Pelosi: GOP "can't resist the urge to stomp on poor people"

[Enrique]

Don't miss the shot at Gingrich at the end...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/06/nancy-pelosi-republicans-corporate-cash-doggy-doo_n_751477.html

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Whenever you get hit with an overwhelming weight, you have to jujitsu it. So we want to turn it against them... I want to tattoo them right on to the Republican candidate," she said, smacking her hand for emphasis. "Big oil, big banks, big health insurance: We're going to tattoo you with that, so it's like doggy-doo stuck on your shoe. Wherever you go, people will know."

Pelosi also responded to a new memo circulated by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, which instructs Republican candidates to portray the GOP as the party of "paychecks" and Democrats as the party of "food stamps." In the memo, Gingrich said that in June, "more food stamps were distributed by the government than ever before in American history. ... You can use this vivid contrast between the record of the Pelosi-Reid Democratic Congress and the last time the Republican Party took control of Congress to powerfully illustrate the difference for every American between the Democratic Party of food stamps and the Republican Party of paychecks."

"God bless them for being true to who they are," Pelosi responded. "They just can't resist the urge to stomp on poor people. They drove the country into a terrible ditch. The President and the Congress are trying to pull us out. The economists tell us that if we hadn't acted the way -- in the federal initiatives from the Congress and others, that we would have 8.5 million more people unemployed. That unemployment would be 14.5 percent, the deficit would be huge -- even huger than it is."

She scoffed at the fact that they wanted to have a "food stamp fight," saying that when the government is working to pull the country out of what could have been a depression, more people will need food stamp assistance until they get back on their feet. Additionally, she added, food stamps infuse more money into the economy as people spend them.

"They would rather give a tax cut to the richest people in America that will increase the deficit by $700 billion than food to people who need help, that will create jobs," she said. "That's the difference between the two parties. This is really, I think, showing their worst side. Let's have a fight over food stamps? Food stamp fight! It's really sad."

Pelosi also brushed aside Gingrich, saying, "Let me just say this: One of these days, in the far future, when I'm not Speaker anymore, I will be irrelevant."

[dionysus]

1. hot diggity!

[Kdillard]

2. Truth.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. I mean really, the repubs are the REASON food stamp usage is up! They really have their heads up

a very dark place!

[flpoljunkie]

4. Give 'em hell, Speaker Pelosi!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. What the Repubs don't seem to understand

is that most people want a job NOT food stamps but that their policies (or lack thereof) created such a huge mess after 8 years in the WH and another 12 in control of Congress that they killed off any kind of substantive job creation and created the kind of high unemployment that we're seeing now. The only substantive thing that their policies accomplished was that a few people got a whole lot richer- mostly through tax cuts that went specifically to them, job elimination, and investment hoarding- at the expense of everybody else. Additionally, despite the suffering that people are going through right now, the only solutions that the Repubs are proposing are an EXTENSION of the same tax cut policies that have already been in effect for the past SEVEN years and haven't done anything substantive in terms of job growth or creation and slashing government services (like Food Stamps). If Gingrich wants to label us "the party of food stamps", I think that we should proudly accept it. It's better IMHO than being regarded as the party that would rather have people starve to death while they're waiting for somebody (not the Republicans) to help pull our country out of the ditch that the Republicans put us in.
:mad:

[great white snark]

6. Thank you Madame Speaker.

:kick:

[flamingdem]

7. Good job Nancy Pelosi! nt

[Enrique]

8. kick for a dem saying the words "poor people"

something you don't hear very much! :kick:

[donheld]

9. What's more is

The Repugs are doing their very best to make more and more of us poor people.

[prolesunited]

10. What they really need to stress is that a 2009 study showed

40% of the people collecting food stamps are WORKING!

And the GOP is attacking minimum wage laws. I guess they just want people to have no money AND no food.

You would think the bare minimum we could agree upon is that people who work should be able to afford to feed and house their families at a basic level.

[opihimoimoi]

11. The GOP wish they had a woman like Nancy...she got Brains and she got lunaresque gonads....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbZNqwTW5tw&feature=related

[Sherman A1]

12. About friggn' time

It's far beyond the time to pin the truth on the GOP Elephant.