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Pelosi: GOP "anti-government ideologues" to blame for partisanship
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/30/pelosi-nsa-gop-obamacare-2014/2600157/Americans have historically low views of Congress, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says Republicans have fueled that disgust for political reasons and Democrats can win elections by highlighting GOP obstructionism.
"Nothing deters voting more than confusion, 'a pox on both your houses,' and that confusion is one of the successes of the Republican Party, to make it look equivalent in terms of who is holding up jobs. It's not equivalent, and we have to make that clear to the American people," Pelosi said Tuesday at a meeting with the USA TODAY editorial board.
Heading in to confrontations with Republicans this fall on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, funding the government, and raising the debt ceiling, Pelosi said congressional Democrats and President Obama are positioning the party as the bipartisan, cooperative alternative to what she described as the "anti-government ideologues" in the Republican Party.
"One thing that is amazing that I don't have an answer for people for is, why is it there can't be a bipartisan jobs bill passed that is significant?" she said. "One (reason) is, they don't want this president to have any successes."
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Pelosi: GOP "anti-government ideologues" to blame for partisanship (Original Post)
Bill USA
Aug 2013
OP
YES! they should have been doing this from long ago, but ai think BO is against this approach.
Bill USA
Aug 2013
#3
Bingo: "One (reason) is, they don't want this president to have any successes."
Jefferson23
Aug 2013
#2
msongs
(67,395 posts)1. would do the dems good to launch a coordinated PR campaign on these issues nt
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)3. YES! they should have been doing this from long ago, but ai think BO is against this approach.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)2. Bingo: "One (reason) is, they don't want this president to have any successes."
And the GOP hates people, they don't care who is impacted...the bastards.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)4. Impeachment is off the table. We must kill Social Security to save it.
Uh huh...
no_gop
(5 posts)5. Republicans were pro-government under Bush
Republicans were very much pro-government when they ran the show.
This is all about obstruction and nothing else. Even their ideology is not the primary issue here, they change it based on their current needs.
http://www.evilrepublicans.host56.com/obstruction.htm
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)6. thanks for the link!