Pelosi possibly helping the unemployed...

Milhouse VanHouten

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/112106/grinch.html

Pelosi seeks to avoid label of the Grinch

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has drafted legislation that would grant soon-to-be-unemployed Republicans severance pay while they look for jobs after Democrats take over control of the chamber on Jan. 4, according to a senior Democratic aide...

Giving House Republican aides a uniform severance package would fall in line with Pelosi’s declared desire to create a good working relationship with Republicans and not fritter away her limited political capital by settling the score for past slights. But if she offers the severance bill, she would be acting more generously than Republicans did toward Democrats when they captured the House 12 years ago.

In 1994, Democratic leaders had pushed hard for a uniform severance package for their committee staffers who had lost their jobs in the Republican revolution. Republicans even blocked a package that then-Rep. Norm Mineta (D-Calif.) tried to bring to the chamber floor...


note: it should be noted that speaker elect pelosi's initiative hasn't been confirmed or formally announced on the house floor.

surferdude

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/112106/grinch.html

Pelosi seeks to avoid label of the Grinch

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has drafted legislation that would grant soon-to-be-unemployed Republicans severance pay while they look for jobs after Democrats take over control of the chamber on Jan. 4, according to a senior Democratic aide...

Giving House Republican aides a uniform severance package would fall in line with Pelosi’s declared desire to create a good working relationship with Republicans and not fritter away her limited political capital by settling the score for past slights. But if she offers the severance bill, she would be acting more generously than Republicans did toward Democrats when they captured the House 12 years ago.

In 1994, Democratic leaders had pushed hard for a uniform severance package for their committee staffers who had lost their jobs in the Republican revolution. Republicans even blocked a package that then-Rep. Norm Mineta (D-Calif.) tried to bring to the chamber floor...


note: it should be noted that speaker elect pelosi's initiative hasn't been confirmed or formally announced on the house floor.

It's not generousity when you're spending someone else's money.

Milhouse VanHouten

surferdude wrote:

It's not generousity when you're spending someone else's money.

there's no pleasing some people.

honestly, she could have said, "fuck you guys. most of you will have cozy jobs staffing some washed up blowhard at the hoover institute 4 months from now. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to pay the rent on your townhouses until them."

would that have been better?

miller8966

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

there's no pleasing some people.

honestly, she could have said, "fuck you guys. most of you will have cozy jobs staffing some washed up blowhard at the hoover institute 4 months from now. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to pay the rent on your townhouses until them."

would that have been better?

Its a good thing shes worried about finding millionaire republicans jobs.

surferdude

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

there's no pleasing some people.

honestly, she could have said, "fuck you guys. most of you will have cozy jobs staffing some washed up blowhard at the hoover institute 4 months from now. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to pay the rent on your townhouses until them."

would that have been better?

Quite frankly the money given these people should not be politicized. They should be given what they are legally entitled and not a cent more. I want every politician to value the money they're spending because it's your and my money. Generosity on their part is wasting my money and I don't want my money wasted. This has absolutely nothing to do with political spectrum but what I expect out of every politician.

farfromglorified

surferdude wrote:

It's not generousity when you're spending someone else's money.

Hehe...very nice.

farfromglorified

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

there's no pleasing some people.

honestly, she could have said, "fuck you guys. most of you will have cozy jobs staffing some washed up blowhard at the hoover institute 4 months from now. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to pay the rent on your townhouses until them."

would that have been better?

Yes.

Uncle Teddy

Pelosi is a fucking idiot. She is shaping up to be a feeble majority leader. She couldn't ever get the votes for Murtha. Pathetic. Somehow I sense the Democrats in Congress are going to be two-year wonders.