Speaker Pelosi in R.I.: ‘Things can be different’

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.projo.com/news/content/PELOSI_VISIT_07-19-08_20ATSNS_v11.3daf918.html

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 19, 2008

By Felice J. Freyer

Journal Staff Writer


U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi steps out of her SUV as Rep. Patrick Kennedy waits to greet her yesterday at the United Food and Commercial Workers hall in Providence.

The Providence Journal Ruben W. Perez

PROVIDENCE –– Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House, appeared before a cheering crowd of nearly 100 people in a steamy union hall yesterday to denounce the “record of failure” of the Bush administration and promise a better America under Barack Obama.

“We absolutely must win,” she said, urging everyone to work for the election of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Pelosi said she was “counting every minute of every hour of every day” until President Bush leaves office. Mentioning the declining economy, the federal deficit, the price of gasoline, the health-care system, and the loss of life in Iraq, she said: “Things can be different and they will .”

But she added later, “There’s a long road back from the damage the Bush administration has done to our country.”

Speaking at the United Food and Commercial Workers hall on Silver Spring Street, Pelosi was flanked at the podium by Frank Montanaro, Rhode Island AFL-CIO president, U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy and Steve Jennings, associate director of the AARP in Rhode Island.

She celebrated congressional action this week to override President Bush’s veto of a bill changing aspects of the Medicare health program for the elderly, including eliminating a 10.6 percent cut in physician pay.

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[nosmokes]

1. The woman has some gall

considering she has led the fight to give this lame duck pResident with an approval rating somewhere to the south of Stalin's every damn thing he has asked for. And then some.

[Bluzmann57]

2. She's right.

Things certainly can be different. For instance, Pelosi could make way for a true progressive, go back to San Francisco and do whatever it is she did before.