Ed Morrissey:
his appearance by Nancy Pelosi on The Daily Show starts to run off the rails almost immediately. Jon Stewart starts off by asking Pelosi about why people talk about politics rather than policy, to which Pelosi answers by … complaining about Republicans. Stewart doesn’t take the bait, though, and starts pressing Pelosi for answers as to why big-government politicians can’t produce competent government — and gets stunned by her admission that she can’t explain why ObamaCare failed:
Stewart said that Democrats are then required to make a stronger case. He said that Democratic governance now appears “chaotic” and their execution of legislation appears to “lack efficiency.” When Pelosi again blamed Republicans for this condition, Stewart became even more agitated.
When he asked why it was so difficult to get a company to execute the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchange website “competently,” Pelosi replied, “I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know? How do you not know?” Stewart asked laughing.
To which Nancy Pelosi responded: “It’s not my responsibility.” Hmmm. Who ran the House when the ObamaCare bill passed, with only votes from her party? Who claimed at the time that we couldn’t know how awesome this bill would be until it passed, because you couldn’t expect politicians to actually read a 2800-page bill before they voted on it? Given that this passed entirely on votes from her own party, and with some procedural chicanery thrown in for good measure, does she feel no responsibility at all for the results of this legislation she herself championed?
That’s a pretty good answer to Stewart’s broader point. He cites the ongoing problems at the VA as evidence that there is “clearly something systemic” in government incompetence:
I always know when a teabagger doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about when they have to bring up ‘we couldn’t know how awesome this bill would be until it passed,’ baloney. Yeah, Congressmen and Senator don’t have huge staffs to read such things, do they? And she didn’t mean no one knew what was in it anyway.
Nice try.
@This one:
Wow, Greggie. So you are saying that is a topic of conversation among gay men (who are the teabaggers you love to blather about)?
What Pelosi did say was “We have to pass this bill so you (the American people) can find out what’s in it.”
Well, we’re finding out what it in it, and the American people don’t like it any better than they did before it was passed.
One thing’s for sure; San Fran Nan proves that Botox creates brain damage.
@retire05 – Whew… you’re good! Sure glad you could decipher what the heck ‘this one’ was blathering on about… at the end of it I said out loud …huh??? What?
All I can do when I read stuff like this is shake my head and wonder if I am in a bad dream or perhaps I am actually one of those people who came from the past into the future (2050) and am living in a real life version of IDIOCRACY …cause it sure feels like it…
It’s the Republicans Fault? How Nancy??? Not one voted for this “thing” you know/knew nothing about!! The woman needs to be put in a home with people who wear nice white coats….she is clearly delusional and believes her own delusions…insufferable!!
I remember quite clearly how this Old hag bitch bashed everyone who did not agree with this ‘thing’ they call a law.
How she pushed and pushed and pushed every LIE and deceived EVERY American…I hope justice is NOT swift for this hag…she deserves to suffer L O N G for every LIE she uttered….and for every citizen she deceived…
@This one: #1
Since the republicans were literally LOCKED OUT of the room the democrats were using to finalize the bill, not one republican knew what was in the bill. After it was finalized late at night, it was voted on the next morning. I was there the day before the vote. Do you want to try again?
Up next. . . the “What Difference Does It Make Now” defense.
Greg,
It was your people who are questioning it now and YOUR people who really don’t know why it happened! It’s like feigning ignorance about being ignorant. What a lie, the epitome of cognitive dissonance.
Look under redundant in the dictionary…it says, see redundant…
@This one: We send senators and representatives to Washington to read the bills before they vote on them. Pelosi said “we need to pass the bill to know what is in it!” If you do not know what is in a bill, you should not vote for it! All of those liberals have just rubber stamped bills Obama wanted passed. She meant exactly what she said.
@Rich (the conservative one): #7
Did you make that up, or is it from someone else? That is one I am saving, and I like to write down who said it.
I think Robin Williams.
Ironically, it was being used in a skit making fun of RR…
@This one:
You’re still teabagging? You must have a good partner.
@FAITH7:
One things for sure, ‘this one’ didn’t know what he was blathering about. Well, except when he tells us about his teabagging experiences.
@Rich (the conservative one): #11
I don’t know who you mean by RR.
@This one:
Clueless again you are.
Sorry, Ronald Reagan.