The word “bipartisan.”

Everybody bandies that word around, and I’ve always said that “bipartisanship” is defined in Washington as Republicans caving on their principles and agreeing with Democrats.

The vote on the so called “stimulus” bill in the House, was a partisan vote. The victorious side was all Democrats.

The bipartisan vote was the losing side.

Eleven Democrats joined all the Republicans, 177 of them.

Nancy Pelosi, according to The Hill newspaper, said she didn’t come to Washington to be bipartisan. One day after shuttling through the “stimulus” bill without a single Republican vote, Nancy Pelosi said,

“I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interests.”

I’m as conflicted about Pelosi as I am sometimes about Obama. We’re talking here about a mother of five, a grandmother of who knows how many. This woman has been around. This is an attempt to deceive. It is morally wrong for her to say she’s not partisan!

She and Harry Reid are among the most partisan people in that town.

This is deceit. She’s attempting to say that her liberalism is how we define nonpartisan now.

“I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I didn’t come here to be partisan. I came here to be nonpartisan,”

She did not let one Republican have one word of input on the “stimulus’ bill! Now, that’s good, but that’s nonpartisan?

This is just a deceitful woman. This is a woman who lives it, who practices it, and who gets away with it.

PELOSI:

We didn’t come here to be — I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interests. I take credit for the great action taken by the Congress one week and one day since the president called for bold and swift action.

REPORTER:

Your principle opponents were not John Boehner or Eric Cantor. They were Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge.

PELOSI:

I don’t speak to that. I’m the speaker of the House! I don’t get into that pop culture.

REPORTER:

Speaker Pelosi!

“I don’t get into that. I don’t get into the pop culture. I’m not interested in that.” That’s Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill.

“I’m not partisan. I didn’t come here to be partisan or bipartisan. I came here to be nonpartisan.”

… simply amazing.

Let me make a few things clear.

1. I SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT, I JUST DON’T SUPPORT HIS POLICIES.

— sound familuar?

2. If someone says to me,

“You have to do this, you have to do this now. It’s essental that you act NOW!”

RED FLAGS POP UP ALL AROUND…

RESPONSE: NO

— to do something stupid out of haste… or pressure… just because it is something to do? Now… that is STUPID.

Simple enough?

“Why the Rush… “If you can tell me what’s in it and if you can tell me what’s going to happen because of this, then you are trying to con me, because there’s nobody that knows.” — Heritage Foundation

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Feb15: Obama/Stimulus:

Casualties are mounting.

Home Depot announced they were killing off 7,000. Sprint: killing 8,000. Pfizer: 8,000 more. Other companies, including Caterpillar, brought the total to 40,000 jobs killed, in just one day.Sadly, casualties are expected to rise, with no end in sight. Economists warn that we’re just witnessing the tip of the iceberg. By the end of the year, 10 percent of America’s workforce could be unemployed. Even if President Obama’s trillion-dollar spending program is enacted, we’re told to expect a net loss of at least 2 million jobs by the end of the year.

Despite this dire forecast, and a rapidly deteriorating labor market, our new president and his Democrat Congress are planning to kill even more jobs by demanding automakers build “green cars” nobody wants, and adopting draconian fuel standards to appease radical environmentalists. Liberal state governments from California to New York are introducing new taxes as they refuse to reign in their budgets.

I wonder if the Media will keep a monthly tally of the Obama casualties as they did war casualties under George W. Bush. Or whether protesters will plant crosses on mock graves for every job killed under the Obama Administration.

For those of you who think it’s an unfair question, let me remind you:

We’re talking about people’s lives here. Their identities, their dreams, their hopes, and their jobs: casualties in American liberals’ war on prosperity.

A story out of Alaska involving Governor Sarah Palin, and what it demonstrates is that you can cut government but you have to really get far from Washington.

“Gov. Sarah Palin announced in her State of the State Speech on Thursday night that she wants to freeze all state hiring except for public safety but also pursue ambitious projects like a road to Nome. … Palin acknowledged that the state is facing a potential budget deficit of more than a billion dollars as a result of the drop in oil prices. She didn’t propose specific cuts to government programs but said she wants to freeze state hiring as well as restrict ‘non-essential purchases.’ She didn’t elaborate on what those are. … The governor said she learned about fighting against long odds, protecting family and putting ‘Country First,’ referring to John McCain’s campaign motto, ‘even when voters put you second,'” meaning her loss as the running mate to Senator McCain. “Palin has previously said she’s not enthusiastic about the state helping pay for the in-state pipeline but wants to work with private business to make it happen. She hasn’t laid out a plan, but that could change with the bill she said she would introduce next month.”

Now, if Republicans would support Sarah Palin she could still provide an attractive reminder of what a conservative leader can accomplish when they cut the size of government. If she actually succeeds in this, I guarantee you she will get rid of the budget deficit of nearly a billion dollars. She’s going to develop local energy sources that are sufficient to run local businesses and homes, self-sufficiently, and running a straightforward administration.

So I think this is good. Let’s keep an eye on her. Let’s keep an eye on this and see how it works.

What do you suppose the reaction would be — especially in the Media — if I said:

“Democrats are bad people… who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads”? Or if I said an “untainted Democrat has not yet been invented”?

Well, those two quotes were once uttered by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel — only they were aimed at Republicans.

Emanuel called Republicans bad, tainted people who deserve to be whacked on the head with lumber. And he said not one Republican is untainted.

These quotes appeared in a New York Times article describing Emanuel as “arguably the second most powerful man in the country.” The adoring profile praises Emanuel’s loyalty, his influence on Obama’s thinking, and his fierce partisanship.

Now, despite what you’ve heard, partisanship is alive and well — on the Democrat side. Almost every day the president rolls back another Bush-era policy with verbal jabs at his predecessor.

No problem; elections have consequences, and he won (as he boasted in a meeting on Friday with Republican leaders).

Partisan Democrats want Republicans to never regain power. That’s why Obama is painting Republicans as the obstacle to his trillion-dollar stimulus plan — when the truth is Republicans don’t have the votes to stop it anyway! That’s also why the president is brazenly telling Republicans who they should not listen to. This is the “Great Unifier”?

No, my friends: Partisanship is alive and well.