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    Pelosi Says She Would Drain Republican 'Swamp' if She Becomes House Majority Leader

    By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent

    WASHINGTON Oct 6, 2006 (AP)— Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days.

    House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.

    As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats in her fondest wish win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.

    Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."

    Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

    Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.

    All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.

    To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above "a certain level." She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era. Details will have to be worked out, she emphasized.

    "We believe in the marketplace," Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. "They have only rewarded wealth, not work."

    "We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few, she added.

    Pelosi, 66, has been a leader of the House Democrats since 2002. But her political apprenticeship dates to childhood, when her father was mayor of Baltimore.

    Now, her political base is about as liberal as it gets, San Francisco. It's a fact that Republicans love to emphasize to voters who might want to visit, but not feel comfortable living there.


    Republicans find her an attractive political target, and recently said she would try to "cut-and-run" from Iraq while "launching bitter partisan investigations" of the Bush administration, possibly including impeachment hearings.

    A grandmother five times over, Pelosi pops chocolates, shuns coffee and flashes her wit. Asked what offices should would occupy if in the Capitol if she becomes speaker, she laughed. "I'll have any suite I want."

    She would, too.

    "If the election were held today we'd be successful," Pelosi predicted, claiming that her party's prospects are expanding as the campaign enters its final month. "So many other races are emerging right now," she said.

    Democrats must gain 15 seats to regain the majority they lost in 1994, and have candidates in competitive races for 30 or so Republican-held seats, according to strategists in both parties. By contrast, only about a handful of Democratic-controlled seats appear ripe for possible Republican takeover.

    Democrats have a pamphlet that lists all their promises and have run through several slogans in the past year or so as they test campaign messages. In recent days, Pelosi said, their prospects have improved by the discovery that former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida had sent sexually explicit computer messages to teenage male pages.

    Not long before sitting down for a lunchtime interview, she turned down a suggestion from Speaker Dennis Hastert that they jointly appoint former FBI Director Louie Freeh to recommend improvements in the page program.

    "That was about protecting their majority" rather than the pages, she said dismissively.

    Instead, she wants to put Hastert and other Republicans under oath and make them say what they knew of Foley's actions, when they learned it and what they did to stop him.

    The potential for political gain is clear to her.

    "It's an opportunity for growth among women" for the Democrats, she said. "They don't always vote and this could be a motivation."

    With married women, in particular, it's a huge issue, she added.

    Among older voters, too.

    "If there's an ethical issue, seniors take a hike" and abandon politicians they blame, she said.

    "If we hold onto seniors we win the election." Link
    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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    Yeah, Nancy Pelosi is going to clean out congress....

    Right.

    She's as dumbassed and dirty a congresscritter as there is on the hill IMO.

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    • #3
      Fine, let's make a deal. If the Dems win a majority in the House then Pelosi can drain that swamp. And if the Dems don't win a majority they can examine the problems they have connecting on any meaningful level with the electorate.

      -dale

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      • #4
        The only way to clean house in congress is to announce a happy hour/fund raising event at the nearby Little Boy's bar and grill. Both sides of the congressional isle would run out faster than Bart Simpson leaving the classroom on the last day of school. Pelosi's remarcks are nothing more than the pot calling the kettle black.

        It sickens me that we can't elect any decent people to congress or the whitehouse, and I put the blame squarely on the republicansand the democrats, for putting themselves above the people and the country they pretend to represent and the voters who are willing to settle for the lesser of the two evils when at the ballot box.
        Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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        • #5
          She's as dumbassed and dirty a congresscritter as there is on the hill IMO.
          I would not want to confuse the post with facts but what makes you say that when manifestly there are a lot of corrupt and deviant people on the Hill for which there is good evidence.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by dieseltaylor View Post
            I would not want to confuse the post with facts but what makes you say that when manifestly there are a lot of corrupt and deviant people on the Hill for which there is good evidence.
            True, which at this point in time, Pelosi needs to keep her mouth shut. ;)

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Julie View Post
              True, which at this point in time, Pelosi needs to keep her mouth shut. ;)
              True, because the Democrats claim they are coming to cleanse the temple...unfortunately it's rather difficult to cleanse a whorehouse.
              “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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              • #8
                Originally posted by dieseltaylor View Post
                I would not want to confuse the post with facts but what makes you say that when manifestly there are a lot of corrupt and deviant people on the Hill for which there is good evidence.
                The "good evidence" of which you speak for one.
                The fact that i understand the nature of power for another.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
                  True, because the Democrats claim they are coming to cleanse the temple...unfortunately it's rather difficult to cleanse a whorehouse.
                  I bow to your experience of whorehouses. In any event is there any other games in town for cleaning up Congress? Reverting to Senators being chosen by the States elected representatives might diffuse lobbying effectiveness at the Capitol. Combatting gerrymandering in some way? Single transferable vote to encourage something other than two horse races?

                  That the present parties are happy to play within the current system might suggest that they like to go through the motions of democracy whilst realising that the voters have a very limited choice when voting.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by dieseltaylor View Post
                    I bow to your experience of whorehouses. In any event is there any other games in town for cleaning up Congress?
                    Starts with an R and ends with a T, and saying it on the internet will get ya a visit from the Secret Service.

                    LOL...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by dieseltaylor View Post
                      I bow to your experience of whorehouses.
                      It's all C-Span and the typical headlines, but thanks anyway ;)

                      Originally posted by dieseltaylor View Post
                      In any event is there any other games in town for cleaning up Congress?
                      Historically? Not really, no.
                      “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                      • #12
                        If Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker, the Democrats are going to get creamed in '08.
                        F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: The Honda Accord of fighters.

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                        • #13
                          well, she might want to start with the Minority Leader in the Senate.

                          http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/..._land_windfall

                          WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

                          In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.

                          The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. He's never been charged with wrongdoing — except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Julie View Post
                            True, which at this point in time, Pelosi needs to keep her mouth shut. ;)
                            She's ALWAYS needed to do that. As Exhibit A for the prosecution, I offer this quote from 2003:

                            The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.
                            Given the chilling news from the Korean Peninsula lately, it sure doesn't speak well of Ms. Pelosi's understanding of what the United States needs or doesn't.

                            It should be crystal-clear to any rational person by now: democrats do not understand and can not be trusted with national security.

                            Defend your country; Vote Republican.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Bluesman View Post
                              democrats do not understand and can not be trusted with national security.
                              You..you..you..WARMONGER!
                              “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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