Pelosi and Reid
If the Blair House was the headquarters of a vibrant American corporation and last Thursday’s Health Care Summit was a meeting of its senior executives, I think there would have been new jobs in line for Senate Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Their behaviors and rhetoric were far beneath the dignity of their positions and demeaned the importance of this meeting. Their performance clearly call into question their ability to lead.
Seniority and gender recognition are powerful reasons to consider in picking leaders but both have limits. Representatives Dingle and Rangel both added nothing of value in their comments and in effect detracted from the strength of President Obama’s proposals.
Thursday’s meeting was not that of a corporation but sadly it was a meeting of the senior leaders of our Country. It was inescapable that these four “leader” speak to the often overlooked wisdom of “term limits”.
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Tags: charlie rangel, congress, harry reid, health care, health care summit, john dingle, nancy pelosi, term limits
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February 27, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Not sure exactly what you think they did wrong.
February 27, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Reid did not say anything of value and frankly his intonation is more like whining… Pelosi had a list of issue that Republicans had alleged and she went down them one by one, correcting the record… a leader does not do that, she should have had one of the other reps do that… she should have said something inspiring, like I am ready to work with my Republican friends to bring this bill together…