Pelosi Poisons The Well

Michael Steel from leader Boehner's office writs in:

Folks – as Republican Leaders made clear at a press conference earlier, the partisan speech by Speaker Pelosi today on the House floor cost as many as a dozen Republican votes on the rescue package that failed. It seems clear that the Democratic Speaker, realizing that she did not have the votes on her side to pass the legislation, chose to take the opportunity to attack Republicans and appeal to her liberal base, rather than working to get the bill done for the American people. Some examples of the partisan attacks from the Speaker’s speech are included below.

· “Democrats believe in a free market. We know that it can create jobs, it can create wealth, it can create many good things in our economy. But in this case, in its unbridled form, as encouraged, supported, by the Republicans, some in the Republican Party, not all, it has created not jobs, not capital, it has created chaos.”

· “$700 billion. A staggering number. But only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic policies to our country. Policies that were built on budget recklessness, when President Bush took office, he inherited President Clinton’s surpluses four years in a row, budget surpluses. On a trajectory of $5.6 trillion in surplus. And with his reckless economic policies, within two years, he had turned that around. Now eight years later, the foundation of that fiscal irresponsibility, combined with an anything goes economic policy, has taken us to where we are today. They claim to be free market advocates when it’s really an anything goes mentality. No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if you fail, you will have a golden parachute and the taxpayer will bail you out. Those days are over. The party is over.”

· “For too long this government, eight years, has followed a right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation.”

· “Before long we will have a new Congress, a new President of the United States, and we will be able to take our country in a new direction.”