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The gall and stupidity of Nancy Pelosi never ceases to amaze me.  Today, with arguably the economic welfare of the United States on the line, and for that matter, several other countries of the world, Nancy Pelosi assured the world an agreement to bail out the struggling spec market was at hand.  She’d have it [...]

Tags: bailout, bush administration, community reinvestment act, economic policies, economic welfare, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, house speaker, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi, partisan, political ploy, Politics

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Yesterday was another one of those mundane days where Congress passed a whole bunch of stuff that means nothing to anyone.  Two bills kinda stuck out to me for one very goofball reason:
H. Res. 1021: Supporting the goals, ideals, and history of National Women’s History Month
and
H. Res. 1005: Supporting the goals and ideals of Borderline [...]

Tags: barbara lee, borderline personality, ideal, lee terry, nancy pelosi, resolution, women

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Remember that promise of change in 2006?  You know, the one where the Democrats promised to get rid of the cronyism and corruption in DC?  Well, they had a chance to walk the walk yesterday.  There was a bill in the form of an amendment to eliminate earmarks completely.  Here’s a list of the “changelings” [...]

Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Ben Cardin, Ben Casey, Bill Nelson, change, Debbie Stabenow, earmark, Jeff Bingamen, Jim Webb, Jon Tester, Kent Conrad, Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown

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This is nuts:
City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.
Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility in [...]

Tags: clinic, Government, Health Care Debate, heroin, pete-stark, san-francisco, War On Drugs

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In 2000, George W. Bush won the electoral college.  He however, lost the popular vote.  The election was so close that Al Gore challenged one state in an effort to change the outcome of the election.  The only reason it was that close was because Gore focused on a hand full of huge electoral prizes [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, california, electoral-college, Government, Politics, US Regional Politics

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Nothing.
SOME people make the argument that a house divided is stronger than a unified house. Of course, some others have made the point that’s not true. I would be in that boat. I have also stated several times in the past that within two years, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would do [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, clinton-body-count, congress, Government, harry reid, hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, popularity, reuters, rolling-stone, Uncategorized, worst-congress-ever, zogby

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Got this from Citizens Against Government Waste:
Dear Representative,
The new House leadership promised to bring to Washington, ��the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.�� The recent announcement by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) that earmarks will only appear in conference reports, and not in committee bills where they would be [...]

Tags: David-Obey, earmarks, Ethics, Fed Policy, Government, House-Appropriations, nancy pelosi, pork

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Here’s their message:

Letter to House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture

Dear Member,
Tomorrow you will have a hearing on the nation��s current rural broadband programs. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is responsible for the Rural Broadband Loan Program, which subsidizes broadband service in rural areas. RUS has spent more [...]

Tags: citizens-against-public-waste, Energy Policy, Fed Policy, Government, government-waste, Idiot of the day, National Debt, National Politics, National Security, Politics, pork, rural-broadband-loan

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Nancy Pelosi ( yeah, I know, AGAIN! ), lambasted the Republicans for being nothing but crooks.  Her silence on the Democrat Culture of Corruption has been deafening.  This weeks’s scandal?  Dianne Feinstein.
Dianne Feinstein had been on the Military Construction Appropriations committee for six years.  During four of those years, Perini Corporation and URS Corp were [...]

Tags: 2004 Presidential Election, 2006 US Senate Races, 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics, Government, Legislative Process, National Politics, Political Correctness, The Media, US Regional Politics

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Nancy Pelosi has assigned fifteen members to her new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. These folks are listed below with some of their other sponsored legislations:

Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who will chair the committee

To preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as wilderness in recognition of [...]

Tags: Energy Policy, Fed Policy, Government, Legislative Process, National Politics, Oil Policy, Political Correctness, select-committee-on-energy-independence-and-global-warm

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