Conservative Rumblings

Wow. Boo frigging hoo. If the shoe fits, wear it.

For anyone who is making House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., out to be the leading purveyor of partisan politics, she has a bone to pick.

“There seems to be a market for saying that I am very partisan, and that I don’t give the Republicans their opportunity. That simply is not true,” Pelosi said in an interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose. “They know in this recovery package that we had, we ask them what they wanted.”

“Bi-partisan” means “working together,” not “asking” what the GOP wants in the bill and then summarily dismissing all of it in favor of a disgustingly porky fake stimulus bill packed with pet projects and useless flinging of tax payer dollars.

Now, to respond to Pelosi’s assertion that she’s not partisan, well…let’s check out the definition from dictionary.com:

partisan
–noun
1. an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, esp. a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.

Seemed pretty spot on to me.

It really wasn’t a question of if, just when. Obama had a chance to stand up for the promise he made in his campaign to go “line by line” and eliminate wasteful spending and earmarks.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, sounding weary of criticism over federal earmarks, defended Congress’ pet projects Wednesday as he signed an “imperfect” $410 billion measure with thousands of examples. But he said the spending does need tighter restraint and listed guidelines to do it. Obama, accused of hypocrisy by Republicans for embracing billions of dollars of earmarks in the legislation, said they can be useful and noted that he has promised to curb, not eliminate them.

Instead, he meekly signed in the massively overloaded omnibus budget act as it was presented to him, while saying that it was “imperfect” and acting like he didn’t actually want to sign the massive increase in government spending.

I like how NOW Obama is promising earmark reform after just THIS ugly earmarked bill. That’s like a mass murderer promising to quit after he guns down just ONE more group of people. It doesn’t make the crime any better to say you won’t do it again (especially in this case since he ALREADY said he wouldn’t do it in the first place).

Wow.

“I’m trying to save the planet. … I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy,” Pelosi said. “When you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.”

So basically…she wants her power, she wants her recognition, and does she ever want her gavel. I’m beginning to think that that was her only goal in life. Her 9% approval rating do-nothing Congress hasn’t accomplished a thing, and she doesn’t seem too cut up about it.

Does she want to fix gas prices or end the War in Iraq? Apparently not, because despite promising to do just that when her idiots took control of Congress (after other idiots voted for them in 2006), she has made no effort to do so.

She’s too busy saving the planet, of course, to pass legislation.