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‘Tea party’ in Mill Valley attracts more than 600; Obama backers demonstrate a few blocks away
Mar 07, 2010
Cheers erupted whenever a speaker talked of ousting Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Dana Walsh, who will oppose Pelosi for the seat in the 8th Congressional District, said, “If the Republicans don’t take back the House in 2010, it’s over. The speed with which Obama and Pelosi have taken over our government is out of control.”
Pelosi: GOP has had its day; confident Dems can pull together on health bill
Mar 03, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward.
Nancy Pelosi’s brutal reality check
Mar 03, 2010
Asked this weekend to grade her performance as speaker, Nancy Pelosi gave herself an “A for effort.”
Pelosi says health care bill will create 4 millions jobs
Feb 25, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued during the health care summit that the health care bill, if passed, will essentially erase the past two years’ job losses and create over 4 million jobs for Americans (many of them “immediately”) — a stunning figure that’s either untrue or indicative of an unprecedented expansion in the government’s bureaucratic control over the health care sector.
Many words but few revelations from health care summit
Feb 25, 2010
In the end, the big White House health-care summit was basically what it was expected to be: many hours of talk that will ultimately be seen to have served as an anchor on which Democrats steadied their legislative ship while they tried to regain momentum for a push through Congress.
Congressional Performance: 71% Give Congress Poor Rating
Feb 24, 2010
Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job.
New health care plan, but with the same old problems
Feb 22, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement Monday morning to say the plan “contains positive elements from the House- and Senate-passed bills.”
Nancy Pelosi goes on offense
Feb 18, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is getting her hands dirty.
In a rare rebuke from the speaker, Pelosi is taking direct aim at individual Republicans, hinting at hypocrisy in their opposition to the stimulus package, saying it provided hundreds of thousands of their constituents tax cuts.
Speaker Pelosi bets the House on success of $787 billion stimulus
Feb 17, 2010
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has issued 260 statements on the stimulus package over the past year in an effort to win a debate that could be the key to retaining the Democrats’ majority in the House.
The failure of a stimulus
Feb 17, 2010
Over a year ago, the American people placed an enormous amount of trust in President Obama to make good on his promises of renewed responsibility and a new era of political bipartisanship. However, when faced with an extreme economic downturn he used the crisis as a means to his liberal ends and with the help of his Congressional allies forced his failed $862 billion stimulus package on America.
Nancy Pelosi resists President Obama on jobs plan
Feb 11, 2010
The Obama administration’s efforts to find common ground with congressional Republicans ran into two pockets of resistance Tuesday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Obama’s Pelosi problem
Feb 11, 2010
When President Obama went into the lion’s den a few weeks ago, he talked to the House Republican caucus about bipartisanship. All well and good, said the Republicans, but have you mentioned this to Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker Pelosi Once Again Corrected By Archbishop
Feb 11, 2010
Once again the Archbishop of San Francisco had to correct Speaker Pelosi on her faith:
America is Not Ungovernable
Feb 08, 2010
Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America’s “political instability” was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed “obstructionist Republicans,” “spineless Democrats,” and an “incoherent public” for the problem.
Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.
Pelosi must go, and Obama knows it
Feb 07, 2010
After a year of disastrous “leadership” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it’s time for her to step down. Now.
Rep. King: Pelosi should be concerned about upcoming CIA doc dump
Feb 04, 2010
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.
Pelosi stopped one CIA operation. So why not waterboarding?
Jan 31, 2010
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.
Anger all around for Democratic leaders
Jan 27, 2010
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.
Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill
Jan 26, 2010
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.
Pelosi ‘Way Short’ on Votes
Jan 24, 2010
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.
Matthews Rips Dem Congressman: ‘You’re Pandering to the Netroots’
Jan 24, 2010
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.
Boehner: Brown win in ‘bluest of blue states’ should be wake-up call for Dems
Jan 24, 2010
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.
Democrats in disarray on health care bill
Jan 21, 2010
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.
House Democrats reluctant to take up Senate health-care reform bill
Jan 21, 2010
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.
The doubters
Jan 20, 2010
Nancy Pelosi is projecting confidence about health care legislation’s survival, but not all of her members share the sentiment:
Pelosi: Whatever happens in MA Senate race, health care will pass
Jan 18, 2010
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.
House Dems mount health assault
Jan 12, 2010
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.
What happened to Obama’s ‘government transparency’ pledge?
Jan 10, 2010
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.”
Health-Care Bill: The Next Step
Jan 04, 2010
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.”
Ping Pong: The House Prepares To Take Up The Senate Health Care Bill
Jan 04, 2010
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.
A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy
Jan 01, 2010
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 Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009
Dec 31, 2009
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.”
Pelosi loath to drop hammer on Rangel
Dec 31, 2009
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.
House Resignations Compound Democrats’ Troubles Ahead of 2010 Election
Dec 29, 2009
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.
The Tyranny of the Majority Party
Dec 29, 2009
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.”
Billions in earmarks inflate defense bill’s cost
Dec 21, 2009
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.
House GOP warns Nancy Pelosi on defense bill
Dec 14, 2009
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.
Pelosi, Hoyer can’t say no
Dec 12, 2009
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.
Who’s in charge in D.C.? Not who you think
Dec 09, 2009
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.
Cooperation with Pelosi pivotal to Obama
Dec 08, 2009
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 myth of using TARP ‘funds’ for a jobs program
Dec 07, 2009
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.
Pelosi’s outrageous attempt to hide congressional spending
Dec 03, 2009
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.
Nancy Pelosi pushes global financial fee
Dec 03, 2009
Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her strongest endorsement yet of a global financial transaction fee Thursday after raising the issue directly with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a conversation this week.
Nancy Pelosi spends $2,993 on flowers
Dec 01, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent $2,993 in taxpayer money on flowers between June and October.
WaPo: Nancy Pelosi’s $300,000,000,000 deception
Nov 18, 2009
The Washington Post editorial board finally catches up to the big three-card Monte that Nancy Pelosi conducted in passing her ObamaCare bill over week ago. Last week, Byron York reported that Pelosi hid almost $300 billion in new health-care costs by burying the “doctor fix” in the debate rules for her Pelosi Plan.
Businessman goes to health care rally
Nov 18, 2009
Bryan Peterson doesn’t like crowds and doesn’t consider himself politically active.
But last week he got on a bus bound for Washington, D.C. with 50 people he’d never met to add his voice to concerns being raised about health care and the national debt at a Tea Party rally.
Pelosi plays whack-a-mole on health care
Nov 18, 2009
The story so far: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does everything in her power to get health care reform passed by keeping her Democratic caucus together.
She keeps liberals by insisting on a public option. She works on fiscal moderates by re-jiggering it. She works on lowering the cost of the package. She pays for it by taxing millionaire couples, appealing to the class-warfare crowd.
Decline Is a Choice
Oct 19, 2009
The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are engaged in another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post-American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon.
Nancy Pelosi’s risky purity
Sep 29, 2009
The Constitution doesn’t say much about the office of the speaker of the House, other than, “The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other officers.” The House rules book defines more exactly the powers of the speaker when it comes to parliamentary procedures within the chamber itself.
As Acorn Falls, Democrats Would Be Wise to Duck
Sep 21, 2009
The group known as Acorn found itself at the center of a media storm last week, when two young filmmakers exposed the willingness of workers at several of its offices to offer assistance to a nascent prostitution ring.
Rangel the tax-cheat, Pelosi holds off investigation for over a year
Sep 19, 2009
Quite often we as Americans are willing to forgive those individuals convicted of, or are presumed to have committed crimes. Even if not on a conscious level, American’s accept that communication is imperfect and that outside influences often convey information in ways tainted by their own beliefs – the higher profile the accused, the greater the possibility for bias.
Pelosi: Health Reform Rhetoric Reminiscent of Violence in ‘70s
Sep 18, 2009
Republicans are rejecting comparisons made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who came near to tears Thursday when she compared anti-government rhetoric over President Obama’s health care proposals to tumultuous 1970s San Francisco.
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Aug 11, 2009
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money.
- ‘Tea party’ in Mill Valley attracts more than 600; Obama backers demonstrate a few blocks away
- Pelosi: GOP has had its day; confident Dems can pull together on health bill
- Nancy Pelosi’s brutal reality check
- Pelosi says health care bill will create 4 millions jobs
- Many words but few revelations from health care summit