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**Written by Doug Powers Once in a while it’s nice to see a politician who can at least occasionally put country over politics. Nancy Pelosi is not one of them. From Powerline: Nancy Pelosi, press conference, September 7, 2006: [E]ven if [Osama bin Laden] is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. He has [...]

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**Written by Doug Powers As the budget negotiations were raging in Washington late last week, Nancy Pelosi ducked out for a mini fleebager road trip to Tufts University. While there, she vented some frustration about Tea Party influence in Washington and expressed her dissatisfaction with the election process when things don’t go her way. Transcript [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The gavel is gone, but the conceit lives on… From Politico: The Democratic National Committee wanted to honor Nancy Pelosi Thursday — but its praise wasn’t good enough for the House minority leader. When the DNC’s Resolutions Committee brought up a resolution commemorating Pelosi’s years as speaker of the House, Pelosi’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi’s in-flight perks as Speaker almost make Barbra Streisand’s backstage demands look modest (I can’t believe Nancy never thought of rose petals in the toilet, but maybe she did). The bills for Pelosi’s air escapades have been piling up for quite a while, and some of the final expenses from [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s a tired cliché at this point, but in the absence of lucidity sometimes that’s all one can manage cling to: “We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for [...]

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Scroll for updates… If you missed C-SPAN the past half hour, you missed some high drama and comedy. As expected, of course, GOP House Leader John Boehner is now Speaker Boehner with 241 votes. Outgoing Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now Weaker Pelosi, with 173 votes in her favor — and 19 notable protest [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today’s George M. Cohen “Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye” award goes to ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. From Fox Nation: At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.” The numbers tell a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If you were on the receiving end of this letter, it must have been a little like getting a plea for reinforcements from Custer the day after Little Bighorn: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an outgoing New Year’s Eve wish, asking House campaign supporters to give money to fight back against “shameful [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Consistent with the claim that Democrat setbacks have been a problem with messaging rather than voters rejecting their policies, it’s being reported that Nancy Pelosi is turning to Hollywood for (more) help: Midway through Philip Rucker and Paul Kane’s story about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s transition to minority leader [...]

Weaker Pelosi personally announced the vote count just a few minutes ago on their screw-the-wealth-producers bill masquerading as a middle-class tax cut. Democrats applauded on the House floor. Final tally: 234-188. 20 Democrats voted no. 3 Republicans voted yes. According to NRO’s Dan Foster, those three were Ron Paul, Walter Jones, and Jimmy Duncan. Waiting [...]

Call it Weaker Pelosi’s last gasp. This morning, the Dems forced a rule-making vote on the Obama tax increases that will, as Rob Bluey reported, prevent Republicans from offering an amendment to stop ALL the Obama tax increases scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2011. GOP Leader John Boehner blasted the maneuver: House [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Is it getting hot in here, or is Nancy Pelosi crazy? House Republicans will most likely bet on the latter: Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. In one [...]

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**Written by Doug Powers Hey, whose side is this “fiscal commission” on anyway? The chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission sparked a political firestorm Wednesday with the early release of a report proposing sweeping changes to Social Security, Medicare and the tax code. The plan would reduce the deficit by nearly $4 trillion over the [...]

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**Written by Doug Powers Heading into November, it sounds like some Democrats have grown tired of running from the politically toxic Nancy Pelosi and have instead decided that the best strategy is to start coughing on her a lot to see what happens. From Greg Sargent at the Washington Post: Yesterday I noted here that [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Of all the Democrats who are keeping President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid at a mile-long arm’s length heading into the November election, nobody is running away faster than two-term Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly. In Donnelly’s latest ad seen below, he proudly claims that he voted against Nancy Pelosi’s energy [...]

Speaker Mop & Glo made headlines for her call to investigate opponents of the Ground Zero mosque, but there was something else about her remarks that should have raised your hackles: “There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called [...]

Scroll for updates… The Democrats call their $26 billion, Big Labor/bankrupt states’ bailout legislation the “EduJobs” bill. Let’s inject some truth in advertising. The “EduJobs” bill is nothing but a BigGovJobs bill — a massive election season pay-off to Democrat special interests. With your money. I noted last week that Nancy Pelosi is summoning her [...]

Bankrupt state governments and bloated teachers’ unions need their bailout now. Nancy Pelosi tweets this afternoon that she’ll be interrupting the House summer recess to ram the payoffs through. It’s the latest Congressional Job Protection Act. Via The Hill: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) confirmed on Tuesday through Twitter that the House would reconvene next [...]

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