In an interview on State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Nancy Pelosi said the President is likely to face more obstruction when he's re-elected in November. "You’ll see more of the same because it’s really important for the public to know that the Republican obstruction of President Obama’s jobs bill and whatever he was advancing... their obstruction is their agenda,” Pelosi said. “It’s what they believe in."
"Oh, Mitt Romney’s not going to be president of the United States ,” Pelosi added. “I think everybody knows that, right?" Watch it.
I love how confidently Nancy calls these races. She called it with Gingrich and she called it with Romney. I tend to agree with her. Sometimes you can't get a good read on how a candidate is doing, but with Romney it's different. Nobody likes him. Even his own people know he's a loser. Of course, it's not over til it's over.
What I got from this interview is Candy Crowley trying to get Pelosi to say that if you vote for Obama, nothing will change because Congress won't work with him. Candy is making a stupid point on many levels.
First, you don't vote for a candidate because they can get things done unless that candidate is going to do good things. Romney will not do good things. That is why he will not be elected. He will do very bad things. He will do things that will make you long for the Bush Administration. He will help himself and his friends to the US Treasury. He has no intention of helping anyone else.
Second, there is every reason to believe that things will be different with Obama;s second term. It's a second term so Congress may decide to behave themselves and help Obama do some things he wants so they can get credit for cooperating in 2016 and have a better shot at getting back in power. Also they may not stay in control of congress. There are many seats in jeopardy and people are fed up with the back biting. Also, Obama may not put up with as much crap from them as before because he has his second term locked in. He may take more chances. Presidents have a little leeway in what they can do on their own.
Third, you don't reward cheaters with a win. Congress is playing out a temper tantrum refusing to respect the will of the voters by not working with our president on issues important to the health and welfare of our country. Asking Pelosi to tell voters "if you want things to change in Washington, vote for Romney because Congress won't work with Obama is rewarding the freeloaders and punishing the employee who is doing all the work. It's time to give the Pubes a "time out" and send them home.
John, Los Angeles
9/17/2012 10:23:12 PM
The Democrats have to keep acting like there is a chance that Mitt Romney could be President. The worst thing is to underestimate your opponent. Remember, for all of his, Mitt's, faults, he is only a few points behind Obama in the latest poles. He, Mitt, also has an unlimited amount of money supporting him. The Repubs also have a very strong "suppress the vote" effort going on. Anything could happen and probably will. Democrats keep fighting; don't let your guard down for a minute. Remember this is a country that elected turkeys like Tricky Dick and Dubya. (Well Dubya was appointed the first time!)
Harold3225
9/17/2012 7:59:18 PM
The main reason Ron Paul will never be president is his vision for America. He wants to live in pre-depression America where you were completely on your own. Little law enforcement. You defend your own home to the death, you school your own kids, you grow your own food, you get sick and you die, retirement is children and grandchildren to work the farm or you drop dead on the job. No retirement. There might be a town schoolhouse, but the government doesn't contribute or make children attend so welcome back high illiteracy, college will be for rich kids again, a town doctor, but no government help. If you have a bad heart, tuff. No income tax so no government beyond national security. No regulations so business can polute the water, screw the employees, children labor in sweatshops like in the 1900's.
We can't go back to what we know doesn't work just because we don't like things about the future we've built. We have to live in the present and try to make it better.
Ron Paul is an old guy longing for a world he has romanticized and longs to go back to, a wild west decentralized, local economy, where people live and work two blocks from their house. You can see how it has a certain appeal. I like watching the Waltons, but we've outgrown that way of life. Our numbers were much lower then. We'd lose our competitive edge in the world. If we were attacked, that system wouldn't be able to produce enough goods and supplies to defend our nation. The system worked then because we were competitive with the rest of the world. We have to keep moving forward. Going backward is never the right answer. We'd be taken over all because we listened to a dumb doctor longing for the old days.
We haven't lost all the old school ways. We still mostly go to church in our own communities, we have neighborhood meetings about community issues, we still check on the elderly, look after our neighbors houses when they are away, look out for each other day to day, help a sick neighbor with chores. We've kept what worked and improved what did not. I think that is pretty good. Some of the laws we've passed are our way of looking after people outside our community such as requiring children to go to school.
Paul is one of them, the Republicans, but he won't play the game their way. He wants to go his own way which is laudable, but won't get you elected. At least he's honest about his simple old world ideas.
I would never vote for him. I don't like the philosophy that we should live independently expecting nothing from the government. The government is all of us joined together to do something big. We built so many things as a nation that we could never have done as a collection of separate states. I am personally in a position to benefit from that vision for America, and still do not like it. I do not believe it is a moral way to live. I do not believe it is a practical way to live. I do not believe it is a smart way to live.
Harold3225
9/17/2012 5:33:29 PM
A 0% ROI, I love it!!!
Here's another headline....
Obama Or A Can of Soup
This election is a choice
It's between Obama or What's Behind Door Number Three
Hint: It's not the Cadillac, it's the soup
Romney wants to be our little surprise package president
blueb
9/17/2012 2:00:16 PM
just concerned about overconfidence sending a message that a vote isn't needed....there still is a committed block of voters voting against obama---doesn't matter what they vote for as long as its not obamas.
Linda S Houston
9/17/2012 12:47:04 PM
There is something I have never understood about the Republican Party.
In the last two elections, they have deemed Ron Paul as "unelectable". They marginalized him, reporters would deliberately not report on him, or under report on him. They would give him very little speaking time in the debates. Yet he had a better grasp of economic and foreign policy issues than either McCain or Romney.
This man drew more enthusiastic crowds than McCain or Romney combined. And these were loyal followers, the kind McCain and Romney could never seem to find. He started collecting a massive amount of delegates in states that Romney and Santorum both supposedly "won". So much so that the Romney goon police had to start literally roughing them up to silence them.
McCain lost and Romney is losing in most polls.
Can someone tell me how Ron Paul could have been a worse candidate than either of these two? He has decades of legislative experience, he is a war veteran, seems to regularly school Bernanke on monetary policy, and had to school most of the GOP candidates on foreign policy. I don't get it.
Linda S Houston
9/17/2012 12:12:17 PM
Mark Cuban was interviewed over the weekend about his opinions on the Presdidential race. He said the following: "Mitt Romney would not even hire himself as a CEO for one of his own
companies. No candidate for the job would be allowed to get away with dodging questions and giving vague answers about what he plans to do to improve our economy and create jobs."
This is a man who is also a multimillionaire successful businessman.
Rob, Oregon
9/17/2012 11:17:52 AM
miblue, excellent description of the Mittster. He does have a tendency to make my skin itch. He should be running independently on the "vague" ticket. The right doesn't want a genius in the Whitehouse, I.E. Bush, Reagan.... Their only requirements are White, Male, malleable values, preach trickle down and wealthy tax breaks, God, guns, stale righty sound bites, hate Obama. I hope Pelosi is correct, however as ron mariposa pointed out in another post, never underestimate the hate vote. Even if Obama mops up the floor with Romney in the debates, which he should, ignorance could still take the day. The pubs have been pissing on education for decades for a reason.
ron mariposa
9/17/2012 10:35:56 AM
The gop=tea baggers have to be given the boot out of the senate and house. The old gop was a party of reason, but today their platform is to take this country back to the 1900's when the greedy were allowed to have a free hand to treat the people of this country like slaves that they lost because of the civil war. The men and women of the new right are haters,bigots, and elitist who want to bring back the idea of a royal family to america. I cant believe that people will vote for romney as he has lied his way into the ticket and now trying to lie his way into the white house. This lady said it and it is fact that the new right just want to dismatel the government and make everything private. I will love to see them scream when they have to pay higher prices for the things the government now gives them. Smaller government needs to be a reasonable goal to make the country run better, but to gut it is the idea of fools that will come back to bite them... The new right reminds me of spoiled kids... I dont like it so I will kick, scream, and hold my breath until I get what I want even when I have more than I need.
miblue
9/17/2012 8:03:44 AM
Speaker Pelosi nailed it with Newt not getting the GOP nomination. Given Mitt's uncanny ability to make normal peoples skin crawl she may be right. Romney's sneaky eyes, phony laugh, and fake smile combined with his compulsive lying, global ignorance, and automatic gaff generator contribute to an uphill struggle. I bet the GOP billionaires are having buyers remorse bigtime and smelling a 0% ROI. The television and radio stations are laughing all the way to the bank at Citizens United. Sounds like wealth redistribution to me.
