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She wasn’t kidding

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My column is a year-end review of Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s congressional self-dealing and ethics covers-up. On a related note, here’s an amusing story of blue-on-blue corruption conflict: Calif. Democrat Rep. Laura Richardson (flashback here on her financial scams) attacking Pelosi’s wealth: The sources disagreed on the exact wording of the unusually direct shot at [...]

I’ve written before about Cozy Nancy Pelosi and her financial stake in the eco-adventures of billionaire T. Boone Pickens. See August 2008 – Nan and the Big Wind Boone-doggle. Refresher: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In a recent interview, Nancy Pelosi implied that being on an ethics committee that investigated Newt Gingrich in the 1990′s put her in a position to know secrets about him that she just might be willing to spill at some point. After being called on it, Pelosi’s office now says she [...]

Tales from the undrained swamp

For the children

**Written by Doug Powers Tuesday, as Michelle noted, C-Span asked the Supreme Court to allow their cameras to televise oral arguments when the Court hears the Obamacare law case next spring. Nancy Pelosi agrees: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Supreme Court arguments over President Obama’s healthcare law should be televised. “When [...]

Regrets, he’s had a few

A Halloween scare

Small businesses only?

**Written by Doug Powers On Thursday, Republicans brought to the House floor a bill on prohibiting federal funds from being used to pay for any part of a health plan that covers abortions under the Obamacare law. Predictably, Nancy Pelosi immediately flew into full-Pelosi mode: At a press conference on Capitol Hill today, a reporter [...]

Catch-22

**Written by Doug Powers Tomorrow night, President Obama is expected to announce a $300 billion “jobs plan” (the “stimulus” that dare not speak its name). After the speech, Republicans will either be busy tailgating before the game or would rather let Obama’s “let’s try the same stuff and hope for a different result” approach serve [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Does this mean goodbye “stimulus,” hello “kinetic wealth redistribution action”? Well, the image makeover probably won’t be that honest. In the used car lot of failed government programs, this sales technique is known as “same lemon, different paint job: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats have dropped the word “stimulus” [...]

The Sith Sense

Photo credit: Willamette Week My syndicated column today spotlights the scandal behind the David Wu scandal: Nancy Pelosi’s pattern of malign neglect. While Washington looked the other way, it was left to local journalists and activists in Oregon to clean up the mess. Today, Washington County Democrats are expected to hold a no-confidence vote on [...]

Spirited debate?

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi violated a major tenet of comedy, which is “never open with your best joke”: Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on proposals announced today to reduce the deficit and avoid default: “It is clear we must enter an era of austerity; to reduce the [...]

Only patriotic spending binges can save us now!

“Fighting for the middle class”

Capitol Hill’s Other Dirty Laundry by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The same congressional panel that launched a preliminary inquiry into Weiner-gate this week has been diddling around with several other Democratic ethics scandals for years. These aren’t foxes guarding the henhouse. They’re sloths guarding the foxhole. The House Ethics Committee is now reportedly [...]

Weekend Weiner dump

Gutless call.

Point/Counterpoint