Nancy Pelosi DEMANDS Tax Increases for the Wealthy

[McCamy Taylor]

Politico reports that Nancy Pelosi has thrown down the gauntlet. No more pandering to the Tea Parties and Grover Norquist.

Pelosi said she’s reserving judgment until she sees the package, but indicated that wouldn’t like cuts to health and retirement benefits without tax increases.

“It’s not fair to say to a senior, ‘You’re going to pay more for Social Security and we’re not going to touch a hair on the head of the wealthiest people in our country,’ ”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66997.html

In related news, Pelosi defended a plan to grant health reform waivers to some small companies, eliciting this response from the right wing.

Crazy old bat. And the fact that she's continually re-elected says a lot about her home district. What a bunch of loons.

and

She is one sick filthy animal.

If Nancy has one more face lift she'll have a goatee.

http://www.breitbart.tv/pelosi-defends-obamacare-waivers-theyre-small-companies/

This has been an "All in the Wrist" news alert. Will keep you posted with all the facts that are worth spinning.

McCamy

[Fumesucker]

1. I'm so old..

I can remember when Nancy Pelosi would declare something "off the table"..

[bananas]

4. And she's one of the few remaining liberal/progressives in DC...

:banghead:

[bananas]

18. That's back when she had to cook Thanksgiving dinner herself... nt

[begin_within]

28. I'm so old I remember when a lot of DUers had Nancy avatars!

[Zanzoobar]

2. One of those small exempt companies was McDonalds.

I don't get it.

[woo me with science]

3. That does not justify slashing the safety nets.

Yes to tax increases. But do not even TRY to feed us this garbage:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66997.html
"Pelosi said she’s reserving judgment until she sees the package, but indicated that she wouldn’t like cuts to health and retirement benefits without tax increases."

Hands OFF benefit cuts, Nancy. Period.

[bananas]

6. She's one of the most liberal progressive politicians in DC

How fucked are we?

[DCKit]

I'm keeping the lube handy. nt

[woo me with science]

11. Good god.

Our party has been taken over by the bloodsucking corporate pod people.

[bananas]

12. Late night science fiction double feature nightmare show ... Meatloaf for dinner again?

n/t...

[woo me with science]

14. Perhaps cat food. nt

[pacalo]

20. Now might be the time to buy stock in Hormel. Spam might possibly be flying off the shelves.

[PoliticAverse]

5. So Pelosi is endorsing cutting Social Security benefits as long as some wealthy people pay more ?

[bananas]

7. Thanks to the DLC idiots, she's out on a goddamned fucking limb

The fucking DLC idiots think she's a goddamn communist or something...
what a fuck-up ...

[Fumesucker]

8. Adam "Wealth of Nations" Smith would be considered a communist by the DLC..

If they actually read his damn book they'd all need fainting couches and smelling salts by the drum.

[woo me with science]

9. Yeah, let's lay that out in terms of effect on someone's life, shall we?

Let's compare the actual sacrifice that is going to be demanded by cutting that elderly widow's subsistence check, versus how that billionaire's life will change.

Hmmm? :puke: :nuke:

[gristy]

10. That's how I read it too.

[RainbowSuperfund]

13. Don't we get a tax increase if they DON'Tcome to agreement?

Don't we get a tax increase if they DON'T come to agreement? Let's just let them expire, then we get tax hikes and no cuts. Win Win No compromise needed.

[bananas]

15. No - we are fucked royally if they don't come to an agreement.

There is an agreement-to-the-agreement: we will agree to this if, in the case the subsequent agreement fails, then all useless eaters/people who worked their tailbones off for our prosperity/are screwed...

[bananas]

16. I don't have a link handy, but it is really bad...

and if you've ever followed my posts, I very rarely say "really bad"...

[RainbowSuperfund]

25. Oh , Thanks for sharing I'll have to look this up and read more about it..

Oh , Thanks for sharing. I'll have to look this up and read more about it.

[pa28]

17. "Wouldn't like" is an opinion. Not a demand. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

23. "Isn't excluding" isn't "signals her willingness", either.

[Mimosa]

19. It's time.

And it's time to bring back the jobs.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. Right wingnuts need to look at their butt-ugly members. Pelosi is an attractive, middle aged...

Italian woman. Meanwhile, try as I may, I can't find a right wingnut that isn't either ugly as a rat, a conscienceless psycho, a violence asshole, or a complete, idiotic-sounding doofus.

[Laluchacontinua]

22. That doesn't read like a demand to me. "I wouldn't like to cut the benefits workers themselves

pay for unless you increase your own taxes..."

????

A demand would be more like: "We will NOT cut the benefits workers pay for & have ALREADY paid for. But we WILL RAISE TAXES ON THE TOP 1%."

[McCamy Taylor]

24. So when the union says "Give us a raise and we'll get back to work" that isn't a demand?

That is the union capitulating like a GOP dog?

What everyone fails to discuss is the relative value of a $15 a month Medicare premium increase versus reversal of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Because the last Medicare plan I heard works out to big cuts for the doctors and small fees increases for the patients.

[Laluchacontinua]

26. There's no equivalency between that statement & Pelosi's.

"I wouldn’t like cuts to health and retirement benefits without tax increases"

"Give us a raise or we won't work"

Not grammatically, not semantically.

1) There's no "demand" in Pelosi's statement. If you think there is, tell me what the demand is.
2) The meaning of the 2nd statement is, if you don't do what we want, we will do something that harms you. The meaning of the first is, I wouldn't like to be harmed unless you are also harmed.

[Zoeisright]

27. As usual, the repuke mind is filthy and low, covered with shit.

n/t