Republican proposals, Pelosi declared “when it comes to health and education, Republicans put women and children last.”

Furthermore, she was upset that Republicans want to cut housing vouchers to homeless veterans and that they favor proposals resulting in fewer police officers and firefighters. Instead, she seemingly wants Congress to work together to preserve the country’s “values” and alternatively focus on reducing “waste, fraud and abuse” in order to live within our means.

Pelosi’s speech here perfectly demonstrates just how difficult it will be to dramatically reduce the size of the federal budget. Not only do Democrats truly believe certain government programs are vital to society and worth the investment, but Republicans may be too hesitant to target large programs that will leave them open to such criticism, like Pelosi’s, that their cuts might harm the “health and education” of women and children.

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  • timzank

    Given a choice, I wouldn’t even include you OR your children.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Former Speaker of the House Democrat Nancy Pelosi

    Man I love the sound of that.

  • WCinWI

    Actually, no. The Republicans will put forth a sensible budget. It will be up to the Democrats to then turn it down.

    I love me some Paul Ryan.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/15/here-we-go-house-gop-vows-to-tackle-entitlements-in-new-budget/

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    WCinWI, maybe you and I should go into business selling Paul Ryan posters. We could make a killing!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Here they go dragging out the women and children again; this is as predictable as the mandatory racist allegations, sure to follow!

    Nancy how about bringing back your cartoon-like gavel for a good laugh?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    republicans put women and children last. however when a women is pregnant republicans put women first.
    http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

    i think they are going to call it the ‘bill oreilly law.’

  • tatboy

    She just wants to leave them drowning in debt.

  • Yoda002

    Republicans don’t care about you unless you’re a big time lobbyists passing around checks on the house floor.

  • Bobomatic

    Cry me a freaking river you putrid mass of lifeless tissue. I know, I know… conservatives hate women, children, apple pie, rainbows and unicorns. God, this woman is a skank.

  • Judge Mental

    What about the old people? Don’t forget the old people.

  • ChrisNH

    Pelosi declined comment when asked why we already spend (uhhh…sorry…’invest’) trillions on ‘education’ while buildings still crumble, textbooks are still dog-eared, and computer equipment is still antiquated. All those ‘trillions’ go to union hacks in order to make sure they stay union hacks.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    RRKING , admonishing . I think of Ms . Pelosi as a granddaughter , and should advise her to clam up after spending a fortune on herself the last few years . Who does she think she is , King Barry ?

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2010/jan/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-documents-detailing-pelosis-use-air-force-aircraft

  • writer

    Good thing it was only Democrats on the Titanic.

  • ImNotBlue

    Standard left-wing talking point… moving on.

  • notsofast

    Hey Loser Pelosi; no one cares what you think anymore.

    Just pass the Republican budget bill, so we can see what’s in it.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Yoda002 says:
    Republicans don’t care about you unless you’re a big time lobbyists passing around checks on the house floor.

    Um, you may want to check into how many lobbyists BO has on the payroll before you embarrass yourself further.

  • notsofast

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Republicans don’t care about you unless you’re a big time lobbyists passing around checks on the house floor.

    Like Tom Daschle and his wife do?

  • kvon

    WCinWI said:
    Actually, no. The Republicans will put forth a sensible budget. It will be up to the Democrats to then turn it down.

    I love me some Paul Ryan.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/15/here-we-go-house-gop-vows-to-tackle-entitlements-in-new-budget/

    Yeah, those 8 years with Bush saw our budget surplus…oh, wait…

  • kvon

    Republicans do put children first. When it comes to repealing child labor laws that is.

    http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/15/2656652/barbara-shelly-missouri-senator.html

  • kvon

    Republicans also put women first. It’s a really bad sort of first, but they put them there.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48766.html

  • kvon

    Un-needed military spending though…that really comes first.

    “The second F-35 engine, which the Pentagon has said it does not want, has long been decried as the epitome of wasteful defense spending. Both the Bush and Obama administrations opposed the program, but Congress has always stepped in to save it from elimination. Last year, the second engine program got $465 million.”

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_angle/2011/02/defense_cuts.html

  • HopeChangeInAZ

    This Democratic rhetoric is really getting old and so predictable. I mean it’s the same old worn out socialist mantra time and time again. She may had gotten away with this a couple years ago but now that the country knows what she is all about, most serious people aren’t even paying attention to what she is saying unless it’s for a good laugh. Even if what she is saying was half true, her vision of how things should be is to bankrupt the whole country to achieve her socialist means. Thank heavens the people have rejected that notion. I just hope they finish the job in 2012 and turn over both the WH and Senate to the Republicans. That ought to be enough repudiation to keep the Democrats quite for a little while., I hope!

  • notsofast

    kvon said:
    Yeah, those 8 years with Bush saw our budget surplus…oh, wait…

    Why do you have to “wait.”

    BTW, that budget surplus Clinton gave us would have been used up in 2 months of Barry’s deficit spending.

  • tatboy

    Yoda002 said:
    Republicans don’t care about you unless you’re a big time lobbyists passing around checks on the house floor.

    Ummmmm… who got the most oil money??? Answer… Obama!!! FAIL…

  • CAconservative

    If there was ever a person that needed a lobotomy, this women fits the bill. What’s most bizarre is, there’s people out there that voted for this mental-midget!

  • Davo

    CAconservative said:
    If there was ever a person that needed a lobotomy, this women fits the bill.

    You mean she hasn’t already had one? Anyone THAT Liberal surely has had part of their brain removed.

    Maybe we Conservatives should just fess-up and admit she has us caught red-handed. I mean…………you know we like to sit around watching old people starve to death. We smoke our cigars being entertained by seeing children die without government health control. And women……………we just loath strong and successful women like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachm………………………HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! It’s LIBERALS who hate successful women want to see old people and children dying from the destruction of the best healthcare available on Earth.

  • AVORR

    Rep. Nancy Pelosi On Budget Cuts: “Republicans Put Women And Children Last” AND SHE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

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