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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the tax bill will be voted on tonight and that she has "no objection" to members getting to vote for the estate-tax language separately.
Here's the exchange with reporters:
REPORTER: Will the tax plan be voted on later tonight?
PELOSI: "That is the plan. Definitely. I should say definitely, although I don't know what's happening with the weather. We spend so much time in the basement I didn't even know it was snowing."
REPORTER: More than one amendment?
PELOSI: "That decision hasn't been made."
REPORTER: Allow members to have a separate vote on the bill?
PELOSI: "Right and that was, that was... That's fine, they can have a separate vote on the bill."
REPORTER: So you think that's the way it will come back to the floor?
PELOSI: "Again, we're in consultation with the Rules Committee, but I have no objection to that."
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All amendments should be voted on seperately on their own merits. That way the wheat can be sorted from the chaff.
Pelosi said it is snowing and they might not be able to work because of that. Give me a break you lazy politicians, do your jobs for once regardless of if the weather is bad. I live in North Dakota and if I want to keep my job I cant tell my boss I didnt come to work because it is snowing. So many people are dependant on the outcome of their decision and they might not work because it is snowing. Unbelievable.
Yeah, but you forget, if Pilosi get's wet she will melt. Wicked witch!
Pelosi Galore just isn't up to getting snowed on, it might freeze the plastic:)
Can you read? "We spend so much time in the basement I didn't even know it was snowing" Where did she say that they couldn't work because of the weather? You righties hate her so much you just make stuff up...
Yup JRR we sure do. Why on God's green earth would someone want to be embalmed years before they die. Any more plastic surgery and she's gonna start looking like Michael Jackson. The reason she spends so much time in the basement is because that's where bloodsucking vampires like to work.
I'd watch the name calling... when the tea baggers have their very own version of the Angel of Death none other than Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ - you know the one who's taken it upon herself to decide which residents of AZ get to live and which ones get to die?
That b!tch looks like she's melted from spending too much time in the AZ sun!
Feisty Redhead - So much for watching the name calling huh?
Bear, nice Flemming ref! Love it.
The tax pack's a done deal; everything that happens in the house until the exact Senate version passes is semantic.
DADT-Repeal is a done deal; POTUS signs that one before Christmas as well.
Add START-2 next week, and we'll make this "Lame" duck look more like an Olympic Decathalon champ!
I may actually cook my first Duck ever this Christmas to celebrate!
Just giving you a taste of your own medicine - that's all! ;0)
Feisty Redhead - Fair enough.
Pelosi has more brains and more guts than either of the head Republicans. Why does everyone (not all) use these forums to just spout trash on others? Sentence one here is a rebuttal only to trash. Try and be a little more creative.
Pelosi should stay in the basement or better yet in a prison basement for her crimes against the state. She is out of touch with reality and continues to flaunt her will against the will of the people.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
i.e. "I'm a hypocrite and proud of it."
Poor Nancy-
Buried deep in her own bunker...oblivious to reality, in total denial.
JRR I can read, but can you. I never said she couldn't work I said she might not because she said "that is the plan but I don't know whats happening with the weather." Making it sound like if it is snowing that they wont work. And I am not a "righty" I used to think I was until some republican groups locally did some things I completely disagreed with now I dont affiliate myself with either party.
The problem with you Repob/righties/etc is that you can never deal with the issues. You have to always call people names. That is clearly a lack of maturity. I have never seen a bunch of mean, vicious right-wing thugs. Grow up y'all.
You are kidding me right? Ever read anything that Fiesty and Bev post on this site? You are right, Pelosi is the speaker of the house and should be treated with respect. There is no reason to commment on anyone's looks. But it seems on this site especially, when people can't legitmately disagree about an issue and disagree soley on ideology they resort to name calling and insults. Both sides do it, but Feisty and Bev do it more often than anyone else. We all need to stop it.
You, yourself need to take a little lesson about calling people names.
Janet, I could not possibly have said it better.
Thank you!
Wellie in Tennessee
The problem with you Repob/righties/etc is that you can never deal with the issues. You have to always call people names. That is clearly a lack of maturity. I have never seen a bunch of mean, vicious right-wing thugs. Grow up y'all.
That's impossible! Most of Repob/righties/etc; especially, Jan Brewer and John McCain, look like they've already been mummified alive. Perhaps that's why think their corpses can be resurrected to rules of government; since they've been around long enough to give America their "Kisses of Death."
No Jo, don't you just love how Bev jumped right in to prove your point? Couldn't have timed that one better if she'd tried!
Oh- my bad. Props to Janet on nailing Bev dead on and Bev rushing to prove the point! Still funny, though!
wellie, you ain't seen nothing yet! Wait until we control the House and the new Tea Party members start attacking your liberal pet projects and wild spending habits.
if you are a rich republican you wouldnt be blogging here. if you are a poor republican then you are a fool as well
Andy,
I am somewhere in that gray area between the two.
I sure as hell don't need your permission to blog here either.
So shut up with the insults.
It will hurt (tax increases) but IT apperas that the Democratics are pushovers - on everything. I do not recall Bush ever compromising this much and so quickly.
If this bill goes through as is - the Republicans will be back knocking at the door for more. Deals have always been made - we just haven't have this much insight in the past. Knowledge can be dangeous in the wrong - Mind! we are fussing on this site, but do the estate tax really affects most of us? $2-5M.
I currently live/work outside the United States and watching from a far is well - special. most foreigns think you all are spoil childrens. The wealthest country in the world infighting over favorites toys! Yes I pay federal taxes....
Tanglewood-431m32
Amen to jrobinson-507699 comment ... Yes we are spoiled children
All these liberals calling each other names lately is really fascinating.
Even Obama did it....calling the lefties "sanctimoneous".
Implosion. In-fighting. Division. Name-calling. Back stabbing. The Democratic Party is so diverse that they cannot agree on much...nor can they seem to get along.
They squandered a Senate super-majority when they had it. Historical or hysterical depending on your affiliation.
Maybe they will eventually break apart into smaller, less disagreeable, less noteworthy PAC type parties for the GOP to kick around.
You guys think they are wimps caving in to the GOP already...so it seems.
Hey all, I know it's hard to resist the name calling so instead I'll throw out a challenge: everyone turns out to vote in 2012. Then we'll all know what to call her: Madame Speaker...
Nancy Pelosi fights the good fight. She is willing to take all reasonable measures to ensure passage of her priorities. She is better looking than Mitch McConnell by a long shot. I don't think she is as vain as TAN MAN or Eric Cantor. But, she's not bad looking at all for 60+. But seriously, how can any of the fans of various Foghorn Leghorns in the Congress poke fun at Nancy's looks? Now, Sarah Palin may be better looking, but she is dumb as a brick. (I mean vibrant and intuitive. Yeah, Sarah in '12. That's the ticket!!)
right, beyond democrat -- the civilian righties hate pelosi because that is what their sheepherders- limbaugh, hannity, beck, et al continuously belt out. they don't know why, they're just doing what they hear. the righties on the inside hate her because she is an effective democrat -- she fights the good fight effectively -- she is a woman of substance.
displaying palin as some sort of future for the TP's, really? aren't there enough non-substantial mean people in the world already?
Tanglewood-431m32
Anyone I mean anyone who listens or reads Glennnnn Beck, I write off. The man brings nothing to the table of ideas or resolutions.
Princess Pelosi is far more ugly on the inside than the outside (and that is saying something.) She is the most hated member of the worst congress in the history of the country. You are deluded.
that's the problem to much time spent in the basement with Reed. lol
I'm angry at my Senators. They aren't voting the way we here in our state want them to. They are trying to tell us some lame story of why they do what they do, and think that we buy it. This whole game in the house and senate needs to stop. They are wasting our time and money.
I have met alot of people who tell me that they are a Republican because thats what their parents were. Not knowing what one even was or what they stood for. Quite sad really.
I am a Liberal Democrat. Proud and able to say what it means. What we stand for, and that we want the best life for all.
I dont need anyone to reply or try and make fun of my beliefs. I just pray, that everyone can get through these tough times and have a chance to live happy lives.
Merry Christmas ;)
ok, I am reading, what does a liberal democrat mean? What do you stand for? What do you think is the best life for all to be?
I'm thinking that you are not that much of a liberal as you think you are. I can respect your desire to not post specifics on your political beleifs, but FR is mainly a liberal hangout for denigrating republicans, naturally it is to be expected that conservatives have been known to reply in kind.
BTW, merry christmas and safe holidays to you and your loved ones as well.
The best thing that could happen for the country and the democratic party would be for Senator Reid and Nancy Pelosi to elope and move to Mexico on the Arizona Border then they could be judged by The Honorable Jan Brewer to see if they should go before the DEATH PANELS.
Folks seem a little testy this morning, from both side of the aisles. I don't align myself with any party, preferring to judge a person by their character. There's much that is valid in the liberal aisle, ditto the conservative. I don't buy into extremes and believe many people spend too much time tossing the baby out with the bathwater. Having said that, I don't care for 'Madam Speaker' "you have to wait til its passed" or Sarah Palin's shrill discordance. As to Brewer, living along the border and having experience with border violence, I'm behind her 100%.
As to those people making fun about how someone looks...do they have mirrors?
I think we need to get rid of welfare,create jobs, have a government that is for the people not the corporation's,use sun,water wind and heat from lava,cars that get 50 plus mpg that are cheap,make parents and children responsible for their actions,working prisons that are self sufichant,drugs that dont hurt you,water and food thats not contaminated. If i can come up with what we need that im sure most want whydon"t we push thease and more to have a better life?