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Posted at 11:37am on May 7, 2008 I think that I need to have the Netroots clarify something for me.

Not to interrupt their paeans of joy over the Obama win, of course.

By Moe Lane

I'll wait.

(pause)

All right?

OK, explain something to me. Obama's the inevitable nominee, yes, yes, the GOP is doomed, yadda, yadda, the Democrats are going to take the White House, consolidate Congress, cut and run from Iraq, start war crimes trials against the Bush administration, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Oh, yes, by now we over here on the Right can sing along; you folks haven't been shy about blaring these - and one other - discordant tunes in our weary, weary ears. 2007 might have been a lowered-expectations disaster for your crowd, but with the new wave of Red-to-Blue (or whatever you're calling it) we should be on the brink of the Glorious People's Progressive Future. Why, we're even hearing about how Nancy Pelosi is going to stand up to the administration with the new war supplemental bill (H/t: Hot Air). All in all: this is supposed to be your time.

So why are you letting the Democratic leadership set you up?

Democrats Unveil War Supplemental Plans

House Democratic leaders outlined a war supplemental spending plan to their rank and file Tuesday that will give members a chance to vote separately on Iraq policy riders and various spending add-ons.

The bill, to be brought directly to the floor later this week, would set a Dec. 31, 2009, goal for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It also would ban permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, limit interrogation techniques to those included in the current Army field manual, bar a status of forces agreement that would obligate the U.S. to defend Iraq without congressional approval, and require Iraq to match U.S. reconstruction funding dollar for dollar. And it would call for U.S. forces to pay the same fuel prices in Iraq as the Iraqis.

The bill will be divided into three sections — for war money, policy riders and domestic spending. That will permit House Democrats to vote for or against each section while still getting the measure through that chamber.

Read on.

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Posted at 11:44pm on Apr. 29, 2008 The Pelosi Power Grab

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

I trust that those who worry about an imperial Presidency will strive to remember that we face the threat of an imperial Speakership as well. Of course, this maneuver should backfire; Senate Republicans will likely serve as a backstop to any legislation that circumvents the committee process in order to support their House colleagues. But let it be noted that there is no reason whatsoever to do this save Nancy Pelosi's desire to stick it to Republicans. And as I have noted before, all of this represents yet another broken campaign promise.

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Posted at 2:36pm on Apr. 29, 2008 Nancy Pelosi: Price of gas is $2.56/gallon

Does she support a gas tax holiday?

By Soren Dayton

Nancy Pelosi blames Bush:

But she has no idea what she's talking about. (BTW, 1.70 x 3 is 5 .10 not 2.56, but math probably isn't her strong point either)

Oh yeah. Weren't they going to lower gas prices?

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Posted at 12:43pm on Apr. 25, 2008 What's the price of gasoline, Nancy?

She doesn't have a clue.

By Mark Kilmer

From where I sit and type these words, gasoline is $3.59/gallon at the nearest Sheetz. The Speaker of the People's House – to whom we fondly refer with her given name, Nancy – just told TV talkshow host Larry King that it was $2.59 on average but higher in California. King corrected her: the national average is $3.50. She said, "Oh, it's $3.50. It's down 6-cents."

In orbit without a clue, Nancy soldiers on.

Here'a the vid:

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Posted at 12:24am on Apr. 11, 2008 The *Real* War On Terror Is In Afghanistan

By haystack

If you do enough acid, I suppose, you *too* can see tomcats in tophats..like that Pelosi babe...

Let's make this brief, shall we? (before my hair catches fire)

Terrorism is a means to an end. Scare the beejeebus out of enough people, making them believe horrible things will happen to their children and their aging mother if they don't do what they're TOLD to do...and terrorists will "move" a generation of people to do any number of things antithetical to what one might expect from a human being with any fundamental decency.

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Posted at 1:16am on Mar. 27, 2008 "Nice Congress You Got Here. Too Bad If Anything Should Happen To It."

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Not content with the current state of internecine (it's just such a good word) warfare currently going on in the Democratic Party between the Clintonites and the Obamaniacs, various Clintonites have decided that Nancy Pelosi deserves a talking to:

A group of prominent Hillary Clinton donors sent a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday asking her to retract her comments on superdelegates and stay out of the Democratic fight over their role in the presidential race.

The 20 prominent Clinton supporters told Pelosi she should "clarify" recent statements to make it clear superdelegates -- nearly 800 party insiders and elected officials who are free to back any candidate -- could support the candidate they think would be the best nominee.

Pelosi has not publicly endorsed either Clinton or Barack Obama in their hotly contested White House battle, but she recently said superdelegates should support whoever emerges from the nomination contests with the most pledged delegates -- which appears almost certain to be Obama.

"This is an untenable position that runs counter to the party's intent in establishing superdelegates in 1984," the letter from the wealthy Clinton backers said.

"Superdelegates, like all delegates, have an obligation to make an informed, individual decision about whom to support and who would be the party's strongest nominee," said the letter signed by some of Clinton's biggest fund raisers.

And in the event that the letter is not sufficiently clear about matters:

The signees reminded the House leader from California of their support for the party's House campaign committee and said "therefore" she should "reflect in your comments a more open view" about superdelegates.

"We appreciate your activities in support of the Democratic Party and your leadership role in the party and hope you will be responsive to some of your major enthusiastic supporters," the letter said.

In related news, Republicans are debating what is the best brand of popcorn to pop and munch on while this spectacle unfolds.

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Posted at 1:10pm on Feb. 11, 2008 Nuancing Neville - Democrat Style

By haystack

There has been much mention of Pelosi's remarks on CNN's late Edition this week (10 February, 2008). Read one HERE, another HERE, and another HERE, and many of these based on stories HERE, HERE, and HERE. Pelosi has a well-enough established track record of trashing or outright denying success in Iraq, so there's nothing wildly newsworthy about her performance on CNN. However, if I might be so bold, I suggest we need just a wee bit o' context and historical perspective so that the larger point...that of our Democrat friends insisting they not learn from history, so that we might be reminded of what blindness in the face of evil might bring us. As Chamberlain de-planed after capitulating to Hitler, he said this:

"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.

We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe."

And before going in the house, all snuggly and warm and unwilling to "see" what he would later become (unwittingly) complicit with helping to cause:

"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time...Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."

The Democrats, too, want us to enjoy a nice quiet sleep...apparently.

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Posted at 3:42pm on Dec. 18, 2007 An Act Of haystack Contrition: I Apologize Madam Speaker

Because I believe in being fair and balanced, and "squaring with the House"

By haystack

I recently wrote an article taking the Speaker to task over a grocery list of complaints including her having remarked that "Republicans like this war." I also spoke strongly and in negative terms about her capabilities, her accomplishments, and the degree to which I am embarrassed by her performance in running MY house.

Nearly 1200 words in length, it offered a rather long list of grievances, provided links to a few sources, and added the customary level and calculated degree of calm and reasoned commentary and analysis that everyone has grown accustomed to as things emanate from my keyboard.

Someone playing over at Nancy's sand castle had a problem with it, however, and after having been contacted by one of her peeps (whose name I'll kindly and graciously omit here) to point out where I erred in my article, and who further provided links to prove "his" righteousness in these matters, I return here to offer my sincerest and most heartfelt apologies for being wrong on 3 items. Although I listed some 20 examples of her miserable failure(s) during her reign to this point, these 3 seemed worthy of outreach in order to set the record straight. It must be safe to assume, then, that these are the only 3:

I was wrong when I said she didn't get the 9/11 recommendations implemented. I was wrong when I said she hadn't come up with the money to fix the bridges "Bush broke in Minneapolis and elsewhere"...well, half wrong-she DID get the cash for Minneapolis-we're still waiting for the dough to fix the others.

And I was wrong when I said that the Walter Reed Building 18 fiasco happened on her watch. Interestingly enough, I was corrected on the merits of that statement by being told it was the Republicans who were to blame...wait for it...because they removed Rep. Chris Smith as chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee...back in 2005. Can't quite wrap my brain around how this proves that the Building 18 fiasco didn't happen under Nancy's watch, given she was speaker when the story broke, but I digress.

Nance, babes? I apologize. No REALLY.

You might want to talk to your folks though. If they're going to challenge we obscure little writers out here in the netherworld about accuracy of content, don't ya think they should have offered proof that THIS statement was wrong?

[T]he most pathetically incompetent Speaker of the House in American history.

I know I sure would have...but what do I know?

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Posted at 7:18pm on Dec. 15, 2007 Pelosi, Reid Offer Advice on Rebuilding New Orleans

By Vladimir

New Orleans' decaying, decrepit public housing projects gave tenements a bad name. Spread throughout the city, the projects were little more than human warehouses, full of crime, drugs and despair. In turn, they spread crime and criminality to the adjoining areas. They were a testament to everything that's wrong with the traditional liberal model of welfare and public assistance.

The city had begun dealing with the problem pre-Katrina. The blighted St. Thomas project in the Lower Garden District was razed. On its site, a new planned community called River Garden emerged, featuring some home ownership and more livable, modern housing standards.

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Posted at 12:21pm on Dec. 13, 2007 Pelosi and Reid's very bad press morning

By Soren Dayton

It must feel awful to wake up in the morning to these stories.

AP:

Congressional Democrats prepared Wednesday for major concessions on Iraq war funding, children's health insurance, tax policies, general spending and energy, because they could not overcome vetoes by President Bush.

The setbacks are a stinging disappointment for Democrats, who took control of the House and Senate with narrow majorities this year but never found a formula for coaxing compromises from Bush and his GOP supporters.

CQ ($ub$cription):

In one legislative battle after another this fall, the Democrats who won control of Congress a year ago are surrendering to President Bush and minority Republicans. ...

Perhaps the biggest source of Democratic frustration is the omnibus appropriations package that is being assembled to carry 11 fiscal 2008 spending bills.

It took the Democrats until Wednesday to publicly acknowledge they may have to accept a discretionary spending total close to Bush’s number of $933 billion.

Somehow, I don't feel sorry for them though.

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Posted at 11:58am on Dec. 12, 2007 Flowers For Algernon...err, I Mean, Pelosi

average mouse turned genius turned average mouse-all in one session of congress

By haystack

Nancy Pelosi seems hell-bent on reliving Charlie Gordon and his buddy Algernon's lives as detailed in the famous "Flowers for Algernon" novel/novella. After all, in the original piece Algernon was a dumb mouse turned genius turned dumb mouse.

Of course, in Algernon's case it was chemically induced...they don't test for these things in Congress critters so we'll never actually know if ole Nance had help along the way to her miserably failed position as Speaker of the House...but boy howdy has she returned to her original "dumb" status all the same.

I'm reminded of an old song that pays some degree of homage to the original story:

His operation made him smart
He ran the maze so good
But always had some time to be my friend
We used to race and he would win
It always made me mad at him
But he would still be nice even then

Ya know...if you replace the word operation with election, we might be ON to something here.

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Posted at 1:53pm on Nov. 8, 2007 Democrats are Celebrating -- Americans Want to Know Why?

By Michelle Oddis

Last night on CBS Evening News Chip Reid talked to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and GOP Leader John Boehner for a report on the state of Congress.

Chip Reid reported “On election night 2006, Democrats were ecstatic as voters swept them into power. One year later, they’re still celebrating, leaving many Americans wondering why, when Congress’s approval rating is an abysmal 27 percent …”

Pelosi told Reid that "As a teacher I would say that as a Congress dedicated to children and wants to be called the 'Childrens Congress', I would give us a very high mark."

"We have succeeded greatly" she said, "but its all eclipsed by the fog of war."

More like the fog in your head.

Click here to watch the video from last nights CBS Evening News provided by Republican House Leader John Boehner's office.

Posted at 1:07pm on Oct. 22, 2007 Another Pelosi friend, another bill

By Soren Dayton

Nancy Pelosi has worked hard to pass legislation that helps her ... friends. Like the Armenian legislation. Or her minimum wage exemption for a donor in American Samoa.

Another bill, another friend. This time on her staff. Today, the Democratic Congress is set to vote on H.R. 319, a bill to create, Paterson Great Falls National Park... which the National Park Service doesn't want. Why would they do that?

Well, The Hill has one possible answer. Her chief of staff, John Lawrence, is from there:

“I’m from Paterson, N.J. Would you like to hear more about Paterson?” he asks hopefully, revealing a wry wit.

And his family is still there. I wonder if they are making any money off this...

According to Hillary Clinton, America can't afford her ideas. It sounds like America can't afford Pelosi's friends either.

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Posted at 7:38pm on Apr. 11, 2007 Pelosi: Meeting Our Enemies, But Not Our President

By RS Insider

The RS Insider has trouble understanding why Speaker Nancy Pelosi is willing to meet with Syria’s President Assad and Iran’s President Ahmadinejad – known sponsors of terror who are currently helping kill Americans – but is unwilling to meet with President Bush, known Republican.   

Democratic Leaders are arguing that, sure, they’ll meet with President Bush, but only if he drops the preconditions which are "inappropriate" because this must be "accomplished by conducting serious negotiations without any preconditions."   (a demand they never made of Presidents Assad and Ahmadinejad, of course)

Where did President Bush get the idea that “preconditions” were appropriate for “serious negotiations”?   I don’t’ know, but I’ve got one candidate:

Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement today: … “Until the president and the Republican leadership agree that their misguided attempt to privatize Social Security is over and they will no longer pursue their previously announced bait and switch strategy, Democrats will continue to refuse to enter negotiations over Social Security. We stand ready, willing, and able to join in a conversation to strengthen Social Security but we will not stand by and allow a vehicle for privatization to make it into Conference.

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