Democrats: "You're doing this TO the American people"
Tea Party protesters disrupted Speaker Nancy Pelosi's press stakeout at a House Office Building, yelling "you're a disgrace to your office" . . . on Sunday, adding yet another layer of chaos to an already tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.
In a moment of apparently unscripted political theater, Pelosi and Democratic leaders marched arm in arm — with civil rights pioneer John Lewis — across the Capitol complex while protesters yelled at them and police held a barricade.
The Pelosi disruption came inside the Cannon office building, where Democrats where whipping the final votes for the historic health care overhaul. When Pelosi said "We're doing this for the American people," a protestor yelled "you're doing this TO the American people!"
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Jan 7, 2010
Wise Words from President Theodore Roosevelt
Wise Words from President Theodore Roosevelt on personal life, national life and economic life
On this New Year, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
President Theodore Roosevelt, a Dutch Reformed Christian, also provided a recipe for a health nation: "A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
His words against welfare, which by definition includes the current health care bill and the previous stimulus bills, was simple: Commanding the re-establishment of the
8th Commandment, Roosevelt bellowed: "Do not steal."
On this New Year, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
President Theodore Roosevelt, a Dutch Reformed Christian, also provided a recipe for a health nation: "A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
His words against welfare, which by definition includes the current health care bill and the previous stimulus bills, was simple: Commanding the re-establishment of the
8th Commandment, Roosevelt bellowed: "Do not steal."
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