Sweet, creamy goodness for Pelosi. Calorie counting for you
The current issue of New York magazine includes this strange snippet about the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
Suddenly, a door opens, and a beaming servant zooms to Pelosi’s side, stooping to show her the contents of his platter: a delicate bowl, piled high with two luscious scoops of dark-chocolate ice cream.
She lets out something you’ve never heard from her before, at least not on TV: a tremendously long and high-pitched giggle, like one that would come from a girl about a half-century younger. “Hee-hee-hee-hee,” she goes, pushing her chin to the sky. “Oh, no, Michael,” she says, “I don’t want that now. Later, later!”
Chocolate ice cream is the staple of Pelosi’s diet: She doesn’t cook herself, so except for a salad for lunch and whatever an aide hands her for dinner, that’s what she eats. “I think that’s the first time she’s ever turned it down,” whispers her personal assistant, later. “The other day, she came in at 8:45 a.m. carrying a pint of Häagen-Dazs with an inch left in it–she’d eaten the whole thing on the way in. She handed it off to Michael, and then two hours later, she said, ‘Where’s that ice cream? Can I eat the rest of that?’”
Pelosi, of course, is the driving force behind the bloated, $3 trillion Nanny State healthcare bill that squeaked by in the House of Representatives late Saturday night.
Nation’s Restaurant News tells the flip side of Pelosi’s healthcare coin:
The 1,990-page bill outlines general nutrient-labeling requirements for restaurants and retail establishments that are part of a chain with 20 or more outlets.
Those restaurants affected would be required to prominently post calorie counts for standard items on menus and menu boards as well as calories per serving for each item on a buffet, salad bar, cafeteria line or self-service display…
Restaurateurs also would be required to post a brief statement regarding daily caloric intake “designed to enable the public to understand, in the context of a total daily diet, the significance of the nutrition information that is provided.”
Sweet, sugary goodness for Pelosi. Calorie counting for you.
Congratulations, Democrats. Thanks to you, we’ve leapfrogged over the Nanny State and gone directly to Nancy State.
Source: Nation’s Restaurant News and New York Magazine via Deceiver.com
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Do you think we could all make it as far as our politicians if we had no concious and came from rich backgrounds with terrible people tied in some how?
You know what really makes me sick – the fact that she has a personal assistant to whom she can just hand something- like half eaten food – and have it wisked away – only to have it brought back to her later on a whim. Who lives like that? I have worked for politicians and they are ALL like that. I am so tired of them. I truly think that the Pelosi’s – who fancy themselves the vanguard elite and the internationalist neocons (ala Bush II)want to have a world with no middle class. They will live in gated communities and travel in armored cars while the rest of us live in anything from a destroyed middle class neighborhood covered in grafitti with streets covered in filth – like my formerly middle class neighborhoood in NYC – to tarpaper shacks filled with Mexicans and other third world “immigrants”.
Queen Nancy comes to mind. But what is with the tired, early feminism bra-less version? I mean it is gross enough that we have to look at that overly lifted face now and then, but the drooping fried eggs are just too much. Next time they tighten the face, hope they augment the bust and draw it back up about twenty years.
Nancy Pelosi looks like Michael Jackson but thinks like Bernie Madoff.
Why would Pelosi be upset over the BoTox/Cosmetic Surgery Surcharge Tax in the Health Care Bill… No clue here
but her taxes would surely reduce the deficit !!