WaPo's Henneberger Delighted That 'Princess' Pelosi 'Standing Her Ground'
Washington Post staff writer Melinda Henneberger -- who has admitted to having a "longtime political crush" on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) -- authored a puffy Style section front-pager today entitled "'Princess' Pelosi standing her ground."
"House leader responds to Cain, vows to do 'for child care what we did for health care,'" notes the print edition's subheader to the 19-paragraph story.
"You can disagree with the House minority leader... or spend at least $65 million running 161,203 ads against her, as Republicans did in the past election cycle. But she hasn't been slowed or trivialized," Henneberger cheered.
"Pelosi has worked overtime to take back the House," the Post staffer noted, going into detail about the former Speaker's jet-setting about the country to raise money for congressional Democrats' efforts to capture the House in the 2012 elections.
Henneberger also reported Pelosi's desire to make federal "child-care legislation" the new ObamaCare. "When it comes to 'unleashing women' in a way that would boost the economy, she says, 'this is a missing link.'"
But for all Pelosi's concern about children after birth, Henneberger noted the House minority leader's unrepentant stance on abortion, particularly her refusal to walk back her insistence that a House Republican push to add "conscience exemptions for health-care reform that would allow providers to refuse to perform abortions" was "savage":
In retrospect, does she think that assessment went too far? Not at all, she said: “They would” let women die on the floor, she said. “They would! Again, whatever their intention is, this is the effect.’’
Catholic health-care providers in particular have long said they’d have to go out of business without the conscience protections that Pelosi says amount to letting hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion.” Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it . . . but they have this conscience thing’’ that she insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.
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Trivialized? She did that herself.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:03pm.
Let's talk about all the flights on AF3, and the cost of those flights.
And, those evile Catholic health care workers? A conscience? How dare they stand in the way of the Princess of the Potomac?
"vows to do 'for child care
Submitted by LinTaylor on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:15pm.
"vows to do 'for child care what we did for health care"
You mean destroy it by turning it into a government entitlement boondoggle?
Well, yeah, Lin.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:43pm.
Much like Michigan, the "child care workers" will have to join a union, like our home healthcare providers. Any bets on whether it'll be SEIU? Then we'll have to pay a "living wage", say $18-20 an hour. With fully paid health care, of course.
. . . but they have this conscience thing."
Submitted by GW on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:37pm.
Yeah, a conscience can be pretty darn inconvenient, can't it?
sorry to burst your bubble, Melinda..
Submitted by greggy on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 4:13pm.
But when you lose your Speakership, and are the face of the biggest congressional Demo landslide loss in 50 years, you have clearly been both slowed and trivialized - and no amount of media spin is going to change that fact - though we all know how hard you'll try...
I don't understand????
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 4:03pm.
Why is Pelosi not assumed guilty of the insider trading scandal that broke a few days ago just like Herman Cain was assumed guilty of sexual harrasment when that story broke?
It's almost as if there is some sort of double standard in the media...
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
I'm getting a whiff of hypocrisy
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 4:16pm.
From the media myself. Matter of fact, it's peeling the paint off the walls.
it's almost as if there is some sort of double standard
Submitted by SingingHawk on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:16pm.
Almost???
c5 - RESTLESS---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:12pm.
Very droll.
Extremely funny.
Thumbs up.
MD
SO predictable
Submitted by spepper on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 9:37am.
SO predictable: Washington Post applauds Zombie Queen Pelosi. They have reduced themselves to nothing more than a "pre-show host" (think Elvira) of a midnight TV B-movie horror show starring the Zombie Queen herself.
Let's see if the ugly, old,
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:31am.
Let's see if the ugly, old, treasonous bitch can stand on her tiptoes, while she hangs from a short rope.
Sweetie!
Submitted by CherryBomb on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:39am.
High road!