No wonder Nancy Pelosi remains so unpopular. She’s a truly dreadful woman. She blasted House Republicans for not passing a “jobs bill,” also known as another massive spending bill. She didn’t mention how she failed to pass a budget last year when she was speaker of the House.
The latest unemployment figures are “very disturbing,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that aired today on “Face the Nation.” Yet while she defended President Obama’s attempts to move the economy forward, the former Speaker charged that House Republican leadership has yet to tackle job creation.
Republicans “set the agenda,” Pelosi said. “We have said every day that they’re there, another day goes by and there isn’t a jobs agenda or a jobs bill that has come to the floor.”
Surprisingly, Bob Schieffer asked her a tough question, and her answer was the typical spin.
“Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer questioned Pelosi about her complaints about the economy in 2008, under the Bush administration. At that time, when gas cost $3 a gallon and unemployment stood at 5 percent, Pelosi said President Bush’s economic policies had “failed our country’s middle class.”
The latest jobs report, however, shows that unemployment rose to 9.1 percent in May, and just 54,000 jobs were created last month – far fewer than expected.
“What the president has done has improved the situation from where it may have been,” Pelosi said. “If he hadn’t taken the actions he did, the situation would be worse. He pulled us from the brink of the financial crisis, from an economic crisis, and now we have to dig out of a deep debt. And we have to also make it clear that we’re not getting into this situation again.” …
How is 9.1% unemployment, plummeting housing values, and the skyrocketing cost of food and energy an improvement to the situation? Obama, with a lot of help from Pelosi, has made everything worse. And she wants more of the same. Insanity!
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) hit back today.
“We passed a budget that balances and pays off the debt,” Chaffetz said. “Until President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi can produce a plan that they want to see, that will actually balance, then it’s very difficult to get through these discussions.”
Pelosi said Sunday on CBS that Democrats have been unable to bring employment legislation to the floor.
“We’re not in the majority in the House,” she said. “Why haven’t we brought something to the floor to create jobs? I think that’s a better question asked to the Republicans, because they control the agenda.”
“To hear her say she’s no longer speaker – that’s one of my favorite things in the world,” Chaffetz responded, before turning the blame game around and calling out Democrats for what he says is a failure of leadership.
“Let’s remember that the Democrats control the Senate – Harry Reid has refused to actually bring this up and deal with it,” he said. “We need the president to come to the table and say, this is what we would like to see, too, and thus far he hasn’t done it.”
Chaffetz also hinted that he may launch a primary run against Senator Orrin Hatch.
Update: Linked by the POH Diaries – thanks!
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