Breaking: Rangel to be charged with new ethics violations

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 05:51 PM  | 

A House ethics committee has launched an investigation into New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel for undisclosed ethics violations, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Rangel, who resigned from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in March following a formal admonishment for two corporately-underwritten Caribbean junkets, will appear next week before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Composed | Read More »

Massa: Pelosi, Hoyer Forcing My Resignation to Pass Health Care

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  March 8th at 09:32 AM  | 

New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa may not be ready to leave Washington, hinting in an interview he may rescind his resignation, scheduled for 5 P.M. Monday. On his weekly radio show, Massa, one of thirty-nine Democrats who voted against last year’s health care bill, said House leadership was orchestrating a public relations campaign against him for the sake of accelerating his resignation and lowering | Read More »

Pelosi, Obama Split on Rangel

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  February 27th at 12:10 PM  | 

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be reticent to drain the swamp and admonish Representative Charley Rangel for recent ethics violations, President Barack Obama has, in typical Obama fashion, thrown the scandal-plagued New York Democrat under the bus, reports the New York Daily News. In recent days, a growing choir of Democrats have begun echoing GOP demands that Rangel surrender his chairmanship of the powerful | Read More »

From Pelosi, With No Love

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  February 17th at 06:02 PM  | 

An unusual fundraising email Wednesday greeted the inboxes of supporters of the National Republican Congressional Campaign. In an email “from” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “naive” Republicans were instructed to stop fretting over rising unemployment figures because “Democrats are in control now.” “We are creating a dependence on the government and we are succeeding,” the email, dripping with an rare degree of sarcasm for beltway | Read More »

Pelosi Spends Hundreds of Thousands on Travel, Alcohol

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 12:20 PM  | 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on “in-flight services” on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch. Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODELs, the group’s report shows, include thousands for liquor, beer and wine. Receipts show purchase of Johnny Walker, Grey Goose, Beefeater, Maker’s Mark, Courvoisier, Dewars, Bombay | Read More »

Highlighting Democratic Controversies, Republicans Reject Censure of Wilson

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  September 15th at 12:45 PM  | 

After Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) rejected Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ultimatum to offer a mea culpa on the floor of the House for his outburst during President Barack Obama’s address on Wednesday evening or face a formal admonishment, Democratic leaders are now moving to introduce a resolution to censure Wilson. But Republican responses to the pending censure might explain why some prescient Democrats, perhaps guilty of | Read More »

Obama’s Doublespeak on Single-Payer Health Care Systems

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  August 11th at 05:18 PM  | 

At a health care town hall today, President Barack Obama told a New Hampshire audience that he has never claimed to be an advocate of a single-payer health care system, alleging that his Republican opponents were employing “scare tactics” to derail substantive health care reform. “I have not said that I am a supporter of a single-payer system,” he said, channeling former presidential contender John | Read More »