I can talk until I’m blue in the face about the Democrat’s desire to keep their base dependent, and how they truly believe that the voting public is incapable of cognitive thought. I can draw examples and comparisons showing conclusively how the liberal Democrats currently in control of both Houses of Congress and the White House are blatantly driving the country toward socialism and away from the very principles upon which America was founded. But all my efforts, as well prepared and convincing as they may be, pale by comparison to a short news conference with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker Pelosi made it clear that she and her Democrat counterparts are convinced that Americans are so stupid that she can even tell us how they plan to deceive us and we still won’t be able to figure it out.

While making one of the few public statements regarding the closed door Democrat ramrod healthcare proposals Speaker Pelosi said that American families “shouldn’t be left on their own ‘to negotiate with insurance companies”. The only solution for this problem of limited personal mental ability is the inclusion of the “public option” government run health insurance into the ObamaCare healthcare package. However, because the public option is so publicly unpopular Speaker Pelosi said it should be renamed. Not refined, re-explained or reversed, simply renamed. She went on to suggest it now be called the “consumer option”. Well, that certainly clears things up for me. As long as it’s a consumer program and not a public program I’m on board. NOT!

It is important to understand exactly what the Speaker is saying.

First, Americans are incapable of handling their own private family affairs. We are too stupid to make a decision as important as which company we will choose to carry our health insurance and what we are willing to, and more importantly, capable of paying for it. We are not qualified to figure out which plan best suits our needs or which coverage options we should buy for ourselves and our families. We simply cannot be left on our own and therefore we need to become dependent on the government to tell us what we want.

Secondly, because many of us understand the nightmare that government run health insurance would bring and vehemently oppose losing our rights to make our own healthcare choices Democrats are prepared to simply trick us into support by calling the untenable plan by a different name. Plus, Speaker Pelosi made it clear that they think we are so stupid that even after they tell us how they plan to trick us we will still want to go along.

The arrogance of this Speaker to tell Americans that they cannot be left alone to make their own healthcare choices is so profound as to be almost unbelievable. In fact, had this piece of the socialist pie been leaked from one of the many closed door meetings it surely would have been denied.

But thanks to Speaker Pelosi’s pubic admission of her adamant belief in and reliance upon American stupidity no such denial will be plausible. That is not to say that it won’t be tried. Already Democrats fearful of being handed their walking papers in the mid-term elections are trying to spin the Speakers comments into something less offensive. Their success in this endeavor is entirely dependent on whether or not Speaker Pelosi is correct.

Are we in fact really that stupid?

The recent rash of comments, counter-comments, corrections and restatements coming out of Washington DC is enough to make the Capital fax machine cry uncle. Democrats are confusing even each other and if the Republicans were smart they would just get out of their way.

The Governator from the great state of Caaleefornnia was in Washington DC in an effort to escape Sacramento long enough to allow the feather tar to cool after losing big in his push to bilk taxpayers out of another $36 billion to balance his state’s bloated budget. His excuse was that he was there to witness the signing of Obama’s new federal mpg standards set for auto manufacturers.

Upon leaving DC the press asked Arnold why he thought the automakers rolled over so quickly and accepted these higher mpg mandates. Governor S responded that because the auto companies needed federal bailout money they would do whatever Big Bo and his administration asked. The White House immediately responded by denying the Gov’s claim and saying that the billons in federal bailout money had nothing to do with the automakers glee at having to completely reinvent their model lines and give majority shares of their companies away to the unions that keep them globally uncompetitive.

While Schwarzenegger is technically a Republican the very Democrat EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson basically said the same thing as the Gov at her news conference only to restate and clarify later that she in no way said what she in fact said.

In the Senate Harry “Mr. Peepers” Reid said that he could see no way, under any conditions, that it would be acceptable to house or confine Guantanamo detainees within the United States. No one, no way, at no time! It was only later, after I am sure a tongue lashing from the White House, that an aide to the Senate Majority Leader released a clarification that perhaps Senator Reid had misspoke or at the very least did not make himself clear.

Actually he was crystal clear for a change.

In the House of Representatives some of Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s faithful flock are beginning to show signs of confusion as she continues to change what she thinks happened 40 times over the last 7 years. Even some of her most ardent supporters are now calling for her to back off and regroup. When you’re in a hole the first rule is to quit digging.

Senate Democrats at the hearing today with Treasury Secretary Tim 1040 Geithner repeatedly alleged that the government now owned most of the banks that took TARP funds so why couldn’t the government dictate to them how to pay back their bad debt. Timmy 1040 looked with amazement at the inquisitors and repeated try to explain that the last thing this administration wants is to be seen as having nationalized the banks. Even if they actually have.

This is the problem with having complete control; people will actually begin to have expectations of you. Along with great power comes great responsibility. President Obama ran on the promise of CHANGE. Unfortunately nobody knows what that means to this day. Even Obama.

After campaigning on a promise to close Gitmo and cease the military tribunals of the prisoners the president is still unable to develop a better plan for housing the terrorists and has reinstated the tribunals he spent 2 years damning.

I just don’t know what to think.

I guess when you promise change that can change too.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to insist that she was NOT told that the practice of harsh interrogation tactics, including the use of waterboarding, had actually taken place at the CIA briefing she personally attended in 2002. She insists that she was told of the practice but only that it was a possible technique not that it had indeed been used.

She goes on to say that she was only informed that the practice had taken place when she was briefed by an aide who attended a briefing in her stead in 2003. How very odd that Madame Speaker only admits to knowing of the practice when someone within her own private circle of advisors relayed the information. How very odd that Madame Speaker admits to knowing only when denying it at that point would mean opening up the possibility of a close aide being questioned about what they reported to her.

I find the inconsistencies in the several different versions of the stories Pelosi’s has told to be damning on their own. But what I find most curious is not what was done but what wasn’t done. And I find it equally curious that nobody so far is questioning it.

If Speaker Pelosi was only informed in 2002, as she alleges, that waterboarding and other forms of harsh interrogation were only possibilities, why would she seemingly avoid the next briefing and send an aide instead? If in fact these techniques were discussed as being possibilities in 2002 and if these techniques were viewed at that time as illegal, as Democrats are now claiming, wouldn’t one of the most powerful people in the House of Representatives make it a point to attend this briefing in person? If the CIA had briefed the Speaker in 2002 of the possibility of carrying out illegal activity wouldn’t that Speaker have objected strenuously and made sure at the next briefing that no such action had taken place? Madame Speaker did none of those things. She conveniently stayed away in what certainly appears to be an attempt to keep her hands clean. And if she felt she needed to stay away it was because she already knew what was being discussed.

In an effort to smooth some ruffled feathers at the CIA Pelosi is now claiming that it was not the CIA but the Bush administration that misled her. How that is possible as it was the CIA holding the briefings is beyond me. And why is it that only Speaker Pelosi feels she was personally misled? Why are there not a gaggle of Democrats claiming the same subterfuge? Could it be that after a total of forty briefings by the CIA to members of Congress, only Nancy Pelosi can claim bad information with a straight face? Or could it be that the other Democrats are not quite as foolhardy to believe they can convince Americans 6 years after the fact that they were clueless?

The latest Democrat misdirection play is to begin a publicity campaign calling for the disbarment of 12 key Bush administration attorneys. But once again what is not being discussed is the key to the issue.

Why now? Why six years after Speaker Pelosi admits she became aware of the harsh techniques? Why now when all of these attorneys are no longer in a position to do any more supposed harm? Even if I believe that Speaker Pelosi only found out in 2003 that supposed illegal activity was in fact taking place I would have to find it unconscionable that she and the rest of the Democrats allowed this practice to continue unchallenged and only now after the Bush administration is no longer in charge do they choose to begin disbarment proceedings.

It is becoming apparent that the Democrats led by their Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are spinning out of control on this issue. The harder they try to deflect attention to the evil Bush administration the deeper they are digging the hole they are mired in.

If Republicans can step away from the stupid slick slogan campaign they seem to be stuck in and begin to actually appeal to the voters common sense by asking these questions this blatant attempt to mislead the public could seriously, and perhaps permanently, damage Nancy Pelosi’s future in politics.

And THAT is change I can believe in.