Nancy Pelosi Telling Whoppers Again

As you may have already heard,  Obama, “The Divider in Chief”  in his hard hitting interview with Entertainment Tonight, last week, told the following whopper:

I don’t think you or anybody who’s been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. We’ve always tried to bring the country together.

Not to be outdone, Nancy Pelosi, in her own show biz interview Friday evening with the host of Late Night,  Jimmy Fallon, cut loose with a howler of her own. San Fran Nan told Fallon’s audience that unlike the current Republican-controlled Congress,  her time as Speaker of the House was marked by civility and  cooperation with President George W. Bush.

“This obstruction of the president is something quite new,” Pelosi said to Fallon. She lamented that, in her view, Congress isn’t as “civil” as it used to be: “There was much more civility, and you came to get a job done. Certainly, you advocated for your point of view, but you always strove to find common ground. And i think we have to return to that place.”

Pelosi then took shots at the John Boehner-led Republican House: “The president has tried to cooperate with the Republican majority led by Speaker Boehner, they really have not cooperated with him. That obstruction has really been their philosophy.”

Watch the video at Mediaite if your stomach can take it.

Good soldier that she is, Pelosi is merely parroting the Dem Socialist messaging of the past couple of years, banking on the hope that most Americans still have short memories when it comes to politics..

But those of us who remember the Bush years (like it was such a long time ago!) know the truth. Democrats, bitter that he won the close election, obstructed GW at every turn, right from the beginning.

As noted by Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin:

Back when Bush was in the White House there was less obstruction and more civility from Dems in Congress regarding the president? If you don’t count examples like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this, I agree completely with Pelosi.

US Senator Mike Lee (UT) set the record straight on his website back in March:

Democratic Hypocrisy

A palpable air of hypocrisy hangs over the Senate these days. Seeking to distract attention from President Obama’s unconstitutional “recess” appointments — not to mention the failure of his economic policies — Democrats disingenuously accuse Republicans of “obstructing” the president’s judicial nominees.

In an attempt to create the perception of Republican resistance, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev), has taken the extraordinary step of scheduling contentious cloture votes for 17 nominees who were otherwise on the normal path to routine confirmation, claiming “delay for delay’s sake.”

Of course, these desperate claims are entirely false: the Senate has already confirmed more of President Obama’s nominees (129) than it did during President George W. Bush’s entire second term (120), and has done so at an almost identical pace (average of 218 and 211 days, respectively, from nomination to confirmation). Indeed, not long ago Reid acknowledged that the Senate has “done a good job on nominations,” and a Judiciary Committee Democrat recently noted that we have been “speeding up the confirmation of judges.”

Claims of Republican obstruction are not only demonstrably false, they are highly hypocritical. The very Democrats now seeking to manufacture confirmation controversy personally devised and carried out a systematic effort to block President Bush’s judicial nominees through an unprecedented use of the Senate filibuster.

It is a matter of historical record that beginning in 2001, Senate Democrats dramatically changed the confirmation process. Throughout the Bush administration, Democrats actively sought to block numerous judicial nominees, forcing more than 30 cloture votes as Republicans tried to end persistent Democratic filibuster efforts.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), voted against cloture a record-setting 27 times. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), cast 26 votes to filibuster Bush nominees and, in 2003, defiantly declared: “Yes, we are blocking judges by filibuster. That is part of the hallowed process around here.”

Even Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who now claims to have been “respectful of President Bush’s appointments,” repeatedly joined with Democratic colleagues in attempting to filibuster judicial confirmations, including seven separate votes against cloture for the nomination of Miguel Estrada—one of the nation’s leading appellate lawyers—to the D.C. Circuit.

Not to be outdone, Reid took virtually every opportunity to block Bush nominees, voting against cloture on 26 separate occasions. In his view there was no amount of time—“not a number in the universe”—that would be adequate for debate on the filibustered nominees.

During his brief time in the Senate, President Obama himself played a key role in the Democratic filibuster campaign, helping lead the effort to block the nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit. Then-Senator Obama also joined Democrat colleagues in voting to filibuster the judicial nominations of Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, and Samuel Alito.

Rather than retaliate by continuing with the obstructionist techniques Senate Democrats invented and implemented, Republicans have taken a more cooperative approach. We have confirmed more than 80 percent of President Obama’s judicial nominees, approving a larger share by unanimous consent than under President Bush.

During President Bush’s first three years, Senate Democrats forced 19 cloture votes on judicial nominees; during President Obama’s first three years the Senate took only 6 such votes. Indeed, contrary what some Democrats now claim, the reality is that 84 percent of all votes to filibuster judicial nominees in American history have been cast by Democrats. For those same Democrats to claim Republican obstruction is the height of hypocrisy.

So, why have Senate Democrats resorted to such blatantly false accusations? The answer is simple. They would prefer to talk about imagined “obstruction” than rising gas prices and their own failed economic policies. They also seek to distract attention away from President Obama’s unconstitutional “recess” appointments.

As a senator, President Obama explicitly rejected the view that “the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee.” Yet once he ascended to the White House, he did just that.  On January 4, President Obama unilaterally made four appointments without the Senate’s advice and consent at a time when — according to its own rules — the Senate was not in recess. Such unconstitutional executive aggrandizement was a brazen and unprecedented attack on legislative branch authority.

Baseless and hypocritical claims about the current confirmation process cannot obscure an undeniable reality. The president consciously chose to trample on the Constitution. Considering himself above the law, he took for himself a power that our founding document makes clear belongs to the Senate.

The Framers explicitly designed our constitutional system such that each branch would, in the words of Federalist 51, have “the necessary constitutional means . . . to resist encroachments of the others.”  When faced with far less problematic recess appointments during the Reagan years, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.),—a Democrat from a more responsible era—responded by holding up action on 70 executive and judicial nominees and more than 5,000 military promotions.  Byrd recognized that such action was “the only leverage we have to make sure that the executive branch does not continue to use the recess appointment process as a means of circumventing the constitutional role of the Senate.”

Senators of both parties understood then a truth that Democrats now seek to avoid and obscure: the Senate’s constitutional responsibilities matter and must be enforced by the Senate.  It is now time for the Senate to stand up for its rightful authority—as well as for the people’s liberty that such checks and balances were designed to protect—and respond to President Obama’s unconstitutional actions.

SEE ALSO:

This essay penned by Seth Swirsky in Real Clear Politics (2006): Bush’s Decency Highlights Democrats Incivility

Washington Post (2005): Reid Calls Bush a ‘Loser’

CBS News, (Feb. 2009): Senate Leader Calls Bush ‘A Loser’

Political Ticker (July 2008): Pelosi calls Bush a ‘total failure’

The Vetting: Trevor Loudon Explains Why Obama is Leaning Toward All The Tyrannical Powers of the World (Video)

In a 40 minute speech before the Illinois Tea Party, political researcher, Trevor Loudon reviewed the radical Marxist influences that have always been present throughout  Obama’s life, resulting in a US regime that is more sympathetic to our enemies than our longtime allies.

He ended his speech on a hopeful note – crediting the tea party for preventing Obama from implementing his full Marxist agenda  in 2009/2010, and hopefully again this November.

Video via @CSteven:

Hat tip: @KLSouth

As a companion to this, see Glenn Beck Collects Obama’s Most Outrageous Statements.

The media should serve as an amplifier, so that if politicians reveal themselves to be totally unsuitable to hold positions of responsibility, it will reach the ears of all reasonably informed citizens. Fortunately for Obama, instead of a responsible media we have an obsequious propaganda corps, the purpose of which is to keep him in power. We wouldn’t be faced with the potential catastrophe of the Moonbat Messiah’s reelection if the media didn’t sweep his most outrageous statements under the rug:

Video at Moonbattery.

Linked by Doug Ross, thanks!

Video: MoveOn Goons Now Stalking Paul Ryan at Campaign Events

Back in May, I wrote about how the organized left was dogging Mitt Romney at his campaign events. The Obama campaign was organizing  protests outside of Mitt’s speeches, while their Move On comrades promised to “fly banners over Romney’s head. All the time.”

Occupiers dogged Republican candidates  at numerous primary appearances, earlier this year, and now MoveOn is promising to hound Romney at all of his outdoor speaking engagements.

The following is an email sent to all MoveOn members. Note that it starts off bemoaning how the presidential election is going to be “one of the dirtiest ever” (excuse me, who’s fault is that?!) while in the next breath, suggesting that MoveOn members donate to their campaign of harassing Romney everywhere he goes from now until election day…

Dear MoveOn member,

This is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential election ever. And the most expensive, with pro-Romney super PACs and huge corporations spending like drunken sailors, thanks to Citizens United.¹ The sheer quantity of misleading ads will be stupefying.

But even if they buy the airwaves, they can’t buy the skies. So we can “rise above” their dirty ads—literally—and fly messages from the 99% over dozens of Mitt Romney events. We already did it successfully when we hired a plane to fly over Romney’s Liberty University graduation speech towing a banner that read: “GOP = HIGHER SCHOOL DEBT.”²

We can’t afford hundreds of millions of dollars of TV ads. But it turns out, if we all chip in a bit, we can afford to fly banners over Romney’s head. All the time.

Call it 99airlines.

99airlines was at the Villages in Florida, Saturday, to greet Paul Ryan who spoke to an enormous crowd of mostly seniors who aren’t drinking the Obama Koolaid.

The Shark Tank  reported:

In much the same manner that Florida Senator Marco Rubio does on the stump, Ryan referenced the fact that his mother was living off Medicare and that the program needs to be preserved for future generations.

Prior to Ryan and his mother’s arrival, a yellow single-engine propeller plane circled overhead with a banner that read “Paul Ryan – KEEP YOU HANDS OFF OUR MEDICARE.”

The plane didn’t attract much attention, and there was also a group of about 30 protesters who marched around the grounds carrying signs that demonized the 42-year old VP pick as the ‘Great Satan’ who wants to end Medicare.

Here’s El Sharko’s clip of the plane:

See The Shark Tank for video or Ryan’s speech.

Another Florida blogger, Deep Fried Manatees was also there, and noted that the plane occasionally made it hard to hear the speakers.

I have no idea how many people were there, I’ve never seen a crowd that large at any of the events I’ve attended at The Villages, and the crowd was not disappointed.

There was a ground of about ten protesters that would their way around the crowd with signs that read “Hands off my Medicare” and a plane constantly buzzed over the crowd with a banner that read:  Paul Ryan:  Hands off our Medicare.  The plane occasionally made it hard to hear the speakers but I just reminded myself that rude people will be rude and “progressives” have rudeness down to a science.

The small group of protesters aside, the seniors at The Villages have embraced Ryan’s plan for reforming Medicare.  The Obama attempts to paint Ryan as a radical fall flat with this group.

Hecklers from a Marxist group also  disrupted a Paul Ryan speech in Iowa, last week.

I’ll repeat what I said, last May:

…the goal is not to inform “millions of voters who are concerned about the economy…” People aren’t persuaded by airplane banners, or protests at candidates’ speaking engagements. The idea to wear people down, demoralize them into thinking the opposition is much greater than it is, depressing Republican  turnout in the general election.

Don’t be fooled. Obama is floundering and his false narratives are flopping. He’s the guy who’s barely winning in one Democrat primary after another against mullet headed jailbirds or “uncommitted”. They are the ones who are demoralized as hell, as DaTechGuy likes to say– Mitt needs to ride right through them.

Those  words are now truer than ever, as Obamacrats  witness in horror  the “preference cascade” toward the Romney/Ryan ticket.

See this Cartoon of the Day for further edification.

Linked by Doug Ross, thanks!

Your Sunday Hymn: I Heard The Voice of Jesus Say

The beloved  hymn,  ‘I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say’ is sung beautifully, here by the choir of Manchester Cathedral, under the direction of Christopher Stokes. I looked on YouTube for a version of this particular performance of the song with better optics, but couldn’t find one.

The music is what’s important.

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, the  Irish folk song ‘Star of the County Down’ and the ballad ‘Dives and Lazarus are all drawn from the familiar melody known as  ‘Kingsfold’.

Lyrics: