Nancy Pelosi Says House Dems Won’t Support Obama on Proposed Debt-Limit Entitlement Cuts
- Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:31am by
Billy Hallowell
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has a strong message for President Barack Obama: House Democrats will not support cuts in benefits to Social Security or Medicare in talks to strike a deal on the nation’s debt limit. In addressing her opposition to including major changes to entitlements, she said:
“We do not support cuts in benefits for Social Security and Medicare. Any discussion of Medicare or Social Security should be on its own table. I have said that before. You want to take a look at Social Security? Then look at it on its own table. But do not consider Social Security a piggy bank for giving tax cuts to the wealthiest people in our country.
We are not going to balance the budget on the backs of America’s seniors, women and people with disabilities.”
Watch her statements below:
Pelosi’s reaction comes after the White House has signaled that it is open to including both Social Security and Medicare in discussions to reach a conclusion to the partisan debt ceiling debate. Other Democrats, as well, are joining against the president’s inclusion of these elements. The New York Times has more:
As word spread that Mr. Obama was considering large savings from the use of a different measure of inflation to reduce the annual cost-of-living adjustment in Social Security benefits, Democrats joined with lobbyists for older Americans to reject the idea…
…Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said Thursday: “Social Security and Medicare benefits should not be on the table. Social Security is not the cause of the deficit, and beneficiaries should not be made to shoulder the burden of deficit reduction.
Watch Whitehouse address these issues on the Senate floor, below:
As President Obama moves to include Medicare and Social Security spending in the discussion, there will likely be increasing angst coming from his own party. The Washington Post calls the move a “major shift” and says that it:
“…could present a direct challenge to Democratic lawmakers who have vowed to protect health and retirement benefits from the assault on government spending.”
(h/t CNS News)
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Comments (183)
threecats407
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:16amThere they go again, stirring up fear among their largest voting block
Report Post »bosbes
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:14amI am only sure of one thing … when these politicians get done the American people will be more in debt … more desperate … and weaker. The Ruling Class (Republican or Democrat) will not be happy until the American middle class is not only broke but broken.
Report Post »Fifty-7-states
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:14amWow all of the sudden pee brain palosi woke up!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »where the hell were you when puppet obama too 500
million out of medicaid when you pass that health care bill
that nobody read.
Danang1972
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:13amHey Nancy – STFU!
Report Post »cantfs
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:11amSo what Nasty Pelosi. We have have the house.
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:09amHouse Dems refusing to help America in her time of crises. Not really a shocker is it?
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »ginpa
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:09amSan Francisco why did you return this leach to office. She should be picking grapes on her knees with her illeagel aliens instead of spouting constant drivel. Just go away!!
Report Post »Old Vermonter
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:06amBetsy Botox is playing to the base, that’s all. She knows darn well she has nowhere near the clout she had before. So she’s playing to her district.
EVERYBODY, including Betsy, knows benefits will not be cut for anyone. But all she has left is demogagary.
Each side has painted itself into a corner. The Republicans with their “Read my lips” pledge, and the Democrats with their raise the tax pledge. It depends on who will blink first.
Get used to this, boys and girls. Nothing will be accomplished until Jan 20th, 2013. We are in for 16 months of this nonsense. The economy will remain as it currently is for this period. Obumble doesn’t know what to do, and the Republicans surely won’t help him improve things. Because if the economy improves, he just might get reelected. And I for one can’t stomach another 4 years of this!
Report Post »troutbum71
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:37amOLD VERMONTER couldnt have said it better. even that obama will more likely than not get re-elected. my position is anyone in 2012 but obama (lets face it, pee wee herman would be a upgrade), but im afraid that the majority “clueless sheep” walking blindly through this world dont feel the same.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:05amTo this day can you believe our government passed the health bill without reading it..Everyone envolved should be fired..
Report Post »upstateny
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:03amHey people how about going after MEDICAID first. Medicaid recipients are the able bodied people but also the lefts base. Our parents and grandparents worked their whole lives for their benefits the young and able bodied haven’t. I know, the most effective cuts are never on the table.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:02amSo we once again see the bottom feeding lifesucking leeches of lawerville turning on one another of the left. Nice job Pelosi.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:02amPelosi should pony up with several millions of her wealth. Wealth, after all, comes from cheating the poor and midlle class! She is an evil rich person. She should be patriotic and give some back.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:02amI have always liked and respected Nancy Pelosi, and now I like her even more! No compromise on Social Security, which is not even part of the deficit. Go, Nancy!
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:57amI want to see August come and go without a debt ceiling change.
You will be surprised at how much NOTHING will change. These politicians will be exposed for the fear mongering tactics they are using (both sides).
The dollar will not devalue overnight. We are not Zimbabwe.
Report Post »Contact your congressman and let him know you do not support a debt ceiling change.
kentuckypatriot
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:51amEverytime I hear her name, I want to throw up. What’s comical is her statement about using Social Security as a piggybank. Excuse me, but hasn‘t that been raided already by both D’s and R’s?
Report Post »mutslie
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:48amShe (Nancy) ‘looks a bit like Bert Renyolds now ! ….. YUK !!!….
Report Post »‘with the plastic surjery I mean’ eh’
Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:47amWe always knew Pelosi was a loser. Now, she gets to lose on this issue.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:45amGot a great idea. Why not have Congress show us the way and each of them goes for one year without their salary and benefits. For sure they are bellied up to the public trough and contributing NOTHING to the well-being of the country. Fire all of them, Dumbocrats and Republitards alike. If that doesn’t work maybe it is time for torches and pitchforks…Just sayin’
Report Post »Pallamus
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:44amIt doesn’t matter what the hag says. Who is the House majority? Enough said!
Report Post »AmericanSince1619
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:43amHey Nancy, let the house tea party caucus pass a budget bill, then you can read it to find out what’s in it.
Report Post »Larryjr
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:59am+ 1! She did say this so lets make her swim in it.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:39am…. Or what’s not.
Report Post »hojo
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:41amGood PR stunt by Pelosi and BHO.
Report Post »kestrel27
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:39amOf course they won’t they need as many of the idiots in the parasite class as possible to vote for Obama in 2012. Remember folks, these are the same twits that bought into the fake Greek Columns and modulated god like voice of Obama. Remember the “I won’t have to worry about my mortgage, pay for my gas or groceries, if Obama get’s elected”. One thing you can give the Democrats, is they know the morons that vote for them really well and all of them are parasites living off the hard work of others.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:39amWill this witch ever just go away.
Report Post »Just stop the spending.
Let the capitalist system work not socialist government control. (it’s a failed ideology)
2012 can’t come soon enough
loaded454
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:20amWhat she doesn’t get is that she already balanced a budget on the backs of seniors and the poor. they did this durring Clinton’s term by steeling money from Social Security to “balance” the budget. Now, I can spell very well and I can‘t balance my check book most months but I know what’s like to rob Peter to pay paul and this is the government shell games these dems want to play. Keep paying off the foreign governments on the backs of all Americans, steel from the rich to pay for the poor, steel from the future to pay for today’s laziness and inability of of the controling politicians. This is a pettern for dems and republicans inch closer and closer to folling these same rules every year.
The worste part, it’s our fault. We don’t actively educate the voters. Instead, we barage them with politcal bias and they don’t want to be told what to think. Fix this problem, and we fix our country. It will be painful and slow to fix but we can fix it and we can see a brighter future of hope for every american, not just the poor and the minorities, but every body.
Report Post »hightide
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:38amWell, Nancy you got to pass it to find out whats in it Pelosi is back.I believe the voters told you to sit down and shut up.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:16am“Social Security and Medicare benefits should not be on the table. Social Security is not the cause of the deficit,….”
Very intelligent comments from Senator WHITEHOUSE.
Report Post »Fill in the blank: “________ is not THE cause of the deficit.”
MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:34amNo COLA for seniors……So we can give more money to Green Projects,
Report Post »Unions, GE, GM and Hire more people for Government..AGWWWW !!!!
Gotta Luv This Administration,
Delta D-5-3
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:04pmPelosi’s income went up 63% in a YEAR, and she talking about the mean, RICH people who need to pay more for the “little guys”, ie; urban poor. There is NOTHING worse then some rich, Socialist, California elitist like Pelosi. She IS the poster child for all that’s wrong with this country!! I just want to barf seeing her smug face in the news everyday. Ok….rant over.;)
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:32am.
Report Post »Nancy Pelosi Says House Dems Won’t Support anything that will Help America Peroid…….
Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:08amIn the video the congressman argues that senior citizens will lose dignity without social security.
It is not the governments place to provide for dignity of its citizens. If grandma can’t pay rent, I guess she made some bad choices in life. She should have not dignity.
If grandma can’t buy food, I guess meals on wheels will have to add another stop to their rounds.
If grandma can’t pay for medical care, I guess grandma will have to pay for the poor planning she made when she was younger.
It’s been nice knowing you Grandma, now get off my Government’s tit.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:09amOh, and all those pork products you and you ilk put in the obama kill ya care bill did not need to be on its own table, but true reform and cuts to the budget do. Freaking hypocrit. Oh but that‘s right you have to pass the bill to know what’s in it.
Report Post »baron94
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:29amHow about they support the economy by giving up their paycheck and pensions? If all the politicians did that maybe we could recover some of our tax dollars. It might not be enough to fix the deficit, but it sure would make me feel better.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:15amWhy even cut Medicare or Social Security? There are plenty of other wasteful, non-assistance programs that can be cut.
Report Post »TheOracleOfTruth
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:24amI cant wait for the day I no longer have to see this thing on TV news casts anymore! She is the biggest part of the porblem with America – she WANTS to keep people in the ditch with entitlements, so she can get their votes! It’s all about power on the left, but I have news for them – their time in power is almost OVER! 2012 vote will be a day of reconning in America!
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:48amNancy….let them eat cake….
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:20pmIt’s all political posturing, they all have to act like they are arguing and going back and forth and in the end they will act like they both scored a minor victory to fool the ignorant masses to keep the bread, wine and circuses abundant. The $4 Trillion in Cuts is cuts that they are making from PLANNED spending up to 10 years in the futures. Hey everyone I planned on adding $20 Trillion to our national debt in 10 years but now we are only going to add $10 Trillion, we just got $10 in spending cuts! Quick everyone get that story about our fiscal responsibility to the press.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:24pmHer old words ring true…………………….Shut the f up and sit down, this chairperson does not recognize you!
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:17pmCan one person be both a demon and a moron at the same time? I give you Nancy De-moron Pelosi. Hey, I think that’s somehow deeply connected to Democrat too… First syllable is half way there… The rest isn’t far behind.
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