Quote of the Day: Princess Nancy edition

Not to scare you going into the weekend or anything but:

Last week, the California congresswoman hit five cities in five days, barnstorming for money to try to win the 25 more seats it would take to regain control. And if that happens β€” or when, according to her β€” at the top of her to-do list, she says, will be β€œdoing for child care what we did for health-care reform” β€” pushing comprehensive change.

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Of the need for child-care legislation, she says, β€œI could never get a babysitter β€” have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house.Β . . .Β And everywhere I go, women say the same thing” about how hard it is to find the kind of reliable care that would make their family lives calmer and work lives more productive. When it comes to β€œunleashing women” in a way that would boost the economy, she says, β€œthis is a missing link.”

Congress did pass such a bill, in 1971, but President Richard M. Nixon vetoed it because he thought it would undermine families and force them to put children in government-run centers.

β€œOne of the great pieces of unfinished business is high-quality child care; I wonder why we just can’t do that,’’ Pelosi said. Her spokesman Drew Hammill said later that she doesn’t have a specific child-care proposal at the ready; that’s what the legislative process is for. But the Nixon-era legislation of which she spoke approvingly subsidized child care for low-income parents and was available to anyone who wanted to pay for it. β€œShe sees this as the next big problem to tackle,’’ Hammill said.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

In light of this, I wonder what Her Royal Highness thinks about the ‘frisco proposal from a couple months ago to mandate that parents in California give babysitters OT, worker’s comp, rest periods, etc? Β Just kidding. I don’t wonder at all, because far leftists like Nancy Pelosi are so, so very predictable.

Final question: Wonder if we’ll have to “pass the child care bill to find out what’s in it“? Hmm.

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