The 99-percent should feel fortunate to have Nancy on their side!

[Xavier_Onassis]

People who run for Congress tend to have the sort of job where they will not be fired for taking time off to run for office. They are wealthier than average are the ones who run for office. The average American cannot run for office and as a consequence, the members of Congress have never been typical Americans.

This seems to be true of Democrats and Republicans alike, but of course, for sirs a rich Democrat is a hypocrite, while a rich Republican is simply a "successful businessman".

There is an obvious campaign by the GOP on now to attack Pelosi, because the President is quite popular and Congress is not. That is a fact.

Of the first three posts in this thread, the first and third are attacks on Pelosi.
I am deflecting nothing.

[Plane]

  How many Congressmen became wealthy while they were using their power and inside knoledge as congressmen to aggrandise?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why don't you tell us?

So far as I know, this happens in both parties.

[Christians4LessGvt]

for sirs a rich Democrat is a hypocrite, while a rich Republican is simply a "successful businessman".

The HUGE difference is the Democrats pretend and make a big deal about
how they are are for the poor and can "feel their pain".....kind of odd to
basically have the mantra "i feel your pain" while you stay in $10,000 per night
hotel suites, jet aound on private jets, wear $2000 sun dresses, appoint a
bunch of Wall Street tycoons to your cabinet.

the President is quite popular and Congress is not. That is a fact.

The President's policies are anything but popular.
As of today Obama has a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18

[Plane]

Why don't you tell us?

So far as I know, this happens in both parties.

   No Republicans are businessmen and wealthy before they become Congressmen.
   Democrats are statesmen who become wealthy after they sip from the chalace of POWER!

[Xavier_Onassis]

All general statements are wrong.

Every congressman has his/her own story.

I judge them by how they vote.

[Plane]

All general statements are wrong.

Every congressman has his/her own story.

I judge them by how they vote.

    Hahahahahaa!

     Can you Imagine that there were no such thing as a hypothetical question?

      Have we any examples of Congressmen voting contrary to their own business interest?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Being as they do not tend to reveal their own business interests, it would be impossible to do any sort of thorough study.

There certainly have been a lot of fools who have spent a fortune trying to get elected and failed to do so.

We had a swindler named Green who spent millions trying to get the Democratic nomination for Senator and failed.

The Republicans are less discerning and elected a swindler as governor" Rick Scott, who had earned the hatred of even most of those who voted for him.

[Plane]

  Well when the politician is willing to spend three times the annual pay just to have his ads play,
One may suspect that the pay on the books is not the whole compensation package,

[sirs]

My mission was not to defend XO. My mission was simply to point out to you how easy it would be to assume that an article with Pelosi in the title and in the body of the article would be about Pelosi.

Simple as that.

While my mission was to explain precisely how I concluded it was a deflection, per your request.....& in great detail I might add.  You are free to disagree as I'm not mandating compliance, merely demonstrating the how.

Simple as that

[BT]

To be clear, i disagree with you characterizing the 1st post as not being about Pelosi, when clearly it was.

You characterizing that disagreement as being anything other than a disagreement is a deflection of that disagreement. background noise if you will.

[sirs]

And to be even clearer, I demonstrated/explained how Xo's follow-up was a mere deflection attempt vs actually trying to debate any issue seriously

We are now demonstrating how this tangent is completely irrelevent to the points attempting to be made in this thread...in other words, pointless...background noise, if you will

[BT]

Doesn't matter about XO . What matters is you said the first post wasn't about Pelosi and it was.

Fade to background noise.

[sirs]

Actually what matters is you don't have to agree with my conclusion, that instead of debating the issue, Xo decided to deflect with garbage about how evil & nasty Republicans must be in daring to criticize Pelosi or Obama's daughters

But by all means, continue with this irrelevant blather   

[BT]

There is no doubt the first post was about Pelosi, though you concluded differently. It must be that reading between the lines thing.