Pelosi tells home crowd that American's are on a need to know basis when it comes to Health Care Reform

San Francisco television KCBS had this report on Speaker Pelosi speaking to her supporters on Tuesday during the Easter Recess. The report says she "received a standing ovation from the crowd at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, describing the passage of healthcare reform as the crowning achievement of her Congressional career."

It goes on to report that she compared HCR to "the enactment of social security, medicare and the civil rights act."

All these platitudes are to be expected. But, what is even more telling is her comments about how she wants to be your government nanny.

”It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest,” said Pelosi. “All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on. You open this door, you go through a whole different path, in terms of access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans.”

Neo-neocon had this to say:

What an oily, condescending, manipulative, lying piece of work she is.

I don’t mean to be anti-female, but Pelosi’s suggestion strikes me as something only a woman could have come up with. I have that attitude myself to most mechanical and/or electrical gadgetry and appliances, including computers: don’t tell me how it works, just make it work.

But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic (or should I say “maternalistic?”) and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be.

Moe Lane said:

So, you know, never you worry about the fact that the wires seem to be hooked up to a baby. Which is crying. And on fire.