(2009-08-11) — After a gentle rebuke from the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, said today she regrets using the term ‘un-American’ in Monday’s USA Today op-ed to describe protesters at health care reform townhall meetings held by Democrat lawmakers.
“The president is right,” said Rep. Pelosi, “They’re not un-American. The proper term might be ‘guest protesters’. But since they weren’t really invited to the townhalls, technically they’re ‘undocumented agitators’. However, they are entitled to all the rights and benefits of full American citizenship, including the right to free speech, the right to petition their government for the redress of grievances, and the right to sit down and be silent after your opponent wins the election.”
A White House spokesman responded to the op-ed which Rep. Pelosi co-wrote with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-MD, by noting, “The President thinks that if people want to come and have a spirited debate about health care, a real vigorous conversation about it, that’s a part of the American tradition. And when all the shouting’s done, it’s good to know these folks will soon be able to get sore throat treatment for free, along with care for any wounds sustained during vigorous conversation with our patriotic labor union members.”
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1 Darthmeister // Aug 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Gee, that makes me feel better.
I think Pelosi ought to look in the mirror to see what a real "un-American" looks like, particularly after the liberal Donks spent the last eight years telling us how "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" that, in their case, was a cover for their partisan lies about President Bush and the war on terrorism.
2 camojack // Aug 11, 2009 at 12:49 pm
The "Vast Rightwing Conspiracy™" is outsourcing now?
FWIW, I agree with Mister Meister about "San Fran Nan"…but a mirror would probably break if she looked into it, and the seven years of bad luck would be for all of us.
3 RAM1 // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Maybe the Democratic leaders should start demanding the "political terrorists", (as called by Congressman Baron Hill (D) IN), produce their birth certificate in order to attend the Town Hall meetings?
4 RAM1 // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Camo: Maybe Nancy could look in a crystal ball, as did the wicked witch of the west, seeing as how that name actually fits pretty well!
5 RAM1 // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Isn't it amazing that if Pelosi were a Conservative, she would have already been laughed out of Congress and been the butt of every joke, of EVERY comic on TV and the movies but, since she is a left wing-nut, she continues on as a leader (haha) of Congress by the Lib Stream Media.
I STILL cannot believe O'Reilly said a few weeks back that Pelosi was?is, "—a good looking woman."
He must have thought Frau Blucher was hot then also?
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi382795801/
6 RAM1 // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Isn't it amazing that if Pelosi were a Conservative, she would have already been laughed out of Congress and been the butt of every joke, of EVERY comic on TV and the movies but, since she is a left wing-nut, she continues on as a leader (haha) of Congress by the Lib Stream Media.
I STILL cannot believe O'Reilly said a few weeks back that Pelosi was?is, "—a good looking woman."
He must have thought Frau Blucher was hot then also?
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi382795801/
7 gafisher // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:43 pm
It was truly amazing to see Pelosi tutored by Obama on the topic of democracy, a pot-and-kettle situation if ever there was one.
8 gafisher // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:46 pm
RAM1 Re: "I STILL cannot believe O'Reilly said …"
Have you seen his article in the recent "Parade" flyer? Maybe he's angling for a new gig.
9 Jesse Raphial // Aug 11, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Pelosi knows "un-american", she used to hire them to work her vast kingdom…
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 11, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I say boycott these so-called "Town Hall Meetings." It's a set-up. Let them have their Obsequious Narcissism sessions; they're very boring.
Conservatives are not getting the opportunity to disseminate the truth. How about some Town Hall Meetings sponsored by Conservatives? The Leftists are playing us while getting their message out loud and clear.
It irks me to be dismissed with the flick of a Democrat party wrist.
11 Maggie // Aug 11, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Camojack,
"Mirror, mirror on the wall ; who is the most un-American of us all?
(One of your best Scott.)
12 DrivebyMeteor // Aug 11, 2009 at 11:44 am
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you are not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!”
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
13 RedRum151 // Aug 11, 2009 at 12:41 pm
“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, ‘You can’t say that.’” - Garrison Keillor
14 Edisto Joe // Aug 11, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Would have loved to hear that phone conversation…their losing ground and Pelosi leads the charge? Some one pointed her in the wrong direction…probably the CIA, they always lie.
Edisto Joe
The Edisto Joe Outlook
15 The Two Malcontents » Pelosi Yanks ‘Un-American’ Slur, Uses ‘Guest Protesters’ // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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16 Fred Sinclair // Aug 11, 2009 at 5:15 pm
It's sorta strange that when "Hillarycare" was flushed down the sewer the Socialists seem to think that they can fish it back out of the septic tank, hose it off and fool the people into accepting it in it's new guise as "Obamacare".
There's nothing wrong with "Obamacare" that a permanent residence in the septic tank couldn't fix.
Unfortunately the current administration has learned a lesson from the homosexual lobby. The homosexuals suffered defeat after defeat and kept coming back the next year with the same agenda dressed up with a newer sounding name - eventually they achieved most, if not all, of their goals.
17 onlineanalyst // Aug 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Izoneguy shares this information all documented at opensecrets:
Obamacare would create a huge bureaucracy that would be staffed with SEIU members (most government workers are SEIU members). SEIU would collect a windfall in new union dues which would be fed back into Democrat politician’s campaign coffers.
It is about a permanent funding mechanism for the Democrat party.
Look at this info from Open Secrets….
These dems have raked in the most cash from union contributions.
Hoyer tops the list with $3,596,358
Edward Kennedy is 2nd with $2,741,591
Pelosi is 3rd with $2,737,550
Unions Lobby to Thwart Health Care Deal Breaker
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/07/unions-lo...
Download a list of contributions from labor PACs to all current members of Congress (including to their candidate committees and leadership PACs) since 1989 here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/LaborPAC_Contribs...
If you use this info give credit:
http://www.opensecrets.org/MyOS/credit.php
Just counter Pelosi and Hoyer un-American accusations with these facts. National Health Care is a Union Trojan Horse…..
18 Libby Gone // Aug 11, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Camo, and RAM,
1) Mirror would not break as there would be NO REFLECTION.
2) Cloris is far better looking (naturally) than Bovine Toxie face.
…….You should hear the horses around San Fran when her name is mentioned……
19 onlineanalyst // Aug 11, 2009 at 6:56 pm
"Don't Tread on Me"-http://politicalabacus.blogspot.com/2009/08/video... — dedicated to Kenneth Gladney, union thug victim. Let it go viral.
20 onlineanalyst // Aug 11, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder has a number of questions to answer regarding the disposition of the DoJ in handling the New Black Black Panther party: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODdmYjI2...
21 Pelosi and Hoyer Were For Drowning Out Opposing Views Before They Were Against It | linkthe.com // Aug 11, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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22 RAM1 // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:13 am
gafisher: I read the one commentor who said either O'Reilly was naive or a sellout to Obama.
O'Reilly is NOT naive. Hope that helps.
The funny thing is O'Reilly has been a LOT more favorable to Obama AFTER he had the "one on one" interview with him.
I wonder if O'Reilly was threatened to "lay off" or maybe O'Reilly got a scare after seeing Obama do a "live" version of Linda Blair's performance from "The Exorcist"?
23 RAM1 // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:14 am
gafisher: At the end of the article, I read the one commentor who said either O'Reilly was naive or a sellout to Obama.
O'Reilly is NOT naive. Hope that helps.
The funny thing is O'Reilly has been a LOT more favorable to Obama AFTER he had the "one on one" interview with him.
I wonder if O'Reilly was threatened to "lay off" or maybe O'Reilly got a scare after seeing Obama do a "live" version of Linda Blair's performance from "The Exorcist"?
24 RAM1 // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:16 am
gafisher: At the end of the article, I read the one commentor who said either O'Reilly was naive or a sellout to Obama.
O'Reilly is NOT naive. Hope that helps.
The funny thing is O'Reilly has been a LOT more favorable to Obama AFTER he had the "one on one" interview with him.
I wonder if O'Reilly was threatened to "lay off" or maybe O'Reilly got a scare after seeing Obama do a "live" version of Linda Blair's performance from "The Exorcist"?
PS: As fast as O'Reilly got to the top of the cable ratings, he can FALL just as fast. I hope it is soon. His egotism is appalling! I don't know this is the fact but, I can almost see and hear his cronies around him "puffing him up" all the day long!
25 gafisher // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:45 am
"…….You should hear the horses around San Fran when her name is mentioned…… "
ROFL!
26 gafisher // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:48 am
"Attorney General Eric Holder has a number of questions …"
One of the Secretaries of State has offered to answer those questions some enchanted evening at Ft. Marcy Park …
27 camojack // Aug 12, 2009 at 4:12 am
RAM1
Camo: Maybe Nancy could look in a crystal ball, as did the wicked witch of the west, seeing as how that name actually fits pretty well!
It does indeed.
Maggie
Camojack,
"Mirror, mirror on the wall; who is the most un-American of us all?
"San Fran Nan".
Libby Gone
Camo…
Mirror would not break as there would be NO REFLECTION.
You might be onto something there…
28 Possumtrot // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:44 am
How did I come to be living on Superman’s “Bizzaro World”, where dissenters seeking to voice their opinions are denounced as “Nazis” and “un-American” while the most powerful nation in history descends into The Fourth Reich?
I’m reliably informed that I haven’t yet descended into senile dementia with my Obama=Hitler analogy at United Possums International.
I was studying Obambi’s body language during the love fest/”explanation” yesterday, and I’m doggoned if some of the posturing and inclinations of the head don’t resemble Hitler. Study a tape of Leni Riefensthal’s Triumph of the Will and any recent speech by The Red Herring side-by-side, as I did. If you aren’t already chilled to the bone by our descent in The Fourth Reich, this will get ‘er done, as Larry the Cable Guy says.
29 Possumtrot // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:49 am
I once worked on a movie with Chloris Leachman, and she’s pretty darn hot for 104!
30 gafisher // Aug 12, 2009 at 1:56 am
Obviously Specter, Pelosi et al just aren't inviting the right skeptics.
31 Fred Sinclair // Aug 12, 2009 at 6:00 am
FINALLY…THE $64,000 QUESTION WAS ASKED…
ON "ABC-TV" (BETTER KNOWN AS THE ALL BARRACK CHANNEL) DURING THE "NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE"…. OBAMA WAS ASKED:
"MR. PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM' THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ????"….. (BET YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER)…
THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT !!!….
IN ADDITION, A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED T HE SAME QUESTION AND THERE RESPONSE WAS…"WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT."
AND THEY DID. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE "KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL" WAS WRITTEN INTO THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM INITIATIVE ENSURING THAT CONGRESS WILL BE 100% EXEMPT !
SO, THIS GREAT NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND I… IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA, HIS FAMILY OR CONGRESS…?? WE (THE AMERICAN PUBLIC) NEED TO STOP THIS PROPOSED DEBACLE ASAP !!!!… THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG !!!!!
PERSONALLY, I CAN ONLY ACCEPT A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL THAT EXTENDS TO EVERYONE… NOT JUST US LOWLY CITIZENS… WHILE THE WASHINGTON "ELITE" KEEP RIGHT ON WITH THEIR GOLD-PLATED HEALTH CARE COVERAGES.
32 Fred Sinclair // Aug 12, 2009 at 6:06 am
Scott - Will my earlier post attempt ever be okayed?When I clicked on "Submit comment" I got a flash that it was awaiting review.
33 Fred Snclair // Aug 12, 2009 at 6:09 am
Scott - PS that earlier post attempt was several (many) hours ago.
34 Darthmeister // Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 pm
"Guest Protester"?
Actually, I prefer the term "undocumented protester", Scott. However, under the ObaMarx thugocracy an undocumented protester will quickly become a documented protester, probably with some brownshirt union thug knocking at their door.
Obama Questions 'Quality of Life' Surgeries For Terminally Ill
If a Republican or conservative had EVER said such a thing they would have been called a cold-hearted, Neanderthal jerk who hasn't an ounce of compassion in their soul. Keep in mind, this was Obamarx's own grandmother he was talking about!
35 Darthmeister // Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 pm
"Guest Protester"?
Actually, I prefer the term "undocumented protester", Scott. However, under the ObaMarx thugocracy an undocumented protester will quickly become a documented protester, probably with some brownshirt union thug knocking at their door.
Obama Questions 'Quality of Life' Surgeries For Terminally Ill
If a Republican or conservative had EVER said such a thing they would have been called a cold-hearted, Neanderthal jerk who hasn't an ounce of compassion in their soul. Keep in mind, this was Obamarx's own grandmother he was talking about!
36 gafisher // Aug 12, 2009 at 5:12 pm
San Fran Nan's comments about swastikas et al appearing at the town halls appears to have been prophetic. At a town hall held by Michigan's John Dingell a large poster was seen portraying Obama with the narrow mustache most often associated with a German leader of the mid-20th Century.
Interestingly, it appears [photos, etc. here] that the person who brought and carried that poster was … a Dingell staffer! The deception raises obvious questions about other, similar incidents such as this.
37 Lou Dobbs: Olbermann the ‘Resident Moron’ at MSNBC | linkthe.com // Aug 12, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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38 Darthmeister // Aug 13, 2009 at 4:23 am
File this under: In a Donk world you can't make this stuff up.
After viciously lying about conservatives/libertarians/independents "astroturfing" and "bussing in supporters from outside the district", it turns out IT'S THE THUG-IN-CHIEF AND THE STINKIN' DEMOCRATS who are actually busted for doing the very thing they falsely accuse (without proof, mind you) their Townhall opponents of doing! What unmitigated gall!
And here's the video proof of Demoncrat deception and mendacity
39 Darthmeister // Aug 13, 2009 at 1:20 pm
New jobless claims rise unexpectedly to 558K…
Do tell? How's that "hope and change" thingy going, libs?
RASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Approval Rating Falls to New Low: 47 %…
Awwww, it's just a vicious right-wing conspiracy. Next thing ya know the Obamabots will start telling us this proves Obama's messianic creds because even Jesus was unpopular in his day! Obama = Unpopular = Jesus = Messiah. Yep, ya simply can't argue with that "logic".
Home foreclosures set another record in July; Rise 7%…
You Donks can't slime your way out of this. You not only own the present economic failure after your stupid failed "bailouts" but you most certainly own the failure of the mortgage industry compliments of your own failure to reign it in compliments of Barney Fwank, Maxine Waters, Chris Dodd, et al.
40 My Kids Deserve Better » Blog Archive » My Kids Deserve Better // Aug 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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