Charlie Rose

doodah  10/23/2010 12:53 PM Report

The best this country can hope for out of this election, is to have 'Nancy Pelosi - El Okie-(Gone)-Dokie' and her chum, 'Dirty-Harry-Dirty-Deed-Reed' LOSE THEIR elections; respectfully remove their tookkisses from office (in the interest of 'moving on' and making progress for the nation (as a whole) (why waste the next 2 years?, they've done ALL they can do, they've expired, time to throw em out (respectfoolly).. While overall, the Democrats retain the majority (with NEW leaders), to keep Boehner-brain and his band of derelicts down, where they belong.

How 'novel' is THAT idea?. :-)

charlizecourriers  10/22/2010 05:40 PM Report

The health care bill is NOT funded-and the NYRBooks suggest the bill will not save money! It's all fantasy land. And it will all collapse. Goodby, Nancy!

Slim  10/22/2010 05:08 PM Report

"Litmus Test", Your opening question to Speaker Pelosi was about the upcoming election representing some sort of litmus test on the Obama administration and its progressive agenda. The real litmus test represented by this election is whether White America can move past its historic racism and fear of their Black and Brown brethren crystalized in a Black President, and responsibly and fairly confront the real problems facing this nation. Republicans and conservatives, grasping to regain power at any cost have reprised their former "Southern Strategy" to erect this latest iteration of fear mongering and race baiting around the recent economic implosion perversely caused by their last bite at the apple of power. Equality and fairness for all our citizens still remains purposefully absent from our society and its institutions, redirecting our nation toward these goals or toward divisions caused by a conservative strategy to regain power at any cost, is this elections true test.

marciab  10/22/2010 10:38 AM Report

marciab I was TOTALLY inspired by nancy's passionate, energetic, knowledgeable, uplifting Presence and responses to Charlie's grilling two nights ago. So inspired by Nancy that I and my husband gave some more hard earned money to the Democrats yesterday and today. We believe Americans must WAKE UP to the false choice offered by the Republicans and Tea Partiers and give the Democrats two more years to build on sensible programs already begun. I was especially inspired by Nancy's vision for the world waiting for the U.S. to go green, wanting to invest in the U.S. going green, that going green with high speed rail, carbon tax, energy efficient cars and homes, etc must be financed by a PRIVATE-PUBLIC partnership. I get Nancy's commitment to the healthy future of the U.S. and her understanding that 9.5% unemployment is overwhelming people so that they are desperate and not thinking clearly. Falling into the hands of the far Right is NOT a solution. Read Paul Krugman, New York Times. We in Britain, France, the U.S. are moving toward a repeat of Herbert Hoover's mistakes in the 1930's and even FDR was tempted to make this mistake of premature budget balancing in 1937. FDR was only saved by the outbreak of WWII. Hopefully the U.S. will wake up in these next 10 days, and give the Dems an ongoing opportunity to continue to put people back to work. The Republican solution is the destruction of the middle class, making the U.S.a country of robber barons, poor people, and former middle classers continuing to struggle and wonder "what happened?" Vote DEMOCRATIC on November 2nd. YES YES YES.

Gustav  10/22/2010 08:36 AM Report

WonkishRogue

And what about scandinavia?

marian60  10/22/2010 07:09 AM Report

She's never been more articulate and passionate than she was here. I couldn't be more proud of her.

WonkishRogue  10/22/2010 06:37 AM Report

@peaco Well being a Euro you share a commonality with the American Left. Namely, you love enormous government which spends too much money that breeds dependence and can never be sustained. But I am heartened by the actions of PM Cameron in your own country (please don't use that as an excuse to move here though). France and Greece of course are showing the end results of such a mindless, dehumanizing relationship between the citizen and the state which is supposed to be subordinate. Speaking of France I would say San Fran Nan would be correct to refer to her "members" (heh) as battle ready. Just like the French at Agincourt.

Caird  10/22/2010 02:02 AM Report

Why did you fail to ask her about Fund"s finding of the massive donations made by Soros and his 70 friends described by Fund in the WSG ? You let her manage the interview.

Would love to have had you ask her about her father and all the investigations carried out during his tenure as mayor of Baltimore. Why is this never brought up?

Also why is the financial status of her State never addressed? What happened and why would have been an interesting starting point. In fact it would be fascinating to compare the financial status of historically blue states against red.

I have observed in my time the demise of the Nation of Shopkeepers, The Land of the Dead Leaf,etc.

It is interesting that the battle between the Crown and the People has now been reengaged in USA. It was my hope that the media would safeguard like a rottie individual responsibility and independence.Historically the incompetence, corruption of big govts has been well reported.

Please study the fact that it was the breakdown of trust financial institutions had with each other and poorly govt run or sponsored institutions (Fannie, Freddie) and legislation,ie. Community Incentive Program , with the accompanying extortion practised on executives, which put us where we are.

peaco  10/21/2010 09:23 PM Report

Im English but have a great interest in American politics. I thought she performed brilliantly in this interview. Sharp, passionate and witty. I just dont recognise the characterisations made by Republicans and the Tea Party. I would 100% vote Democrat if I were registered there.

robdverity  10/21/2010 07:22 PM Report

Taxes? What taxes? Corporations (Google, et al) elude them COMPLETELY via Ireland to yadda, yadda ... ending in a shell in the Bahamas (per 10/21/10) news.

Republicans bitch while avoiding anything close to ultimate remedies: namely taxes - along with spending cuts. Both ways (bitching and avoiding) doesn't wash.

SECREV  10/21/2010 06:23 PM Report

"Our members are tomb-ready, and I, particularly, am looking forward to spending the rest of eternity my pyramid."

GFR  10/21/2010 05:37 PM Report

What a Maroon!

This woman has no idea of how she is perceived by most of the country. If she had any sense she would stay off the air as much as possible before the election...

"Battle-hardened" = Rigour Mortis

DavisJohn  10/21/2010 05:08 PM Report

Nancy Pelosi: "We’re making it in America. That’s our overriding theme"

Actually, Nancy and her cohorts have driven more business out of the US than any other single factor. You can say "we're making it in America", and you can even try to force companies to keep manufacturing here, but competition will always drive companies to invest where the environment is best. Companies don't send jobs overseas because they want to be mean to American workers. They do it because they are getting hammered by regulations and taxes that prevents them from competing in the global economy. Pelosi doesn't seem to understand economics. She thinks giving out food stamps stimulates the economy. She doesn't understand that the cost of maintaining and funding our mammoth government is born by the tax payers. And it isn't just manufacturing jobs going overseas. I work in high tech, and several companies that I have worked for were forced to move some of their operations overseas because they were getting buried by their competitors with lower costs. Pelosi is extremely naive (or ignorant). She is a big part of the problem. People (voters) need to understand this fundamental issue, or America will continue in decline.

clearpoint  10/21/2010 04:14 PM Report

RED was so the right color. Impressive as always Comrade Pelosi! This is about as friendly an environment as her handlers can hope to find, yet Pelosi still managed to look incredibly inept, deceptive, and paranoid. I especially liked when, after bragging about the extensive Democrat bipartisan outreach efforts, Charlie tossed out a softball challenge for Pelosi to name one republican idea that made its way into any of the Democrat-passed legislation. And with eyes bulging out far more than the normal Pelosi eye buldge, she helplessly flailed away even though Charlie's obvious intention was to let her slip off the hook the moment he saw her drowning in her own gobbledygook. Brought back memories of the "Are you serious!" debacle when questioned on the constitutionality of Obamacare, one of the few hardball questions she's ever had to face.

And regarding the only other comment posted about this interview by REMant, the inaccuracies of your posting are far too numerous to comment on, but starting with the job creation doozie in your second paragraph, it's painfully obvious that you like playing fast and loose with the economic and political facts! Your kudos for Michelle on the stump are absolutely laughable. You're as out of touch as she is. Finally, regarding your loved-by-liberals new American railway system, a "sound business plan to show its profitability" is as mythical as the unicorn, for a "sound business plan" would show its "loss-ability." It would take an "unsound business plan" (like the CBO study used to justify Obamacare that Pelosi cited) to show its "profitability," or, for that matter, the "profitability" of any for-profit venture in the hands of the federal government. We have a long history of government failure to look at if you doubt this to be true.

REMant  10/21/2010 01:35 PM Report

And wearing RED, too.

Come on, the private sector jobs were created by public sector spending, and if we actually had as many jobs as created by the Bush admin in its recovery, we would have a lot less unemployment, not, of course, that it would be anymore sustainable.

Economists on the Left, are Keynesians, and on the Right, monetarists. Neither is classically Liberal, nor in my estimation correct. Neither would back the approach taken yesterday in the UK. The only real issue between them is what the money is spent on, whether it is spent by govt or by banks, and, of course, over whether it will ever be paid back, i.e., over taxes. The Keynesians, by running up a public debt, are at least up front about it, but the likelihood of inflation is present in both.

The financial crisis was not destructive to our economy; our economy, or the lack of it, was destructive to our finances. Wall St deserves only part of the blame for it. I agree with the idea of investment in modernizing infrastructure and energy, etc, but it has to come out of savings, and we have to set about balancing our Federal budgets. That means cutting defense and the entitlements just as the Brits and the French are doing. The problem is that the Democratic constituency is mostly from the latter group, while the Republican constituency involves from the former. The only course is to vote for another party. If deficits and monetary creation continues it will undermine anything that may be accomplished by health provider reform no matter what you think about its efficacy. Personally, I think the law so complex it will go a long way to creating a whole new industry to manage it, just like the industry sustained by the tax code. Maybe that's what the Dems mean by creating jobs. The mistake is to assume employment is ipso facto productive. A glance at the history of the Soviet Union should tell us it is not.

Overall, I am with Charlie on this: if they know we need these various investments, then why haven't we seen any kind of real initiatives concerning them? Why are we still fixated on defense and entitlement? Why are we still worried about supporting politically squeaky wheels like the teacher unions, the Zionists, the Afro-Americans, the gays, the defense establishment, et al? I think Michelle had it right on the stump the other day when she said no one expected the recession to be this bad. That explains I think the lack of a sense of crisis in DC and the seemingly half-hearted measures. It isn't really an issue of getting the Dems and the GOP to work together, but for them to think differently. But it is certainly true that Congressional Dems did little or nothing to be inclusive, so it will be their bed, no matter what they think of the opposition tactics.

I think, BTW, the Chinese, like the British 150 yrs ago, would be happy to invest in the development of a new American rail system, were there the will to do it, and a sound business plan to show its profitability. It would make a lot more sense than buying Treasuries so we can fight wars in the Middle East.

It seems unlikely the Afro-American community will turn out in the numbers they did two years ago, and polls show independents have shifted to the GOP. It is not entirely a failure of communication. I took offense, incidentally, at seeing Andy Griffith used by the SSA to make commercials touting the benefits of the changes made to Medicare. But I do agree the Dems need to lay out plans for the future, not dwell on the past, but they have to be concrete plans, not just platitudes re the middle class.