Pelosi Shifts Focus To Unemployment After Push For Health Care Bill

The Hill:

House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legislation solution by Christmas.

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[expired]

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[notb observer]

Oh damn ! I read the article, but was disappointed to find that it was not the story I had hoped it would be. Pelosi is not shifting focus to her own unemployment. What a tease header that was :(

[Saloontendwsd]

make Pelosi unemployed

[escribacat]

Too bad private industry has decided not to hire...they can just blame the government for all their problems like all the tr 0 lls on this thread do.

[TRUTHHURTZ]

we decided to move to Canada - we saw nazifascism coming along with gubmint takeover of business, so we left, along with numerous other businesses - and counting

[escribacat]

You might want to get some education while you're there. Study the political systems first.

[WeAreTheWorld]

At least they created those 30 jobs in the 15th Arizona Congressional District.

You know, the district that doesn't exist.

[slithers]

obama lies!!!!

[escribacat]

Do you ever post anything else or is that your entire repertoire?

[TRUTHHURTZ]

and numerous other districts that don't exist - like Peloser's brain

[thestargazer]

Time for an apology czar!

[FZliveson]

Is that cellulite on her chin?

[factotem]

Thanks Nance for getting around to this... (a year later)
Maybe you can perhaps, consider thinking about possibly doing something for mortgages and evictions . . . maybe . . . (2 yrs and counting).

[blakestone]

Looking for a stimulus job in the 80th district on Fantasy Island...

[slithers]

obama lies

[wehrke]

about freaken time.......

[kimleehan]

The last thing in this world Neo-Cons want is for Nancy Pelosi , Democrats or the President to fix the economy, That would ruin their chances of getting back in power.

[WeAreTheWorld]

You would have had a greater chance of getting Pavarotti into a wetsuit.

[FZliveson]

Especially since he crossed-over.

[la2010verdad]

I would love to see Nancy FILE for unemployment.

[sarabono]

Maybe Ms. Nancy should fix her flawed Health Care Bill first. Even the Red Chinese, our largest debt holder, are becoming worried about there US Debt Holdings!

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/16/china-questions-costs-of-us-healthcare-reform/

[MakeAWish]

Maybe Congress should also start paying attention to what is not happening in regulations of the banks and wall street and the continual funding of a bogus war.

Whatever happened to control of the purse strings?

[hellenhat]

Control of the purse strings went out the window in the 2nd half of the Clinton administration and became completely untied when W fought two wars...OFF THE BOOKS..on special supplements.
Let's re open some of those idle factories. We can make lots of "green" energy items...solar panels, parts for wind turbines and how about those light bulbs!!! Highly touted as a way to cut down carbon emission are flourescent bulbs....Guess where they are ALL MADE? Can you imagine how many jobs you can create just by opening light bulb plants??? With all our households, businesses, schools, hospitals, etc......we are talking billions of light bulbs!

Our President is in China and part of his talks with the Chinese leader is encouraging the Chinese to import more American goods. how can you export more if you don't make anything...

[TRUTHHURTZ]

the unions would make costs uncompetitive yet again

[SoCalDaveO]

One has to ask:

When Pelosi focused on health care, she managed to cobble together a bill so fraught with compromise and bad ideas that it can never,ever pass. How, one wonders, will she take that fine leadership quality and apply it to completely wrecking any chance of recovering employment?

Politicians can monkey with all the gears and levers of power, but unless they get out of the way, there will never be a recovery. It is impossible (it cannot work) to insert Pelosi's philosophy into anything that will create jobs. She has never created a job, she has never wanted, she has no idea how business works.

[MakeAWish]

It seems that whatever the government does, turns out to not benefit the people, but corporations.

After the health care fiasco, I'm not very hopeful about anything they do.

[firelord5000]

Pelosi is so out of touch, this should have been her first priority. Insurance is an afterthought for MOST people when they struggle to retain job/make money/put food on table etc etc.