NANCY PELOSI CONTINUES TO DISAPPOINT MATTHEW SHEPARD

[fightthegoodfightnow]

How many bills will we see go down the drain because of Nancy Pelosi's failed leadership?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/opinion/10mon3.html

What exactly has she accomplished this year?

Are we out of the war?
Have we stopped funding it?

Enough.

(can't wait to hear the Nancy Pelosi apologist respond with nothing but contempt for my post..... as if that is the problem.)

[Hydra]

1. Need a flamesuit?

the apologists have been shrill yesterday and today.

[gaiilonfong]

4. I know I got beat up too!

Anyone who doesn't think Pelosi took impeachment off the table because the criminal corrupt Bushies had this over her head is just not being honest with themselves. I am not going to be a hypocrite like the ReTHUGS, I want my Democratic leaders to be honest and above this criminal fray. If they aren't they need to step down and let real leaders hold this criminal cabal accoiuntable!

[thepurpose]

2. I for one see your frustration and my frustration is growing learning of the complicity that seems

to be going on with a lot of democrats and this administration. Don't start me on the fact our leadership at least in the Senate seems incapable of making republicans actually filibuster a fucking bill.

[Mythsaje]

3. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...

A motto of which to be proud.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2442135&mesg_id=2442135

[Hydra]

6. I roll in it, myself

"Thinking is evil!"
Guilty
"Questioning Authority is evil!"
Very Guilty
"Spelling "president" is evil and disrespectful without capitalizing!"
Yup
"Speaking out during wartime is TREASONOUS!"
Guilty...but you aren't an elected gov't!

Yup, evil.

[MADem]

5. If you actually want people to talk about this, give a snippet--here, I will do it for you.

Ranting and raving doesn't help matters or encourage the dial-uppers to weigh in. And, as luck would have it, the piece meets the "four or five paragraph" limit, too:

December 10, 2007
Editorial
Caving In on Hate Crimes
Congressional leaders, who have disappointed frequently this year, have done it again. This time, the House leadership has failed to find a way to get a bipartisan law against hate crimes passed and signed into law. Racial, religious, sexual and other minorities have waited long enough. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has to do more than just express her support for the bill; she must find a way to make it the law.

The Matthew Shepard Act would expand the definition of hate crimes and make important improvements in the federal response. To categories already covered by federal law, which include race and religion, it would add crimes committed because of the victim’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender or disability. It would also broaden the federal government’s authority to investigate these hateful acts.

The bill has been a top priority of civil rights groups since Mr. Shepard, who was gay, was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998. It also has strong support from law enforcement, including the National Sheriffs’ Association and the National District Attorneys Association. The House passed it 237-180, with significant Republican support, and the Senate passed a similar bill by voice vote, after a 60-39 cloture vote.

President Bush has suggested he would veto the bill. It’s an unfortunate threat, but one he is certainly capable of carrying out. House and Senate leaders planned to get around that threat by attaching it to a Department of Defense Authorization bill, which Mr. Bush would have had trouble vetoing. But House leaders decided last week that since some liberals did not want to vote for the defense bill and some conservatives did not want to vote for the hate crimes bill, they could not piece together a majority to get it through.

Ms. Pelosi says she is still committed to getting the Matthew Shepard Act passed, perhaps early next year. That’s nice, but it is time for her to explain how she intends to do it — and then to make it happen.

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[bvar22]

8. Nancy can TOO get things done.

You must have missed the "Secret Free Trade Deal" written by Lobbyists that was negotiated directly with Bush behind the backs of the Democratic Caucus. She also didn't mess around with input fron LABOR, Human Rights, or Environmental concerns which would only slow down The Deal.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/52709/

Nancy "got er done" when Big Business pulled her string!



The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

[Maven]

9. It's 2007. Matthew was murdered in 1998. But maybe next year, right Nancy?

Maybe next year we won't have to suffer the inadequacy of your leadership.

K/R

[L0oniX]

10. Yea but how does she do when it comes to baking cookies and serving tea?

:sarcasm:

[tom_paine]

12. And her cocktail parties are simply to die for.

You won't find any vagrants with their "Impeach Bush" t-shirts there!

[0007]

11. Nasty Nancy takes a licking and keeps right on ticking.