Hey, Nancy, how about a light?
Madame Speaker, can you spare a light?
Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi controls the cameras in the House chamber.
C-SPAN sends a reminder:
Media Advisory Concerning C-SPAN and GOP House Members’ Post-adjournment Protest on House Floor Friday Afternoon
Washington, D.C. (August 1, 2008) - A number of media organizations have incorrectly referred to “C-SPAN cameras” being turned off and not providing televised coverage of the GOP House members’ post-adjournment protest on energy policy being held on the House floor on Friday afternoon. Please note that cameras in the House chamber are under the control of the Speaker of the House and that all media organizations, including C-SPAN, wishing to cover events in the chamber must use the official House TV feed. No private media cameras are permitted in the House (or Senate) chambers.
So, to recap: The “most open and ethical House ever” went dark– and C-SPAN and every other media outlet were powerless to broadcast the proceedings of the GOP revolt–because Nancy Pelosi and the Dems didn’t want the public to see and hear the voices of GOP lawmakers on the House floor talking about their energy proposals.
Nancy, is this how you advise America’s daughters to use their power?
What are you afraid of?
Tell Nancy to keep the cameras rolling when our representatives are on the floor. Here’s her blog.
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I can’t wait to speak with Jason Altmire, Democrap, 4th District PA.
But, since the Congress is adjourned, Bush should get busy with recess appointments to the Federal Courts.
Well,it’s obvious to me that her husband ‘Big Paulie’ Pelosi is holding a lot of long positions in crude oil in his commodity futures account…and he expects Nancy to be a good little wifey and do nothing
Hopefully they have some camera phones on the floor with decent video. Fight on!
She a loser no wonder people want barry to win so usa become weak. And to mrs san fran nan i got two words for ya. Drill now.
I hope like h*ll some of the Republicans in the House have video cameras, or can get their peeps to use camera phones to record it.
Comments at Her Imperial Majesty’s blog are closed? What, does she think it is the Huffington Post now?
Great Idea Bender. YouTube too.
Thanks to Pelosi and the mass media, this may have amounted to nothing ..unless the Republicans come back Monday morning.
I’ll say that again.. unless the Republicans come back Monday morning.
I despise Pelosi - apparently a 5 week holiday spent promoting her POS book is more important to the treasonous old bat than this country is.
Even her blog goes on vacation.
Heh heh, beat me to it, bender.
Looks like all of the Queens’ posts have closed comments. But, looks like she uses wordpress. I wonder if her trackbacks are moderated? Slamming party, anyone?
The Left brags about its savviness with technology, but forgot about those pesky things like BlackBerries, Twitter, Qik, and cell phone cameras. Such astounding new technology! Wonder how quickly they’ll try to ban it in their next session.
The networks that brag about all their “exclusives” and “scoops” should be demanding that the cameras never be turned off when there’s history in the making.
I imagine our dear Nan and the rest of the D’s are heading to the Virgin Islands with every person related to them, at taxpayers expense, to not be bothered with the this distraction for their ‘holiday’.
L
Go down to the bottom of the page and hit the “Contact Us” button. I left the Speaker a very short note.
It’s age old….
John 3:19 ….men (and Nancy) loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
I think I read somewhere that Pelosi has had her eyes opened soooo wide by plastic surgery that light hurts her eyes and she can now actually see in the dark…
Pelosi Blog. Human rights in China? The paycheck fairness act?
My paycheck might go a little farther if gas prices were a little lower!
Welcome to Obama and Nacy’s fascist new Amerika. Vive Obamessiah! Vive Nancy! Vive La Raza!
pfft.
YOU CAN SWITCH OFF THE LIGHTS, BUT YOU CAN’T SWITCH OFF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE NANCY!
The Democrats’ Energy policy:
Make everyone sit around in the dark.
Who is surprised by this?
The revolution, Lord willing, will be YouTubed.
Did you see this Michelle? He’s up for re-election too. Sen. DICK Turbin needs to hear from us.
Pitchforks and torches. Contact your congressional offices in your districts!
She’s afraid of her eco-totalitarian slave-masters.
She’s afraid of her voter base: George Soros and “San Francisco Values” America-hating nitwits.
She’s afraid of the American People, and what they might learn about her, her party, and their punitive agenda for this country.
And she’s afraid of you, Michelle.
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it’s like to be a slave.”
– Roy Batty, from the movie “Blade Runner”
Hm. Is she secretly a Hillary supporter trying to throw the election in McCain’s favor?
Make no bones about it - this isn’t going to sit well with the majority of Americans who think Congress needs to act on lowering gas prices. And that’s not just for our cars, folks, but also powering and heating our homes.
I suppose if you live in Arizona or Hawaii, you don’t care about heating bills. But - as a Wisconsinite - I can tell you my choices are freeze to death or pay ever-increasing costs to keep my apartment warm.
Nothing but a cowardly old eyesore. I guess all that botox shriveled her spine.
Aren’t they just using alternative-energy powered CFLs?
Maybe if the Republicans promised to plug her failing book she would turn the cameras on.
Does anyone else think she needs to have a theme song? Suggestions anyone?
“Shine a light” made me think of Sir Elton John’s song, Philadelphia Freedom….
More appropriate is probably “La Cucaracha.”
Closed chamber. Closed votes. Closed cameras. Closed comments.
“The most open and ethical….”
R-i-i-i-i-i-ight.
The Republicans have to come back on Monday, Tuesday… etc., to get real traction. If I was a Republican rep or senator I’d be heading back to DC enmass. Keep this up for a week and the Dems are dead.
Nancy pukelosi had to get home, code stink is having a sleepover.
1. The picture of Nancy is perfect, every time I see it I think Dear in the headlights.
2. Now when the left says that the GOP is revolting, we’ll all wonder if they are doing this again.
There once was a speaker called Nancy
Whose followers glow yellow like tansy
She turned off the light
To avoid a big fight
And now we all know she’s a pansy.
???
I’m waiting for McCain’s statement in support of his fellow Republicans…
4-3-2-1 NONE?!!!!
Maybe they just left paying the electric bill in the charge of Richardson… and she
forgotskipped out on paying it.This all the care the elected Donks have for the citizens of the country that put them where they are and gave them what they have.
Out of touch? Boy howdy!! I wonder when the last time was that these people actually stopped at a station to pump gas on their own dime. And then try to pay off the card.
They are a whole other strata of life within these borders (well, what used to be borders. Except for Barry’s fam, of course, they’re just like us, right? I mean, that’s what People Mag said. I’m sure they gas their own car(s). Just ask’em.).
If I was the as part of the public. They would have had to arrest me. Works for the moonbats, should work for a real American.
If I was there as part of the public.
Why should the GOPers wait until Monday or Tuesday? They should be in there all weekend. Only a handful were there today. We need some serious ramping up of this fight, if the GOP wants to ever get its credibility back with conservatives.
And I agree. McCain? Oh, McCa-a-a-a-a-i-n! Anyone? Bueller?
Mmmm hmmmm. I thought so.
Agreed. I heard that there were 50 members on the floor today. Hopefully more will show up on Monday.
vicki,
I’m working under the premise of the M-F work week. The W/E is ok too. But most people get their MSM M-F.
Well, I left a polite little note on her blog, not that she (actually, her staff) will acknowledge it or do anything but dump it at first opportunity.
Been trying to run over your spouse again?
On Monday morning… the Today Show and those other shit programs would have to cover it. I’d rally all Republicans to come back over the W/E for a real show of force next week.
If they do it the Dems and Obama are dead.
I’m confident McCain will chime in as soon as Bush does . . .
Am I correct (someone yell at me if I’m not) that only 20% of the Republicans are involved in this? Where are the other 80%? They can’t be making deals with democrats this time because there are none around. What are these RINOs doing?
Every Republican who is not at the House should hear, loudly and clearly and obscenely, what their constituency thinks of them. Forget the democrats (remember “Blue Dog” dems? Ooooh, they were “conservative” and oh so scary to the House leadership). Focus only on the Republicans.
(Okay, easy for me to say since I live in Washington State and there are hardly any Republicans left.)
They could always use the Nancy’s book that’s not selling well to burn for light. They would have about a 1000 years worth of lighting.
Howdy everyone! Have had a rather busy week with few chances to pitch in and get some frustrations off my chest. Watching this revolt by the few Congressmen with the stones to stand up to the Wicked Witch of the West has been wonderful. I called Congressman Sali’s office in Kuna, ID to thank him for his refusal to leave his post and try to do anything about the cost of energy, which is strangling this mostly agricultural state. He just sent me an e-mail asking if President Bush should call Congress back into session and of course the wife and I responded YES! We can’t afford to take a vacation so why should Congress be able to. Keep it up San Fran Nan at the rate you are going you will be lucky if the wing nuts in the Bay Area don’t replace you in November.
I know, JT, I understand.
I was just hoping they’d stay and show their mettle.
We have such an opportunity here, and McCain could use this as a very important campaign moment.
I’m so afraid it’s going to be squandered, like the other gifts we’ve seen handed to and discarded by the GOP, i.e. Anyone heard what’s happening lately with William Jefferson and his cold, hard cash problems??
I could be wrong, but doesn’t POTUS have the power to order the the house into session?
The most ethical honest open — Fascist regime ever to run the US House of Representatives. It’s the people’s house, not Dictator Nancy’s house.
I think it’s time for people to let their Representatives know.
In the chamber darkness
Of the Congress night
Burning bright
There are right-wing stars
No matter Obama or Al Gore’s cars
There’s a light
Over at Pelosi’s place
There’s a light
Stuffing it to Reid’s face
There’s a light, light
Despite McCain, in Republican life
Everyone wants us to drill for more oil
Throw off OPEC’s flow and let Freedom go streaming, into our lives, into our lives!
There’s a light
Over at Pelosi’s place
There’s a light
Stuffing it to Reid’s face
There’s a light, a light
Despite McCain, in Republican life.
Fox is reporting that it is over…
That woman is despicable! Her behavior is deplorable.
I hope the liberals still love her.
Remind them that their gal did this when they complain about gas prices.
She could give a rat’s ass what the people think. I assume she has a breast augmentation or a face lift scheduled, so she had to turn the lights out.
She is a pompous, arrogant, botoxidated, unethical, and has the spoiled little rich girl syndrome.
I could continue, but I am at a loss for words.
Yes he does under the Constitution.
He’s at the gas station inflating his tires.
Yes, and that’s exactly the request that was in the letter the Republicans there sent to Bush.
I sent the Rhodes Scholar an e-mail, thanks for the link. Slight sarcasm in the descriptive terminology of the speaker.
How in HELL that woman EVER got elected to anything is beyond me. Only in San Francisco do they put as many idiots in charge.
JT & nyc123me, OK well we know that the Constitution doesn’t mean jack these days… but for the sake of the ahemm, party, (if not the country) do ya think Bush would really step up and order the house into session??? (for all the wrong reasons). Do I dare hope?
“The most open and ethical Congress in –”
*rest of statement drowned out by uproarious laughter*
Would it be inappropriate for me to send Madam Speaker an e-mail calling her a coward and a traitor to her face? Because I’m just itching to…
Apparently, she turned those off as well: no access at this time.
Liberal, wrinkly, and cowardly are no way to go through life, Madamn Speaker (no, that is not a misspelling).
Fat Jolly Penguin said:
Would it be inappropriate for me to send Madam Speaker an e-mail calling her a coward and a traitor to her face? Because I’m just itching to…
Yes & no… traitor yes, coward no.
On August 1st, 2008 at 9:13 pm, Dimsdale said:
Try sending an e-mail instead.
All I can say is who the HELL does she think she is??? She needs to remember the people put her in the House and the people darn well will kick her arse OUT.
as per Drudge: “Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling…”
lights out but fan on.
Pelosi and her Brown Shirts are losing it.
Sieg Heil, Nancy.
Can’t comment on her blog. Comments are closed.
She knows her a$$ is in a sling.
Had to install firefox-seems conservative blogs are having problems w/IE.
Nan’s new name:
SS Nancy P>>>>>>>>>>>
Wow Christian Soldier, thought is was just me. Have a weird idea conservative websirtes are under attack on the internet. Take a look at the “American Spectator” results on Google. Hmmmm.
Back to the winner of the ” Joan Rivers award for the most Botox”. This makes her look so much like Marie Antionette. The idea to put limits on oil speculators is great, if Europe and Asia fall off the globe. Taking oil from the Strategic Reserve is like cleaning the change from your couch cushions, rather than getting a job. No new sources, just draining the little you have left. So tired of the Left’s Rhetoric on this. In what was supposed to be a big Democratic Year, Pelosi has fumbled the ball.
CR
I could not get MM’s site to load at work at all today.
Um, it was 117 at my house yesterday EQ. Care to pay my cooling bill?
I heard the problem is with Sitemeter.
This woman is afraid of intelligence. It is a challenge.
I know some people here are good with photoshop. Could someone do a parody of Iron Maiden’s POWERSLAVE cover with Nancy in the middle and murtha, etc as the lesser figures?
McCain should show up at the Capitol and announce he his there to support the GOP House members participating. This should generate a least a little MSM attention (granted, not a lot) away from His Most High Obamaship and to the what the repubs are doing. It would paint Obamama into the same corner that San Fran Nan and the rest of the Dems are in.
Though I won’t hold my breath.
What Nancy Pelosi doens’t want the People’s feedback? Some kind of Public Servant. She only wants to hear from people who agree with her. This is a Republic NAN, Majority Rule remember. You are not the Majority! This is going to cost the Democrats and it is going to be Nancy Pelosi’s decisions, who cost them in November. I don’t think they have a LOCK anymore on all those seats they are planning on picking up in Nov., House or Senate.
Oh excuse me, I need to go inflate my tires, the gas tank is dry but I heard on TeeVee, inflating your tires works better LOL! Democrats sigh…. this is why I became an Independent.
Poor lgm and cRusty. They have no answer to this clear violation of the 1st Ammendment.
WANT A LAUGH?
That is her web page on rising gas and fuel costs.
IT IS A FRIGGIN JOKE!
Here is a quick sumation:
It is Bush’s fault.
It is ALL Bush’s fault.
I said it is Bush’s fault you lemmings.
…
Turning out the lights gives the swamp ambience.
THAT HOUSE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. NOT PELOSI OR A REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
IF SOMEONE IS IN THAT HOUSE SPEAKING , THEN BY LAW I SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR THEM.
GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE.
If the Republican Party and the Republican House Leadership have half a brain between the whole bunch, they’ll be back every day. Then they might have a chance in November, and maybe even some of us disillusioned conservatives might start supporting them again!
I’ve still got the rope, anybody game?
I love how you can go their blogs, and at the bottom of their drivel, it reads “no comments”, as though no American would have a comment because we all agree with them…but if you deign to leave a comment, it reads “comments closed”.
Methinks they could care less about our input!
The lead story, “Rock the House: What should Republicans do now?” has comments closed.
My guess is that The Boss knows a hot potato when she sees one. I just wanted to add that the Republicans ought to go back to work. That is what the rest of us will be doing Monday morning.
comments are open! it was a glitch.