Originally Posted by california rick
...but this is what Speaker Pelosi said:

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When President Bush took office, he inherited President Clinton's surpluses — four years in a row, budget surpluses, on a trajectory of $5.6 trillion in surplus. And with his reckless economic policies within two years, he had turned that around ... and now eight years later the foundation of that fiscal irresponsibility, combined with an anything-goes economic policy, has taken us to where we are today. They claim to be free-market advocates when it's really an anything-goes mentality, no regulation, no supervision, no discipline. ..."

"... Democrats believe in a free market ... but in this case, in its unbridled form as encouraged, supported by the Republicans — some in the Republican Party, not all — it has created not jobs, not capital, it has created chaos.

Did Pelosi's ad lib doom the deal?

Well, she did take a partisan cheap shot just before the festivities were to begin, and in doing so, seems to have elected to place party concerns over country, but then, she is a run-of-the-mill pol.:-)

And by the way, what surpluses, Speaker Pelosi? And since when are Republicans supporters of "free markets" and since when did Democrats develop even an inkling as to what "free markets" are, let alone develop a faith in it?
Yours in giddiness over the silly season,
Issodhos

"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos