[Peace-discuss] Fw: Nancy Pelosi's Day Job

Wed Apr 30 00:36:17 CDT 2008

I said I'd send this along at the last meeting. There's a bit of
campaigning going on here, of course, but primarily it's an appropriately
stinging excoriation of Pelosi.

Reminder: we're still looking for someone to  provide worthwhile flyers
for this Saturday's Main Event street demonstration 2-4PM at Main and
Neil. This piece below was one suggestion. Anyone motivated to produce
this or some other text on flyers for myself and others to hand out to
motorists this Saturday?

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Sheehan" <Cindy at cindyforcongress.org>
To: <recotton at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Nancy Pelosi's Day Job

Nancy Pelosi's Day Job
Cindy Sheehan

PELOSI: I don't even think about it much. You know, I have a day job.
We're here trying to -
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Larry King Live
April 24, 2008

I arrived home from Oakland where I had just been doing my day/night job
and I turned on my TV in time to see the end of the Larry King interview
with my Congressional opponent, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca).
I sat on my couch, switched on the TV, and there she was. I watched for a
few seconds while she blamed George Bush for taking the billions of
dollars that she gives him every six months (like clockwork) to continue
the explicitly illegal and infinitely immoral occupations of Iraq and
Afghanistan.

Then, out of the clear blue, Larry asked her about my candidacy. This was
the first time, to my knowledge that she has been publicly confronted
about me. I have never seen her without her mask on and last night was no
exception. She talked about my candidacy reflecting the dissatisfaction of
the American public with the war and when he asked her if she was
surprised that I had chosen her to run against, she condescendingly said
the above.

First of all, I hope she makes the most out of her "day job" for the next
eight months or so, because the people of San Francisco are going to
remove her and hire me in November. The current issue of San Francisco
Magazine asks this compelling question on the cover: Has Speaker Pelosi
been a failure? The article then pretty much allows the Speaker, in
interview style, to come to her own conclusion that she has not been a
failure, but if that were true, our troops would be out of Iraq, BushCo
would be out of the White House and our country would not be in a
devastating recession as we speak.

Nancy Pelosi counts as two of her major "accomplishments" things that most
people consider weak at best and pandering at most. In her 100 hours
agenda, she did get an increase in the Federal minimum wage to $7.25 by
next summer. The New York Times called it a "major victory" for low-income
workers. By next summer, with the weekly increase of $84.00, low-income
workers may be able to fill their gas tanks and buy a bag of groceries. In
2003, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated in a
report called "2003 Poverty Guidelines" that a living wage for a family of
four was $8.85 an hour. The "generous" increase in the minimum wage level
doesn't even bring workers up to 2003 poverty levels when the cost of
living is becoming prohibitive for nearly everyone except the wealthy who
profit from federal tax cuts to compensate for having to pay their
employees a higher, but still near-slave wage.

In a current ad campaign, Nancy sits on a love-seat with Newt Gingrich
yammering about working together to create a better ecology, however her
Congress passed another, too-little/too-late bill to benefit corporations
while harming our environment and future. By 2017 all autos sold in the US
must have a minimum of 35 mile per gallon standard. This is her one piece
of environmental legislation that is a success for automakers, but again,
we the people suffer. Wars for oil are literally sucking the life out of
our communities while the pollution is choking the air we breathe. I bet
everyone who owns a car right now wishes they could get 35 miles per
gallon, at least, and many do! The technology is there and if we must
drive and it seems like most of us must,  it's time to give some kind of
credit, maybe in the form of down payment assistance, or lower interest
rates on loans for "gas guzzler" exchanges. BushCo did the same for people
who wanted to buy SUVs?let's have a reverse exchange and conserve our
resources for once!

Ms. Pelosi's most abject failure of her "day job" besides having an open
Gucci purse (fund the war contrary to American opinion or common sense),
policy is her disappointing and traitorous act of taking impeachment "off
the table."

On May 1st, 2006, long before she picked up the Speaker's gavel, she made
the pronouncement that would negatively impact history and give BushCo
carte blanche to commit their high crimes and misdemeanors and crimes
against humanity. Moreover, it was in 2002, as reported by the Washington
Post (December 8, 2007) that in performance of her "day job" duties, Ms.
Pelosi was briefed on torture and did not object to the inhumane and
ineffectual path that our nation was stepping off on. She has not called
for the restoration of habeas corpus, Kyoto or FISA and has not called for
the repeal of the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, Protect America
Act or the authorization for BushCo to unilaterally attack any country
that they unilaterally perceive as a threat to, not Americans, but
American interests abroad.

There are probably many "day jobs" that Nancy Pelosi qualifies for, but
representing the people of San Francisco is not one of them. She opposes
universal, single-payer health care and has promoted and voted for "free"
trade agreements that are the major contributing factors to environmental
degradation, job loss, or job insufficiency, and to the food riots
happening all over the globe today: coming next to a community near you.

81% of Americans think this nation is on the wrong track and the 19% who
don't, belong to the country clubs and board rooms with people that have
the last names of Pelosi, Bush and Cheney---and the rest see this as a
"hallelujah" moment for the second coming of Jesus---Nancy Pelosi's day
job is to co-pilot the USA to destruction with George Bush as the pilot.

All I can say is, don't spend your "economic stimulus" all in one place
and while the "bread" of the Romanesque empire is hitting your mailbox you
can entertain yourself with the circus of American Idol.

It's time we hire new pilots for our ship of state: obviously the old ones
have lost OUR course. I hope Nancy keeps underestimating and dismissing
the people's campaign to eject her out of the co-pilot seat. Maybe her
mask will finally drop when our dose of reality kicks in!

Watch the Clip of Larry King asking Nancy about Cindy...
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/04/25/lkl.speaker.pelosi.long.cnn
Then...Tell Larry to have Cindy on to Respond
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?75

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