Sawyer and Williams Cue Up Pelosi to Expound on Her ‘Fear’ Debt Deal Will ‘Hurt Real People’
Two network anchors, 24 hours apart, cued up House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to despair from the left how the debt ceiling deal, presumably because of some future potential slight reductions in the projected rate of spending increases, will “hurt real people” as NBC’s Brian Williams asked her to confirm her “fear” that “the poor are gonna get hurt and the rich are gonna get by without harm.”
On Monday’s World News, ABC’s Diane Sawyer inquired (video below): “You think this is really going to hurt real people?”
During Sunday’s Dateline, “Taking the Hill: Inside Congress,” viewers heard NBC’s Brian Williams, in an exchange which occurred last Wednesday, tell the former House Speaker: “A liberal member said to me his fear is the poor are gonna get hurt and the rich are gonna get by without harm in this. Is that your fear?”
Neither cued up any Republican leader with a similar leading question from the right. Sawyer also talked to John Boehner and Williams interviewed several for his Sunday night special. In fact, NBC earlier highlighted Williams hitting a GOP leader from the left:
Running a brief excerpt from his Sunday night Dateline special, “Taking the Hill: Inside Congress,” Brian Williams on Thursday evening showcased one and only one question he posed to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He demanded: “Why shouldn't rich folks pay more?”
Though the debt deal doesn’t actually “cut” any spending as it doesn’t touch entitlement programs and allows discretionary spending to grow by tens of billions each year, Sawyer ominously warned the deal will “reduce government spending by more than $2 trillion over ten years and ultimately it’s expected to take a machete to programs ranging from student loans to the defense budget.”
From the Monday, August 1 World News:
DIANE SAWYER, IN PELOSI’S OFFICE: So you are voting for it?
NANCY PELOSI, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: Absolutely. We have to get this over with. We have to get to work putting people back to work and every day that we were stuck in this negotiation was a day that we weren't doing everything we -- in our power to create jobs.
SAWYER: Bitter pill?
PELOSI: Well, it's more than a bitter pill. What would be the next stage up from a bitter pill?
SAWYER: So if it takes the Democratic votes to do this, to avoid default, you're going to deliver them?
PELOSI: The Democrats are not going to have the country default. I'm not saying they're happy about it. At the end of the day, we're voting for a bill that has severe cuts in our domestic agenda. That impedes our economic growth.
SAWYER: You think this is really going to hurt real people?
PELOSI: Well, I hope not. How could we have severe cuts to our domestic agenda, the education of our children, for example, and not one red cent coming from those who can afford to share the sacrifice that is necessary to reduce the deficit.
From the Sunday, July 31 Dateline, “Taking the Hill: Inside Congress”:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Back in Pelosi's office she's already talking about what the impact of the ultimate deal will be.
WILLIAMS TO REP. NANCY PELOSI: A liberal member said to me his fear is the poor are gonna get hurt and the rich are gonna get by without harm in this. Is that your fear?
REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well my concern is for the great middle-class and we want to have a resolution of this that is for a hundred percent of the American people. Republicans want to have a resolution that is for the two percent.
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Give Nancy a break!
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 8:58am.
After all, she's trying to save life on this planet as we know it!!
And in that photo, it looks like Diane Sawyer is in pain because she knows it's the end of the world (as we know it.....)
Diane is cringing in pain
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:37am.
Diane is cringing in pain because, Pillosi is painful to look at for more than a second or two. Helen Thomas' younger sister. Don't want to imagine what Pillosi will look like when she is HT's age, yuk! ;-)
Just, stupid.
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 8:56am.
PELOSI: Well, it's more than a bitter pill. What would be the next stage up from a bitter pill?
I don't know -- a pill that goes down sideways? A Jagged Little Pill? Your guess is as good as mine, Nancy.
SAWYER: You think this is really going to hurt real people?
What, as opposed to "fake" people? WTF? What blithering idiocy from these ninnies. Liberals in this country are rewriting the definition of "stupid." There is not a dumber, more senseless group of people on earth.
"Real" people is defined by
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:02am.
"Real" people is defined by income. The "rich" aren't real people.
Just like "working families" means union members and hourly workers. Or, alternately also defined by income (say, under $75,000). If you own your own business and work 16 hours a day, you're not included, or work 60 hour weeks as a salaried worker for $80,000 annually, you are likewise not "working."
I'm not real!
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:10am.
I've suspected for some time that I'm not a real person, but until your post, I didn't have the numbers to confirm it. Now I know it's true. I'm not rich -- yet -- but I am in the gray area between that and real. Thanks for helping me find my place in this world!
You forget
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:54am.
During campaign time for Erkel(as w/Algore and John Fing Kerry before him), it's "workin"
That dumb nitwit
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:06am.
Voted for this bitter pill. I am betting she doesnt know that?
This class warfare has to end.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:02am.
Flat tax for all, even the 49% who don't pay taxes.
This so-called debt bill is
Submitted by jdhawk on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:07am.
This so-called debt bill is nothing but big f**king sham. It reduces government by 7 billion dollars next fiscal year, 2012!
For years, 2013 - 2022, this so-called debt bill heaps another 7 - 8 trillion dollars in new debt on the American people because it only slows slighly (maybe) the gargantuan maw of a relentlessly growing federal government .
Do you think the above will hurt "real" people?
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, since
Submitted by Reaver on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:47am.
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, since this deal allows the federal budget to continue to grow and doesn’t even freeze spending at current levels does that mean that the continuing resolution you voted for a few months ago is hurting “real” people right now? This is what you get when you have a media that doesn’t challenge liberal politicians - brain dead liberal politicians.
I agree, jdhawk
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 1:15pm.
This temporary fix is just kicking the can down the road again, and covening another committee-commission to study the problem that has been studied ad nauseum -- and as recently as last December (Simpson-Bowles) -- that will produce recommenations that they will find a way to skirt.
As for Pelosi, what does she know about real people? Her constituency is San Francisco.
Worried about the "little" people? Give me a break.
Submitted by iamsaved on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:09am.
The hypocritical, class-warfaring, leftists cry crocodile tears about the poor and middle class folks suffering because of the nasty Tea Partiers and their terrorist activities. Yet she and her cronies don't mind pushing energy and environmental policies on the populace that will triple and quadruple the average person's energy costs. Let's see, hurt those who pay no taxes and who might get less of a tax credit then before or quadruple their daily energy costs? Which one will hurt the most?
Why is it when the Dems select a "first" - like the first female Secretary of State; the first female Attorney General; the first female Speaker of the House; or the first black president, they pick the most incompetent people they can find? Maybe it's the best the Democrat's have to offer?
I think we know
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:13am.
"Why is it when the Dems select a "first" - like the first female Secretary of State; the first female Attorney General; the first female Speaker of the House; or the first black president, they pick the most incompetent people they can find? Maybe it's the best the Democrat's have to offer?"
The answer is, and always will be, symbolism over substance.
You're the first person who's had the guts
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:40am.
to bring that little fact up. I think you're right, I think that they were the best that the dems had to offer. The fact that we have a Congressional Black Caucus, a Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues and a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute speak volumes to the fact that racism and sexism are very much alive in those organizations and that blacks, women and hispanics feel the need to game the political system with white guilt instead of displaying intelligence and leadership capabilities.
Who the hell are they fooling?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:31am.
Who the hell do these liberals and these democrats(I repeat myself) think they are fooling saying that the Republicans won this one?
The "Real People" are definitely going to be hurt by this because of the debt ceiling being increased not to mention a few other things like tax increases.....oh I'm sorry, I mean an increase in "revenues."
The dems won this one, plain and simple, and the spineless republicans GAVE IT AWAY.
I don't care who it is, anyone who voted for this thing is spineless. The dems voted against it, but they were hoping for this to happen. They wanted to debt ceiling and they are gonna get it.
-Jon
Pinheads or Patriots?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:35am.
Pinheads.
Jon
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:36am.
Agreed. Not only that, this issue won't come up during Obama's re-election campaign. I'm so sick of hearing "we don't have to go through this again". We, as a country NEED to go through this before every election so people can see just who is putting us into debt.
Sadly, the GOP doesn't seem to care about the debt at all.
The breakdown of the vote
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:45am.
I just saw the breakdown, 66 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted against it while 171 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted for it. The dems were split down the middle, but were they really?
I'm going back to my mind control conspiracy that I first had when DatOne first came on the scene and started taking over BEFORE the actual date of swearing in (Office of President-Elect, remember that one?). He had this weird thing about staring at the back of the person's head of whom he introduced in whatever position, it was damn creepy.
I kept thinking it was some sort of weird mind control because who the hell is stupid enough to work with this fraud?? And even then, there ARE people stupid enough not counting those who once fought against him during campaigning(Hillary). And how could someone explain this "win" for the Republicans even though it's not, I couldn't begin to guess.
Yeah, I know, a bit on the wacky side, but you gotta wonder sometimes when it defies so much common sense.
-Jon
"Satan sandwich with satan fries"
Submitted by merly1 on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:35am.
C'mon, that comment has to make newsbusters....................it was a laugh-out-loud moment from our fearless,
deposed House speaker. It should be used every day in commercials in the fall, 2012 elections to describe the deals her beloved President makes! Pelosi truly is a moron, and it isnt an insult if true and factual.
"Real People"
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:38am.
Are those the dead people who vote democratic? Or the made up ones that vote democratic? It's hard for me to see how this deal, or any other, would hurt the "real people" who vote democratic.
what really hurts the poor
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:47am.
What really hurts the poor is gasoline at $5 - $10 a gallon, heating costs doubling, or tripling, grocery prices sky rocketing. And who is to blame for all of this? The democrats and environmental idiots.
All these increased costs will never hurt the people who advocate for them because they have enough money and power to insure they are not affected.
Democrats and liberals are also a lot less likely to donate either their time or money to help the poor and unfortunate. They are also, as a group, less likely to pay their own taxes. Just look at how many of Obama's picks for cabinet positions had to withdraw. And look at how many of them are serving even now. Tim Geitner for one. And the biggest crook in Congress, Charlie Rangel is still in the house and will probably stay there until they carry him out feet first.
These people are hypocrites of the worst kind. They do NOT care about the poor and less fortunate. They prove it every day by their actions.
Pelosi is lost in the beltway*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:14am.
Dare she lecture anyone on the needs of "real people". Price of gasoline is almost $4 a gallon which hurts the poor, price of food is going up, jobs are going overseas, we have doubled the number of people on food stamps in the last four years, and the taxes have gone up in 2011 and will continue rising to pay for the abominable AHCA that she said "we have to pass it to see what's in it".
This woman is so out of touch with "real people" nor does she care. No one wants to hear about raising taxes on the middle class, which is what will happen, but she just talks about taxing the evil rich which will kill more jobs. All this from a woman who is worth $35 million.
She is the most snobby woman in DC, a total elitist liberal who either is totally out of touch with ordinary Americans or the most stupid hypocritical woman in congress.
I heard that Al Sharpton and
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:43am.
Charlie Rangel are going to have back to back shows on MSNBC. Al will lie about racism and Charlie will swear to it.
John Boehner And Harry Reid Take A Much Needed Nap After Debt...
Submitted by im41 on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:24am.
Nancy Pelosi Rent-A-Lap
Gosh, Diane, why shouldn't everybody pay federal taxes on
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:27am.
their income? Why shouldn't every capable adult be required to work? Real communists don't sit around the dacha and collect welfare, WIC and produce SNAP cards at the WaWa. They all do their part.
What the democrats have done in five years of control is what is
Submitted by VanPastorMan on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 10:34am.
hurting real people. Real unemployment numbers are about 18% since a lot of people stopped looking for work. Houses are under water and some banks are deciding to bulldoze them and give the land back to the government. All of this is happening because the democrats want income redistribution. They don't trust people to make good economic decisions when they have control of their own money.
What would these two phoneys.....
Submitted by notinstl on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 1:09pm.
...know about "real" people?
Sawyer and Pelosi..
Submitted by Six String Spiff on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 1:56pm.
First of all, how Pelosi can even PRETEND to be relevant right now amazes me. She did, after all, Chair the last House that failed to craft a budget..which the media continue to not bring up. It MAY just have something to do with the situation we're in now.
Secondly, Sawyer always has that expression of a goat staring at a new fence. It's not a mystery Dianne.. We're in this mess because people like YOU don't do your damn job.
BTW isn't Nancy a "Corporate
Submitted by Six String Spiff on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 1:58pm.
BTW isn't Nancy a "Corporate Jet Owner"?
You'd think she'd be in hiding.
Anything this rag-hag has to
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 7:22pm.
Anything this rag-hag has to say is not worth listening to.
I Love the Irony...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 9:36pm.
...of one of the wealthiest politicians in the country championing the causes of the poor. Reminds me of the fox hearding the chickens into the coop and locking the door behind.