Pelosi: Dems "share some" tea party views

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes the tea party movement shares a common enemy with Democrats -- the entrenched special interests that feed money into the political system.

"We share some of the views of the tea partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C.," Pelosi said in a taped interview airing Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "It just has to stop. And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy, whether it's on health insurance, whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest."

And Pelosi still believes Washington Republicans are trying to quietly influence the tea party movement through well-funded, fake grassroots organizations, referred to as "astroturf."

"The Republican Party directs a lot of what the tea party does, but not everybody in the tea party takes direction from the Republican Party," Pelosi said. "So there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots."

"Some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters," she continued. "Some of it is hijacking the good intentions who share some of our concerns we have."

And she said she's not worried about the threat the movement presents to her party.

"We're fully prepared to face the American people with the integrity of what we have put forth, the commitment to jobs and health care and education and a world at peace and safe for our children and with the political armed power to go with it to win those elections," she said.
Pelosi: Dems "share some" tea party views - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com

Aligning herself with the Tea Party movement.....well, the pic says it all.

Have a good one!:s4:

Great post.........this is the same lady we saw over and over and over on the evening news last August & September saying the teaparty folks were carrying swastika's and pitchforks right? Yea Nancy......your trillionaire, wine vinyard owning, elitist ass has alot in common with the teaparty folks.....whatever help you sleep at night. These people are finished and they know it. The Dems will lose majorities in BOTH house and senate. Any bets???

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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud

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Have a good one!:s4:

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"hijacking" what kind of language is that for the US Speaker of the House. :( I mean who would use language like that? :jointsmile:


btw... great to have you back ModFather!
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pelosi's definition of special interests and mine seems to differ greatly. she, like most politicians, leaves out those organizations that further her agenda and add to the power she accumulates. she doesn't see big labor as a special interest problem, yet their extravagant demands have aided in the destruction of american business. she sees the proponents of the welfare state as a positive force, when entitlement programs are bankrupting the country and creating a permanent underclass subservient to the state. her war against special interests is a war against individual accomplishment and self-determination, mine is against the enslavement of the individual by a totalitarian state and the dictatorship of the proletariat.



nice to see your familiar face 'round these parts again, p4b.:D

Damn delusionsofnormal............that was well written. Couldnt agree more.