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   From: pelosi.cowardice@jan6.org   
      
   On 15 Mar 2022, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
   news:M01YJ.125237$%uX7.64815@fx38.iad:   
      
   > Nancy Pelosi is a coward, plain and simple.   
      
   Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has been dreaming of returning to her   
   role as the speaker of the House of Representatives for more than seven   
   years.  It appears she’s finally going to get her second chance—and   
   Americans everywhere should be nervous.   
      
   As speaker, Rep. Pelosi presided over some of the worst years in modern   
   American history.   
      
   While President George W. Bush often gets most of the blame, and unfairly   
   so, for the 2008 economic crash, few remember Democrats had been running   
   Congress for nearly two years leading up to the recession, when Rep.   
   Pelosi was the party’s most prominent and vocal leader.   
      
             It was Rep. Pelosi, along with other Democratic leaders like   
   former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, who routinely called for   
   reducing home lending standards to achieve political goals — contributing   
   to the eventual collapse of the financial market.   
      
   And according to former Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission member Peter   
   Wallison, Rep. Pelosi orchestrated what essentially amounts to a cover-up   
   to hide the government’s role in the crash.   
      
    Even worse, Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues attempted to fix the   
   disaster they were partially responsible for by wasting billions of   
   taxpayer dollars on a horrible stimulus package.   
      
   The Pelosi-backed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cost more than   
   $800 billion, and according to analysts at the American Enterprise   
   Institute, George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Congressional Budget   
   Office and many more, it produced few meaningful results, as evidenced by   
   the fact unemployment rose dramatically in the wake of its passage.   
      
   Economist Peter Ferrara, my colleague at the Heartland Institute, analyzed   
   every economic crash and recovery over the past century, and found the   
   Obama-Pelosi policies of 2009 and 2010 created the slowest economic   
   recovery since the Great Depression.   
      
   Pelosi’s failures aren’t limited to economics, either.  She was also one   
   of the chief advocates of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the single   
   worst piece of health care legislation in American history.   
      
   Not only did the ACA force millions of Americans out of health insurance   
   policies they liked—after being promised repeatedly that wouldn’t   
   happen—it also subjected tens of millions of families to skyrocketing   
   health insurance premiums and deductibles.   
      
   Premiums doubled from 2013 to 2017, and HealthPocket reports the average   
   deductible for an Obamacare Bronze family plan is a whopping$12,186—well   
   beyond what most people can afford to spend in the midst of a health care   
   crisis.   
      
   Even after all of these failures, it appears Nancy Pelosi hasn’t learned   
   her lesson.  She’s still saying the best way to solve America’s health   
   care challenges is to repair Obamacare—an impossibility, since its   
   fundamentally and hopelessly flawed.  And she wants to impose costly   
   renewable-energy mandates in a ridiculous attempt to control the weather   
   and battle climate change.   
      
   Pelosi has mocked and ridiculed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, ignorantly   
   referring to the thousands of dollars in extra cash delivered by the tax   
   reform package to millions of American families as “crumbs.”   
      
   And she’s called for raising taxes on job-creators to fund her numerous   
   proposals to expand the size and power of government—a strategy that would   
   stunt economic growth and increase unemployment.   
      
   Pelosi’s policies have failed over and over again, which is why House   
   Democrats took one of the biggest political beatings in U.S. history   
   during the 2010 elections, when Democrats, in a single year, went from   
   enjoying a 79-seat advantage to being stuck with a 49-seat deficit.   
      
   Pelosi’s policies offer Americans absolutely nothing they haven’t already   
   seen and rejected before: more regulations, higher taxes, less freedom and   
   fewer health care options.  It’s time for something better.   
      
   Justin Haskins is Executive Editor and Research Fellow at the Heartland   
   Institute.   
      
   https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2018/11/23/nancy-pelosi-bad-   
   america/2055353002/   
      
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