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...underemployment is " the government is giving you the opportunity to follow your passion."

We have the most incompetent elites in our history.

Do we have the worst elites in the history of the world?

WTF does Nancy Pelosi think she's doing?  Is she so used to simply making stuff up and having it ratified by the press that she has become completely unmoored from truth?

The big news on ObamaCare these past two weeks has been the administration's announcement that it will delay by one year the requirement on businesses to provide health insurance. 

Nancy Pelosi, though, had a curious take on the whole thing. Actually, she instructed reporters, "The mandate was not delayed." 

The House Democratic leader used some creative reasoning to make her case -- she claimed the administration really only delayed the requirement on businesses to report insurance coverage details. 

But The Washington Post fact-checker on Friday shut it down, effectively ruling that Pelosi is trying to "deny reality." 

"Yes, reporting requirements were delayed. But there also was a one-year delay of the actual employer mandate. It's right there in the announcement," the Post wrote. 

'The point is, is that the mandate was not delayed.'

- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

Here's what Pelosi said during a press conference on Thursday: 

"The point is, is that the mandate was not delayed. Certain reporting by businesses that could be perceived as onerous, that reporting requirement was delayed, and partially to review how it would work and how it could be better. It was not a delay of the mandate for the businesses." 

Pelosi was correct in the first part of that statement. In an announcement last week on the Treasury Department blog, Mark J. Mazur. assistant secretary for Tax Policy at Treasury, said the requirement to report details on insurance coverage would be delayed by a year. 

However, that decision meant everything else would be delayed too. Mazur said the penalties on employers would be pushed off until 2015, meaning the requirement itself would be pushed off -- though the administration would still "strongly encourage" employers to offer coverage during that time. 

But, as the Post noted, "encouraging employers to provide health insurance is not the same thing as mandating it." 

Pelosi tried to deny the existence of a delay as her Republican colleagues use the announcement as an opening to attempt to stall other parts of the law. 

Republicans are already teeing up votes on delaying what is known as the "individual mandate" -- the requirement on individuals to buy health insurance, which the administration so far has kept on schedule. 

The Post wrote: "We understand Pelosi's desire to minimize the impact of the decision -- and supporters of the law may have a strong case that the employer mandate is not as central to the law as the individual mandate to buy insurance -- but that's not an excuse to deny reality."

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"Shut the hell up!," he suggested.

Nancy Pelosi's idea of the "sacred" is blasphemous:

In response to a question today from a reporter about a late-term abortion ban that is being proposed in Congress, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that the issue of late-term abortion is "sacred ground" for her.

"As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this," Pelosi said. "This shouldn't have anything to do with politics."

A Weekly Standard reporter had pointed out that the bill was proposed by legislators in response to the horrific case of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty of murder for "snipping" the spinal cords of three babies born alive.

This is an amazing example of how the "privileged victim" mindset wrecks rational thought.

So, why the hell is an incompetent clot like Pelosi still in leadership?

You lose your party's majority status, you should resign leadership.  That's how it is normally done.

You lose the second election, then maybe even a dim-bulb like Pelosi might get the message that her time has passed.

So, it's hardly surprising when the question comes from a journalist about letting in "younger" - i.e., not you - leadership.

Watch Pelosi's reaction.  More important, watch the chorus from the women she surroundd herself with.



So, now, if you ask a question that Our Leaders decide is BadThink, you get mau-maued by the fargin' House minority leader, who apparently can't answer for herself like a real leader ought to.

No wonder our country is so screwed up.

From the "If a Republican had gotten anywhere within one hundred yards of saying something this prejudiced...etc." file.

Pelosi: Republican Jews just want to save on taxes:

HUNT: Do you think he’ll do as well with the Jewish vote this time as he did last time?

PELOSI: The election will tell us that.

HUNT: What do you think?

PELOSI: But I — I think that he will. I think that he will, because the fact is when the facts get out. You know, as many of the Republicans are using Israel as an excuse, what they really want are tax cuts for the wealthy. So Israel, that can be one reason they put forth.

HUNT: That’s why some of the Republican Jewish supporters are really active.

PELOSI: Well, that’s how they’re being exploited. And they’re smart people. They follow these issues. But they have to know the facts. And the fact is that President Obama has been the strongest person in terms of sanctions on Iran, which is important to Israel. He’s been the strongest person on whether it’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling, any of these weapons systems and initiatives that relate to Israel. He has been there over and over again.

There might be something to Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. When you think of the insensitive things said by ranking Democrats such as Pelosi, Biden and Reid, you can't help but conclude that the whole party would be helped by culling out the dumbest ones.

The Anti-Catholic Wedge Strategy...

...and the role of nationalist Catholics.

As I've pointed out before, the historic Anti-Catholic "wedge" strategy has involved playing off the understandable love that Catholics have for their local community, their secular community, whether that community be a nation, a people or a party, against their loyalty to an institution that transcends time and space. This translates into a conflict within the the local community between Catholics who identify more with the papacy - ultramontane Catholics - and those who identify more with the local community - "national" Catholics, perhaps, or anti-ultramontane Catholics.

You can see this playing out with anti-ultramontane Catholics like Nancy Pelosi attempting to co-opt the name of "Catholic" for her political ideology. After misrepresenting Catholic teaching on abortion, Pelosi is now claiming that Catholicism mandates same-sex marriage:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that her Catholic faith “compels” her to “be against discrimination of any kind” and thus for same-sex marriage.

A reporter asked Pelosi: “Many of the people that are opposed to gay marriage cite their religion as the reason why they’re opposed. You’re a Catholic that supports gay marriage. Do you believe that religion and the idea that you can support gay marriage can be separated? And how do you grapple with the idea that you support gay marriage as a Catholic?”

Pelosi responded: “My religion has, compels me–and I love it for it–to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that. ”

Pelosi spoke glowingly of the comments President Barack Obama made Wednesday when he said he supported same-sex marriage.

“So I think that yesterday was a great day for America because the president in a very personal, as well as presidential way, made history, and hopefully this will bring people together on the issue,” Pelosi said.

This attempt is properly slapped down by Mark Shea:

Pelosi Demonstrates, Yet Again, that Her Faith

…is not the Catholic Faith.

Sorry, Nancy, but the Catholic faith is not esoteric. It is not “whatever I feel deeply in my heart”. It is the faith once given to the apostles and handed down to us through the Holy Catholic Church.

And:

If you feel something deeply in your heart that is directly contrary to the faith handed down to the Church, that is not a confirmation from the Holy Spirit that you are right and the Church is wrong. It is confirmation that you are in rebellion against Jesus Christ and should repent. You are also, in this case, giving public scandal (i.e. tempting others to sin) and stand in grave danger of tying a millstone around your own neck as you tempt little ones to sin. God forgive you.

Oh, and by the way, Nancy, don’t try the trick of suddenly turning around and saying that the Church has no business sticking its nose into marriage now. You are the one who decided to play the “I’m saying this because I’m Catholic” card. Don’t want to be corrected about what that Catholic teaching is? Don’t lie about Catholic teaching.

Elizabeth Scalia shares what Pelosi is really doing, giving "talking points" to Catholics who want or need to privilege their allegiance to the secular community over that to their transcendent community.

Right on schedule, Nancy Pelosi tries to do what Ted Kennedy and Mario Cuomo have done before her: give talking points to Catholics who wish to hop on to policy that flies in the face of church teaching.

You’ll recall it was Kennedy (and later Cuomo) who gave voice to the corkscrew notion that one could be “personally opposed” to abortion but too broad-minded to “impose my views on others.”

Because, as you know, modern-day liberals would never presume to impose their views on others, not at all. The HHS Mandate? Pffffft!…it’s not imposing anything on Catholic institutions! It’s just making them do the right thing!

Kennedy’s duplicitous language was effective, though. It informed whole generations of very cowardly Catholic politicians and others.

Scalia shares my view that the end-point of the wedge strategy is the formation of a national Catholic Church:

The handwriting was on the wall, even then. At the very least, those churches who will not capitulate and permit gay marriages in their buildings (or recognize them in their institutions) will be forced out into the periphery of the public square, as the HHS Mandate is already trying to do.

Worst case scenario? Well, I get yelled at when I say this but the worst-case scenario — and I think it’s inevitable — will be a schism and the creation of an American Catholic Church, one that works very closely with the government to “do the right thing” and reaps its worldly rewards, both material and elitist. It will claim apostolic succession as I have no doubt at all that some bishop in the US will be willing to act as titular head, and it will likely — with the help of the government (via fines, settlements, levies) — quickly lay claim to (or be awarded) Roman Catholic properties.

This outcome isn't surprising to anyone who pays attention to history.

We have uncommonly poor elites today.

Why should we expect Nancy Pelosi to have any sense of honor? What is there in her experience that would lead us to believe that she has ever been taught such an unnatural virtue like honor?

No surprise here, but Nancy Pelosi lied about not being briefed on waterboarding. Worst still is the message she sent to those engaged in carrying out national policy that she would toss them under the bus at a politically expedient moment:

Rodriguez asks, “So Pelosi was another member of Congress reinventing the truth. What’s the big deal?” The big deal, he explains, is “the message they are sending to the men and women of the intelligence community who to this day are being asked to undertake dangerous and sometimes controversial actions on behalf of their government. They are told that the administration and Congress ‘have their back.’ You will forgive CIA officers if they are not filled with confidence.”

Rodriguez compares Pelosi’s actions to the opening scene of the old TV series “Mission: Impossible,” “in which the operatives were told that if anything went wrong, their leaders would ‘disavow any knowledge of your actions.’ That is not how it should work in the real world,” he writes.

It is a big deal for another reason. If Rodriguez is right, it means that Pelosi stood up in a Capitol Hill news conference and lied with a straight face to the American people; that she falsely accused a dedicated civil servant of lying to Congress as part of a political cover-up. Pelosi is hoping to become House speaker again after the November elections. Do we really want someone so ethically challenged to be third in line to the presidency?

Unterfuhrer Pelosi hails the Administration...

...she tells the press that she is going to "stick with" her "fellow Catholics" and "support the Administration."

I'm sure there were Catholics in the Reich who talked the same way.

And to think that this idiot was third in line from the Presidency...

...of course, look at the bozo who is second in line.

The Washington Examiner observes:

Former House Speaker and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attacked Republicans for their opposition to debt ceiling increases, but defended President Obama for voting against a debt-ceiling increase when he was in the Senate, during an interview with Jon Stewart. Her effort to reconcile the two positions drove The Daily Show host to distraction. You can see the transcript and video below.


Pelosi: "We didn't say, '[Bush] amassed this debt, we're not lifting the debt ceiling,' because we have to honor the full faith and credit of our country. Republicans with this president, and this president only, exacted upon him that $1.2 trillion [spending cut].

JS: "Well, there were -- you know, President Obama himself voted against lifting the debt ceiling [as a Senator]."

Pelosi: "That's okay, you can lift it, but you can't obstruct it."

JS: "No, he voted against lifting it."

Pelosi: "You can vote against it. You can vote against lifting it."

JS: "But he said he voted against lifting it because he knew the other people would lift it."

Pelosi: "That's right. That's right. And I say to my members, 'you can vote anyway you want, but we're not going to obstruct [the debt-ceiling increase].' It's about if you're going to obstruct."

JS: "So its okay to do it for political reasons, but not for principle."

Pelosi: "No, you have to vote what you believe."

JS: "As long as it doesn't actually obstruct it."

Pelosi: "Well, other people who may believe differently can take care of that."

[Editor's note: at this point, Jon Stewart put his hand over his face]

She also points to the crushing need for public financing of campaigns.

Hey... wait a second...didn't her guy Obama reject public financing after pledging to accept public financing?  But it was not a problem then?


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On Pelosi's claim that Obama created more private sector jobs in his second year than Bush did in his eight years check out this.