Seeing the World Through Nancy Pelosi’s Eyes

Rory Cooper / March 01, 2010

After last week’s disastrous health care summit for the President and his supporters, the left has been scrambling to save face and sell the public not on their plan, but on using the reconciliation process to jam it past the American people. They’ve simply given up on earning any form of widespread public support for the plan, which America has loudly rejected. In fact, the only bipartisan effort in Washington these days is against the Obama-Reid-Pelosi health care agenda. Large numbers of Democrats have joined Republicans doing everything they can to stop Obamacare in its tracks.  Of course, this bipartisanship is strangely labeled obstructionism in today’s media environment.

So now, we have the last respite of the left, forcing their members to either take votes that could end their political careers or bypassing them altogether by only requiring 50 senators and the vice president to pass a bill. Judging from the weekend’s news, the leader of this back door movement is Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The Speaker took to the airwaves to vigorously defend the Democrat plan to pass their health care spending bill, regardless of the lack of Democrat support. Here are a few gems from the weekend: (more…)