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Nancy Pelosi a food Nazi?
We all know Nancy Pelosi's love of ridiculous and needless government regulation, but this is something else! She's now trying to regulate the eating habits of Capitol staff!
In her efforts to make Capitol Hill more "green" Pelosi has introduced new delicious- not to mention expensive- gourmet food in the House cafeterias. While well-intentioned, this is surely stupid unless unhealthy options are given. As the following quote from a Congressional aide indicates, Pelosi seems intent upon removing the staff's free choice to eat fatty foods:
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“I really don’t like Nanny Nancy telling me what I can and cannot eat for lunch. If I want to eat unhealthy, I should have that choice!” the aide fumed.
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Pelosi also pays homage to recycling, the practically debunked pseudo-religion for liberals.
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And the recycling stations, oh, the recycling stations! They are veritable shrines to a renewable Earth, with four differently shaped slots to sort garbage and lengthy directions on proper sorting. Soup containers go into the square-shaped “compostable” slot, but soup lids end up in the rounded “landfill wastes"
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Here's the heart of the problem:
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"...‘Sip your coffee like a normal human being,’” Ventura said. “We’re trying to save the planet here.”
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Leave it to a liberal to assume that they know what's best for people they don't know.
-Matt Hittle
Posted at 08:58AM Jan 15, 2008 by College Republicans in Ridiculous! | Comments[3]
I find your last sentence particularly ironic granted the meddling the theocratic rightwing (embraced by the GOP leadership) likes to do in our private lives. Schiavo? The drug war? Religion in public schools? I'll take "Nanny Nancy" any day to the theocratic Republican party. At least her tyranny ends at the doors of capital hill.
Posted by Tetris on January 15, 2008 at 12:19 PM CST #
You must remember that I've railed against big government Republicans.
In my libertarian opinion, Schiavo shouldn't have been discussed in Congress, the drug war would end, and public schools would not exist.
Posted by Matt Hittle on January 15, 2008 at 04:23 PM CST #
There's a lot of money in recycling and it's actually quite profitable. My company makes money by recycling old cell phones and inkjet cartridges and re-selling them. My boss started this company from nothing and now we're worth many millions of dollars. Recycling is a HUGE industry and people are only in it to make money. So, you have to like that, right?
Posted by Roberta Brodsky on July 22, 2008 at 02:09 PM CDT #