Archive: ‘Pelosi’ Category
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27
Aug
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by QuestionGirl • 10:01 am
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What brains? From Politico:
House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”
Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”
She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would reduce gas prices by only a couple of pennies a decade from now, she referred to the demonstrators as the “2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.”
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word “thinking” and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.
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14
Aug
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by QuestionGirl • 1:19 pm
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WTF……. does the guy have to kill a Democrat for them to take his chairmanship away from him? Sometimes the Democrats are such pussies it just makes me sick. Enough with the threats….boot his ass OUT.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday for making what she called “totally irresponsible” remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and warned that the Senate might retaliate by revoking Lieberman’s committee chairmanship.
Pelosi also chastised some of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters for being “less than gracious” toward Obama, although she praised the New York senator for rallying behind the party’s nominee after a bitter primary fight.
More at the San Francisco Chronicle
Hey, she got one right!
Pelosi calls Bush ‘a total failure’
President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. [...]
“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for “challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.”
Speaking of Pelosi… Impeachment is back on the table! Well, sort of. A little, maybe. Read John Cole’s post, “All Preordained“, to get a better understanding of what’s going on.
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20
Jun
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by QuestionGirl • 2:18 pm
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Nancy Pelosi on the House floor explaining to the American public why we should now be using our Constitution as a piece of toilet paper.
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19
May
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by QuestionGirl • 11:27 am
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Nancy Pelosi is in Israel today……..
“I don’t know what is to be gained by a military strike except to strengthen the president of Iran and to send up the cost of oil, but I do think that we must not take anything off the table,” Israel Radio quoted Pelosi as saying.(emphasis mine)
Seems to me Nancy’s table is fucked up. Impeachment is off it and bombing Iran is on it.
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16
May
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by QuestionGirl • 6:26 pm
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A press release from Nancy Pelosi’s office. “New Direction Congress?” We’ve been waiting for over a year now for a new direction party girl! New direction out of Iraq. New direction to protect our civil liberties. New direction for our economy. New direction to stop this criminal administration. Enough with the new direction crap… you just don’t deserve to call yourselves the “New Direction Congress.” Maybe in 08……but it didn’t happen in 06.
To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Brendan Daly or Drew Hammill, both of the Office of the Speaker of the House, +1-202-226-7616
WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement following news that the Energy Department will not sign additional contracts for the receipt and shipment of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to Congressional passage of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill Suspension and Consumer Protection Act. The bill, which passed both the House and Senate by veto-proof margins, temporarily suspends the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the end of the year, as long as the price of crude oil remains above $75 per barrel.
“Next week, the New Direction Congress will send our legislation to the President to suspend deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the end of the year. As the President returns from the Middle East, I urge him to sign this legislation that he has previously opposed, which has now passed the House and Senate by veto-proof margins.
“In response to bipartisan action by the New Direction Congress, the Bush Administration has announced it will not enter into new contracts for receipt and shipment of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when the current contract expires in July.
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05
Apr
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by QuestionGirl • 5:27 pm
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From Politico:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sharply criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday, after the speaker urged Army Gen. David Petraeus not to “put a shine” on recent events in Iraq when he testifies before Congress next week.
Read the wrap-up of Pelosi’s remarks here. Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, will testify before Congress next week.
“Speaker Pelosi’s warning to Gen. Petraeus about his testimony being A-too shiny- says more about her than it does about him,” said Graham in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
“Gen. Petraeus … is one of the most talented, respected military commanders in our nation’s history. I-m confident he will tell us about the gains that have been achieved and the challenges which lie ahead,” Graham said.
“I have no confidence Speaker Pelosi will ever accept anything coming out of Iraq other than a loss.”
But Graham didn’t stop there.
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A case of blatant dereliction of duty. Mukasey fits into the Bush/republican mode perfectly.
Mukasey Refuses Probe of Bush Aides
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday refused to refer the House’s contempt citations against two of President Bush’s top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey says they committed no crime.
Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers were right in refusing to provide Congress White House documents or testify about the firings of federal prosecutors.
“The department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute Mr. Bolten or Ms. Miers,” Mukasey wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The House voted two weeks ago to cite Bolten and Mukasey for contempt of Congress and seek a grand jury investigation. Most Republicans boycotted the vote.
Mukasey was given a week to reply but only needed one day. It surprises me that he even made the attempt. Against justice and the will of the people, republicans will protect their own.
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13
Feb
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by Buck • 10:30 pm
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God bless this woman:
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Pelosi says Republicans ‘like’ Iraq war
“They like this war. They want this war to continue,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. She expressed frustration over Republicans’ ability to force majority Democrats to yield ground on taxes, spending, energy, war spending and other matters.
Republicans are only doing what they feel is right. And, while even in the minority, they do their jobs well. For democrats it’s a whole other story. Grow a spine, for gosh’sakes!
“We thought that they shared the view of so many people in our country that we needed a new direction in Iraq,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference in the Capitol. “But the Republicans have made it very clear that this is not just George Bush’s war. This is the war of the Republicans in Congress.”
That’s right, folks. Nancy can now see that republicans are in lock’step with Bush. She doesn’t need a tree falling on her head… or millions of screaming Americans to point this fact out to her. Just one full year of people senselessly and needlessly dying in Iraq is all it took to clue her in!
“And that was a revelation to me,” she said, “because I thought the American people’s voices were so — and still are — so strong in this regard.”
American voices have also been strong on the subject of IMPEACHMENT, Nancy. How about it?
Pelosi, who opposed the U.S.-led invasion from the start, said the war was “a catastrophic mistake.”
Look! She got one right!
Despite being forced to make concessions on multiple fronts, Pelosi said Democrats have been fiscally responsible and attuned to the public’s concerns. As a result, she said, voters will reward Democrats in next year’s presidential and congressional elections.
Here she’s getting a little ahead of herself. Nancy, I have something to tell you that you may want to sit down for. You’re facing a questionable political future too, dear!
In response, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in statement: “Republicans have stood on principle to protect current and future generations of Americans, whether it polled well or not. The success our troops are having in Iraq today is proof positive that our stance was the right one.”
In this universe there can’t exist an article on democratic points without the injection of at least one republican counter-point. (Or, should I say, “talking point”?) Boner, how is sticking our troops in the middle of a civil war protecting us now and in the future?
How many times can that question go unanswered?
But I can guaran-damn-tee, after the next attack on American soil (God forbid!), republicans will be quick to put the blame on anti-war democrats.
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10
Dec
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by QuestionGirl • 9:50 pm
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Impeachment is off the table for Pelosi because she is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
By John Nichols at the Nation:
That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats, few serious observers of the congressional condition will deny. But, now, she appears to be something more troubling: a serious hindrance to the fight against the use of crudest and most objectionable torture techniques.
Democrats and Republicans with a conscience have gotten a good deal of traction in recent months in their battle to identify the use by U.S. interrogators of waterboarding - a technique that simulates drowning in order to cause extreme mental distress to prisoners — as what it is: torture. Arizona Senator John McCain, a GOP presidential contender, has been particularly powerful in his denunciations of this barbarous endeavor. And Senate Intelligence Committee chair Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, and key members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have effectively pressed the issue on a number of fronts.
Now, however, comes the news that Pelosi knew as early as 2002 that the U.S. was using waterboarding and other torture techniques and, far from objecting, appears to have cheered the tactics on.
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Our men and women on the front lines should not be caught in the middle of partisan disagreements in Washington. … I know some in Congress are against the war and are seeking ways to demonstrate that opposition. I recognize their position and they should make their views heard. … But they ought to make sure our troops have what it takes to succeed. … Congress should not go home for the holidays while our troops are still waiting for the funds they need.
President Bush, on funding the Iraq war
Congress has clearly made their views heard, along with those of the American majority. But it’s been to no avail, as it will continue to be so. He’ll get his money.
And Mrs. “Democratic-plan-for-responsible-redeployment-of-our-troops” Pelosi, we’ve been onto your game for a while now. Tell it to someone that still believes in you.
Bush asks for $46 billion more for wars
 WASHINGTON - President Bush asked Congress for $46 billion more to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and said he wants the money approved by Christmas. The fighting in Iraq, in its fifth year, already has cost more than $455 billion.
Democrats who gained control of Congress with an antiwar message said Bush should not expect lawmakers to rubber’stamp the request.
“The colossal cost of this war grows every day - in lives lost, dollars spent, and to our reputation around the world,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “The American people long ago rejected the president’s planned 10-year occupation of Iraq and want the administration to provide a concrete plan to bring our troops home.
“The choice is between a Democratic plan for responsible redeployment of our troops and the president’s plan to spend another trillion dollars for a 10-year war in Iraq. We must end this war.”
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press
Yahoo! News
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01
Sep
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by QuestionGirl • 9:31 am
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Where’s Nancy…….the woman who partied like a rock star when she became Speaker of the House, and is now MIA. When’s the last time we heard anything from her? My best wishes to Cindy Sheehan for a successful run!
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20
Jul
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by QuestionGirl • 5:56 pm
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I’ve been asking for weeks…….where’s Nancy. Since becoming Speaker of the House she has been virtually invisible.
NEW YORK (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who this year became the first woman to hold the top spot in the House of Representatives, is writing a memoir, to be released in the summer of 2008 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
“From my parents’ home in Baltimore to representing San Francisco in the Congress, my life has been devoted to family and public service. I look forward to telling my story for my grandchildren and in recognition of the contributions of all women across America,” Pelosi said in a statement issued Thursday by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
The book, currently untitled, will be written with a collaborator “yet to be determined,” according to Doubleday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Unlike Senate rules, House rules prohibit members from getting book advances, although they may get royalties.
Pelosi’s spokesman, Brendan Daly, said Pelosi has not yet finalized her contract so it’s not clear what her royalty deal will be. Before the contract is signed in coming weeks it will be reviewed by the House Ethics Committee.
She hasn’t decided what she would do with the royalties, Daly added.
More at USA Today
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14
Jul
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by QuestionGirl • 8:56 pm
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by Cindy Sheehan
 Since I announced my challenge to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a few days ago, I have been very thrilled that issues such as impeachment and the inherent corruption of the “two” party system have been brought to the forefront of public discourse. Every interview I have done has given me the opportunity to throw the impeachment issue out there. The democratic blogosphere has predictably lined up against me and must be very frightened because they are repeating the scandalous lies of the right. Wow, the right and left are finding common ground over slandering me. I must be a uniter.
I received an e-mail from David Swanson from AfterDowningStreet.org yesterday saying that ADS was in trouble because the blogs were trashing us for targeting John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi. My question for these bloggers is whom should we target? Should we go after House Minority Leader John Boehner? Repugs are literally like rats jumping off the sinking ship of state and they are distancing themselves from George and Dick faster than the Democrats. With the mood of the country, we know this is not a moral position but a politically expedient one. Why can’t we urge the Democrats to take a moral position? Because they have been elected with a (D) they become one of the Untouchables?
Instead of trashing David Swanson and me for wanting our leadership to do their jobs, why can’t the left join with us and be concerned with the people who are being killed, maimed, and displaced on a daily basis and not worry about Dems being held to the same standards we hold the Repugs? David has a baby boy named Wesley that deserves a better future. There are millions of children in Iraq that deserve a better future. Over 600 American troops have been killed since the Dems took over the power structure in DC and did nothing to stop George’s murderous surge. We targeted the Repugs when they were in power. Now the Dems are in power so they are the ones that we have to focus on. It is not a difficult concept.
There must be an underlying shady reason that Speaker Pelosi took impeachment off the table. Her office stated the other day that she will not put the issue back on the table because she is focused on “ending the war.” The statement would be laughable if it weren’t for the fact that she is using a neo-con strategy of saying the exact opposite of what is true. Ms. Pelosi would not allow Rep. Barbara Lee’s bill that truly supported the troops by fixing a quick timeline for their withdrawal to be brought to the floor and instead used her power to whip her caucus into approving a “non-binding” resolution that by its very name is meaningless and useless. The Dems can accomplish much if they put their muscle behind it and the Dems could impeach BushCo and end the war if that was truly their focus. Actions speak louder than words and one cannot say that she is focused on ending the war with her mouth while she is signing a $100 BILLION check to keep the war going with her signing hand.
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