After a year of disastrous “leadership” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it’s time for her to step down. Now.
The public interest group Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that a court order issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia states the Central Intelligence Agency must give Judicial Watch documents regarding congressional briefings on “enhanced interrogation techniques” by April 15 of this year.
As one of the top four leaders on Capitol Hill, Pelosi had numerous tools at her disposal if she had truly wanted to block waterboarding. She could have threatened to put a hold on funding for the CIA interrogation program, or held up funding for other administration priorities, or worked with her Senate counterparts to hold up nominees for senior CIA positions, or simply called the national security adviser—as she reportedly did in the case of the Iraq program. Pelosi did none of those things when she learned about waterboarding. By her silence, Pelosi gave her consent—and then misled the media by claiming she was powerless to act.
President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be all smiles as the president arrives at the Capitol for his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, but the happy faces can’t hide relationships that are fraying and fraught.
Thanks to recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers.
The Senate approving the House’s health-care bill would be the easiest way to pass a reform package without stepping back to more partisan bickering. So says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, our colleague Sarah Kliff, and a growing drumbeat of angry and despondent progressive voters. Sort out the particulars later, they say. For now, just grow some cojones, bite the bullet, and git ‘er done.
Chris Matthews on Friday accused Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) of pandering to the far-left members of the liberal blogosphere known as the netroots.
House Minority Leader John Boehner said on Saturday that GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s unlikely win in Massachusetts, “the bluest of blue states,” should have been a wake-up call to Democrats that Americans have rejected the president’s agenda.
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Scott Brown’s shot heard ‘round the political world left congressional Democrats stunned and befuddled about what to do next in the yearlong push to overhaul the country’s health care system.
Determined to enact a health-care reform bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggled Wednesday to sell the Senate version of the legislation to reluctant Democrats, even as party moderates raised doubts about forging ahead without bipartisan support.
Nancy Pelosi is projecting confidence about health care legislation’s survival, but not all of her members share the sentiment:
Unlike just about every Democrat west of Faneuil Hall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t fretting about oh, NEARLY EVERY POLL showing Republican Scott Brown winning Ted Kennedy’s old Massachusetts Senate seat.
Furious with the Senate and desperate to regain a foothold in the health care debate, a wave of rank-and-file House Democrats assailed the Senate’s tax on high-end health care plans Tuesday night, on the eve of a critical White House meeting with the president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed by the White House, has said the House and Senate – each of which have passed versions of healthcare reform – were putting the final bill together “behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats.”
Thoughts from a Senate insider this morning: “There won’t be a conference, at least not in the sense that most of us think of a conference, with public debate and amendments. This will be written like most of the health-care legislation has been written — in a Democrat’s conference room with a handful of members and White House staff.”
Democratic aides in both the House and Senate have confirmed to TPMDC that the House of Representatives will likely take up the Senate’s health care bill, amend it, and send it back to the Senate for final passage—a process known informally as “ping-pong”—with the hope of avoiding the procedural hurdles that the more standard conference committee process presents.
In retrospect, that patina of cosmopolitanism in President Obama’s background concealed the isolationism of the liberal coalition that brought him to power. The tide had turned in the congressional elections of 2006. American liberalism was done with its own antecedents—the outlook of Woodrow Wilson and FDR and Harry Truman and John Kennedy. It wasn’t quite “Come home, America,” but close to it. This was now the foreign policy of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.”
Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing a growing chorus of calls to drop the hammer on ethics-challenged Charlie Rangel? Because, at the moment, doing nothing creates a lot less trouble for Pelosi than doing anything, current and former House aides tell POLITICO.
Congressional Democrats could soon have a retirement problem on their hands—several representatives in vulnerable districts are stepping down ahead of an election year in which the party’s incumbents are already threatened by discontent over the economy.
Alexis de Tocqueville never met Harry Reid. Had he encountered the Senate Democratic leader—or President Barack Obama or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—de Tocqueville might have learned about a new twist on his concept of the “tyranny of the majority.”
The Department of Defense didn’t ask for money to update the old officers club in San Francisco’s Presidio into a visitors information center and exhibition space. Neither did any other member of Congress - except House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
One-hundred-and-seventy-four House Republicans warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Monday that they won’t vote for the Defense Department’s spending bill if a hike of the debt ceiling is tacked on.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drops a bill next week to raise the national debt ceiling by $1.925 trillion she will push America one more large step toward a fiscal and economic catastrophe unlike anything previously seen in this nation.
On the question of who is really leading the country at the moment, whether you like it or not, the evidence is strong that it is not Barack Obama but the speaker.
The day after President Obama’s inauguration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described herself as “on a high.” In the 10 months since then, Pelosi has successfully done what she’s needed to do to push Obama’s agenda through the House—so much so, that some have asserted she’s more effective than the president.
The newest Washington deception is now on its way to you: Nancy Pelosi and the White House have both said we should use TARP ‘funds’ for a jobs program.
Remember when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history”? Well, if a little noticed rule change by Pelosi is anything to go by, she lied—big time.
Pelosi is Bad for Business
Feb 08, 2010
Last Friday, Nancy Pelosi told the media that Democrats would pass major health care legislation this year; something she promised in 2009 as well. Then she described how the bill is a principal means by which the Democratic Leadership in Washington plans to get the economy back on track.
Within the proposed health care legislation, there is a stimulus measure allowing the federal government to invest billions of taxpayers’ dollars in medical research. Pelosi told New York Times writer David M. Herszenhorn that your money will be used “for investments in basic biomedical research, research with the power to cure, research paid for by the taxpayer, the benefits of which should be available to every person in America.”
Taking money out of your pockets and putting it in the hands of medical researchers—that is how Nancy Pelosi plans to create jobs in San Francisco.
According to the PhRMA, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, U.S. drug companies spent $39.4 billion on research and development in 2005, alone.
Don’t let Nancy Pelosi take another one of your dollars and put it in the hands of major corporations! Not only does excessive government spending hurt your monthly checkbooks but it also hurt our nation’s future economic health and long-term prosperity.
As a successful entrepreneur, Dana knows that investing in small businesses will create jobs and lead the American economic recovery. She knows what it is like to balance a budget and make tough decisions when it comes to cutting costs. Dana will provide the kind leadership that benefits small businesses and boosts the bottom line.
With Pelosi in charge, San Franciscans & all Americans will continue to experience excessive tax burdens and out of control government spending. The kind of leadership that will ruin healthcare reform and is just downright bad business.
We Are All Fans on Super Bowl Sunday
Feb 07, 2010
People across the city of San Francisco and all across the country are gathering together to enjoy Super Bowl XLIV tonight. Even if you don't consider yourself a football fan, everyone is a fan of some part of the Superbowl... You might be a fan of the extra time with your friends and family, a quarterback duel for the ages, the half-time performances, or maybe you are a bigger fan of the commercials than the actual game! Regardless, on Super Bowl Sunday, everyone is a fan.
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