I don’t post on this story so much to make fun of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), although that is part of my aim, but to demonstrate the double standard that exists in this media between gaffes uttered by Republicans and those uttered by Democrats.
If this sort of thing happens once, it’s understandable. It’s hard work undermining capitalism, and the perhaps the Speaker was tired.
But this was not the first time Pelosi thought America had a population of 500 million working adults.According to Nice Deb:
Speaker Pelosi made this same goof on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on January 18:
From the transcript:
PELOSI: Well, I believe that — I know that President-elect Obama is a strong supporter of America’s workers. I myself am a strong supporter of that legislation. We passed it with a strong vote in the House in the last Congress, and I continue to be supportive of it.
But in terms of what we have to do in the first 100 days, we must address the needs of this country. Five hundred million people will lose their jobs each month until we have an economic package.
WALLACE: No, 500,000.
PELOSI: What did I say, million?
WALLACE: Yes, 500 million. That would really be a recession.
Thanks to Geoff.
Can you imagine a Republican getting away with this bone headed mistake? No, neither can I.
Although Pelosi’s “500,000″ comment was unintentional, it is a fact that Pelosi and her liberal comrades do wish to make the current economic situation much worse than it is so as to justify all sorts of government intervention into the free market.Like all good liberals, Pelosi’s concern is not accuracy but accumulation of power.
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