KATIE COURIC: Are you surprised how intimately involved he is in the whole process?
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: Quite frankly, yes. I said, “Mr. President, neither of us has time for this conversation, especially you,” because we really, we understand each other. We know where we need to go.
COURIC: Can you tell us anything he said to you, like “get cracking”?
PELOSI: No, never that. We're always cracking.
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Couric proceeded to quiz Pelosi on how soon the House-Senate agreement will be passed. “When do you think this will come to a vote?” And: “What about the Senate? Any idea?”
Before viewers were treated to Couric's chat with Pelosi, reporter Chip Reid assured viewers Obama had put the people ahead of his own desires:
He [Obama] certainly did not get everything he wanted. For example, the bill falls short by billions on health care and education. But in the end, the President decided it's much more important to get this bill passed quickly and put people back to work than to get it exactly right.Couric's interview with Pelosi, as shown on the Wednesday, February 11 CBS Evening News:
KATIE COURIC: One of the key players in getting this deal approved is the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. I talked to her this afternoon as Senate negotiators were announcing the agreement and we spoke right after she had been on the phone with the President.CBSNews.com online version of the interview.
COURIC TO PELOSI: Are you surprised how intimately involved he is in the whole process?
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: Quite frankly, yes. I said, "Mr. President, neither of us has time for this conversation, especially you," because we really, we understand each other. We know where we need to go.COURIC: Can you tell us anything he said to you, like “get cracking”?
PELOSI: No, never that. We're always cracking. But it was really a moment for us to have an appreciation that in just a little while, maybe a couple of days, we will have passed legislation that will take the country in a new direction, which will begin us down the road of recovery.
COURIC: Is the devil in the details?
PELOSI: I hope the angels are, because what is in the details are how we will create those jobs, how we do it in a transparent way for the world to see with accountability to the public, again to build jobs, build confidence, and stabilize the economy. The bill that we passed one week and one days after the President's speech honoring the promises he made in that speech, 90 percent of that bill is contained in the Senate bill.
COURIC: Is there anything in the Senate version that you think shouldn't be in the package?
PELOSI: I would like to have seen more of an emphasis on job creation. I don't think there's any doubt that the House bill created more jobs. But this bill will create 3.5 million jobs and three weeks ago we weren't even on this path. I always say to my members, respect it for what it does, rather than judge it for what it does not do, because this does an enormous amount. And in order for it to instill the confidence into the American people, I think we have to believe in what we are doing and we believe in what we are doing.
COURIC: When do you think this will come to a vote?
PELOSI: I'm hoping that it, the House will be able to vote for it Thursday or Friday, but I'm hoping Thursday.COURIC: And what about the Senate? Any idea?
PELOSI: Then we'll send it to the Senate. They have different rules as to how they can bring legislation up, but very soon and certainly meeting the goal of having the bill signed into law before Presidents Day.
COURIC NARRATION: And when asked if she had been too partisan during the process, the Speaker defended the House version of the stimulus package that passed without a single Republican vote.
PELOSI: We had an election and it was about a direction for our country. We have strong philosophical difference in the Congress. This isn't inner-party bickering; this is major differences of opinion on philosophy, on how our country should go forward. We reject the failed Bush administration economic policies which got us where we are today. The proposals that the Republicans put forth were more of the same. We will not go back.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Disgusting.
February 11, 2009 - 20:22 ET by superconIf Obama asked,Katie would pick up his dry cleaning.
What a shameless shill.
Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.
Obama is repeating FDR's dirty politics
February 11, 2009 - 21:54 ET by PopularTech"The politically astute deployment of relief and public works money gave FDR considerable advantages in the 1936 presidential election campaign. Virginia's Democratic senator Carter Glass acknowledged that "the elections would have been much closer had my party not had a four billion, eight hundred million dollar relief bill as campaign fodder." - FDR's Folly pg 98
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (Jim Powell, Historian, 2003)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution
Lincoln's birthday
February 12, 2009 - 11:11 ET by cvgbuckeyeCan you just imagine what would go through President Lincoln's mind if he were alive today and would see the kind of people (Pelosi) that are running this nation and those (Couric) at the helm of the watch dog press.
This is sobering as hell. I trust that everyone here recognizes how serious this really is!
God help us.
Perky Couric's reaction to
February 11, 2009 - 20:26 ET by semolina_filcherPerky Couric's reaction to the passing of the stimulus made you wonder if Obama had personally stimulated her. After all, wasn't there a recent article how women would like to fantasize making out with the Obasmic One? Or maybe it was Pe-lousy that was stimulated. Or Chrissy M.....
Yuk, perish the thought!....
Perky Couric and Pesky Pelosi
February 13, 2009 - 00:24 ET by merlin61I need a barf bag!!!!
The actual budget
February 11, 2009 - 20:27 ET by CobraManDoes this mean that Congress will now start working on the actual budget? I wonder how many trillions of dollars THAT will cost us?
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
cackle cackle cackle
February 11, 2009 - 20:30 ET by MidAmericaPELOSI: No, never that. We're always cracking. But it was really a moment for us to have an appreciation that in just a little while, maybe a couple of days, we will have passed legislation that will take the country in a new direction, ....
Made me think of the Shakespearean scene with the witches:
WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Oh yea, what a hoot,
February 11, 2009 - 20:38 ET by GregEOh yea, what a hoot, America is in economic trouble and it's all gigglefest.
We have a Chicago politician in the White House and a San Francisco politician leading the House of Reps. Toss in a widely divided House that's liberal, and the same in the Senate, and an economy in trouble where Americans will bend over more quickly than normal and in larger numbers and scared to rock the boat and ask for the courtesy of Vaseline. I mean golly gee, things just couldn't be any better. I think this would qualify as a Perfect Storm.
America, turn east and bow to the Europe that your so-called "leaders" want America to once again be. Yes, the same America that was built to get out of Europe, has a leadership that wants to come full circle back to its European roots.
COURIC: Is the devil in the
February 11, 2009 - 20:41 ET by rimskyCOURIC: Is the devil in the details?
Yes! Like nobody can imagine.. like nobody can possibly imagine!
You're right, rimsky!
February 11, 2009 - 21:04 ET by GalvanicAs we've learned this week, the seeds of national health care are buried in there -- national health record data base; a national council inserting itself in doctor/patient decisions on medical procedures and medicines. When queried two days ago, Arlen "Single Bullet Theory" Specter -- who voted for it --- wasn't even aware the language was in there. Daschle was rightly booted out of the HHS nomination, but his ghost still lurks in this bill.
This is
February 11, 2009 - 21:23 ET by UpNorthso scary. If banks, who spend millions on security, can't safeguard account info, how will a doctor, who doesn't have that kind of money safeguard medical info? At least it will create jobs, for people to steal med info and sell it to illegals. Once again, thanks Gang of 3. Nice job!
Kindred spirits
February 11, 2009 - 23:19 ET by easygoerFrom Communist Party USA website:
"We now have not simply a friend, but a people's advocate in the White House."
http://www.cpusa.org...
I won't watch this...I
February 11, 2009 - 20:42 ET by bigtimerI won't watch this...I cannot stand either of these creatures.
Not going to wreck my evening.
Couric and Pelosi are two peas in a pod...in everyway possible.
Yes, bt
February 11, 2009 - 21:57 ET by DEVILDOCMOMI thoroughly agree with you, in addition my first thought was "gag me with a spoon" regarding these two.
However, it is nice to see how impartial the perky one can be, isn't it...just compare this with her interview of Sarah Palin...NOT.
BT
February 12, 2009 - 09:50 ET by ahusserThere is enough air in those 2 empty heads to fill the GoodYear blimp.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Cap her pay
February 11, 2009 - 20:45 ET by TexndocI'm pretty sure with the sob stories yesterday from Julio and Henrietta from Ft Meyers, that the perky one would gladly have her pay capped at 500,000. For the common good. Uhm, of course she would.
Oh come on Pelosi and Couric - don't you read anything
February 11, 2009 - 21:00 ET by Gary HallOh come on Pelosi and Couric - don't you read anything..
From the left:
And for balance - from the right:
Now. That is consensus opinion. (;~> gary
Gary Hall
February 12, 2009 - 09:59 ET by ahusserYou are absolutely right on with your thread and sources. But in this and most instances the truth is either brushed aside as inconvenient or ignored altogether. The MSM have buried the truth and perceptions are all that matter and you know that the main perception is that Bush created this fiasco or at the very least did nothing about it and now FDR redux will, like his namesake, add gasoline to the fire and wonder why the fire doesn't go out.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Sarah Palin showed us the way
February 11, 2009 - 21:03 ET by Free StinkerSarah Palin showed us the way to deal with idiots in the G.O.P.
Unseat them in the primary.
We need to have Snowe, Collins, and Specter removed in the next Republican primaries they each face. Replaced by conservatives!
Thanks to those three IDIOTS we will see the fake stimulus bill pass into law.
"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media." -- Lowell Ponte
Stink finger
February 11, 2009 - 21:08 ET by Sergeant ROCKBoy, I would be doing some serious heckling if I were up that way. I'm warming to the idea of Palin as the 2012 candidate for Prez if for no other reason to PT's head explode! Priceless!
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
Stink finger? He had my
February 11, 2009 - 21:18 ET by shawn228Stink finger?
He had my vote
It's in jest..
February 11, 2009 - 21:20 ET by Sergeant ROCK.. like calling you nwahs for instance.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
oic
February 11, 2009 - 21:22 ET by shawn228thx.
He had my vote
Catie Kouric is a stupid illiterate
February 11, 2009 - 21:23 ET by R D HelmThe only thing the Government Power Grab Bill is going to do is ensure that this nation will become a second-rate economic and military power in the very near future, which is exactly what this bill is designed to do.
It will pretty much complete the socialist takeover of this nation, which they have been working towards for over 100 years.
Not only that, but it practically kicks open the door for the federal government to rush in and carry out its long-planned takeover of our national health care system.
Yeah, real damn funny, isn't it, Katie?
But what would you know, as you clearly cannot read, can you, you stupid, illiterate twit.
-Dave
Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.
There's a good reason . . .
February 11, 2009 - 21:21 ET by GalvanicKATIE COURIC: Are you surprised how intimately involved he is in the whole process?
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: Quite frankly, yes. . . .
After weeks of taking a beating in the polls of public opinion, Obama finally realized that he erred greatly in leaving the crafting of the bill to incompetents like Pelosi and Reid, and that his first big action as POTUS might go down the legacy toilet. So, he jumped in heavy and quite visibly, hoping that his personsal popularity might keep the bill from getting dashed on the rocks.
Pelosi might be surprised, but that's because her political sensibilities are quite low. Obama was essentially intervening in a botched up process to say, "OKAY, DADDY'S HERE! NOW LISTEN UP!"
How did tenor of this
February 11, 2009 - 21:35 ET by EdhenryHow did tenor of this interview compare with that of Sarah?
(a) Tone and critical analysis was exactly the same. Very balanced, fair, professional and informative.
(b) Katie was more critical of Nancy P than Sarah or
(c) Katie demonstrated that she is a weak, co-dependent, incompetent shill for the baby killing socialist agenda.
I would have to go with
February 12, 2009 - 13:18 ET by Arelc.
Sigh...
February 11, 2009 - 21:34 ET by BDelaneyAs a woman I actually feel shame on my gender with women like Pelosi and Couric out there.
At least we have strong women like Palin that aren't sell outs bent on world domination by enabling American citizens.
How are the ratings
February 11, 2009 - 21:35 ET by 10ksnookerYou reached 50% yet perky? You do know your audience is dying off on you, don't you?
What scares me.......
February 11, 2009 - 22:12 ET by connmanis how Pelosi & Co keep telling us how we're moving in a "new" direction which is has become painfully obvious what that means. With regards to the "Bush failed economic policy"umm where were you that whole time Nancy? Katie is a tool!
Pssssst <whispers> Emperor Barry isn't wearing any clothes!
is anyone else getting creeped out with the way the ...
February 11, 2009 - 22:12 ET by pmohbuckmedia seems to be so willing to lull the american public into blindly sacrificing it's financial future with such a giddy, giggly attitude ... much like the "jig" hitler performed after the fall of france in 1940. sadly though, i don't believe people like katie couric and nancy pelosi have EVER gone to sleep at night worrying about the financial future of THEIR families ... they have annointed themselves as american nobility, slaking their thirst for power by draining the financial life out of the rest of us ... the lowly proletariat, on an inevitable path to serfdom.
Short answer... yes! Wait
February 11, 2009 - 22:17 ET by Clear thinkerShort answer... yes!
Wait until the media finds out that it's been used like a pawn and everyone starts to get pink slips.
Angry American!
Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/
→ Publicity stunt
February 11, 2009 - 22:24 ET by Cool ArrowCaterpillar vows to rehire workers if Stimulus is passed.
How many of those 20,000 workers will really get rehired.
Hold your breath.
Well you know
February 12, 2009 - 13:20 ET by ArelCaterpillar's CEO is on Obama's economic advisory team.
Quick! Someone drop a house!
February 11, 2009 - 22:15 ET by katainkent→ Can do kata
February 11, 2009 - 22:22 ET by Cool ArrowIf I can just find another.
Had a house all lined up, but some Republican gave it to Henrietta Hughes after she begged a Democrat (Obama) for help.
Funny how Dems talk, and Republicans do.
Broken Arrow
February 11, 2009 - 22:30 ET by Sergeant ROCKI'm tired of stupid conservatives always undermining the government's role in furnishing care and feeding of our citizens from cradle to grave. Who the Hell do they think they are?
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
→ In defense of Rep. Nick Thompson
February 11, 2009 - 22:35 ET by Cool ArrowHe claims it was his wife's house vefore they married and he didn'tknow she'd made the offer.
Another point is that had the situation been reversed, this would have been good fodder against Dems. As is, it's a non-story.
Actually it proves something else.
February 12, 2009 - 00:20 ET by thebutlerdiditObama's gang gave HH a card with the info for head of housing. It took a Christian Conservative who is used to being generous, unlike most libs, to unselfishly donate a $150,000 house. I have some questions, though. How did she know O was going to be there, did she stand in line all day, go through with the screening, and just happen to end up in front, and get to ask one of the few questions? Also, how is it she lives in a truck, but happened to have a suit, hose, and heels available, and just how old is this son that supposedly lives in the truck with her? 40? Is there a reason he can't get a job and take care of mama? The sad part is, people actually have this mind-set. Hey, what are you gonna give me? i don't want to have to actually DO anything, but I want good freebies. Oh yeah, is HH going to pay the taxes and maintenance on this house? If so, how? And pay utilities? Someone needs to check back on HH and Julio in a yr, and see how they are faring.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Wow! Couric is Giggling and
February 11, 2009 - 22:30 ET by TN MomWow! Couric is Giggling and laughing along with NitWit Nan. Wasn't it just 2 days ago the sky was falling?
Where did Couric get her journalism training?? This is a very serious subject and she acts like she's talking about what they'll wear to the prom.
oh, and the big tax break obama promised-95% of Americans will get? It starts in June and averages out to about $13.00 (thirteen dollars) per paycheck. That's not going to help the retail industry.
TN Mom
February 12, 2009 - 00:27 ET by thebutlerdiditCourice is a journalist in the same way I am a computer programmer. Remember, she didn't even correct Biden when he said FDR was on the tube yakking about the New Deal. I posted this the other day. Camille Paglia, big time lib, had some mighty harsh words for the affable Eva Braun of night time news. She said she was the most uninformed, single-minded person that had ever interviewed her. If you'd like to read it, and it was a good article, She blogs at Salon.com. For an atheist and a lib, she is often spot on. I'm pretty sure that the nutty chick who wrote in the NYT that she wanted to boink Obama, and asked her GF's to e-mail her back if they felt that way, too, I just have to guess Pelosi and Couric were 2 of her online buds who said, O yeah!
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Tee hee!...Tee hee!
February 12, 2009 - 00:44 ET by Army BratOh Boy! The end of America as we know it.. How wonderful! Let us giggle together over the end of our Republic!
These two will dance til the fire consumes them, noting only that it's unusually warm.
Happy Trails...
Katie Couric was sent from
February 12, 2009 - 01:42 ET by suzycreamcheeseKatie Couric was sent from hell just to get under my skin. How can this woman still have a job when her ratings have been in the tank from day one?
And Nancy's tight face seemed like it hurt her when she spoke.
Yeah, that's all I can add to the discussion. My spirt is broken. I'm scared for this country with the clowns in charge.
Stupid ignorant marxist
February 12, 2009 - 01:45 ET by rbosqueStupid ignorant marxist witch.
Was Couric on the short
February 12, 2009 - 06:02 ET by RR GOPWas Couric on the short list for the Shrillary Senate seat? She sure acts like she wants to get into politics and be in the Socialist Party (once called the Democratic Party).
Or is she a limousine Lib like Letterman and lives in Connecticut and commutes to Manhattan in order to avoid the higher taxes they think every one else should pay for to support minorities and illegal aliens?
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
I haven't seen so much
February 12, 2009 - 11:07 ET by Jack BauerI haven't seen so much Botox let loose in one place since that Botox tanker crashed on the 101.
Crack a smile?
Oh, Katie, how I long to
February 12, 2009 - 13:18 ET by HockeyKidOh, Katie, how I long to see you assume your proper position in the American economy: serving pie at the all-night truck stop.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Pelosi was right.....about one thing
February 12, 2009 - 14:47 ET by kmkirklandI can't believe I am saying this, but Pelosi was actually right about one thing....
"This isn't inner-party bickering; this is major differences of opinion on philosophy, on how our country should go forward."
Republicans aren't just saying "no" to this stimulus because they enjoy arguing with Democrats...they are saying "no" because everything about this stimulus is WRONG and is not in the best interest of the country!