Odd, isn’t it? The GOP wins big last Tuesday night, and we – like adults – avoid unseemly celebrations about it. Given the almost double-digit unemployment, horrible economy, crushing debt load, and the rest of the Democratic legacy we’re inheriting, it seems… childish… to make the welkin ring*. But by God Nancy Pelosi’s going to have a party on Wednesday ‘honoring the accomplishments’ of the 111th Congress. You know: the double-digit unemployment, horrible economy, crushing debt load, and all that.
Mind you, this is mostly to convince those House members who managed to survive Pelosi’s help this election cycle that they want to make her their leader in the next election cycle, too. I’d say that going along with this mad scheme of the woman’s was insane, but then it’d leave me without a word to adequately describe the belief that shoving Obamacare down all of our throats would somehow translate into gaining seats.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*A ‘welkin’ is actually an archaic word for ‘sky’ or ‘cloud;’ so to ‘make the welkin ring’ means ‘to make the heavens themselves reverberate with sound’ (usually celebratory). Just in case you ever wondered.
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A matter of perspective
DerKrieger (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 9:12PM EST (link)If Nancy’s goal was to advance the progressive agenda and increase government control over the plebes then she can consider herself a success and rightly party to celebrate her accomplishments.
From her point of view she was successful. She was able to accomplish with Obamacare what successive generations of progressives haven’t been able to; a government takeover of health care. To use a football metaphor, she’s advanced the ball closer to her red zone.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
It's their party...
clintonformccain Monday, November 8th at 9:22PM EST (link)…and they can cry if they want to.
Hate to say it, cfm...
basalt_conservative (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 9:45PM EST (link)…but we are going to be the ones doing the crying after getting the bill for her celebration (and that includes the cost of all that Congress passed over the last few years!)
Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid. – John Wayne
Man is not free unless government is limited. – President Ronald Reagan
Dem Congress-critters
clintonformccain Tuesday, November 9th at 3:45AM EST (link)running for re-election in 2012 having voted for Pelosi again might be shedding a few tears.
Welp, that does it.
stephaniet Monday, November 8th at 9:25PM EST (link)Princess P has finally gone totally and irrevocably batty.
“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”
Duh, Dems celebrate failure and only punish success.
clydehorsesense Monday, November 8th at 9:58PM EST (link)The fact the dems are going to reward and celebrate Pelosi’s dismal failure is consistent with their philosophy of only punishing success. Failure and lack of accomplishment or effort are to be celebrated. I wouldn’t expect anything less.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Did I mention I’m VERY needy?
The Sweet Smell of Success
chicagoja (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 10:15PM EST (link)The party, no doubt, is to celebrate the dems successful destruction of this
nation’s economy. It was never about winning seats in Congress.
The Sweet Smell of Success
chicagoja (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 10:15PM EST (link)The party, no doubt, is to celebrate the dems successful destruction of this
nation’s economy. It was never about winning seats in Congress.
What's wrong with having a going away party
Tbone (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 10:41PM EST (link)for all the moderate Dems who are;
A. Pretty stupid for even being Democrats, and;
B. Were really stupid to have committed political suicide in allegiance to the Nancy, Harry and Barry troika of buffonery.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Will she let every eat their cake as well?
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, November 8th at 10:45PM EST (link)Or will the rest of the unwashed just have to look at the pictures of dems living large of the taxpayers backs and be happy for getting that much out of the new deal?
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
http://www.zazzle.com/enemy_of_the_statist_tshirt-235977043035297478
Will they play "Happy Days Are Here Again"?
Adjoran (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 3:16AM EST (link)There is a definite upside to keeping Pelosi and Reid. They, with Obama, are the faces of the failures of the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration. I’m glad to keep them before the public.
Party Hearty: It's the right thing to do. [nt]
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 6:06AM EST (link).
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Well, I'd say her boss is out spending like a drunken sailor
trutexan Tuesday, November 9th at 6:09AM EST (link)but I don’t want to insult the US Navy.
I was anti-Obama before it was cool.
If the Dems rhetoric is true, you bet they deserve to throw themselves a party.
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 7:01AM EST (link)Haven’t we been hearing for the last two years that Obama’s brought us through more crisis in his two years if office than the previous combined crisis our country’s gone through in its entire existence as a nation? And that the Congress, led by Nancy Pelosi, has passed more landmark legislation than any Congress ever, at least since the Great Depression?
If the White House wants to withdraw their previous humble assertion that the Obama/Reid/Pelosi team have saved our country several times over from the brink of despair, I’m all for this. But until they do, if it’s a party Pelosi wants, then it’s a party Pelosi should get.
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I want pix!
america1st (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 7:26AM EST (link)Then we will have a nice collage to represent the dim performance.
I’m thinking a bulleted list of their “accomplishments” as the centerpiece surrounded by images of the Imperial vacations, the golfing superstar and events such as this. Oh, say, perhaps billboard size? A few thousand of them. Displayed in “purple” areas hardest hit by foreclosures and job loss?
Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.
Maybe Obama will show up to the party and toast Khalid Rashidi? [nt]
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 7:51AM EST (link)www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
Obama would dream of throwing Pelosi under the bus.
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 7:52AM EST (link)…Would he?
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Kowalski - Obama wouldn't dream of throwing Pelosi under the bus.
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 8:32AM EST (link)..
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Party hardy, Nancy.
chbroussard (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 8:15AM EST (link)Spend as much of the taxpayers hard-earned dollars as you can before we remove that big old gavel from your greedy little hands. Go ahead and add to the tally of wasteful money that has been taken out of the people’s pockets for your use. And while you’re at it, why don’t you throw this party on your jet and fly all around the country boozing it up.
P.S. Good luck on your race for Minority Leader. Your personal budget is going to be a little smaller, but for the next couple of months go ahead and spend and celebrate like there’s no tomorrow.
All those Dems who are trying to push Nancy out are clearly sexist.
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 8:33AM EST (link)nt
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Who is paying for this party?
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Tuesday, November 9th at 12:35PM EST (link)If it is the taxpayer, I think we should crash it.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher