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-Election 2012
Pelosi says Medicare will help Democrats win majority in House
2012-09-17
[LA Times] House Minority Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
 laughed off the chances of a Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
 presidency, while trumpeting the possibility that Democrats will retake the House of Representatives, during an interview aired Sunday on CNN.

Pelosi, speaking with host Candy Crowley on "State of the Union," pointed to one issue in particular that she thinks will deliver the House to Democrats: Medicare.

"We have been saying there are three important issues in this campaign. And in alphabetical order, they are Medicare, Medicare, Medicare," she said.

"On August 11, when Gov. Romney chose [Rep. Paul D.] Ryan, that was a pivotal day. That is the day things really changed," she added, attributing the Wisconsin congressmen's own controversial Medicare proposals with bringing the program back to the forefront of the election-year debate, and in her opinion, putting the ball back into the Democrats' court.

"We were on a path. I would have said to you then we were dead even. Well, the momentum is very much with us, the Medicare issue in this campaign. We have the message, we have the messengers, we have the money, we have the mobilization. We have a very excellent chance to take back the House," Pelosi said.

As for the likelihood that Pelosi and congressional Democrats would work together with a Romney administration, regardless of a return to a majority in the House, Pelosi refuted the possibility.

"Mitt Romney isn't going to be President of the United States," she said with a laugh. "Everyone knows that."
Posted by:Fred

#8  Some people, like Pelosi, think they can talk to old people as if they were children. But I think there are a lot of old people with enough teeth left in their heads to be insulted by it. They know where the money comes from and they have a pretty good idea about how it gets wasted and squandered by the likes of Madam Pelosi.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-09-17 16:03  

#7  But they are, JohnQC, they are. Whether for stock price support, mortgage bailouts, farm subsidies, SSDI/Medicare, food stamps, mortgage deductions - whatever. Virtually everyone is now 'dependent' on the government in some way, to some degree, and that is most assuredly NOT an accident.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-09-17 14:13  

#6  I hope the majority of the people in our country are not voting only for the stuff they get from Uncle Sugar.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-09-17 13:49  

#5  If there were any chance of this actually happening, they would have someone far more credible than Nancy talking about it.
Posted by: Iblis   2012-09-17 11:05  

#4  It is not medicare so much as terrifying seniors with tall tales of what Republicans will do to Medicare. She is counting on tbe media to help her spread the big lies. I hope Americans are at the point that theyno longer trust the media but i am not so sure.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2012-09-17 09:30  

#3  Was botulinum toxin directly injected into her Frontal Lobe?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-09-17 08:04  

#2  Hmmmmmmmm...

As published in Forbes and originally published in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, Botox takes away or dampens the emotional feelings in a particular situation. That may be due to less interaction between facial muscle movement and brain. According to David Neal, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, “if muscular signals from the face to the brain are dampened, you’re less able to read emotions.”[64]

One way botox might affect emotional feelings is by dampening the relay of signals from the face to the amygdala and brainstem centers for autonomic arousal.[65]

The mental effects of botox may extend beyond emotional feelings to the ability to understand language about emotions. An experimental study suggests that cosmetic use of botulinum toxin for treatment of glabellar lines affects human cognition. As reported in the L.A. Times,[66] Havas and colleagues (Havas, Glenberg, Gutowski, Lucarelli, & Davidson, 2010 [67]) asked subjects to read emotional (angry, sad, happy) sentences before and two weeks after botox injections in the corrugator supercilii muscle used in frowning. Reading times for angry and sad sentences were longer after botox injection than before injection, while reading times for happy sentences were unchanged. This finding suggests that facial muscle paralysis has a selective effect in human cognition, and shows that botox hinders the ability to understand language. According to the lead researcher in this study, "botox causes a kind of mild, temporary, cognitive blindness to information in the world, social information about the emotions of other people."
Posted by: tu3031   2012-09-17 01:40  

#1  Keep up your fantasies lady. Oh, and tell the people of the US that no one likes guns, religion or marriage anymore. It is true, teh 0ne has transformed our nation. /sarc
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-09-17 00:44  

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