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At the end of our HA musical tribute when Cindy Sheehan announced she was leaving the anti-war movement in May, I mumbled “I’ll be back.” And so she is. Following up on the weekend buzz that she would challenge Nancy Pelosi if the Dems didn’t [...]

Bumped
Update 7/9 10:42am: The latest volley in the battle over executive privilege…
President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides in connection with the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor [...]

Friday follies.

Nancy Pelosi, Ruler of the Clean House, has a bit of a headache on her hands in the wake of the William Jefferson indictment. WaPo reports:
Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson’s indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful [...]

Tax hikes without votes?

Move America Forward is leading protests at the LV and Carson City district offices of Harry Reid and the San Francisco office of Nancy Pelosi on Thursday:

Make your voice heard.

***Scroll for updates…milblog readers mull over questions about the patrol…President Bush is “getting regular updates on the missing soldiers, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council in Washington”…perhaps he will address the nation tomorrow and underscore the need, as cited by so many of our troops who have volunteered time [...]

Robert Bluey gives Nancy Pelosi some action items to help clean up her dark and dirty House.

Update: I am HuffPo.

The left-wing blogosphere is up in arms over the John Doe movement and manifesto.
It’s telling, isn’t it, that HuffPo and company are outraged not at CAIR and the litigious imams–but at me:
Does Michelle Malkin believe the things she writes? Is she five? Is she living in a parallel universe where Afghanistan is [...]

Karol Sheinen asks a very good question.
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Update: Shame–Three House Republicans pay their respects to Assad.

The Capitol Police couldn’t or wouldn’t stop anti-war thugs from vandalizing government property in January.
But they made sure to protect Nancy Pelosi’s office from anti-war protesters who wanted to embarrass her today:
Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement [...]

Update: Allah smells blood in the water.
Nancy Pelosi is calling on the attorney general to resign.
Laura Ingraham blasted Gonzales last week. Patterico has ongoing coverage.
Rich Lowry says: “Smart insiders are thinking he’s out, perhaps by the end of the week. For what it’s worth…”
For what it’s worth, I can’t say I’ll miss him. And neither [...]

I doubt that Nancy Pelosi ever expected this:

Using a tactic usually trained on the home turf of President Bush, a group of protesters from Code Pink, a women’s antiwar group, have camped in front of the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi here, bringing their message — and mattresses — to the doorstep of the nation’s [...]

Marine Corps Times:
The U.S. military’s top officer came just short of issuing an apology Tuesday for calling homosexuality “immoral,” saying he regretted offering his own moral views during a news interview and should have limited his remarks to the military’s current “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“In expressing my support for the current policy, I also [...]

Washington Post editors are decidedly unimpressed with the Democrats’ latest plan for Iraq. They put their bottom line up front: “It makes perfect sense, if the goal is winning votes in the United States.”
Says the Post:
In order to bring together the party’s leftist and centrist wings… there are plenty of enticements on the side: more [...]

***update:*** The Washington Post blasts the Pelosi plan. Writes the editorial board: “It makes perfect sense, if the goal is winning votes in the United States.” Wow. There’s more:
THE RESTRICTIONS on Iraq war funding drawn up by the House Democratic leadership are exquisitely tailored to bring together the party’s leftist and centrist wings. For the [...]

I’ve said before I think the homes of public figures should be off-limits to political protesters. It’s incivil and unncessary. Save it for the public square. Despite my deep disregard for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s views, I feel the same way about the anti-war zealots who tramped up to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco:
A [...]

The Politico reports:
Republicans plan to force a floor vote on Rep. William Jefferson’s move to the Homeland Security Committee in an unprecedented maneuver to force Democrats to go on the record supporting their embattled colleague who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) pledged to call for a recorded [...]

Spc. Andy Johnson from A. Co., 1/506th, 101st Airborne made this video of his tour in Ramadi. Some of the video footage came from embed Michael Fumento. Music by Johnny Cash. Good, good stuff:

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Byron York writes at The Corner:
Predictions that 30, or even 40 House Republicans would side with Democrats and vote for Nancy Pelosi’s [...]

No way!
Way:
Rep. Jefferson Gets Seat on Homeland Security
Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who’s facing an ongoing federal corruption probe, is being granted a spot on the Homeland Security Committee, according to Democratic aides.
The appointment will be announced Friday, according to one aide who requested anonymity because the decision isn’t yet official.
Jefferson was removed from [...]

Via Iraq Pictures:

A suspected insurgent training site is destroyed with explosives north of Baghdad.
This news from Iraq, via the Jawa Report, should be top story. But since Anna Nicole Smith died, it won’t get the coverage it deserves:
Coalition forces in Iraq have delivered a series of stunning blows to al Qaeda in Iraq in the [...]

Nutroots Nancy
Fun, fun, fun. Nancy Pelosi is schmoozing left-wingers on the Internet and is going to start her own blog:
Shortly after her swearing-in as the first female House speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi took time to field questions from a few dozen Internet bloggers on a conference call that was off limits to mainstream media.
Last week, [...]

Readers of this blog will remember the name Joshua Sparling. In December 2005, the Iraq war veteran received a disgusting, anti-war death wish card while being treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. for injuries from a bomb explosion in Ramadi. Last month, his right leg was amputated.
And this weekend, while participating in [...]

***11:52am update: “The Pelosi delegation visited the heavily fortified Green Zone, site of the American Embassy, and met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “We come out of the meeting with a greater understanding of the others’ point of view,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, in brief remarks after the meeting.”***
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Reuters reports:
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra, is getting a lot of attention for her documentary about evangelical Christians, which airs tonight in less than an hour on HBO. Allah has video of her appearance last night on Hannity and Colmes here. She joked that evangelicals refer to HBO as “Hell’s Box Office”–a sound-bite-friendly gag line that she [...]

Jim Hoft thinks there might be disruptions from the balcony.
Brit Hume says Nancy Pelosi put on a new outfit for her historic moment at the last minute because she spilled chocolate on her suit.

Madame Speaker

Hang in there, Dick
Everything’s already anticlimactic from here. The full SOTU text is up–and so is Democrat Jim Webb’s rebuttal. Allah’s [...]

ABC News:
There may be a growing battle between Congress and the president over the Iraq War strategy, but new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won’t block funding for additional troops.
Pelosi’s position, revealed in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, came a day after a group of senators announced a bipartisan resolution [...]

I go back to the trash can to cover crooked John Conyers, Nancy “Mrs. Clean” Pelosi, and bipartisan rump-coverers today at Hot Air.
The New York Post editorial board weighs in on the imperial John Conyers this morning–excoriating the House Ethics Committee for giving him a pass on his unethical use and abuse of staffers:
Conyers, [...]

Business as usual
Here’s a great way to ring another new year of the culture of corruption in Washington.
Jason Smith notes: Incoming Judiciary Committee Chair Admits Breaking Ethics Rules
Here’s the buried-for-the-holidays statement on the House Ethics Committee website:
December 29, 2006
Statement of Chairman Doc Hastings and Ranking Minority Member Howard L. Berman Regarding Representative John Conyers
The Chairman [...]

Over the weekend, I noted the arrest of illegal alien Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., who enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school in order to obtain a commercial driver’s license and permit to haul hazardous materials. He’s the guy who was in a hurry to learn how to steer a tractor-trailer, but not [...]