Breakfast with Nancy: One Hour. Five Grand.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is inviting medical high rollers to join her at the swanky new W Hotel in downtown Washington. The price of this one-hour soiree? As much as $5000.
Hoping to capitalize on the passage of the health care bill — and the massive government expenditures it dictates, estimated to be at least $1 trillion — Speaker Pelosi’s staff is inviting (pdf) “the health care community” to join her in the Studio Room of the W Hotel in what Carmela Clendening (also listed on the invitation) said is an annual rite.
She told Pajamas Media that this specific breakfast was small and exclusive:
It is 20 to 25 people that attend. It is focused on that industry.
She did not say how many other breakfasts she was organizing.
The Pelosi health care breakfast is not illegal. As the invitation makes clear, the amounts of the donations are carefully limited to what federal election law permits: $2,400 for the primary election and $2,400 more for the general election. But it is a close-up look at the way political figures use their influence to privately “shake down” various lobbyists and industries. The invitation is particularly interesting in light of Pelosi’s own complaint, before she became speaker, that Washington suffered from a “culture of corruption” from lobbyists.
Just this week, the Center for Public Integrity reported that since 1987 Pelosi has raised more than $20 million in campaign contributions from individual and corporate PACs. This figure is extraordinary, since she has run largely unopposed in elections for her seat in liberal San Francisco. (The Center reports her biggest financial contributor was the top defense lawyer for Enron.)
Apparently it takes a lot of money to keep money out of politics.
“..to join her at the swanky new W Hotel in downtown Washington.”
Really great news that they have a hotel in D.C. named in honor of George Bush!
..oh, wait.
So she will pay me 5 grand to have breakfast withg her..geez shes really lonely…Unmmm id like to but andrew klaven and I are gonna be discussing hairstyling tips that day
She is so two faced she can see equally well where she is going/has been at the same time.
She is so crooked they wont have to bury her..just screw her into the ground.
Maybe we’re being unfair to Speaker Pelosi. To someone at her financial level, $5K here and there is pocket money.
Also, what’s the difference if our wonderful employees in the government shake us down through taxation, eminent domain, or expensive croissants? They still find a way to get theirs.
The headline rushed by my eye, and for just a split second I thought it said,
“Breakfast with Nancy: One Hour. Five Garands.”
(Insert joke here)
After a few years of printing money like we are today, five grand for breakfast will seem like a deal.
8. RSweeney
After a few years of printing money like we are today, five grand for breakfast will seem like a deal.
I can see the Denny’s $4999.00 breakfast special ads. Maybe people will keep hiding their heads in a hole and call it the $4.999 breakfast with a tiny little note at the bottom about that being in thousands.
5 grand…
wow…i feel like I may have traveled to one of those star wars alternate universes .
We have people on unemployment, people who no longer have unemployment and are no longer being counted.(when they put those figures out, we all realize there are many people out of work that are not being counted), and she’s having a 5 grand breakfast..disgusting.
This woman is having a fund raiser so that she can keep up with her nonsense and be reelected to continue her and obama’s nonsense as our country goes to hell. I think she and Obama should kick each others arse.
And lets wave that Jone’s act in the Gulf, right now!!!
Dont worry..plenty of time left to mock Pelosi. The Gays in
San Francisco identify with her emotional derangement
and flightiness..the more flakey she is the more they love her
She will be elected over, and over and over.
5 grand is now chump change.
Yeah. And we’re the chumps.
Don’t be too hard on La Nancita. Botox treatments are expensive, y’know.
Naggy will be serving soup to nuts………
Don’t you just love government buy [sic] big business?
Constituents in her district don’t have the nerve to can her. They are bigger socialists than she is. It would be dangerous for her to quit before they give her the heave ho.
No one knows how you vote. So if she is reelected it is because they really mean to elect her and agree with her.
What does this filthy rich, totally unethical, immoral woman care what any of the riffraff says about her? As long as the fruits, nuts, and flakes in her carefully gerrymandered district continues to send her back to Congress to do her demonic will and wield her power, that’s all she cares about. She feeds on power like other people drink water. Anybody who can do all she does to enable abortion, same-sex marriage, and all sorts of other perverted things to occur; and then have the unmitigated audacity to stand smiling before a group of Catholics and speak in an ethereal voice about “the Word” as if she were some kind of preacher, surely has a very special place in hell. Yes, Nancy, you will indeed have to answer for the things you’ve done, just as we all will. And what a lightning storm there will be!!!
Nancy, the level in the swamp seems to be rising – but maybe the American voting public can help you drain the swamp in November.
Her skill as a Party fund raiser is what got her into office. She has no other skills that might be useful to a Democracy. She sees politics as a game of accumulating wealth, power the ability to assert dramatically stupid ideas that appeal to her fringe support groups. If you search “Why Democracy might not work” on line, a picture of Nancy Pelosi must surely be the first item returned.
Nancy Pelosi is one of the most corrupt members of congress and she is the number one biggest freak in the U.S. Congress. She chides her fellow-congressmen/women about flying first class on commercial airlines and tells them to Fly Coach, while she personally made sure that she has her own Luxury Corporate Jet to Jet Back And Forth to her home and her fellow-freak constituents in San Francisco. She makes Marie Antoinette look like Mother Theresa in comparison. Also, Nancy feigns interest in Global Warming and Green Scams, when in reality her interest is in the profits she makes from Federal Monies being piped into bogus companies who are on the Green Train. Her interest in this is that she and her husband have millions invested in Green Technologies with outfits such as T. Boone Pickens. Her legislative efforts are to Push Green so that she can personally capitalize from this scam. The only person who is a bigger scam artist in the Global Warming Scam is Al Gore, and he is the biggest hog at the trough.
Now why is it that Blagojevich is on trial again? I disremember…