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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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The unemployment rate was released today.  It has suddenly jumped to 5.5%.  This is the highest it’s been in four years.  Now, this is a concern to me for two reasons.
In the past decade, if unemployment in May was less than January, it was less in December eight out of ten times.  That’s a pretty [...]

Tags: budgets, congress, employment situation, job creation, nancy pelosi, obama, proposed budget, unemployment rate

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Mike Huckabee had this to say in what I think is a response to the gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia:
Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that train [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, arabia, bin-laden, Energy Policy, huckabee, National Security, Oil Policy, Oil Supply, Politics, saudi

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I pretty much figured this would happen a lot sooner than I did find it.  Jeff Fecke at Shakesville ponders:
….if Craig had been arrested for public nudity or having sex in a bathroom stall, I could understand this better. If he’d been arrested for soliciting a prostitute, I’d be all in favor of him getting [...]

Tags: bathroom, Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, gay, homophobe, idaho, Idiot of the day, jeff-fecke, larry-craig, Minnesota, Politics, sex, stall, The Legal Process, The Media

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Alberto Gonzales was one of the architects of The Patriot Act.  He was also the legal mastermind in keeping it afloat.  He did this initially more or less discretely.  However, in November 2004 Bush nominated him to be the next Attorney General.  That’s when his work with The Patriot Act came front and center.  And, [...]

Tags: alberto, george-bush, gonzales, harry reid, karl-rove, michael-chertoff, nancy pelosi, pat-leahy, Paul-Clement, Politics, President-Bush, the-patriot-act

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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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This is precious.  Since Joyner published this very publicly, and I’m sure doesn’t want it kept secret, I’m just gonna post the whole thing here:
Matt Stoler is leading the charge for the Netroots to root out the “Bush Dogs” from the Democratic Party, purging it of the impure traitors who do not buy into every [...]

Tags: Al-Franken, Alan-Boyd, Baron-Hill, Bart-Gordon, Ben-Chandler, Bob-Etheridge, Brad-Ellsworth, Brian-Baird, Bud-Cramer, Charlie-Melancon, Chet-Edwards, Chris-Carney, Colin-Peterson, Dan-Boren, Dan-Lipinski, Earl-Pomeroy, Henry-Cuellar, James-Joyner, Jason-Altmire, Jim-Cooper, Jim-Costa, Jim-Marshall, Jim-Matheson, Joe-Donnelly, John-Barrow, Lamar-Davis, Leonard-Boswell, Matt-Stoler, Melissa-Bean, Mike-McIntyre, nancy pelosi, Netroots, Nick-Lampson, Politics, Progressive, Stephanie-Herseth

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Mark Levin over at The Corner on NRO had this comment:
So, the Iraqi government reportedly hasn’t met any of its targets . Has the Democrat Congress met any of its targets?
Now, being as this is the first time I’ve ever seen a need to actually quote National Review here, I thought it must [...]

Tags: andress-sullivan, congress, democrat, dr-steven-taylor, harry reid, iraq, mark-levin, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, National Politics, Poliblog, Politics, tax-incentives, The Media, The-Daily-Dish

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Here’s the scuttle making the rounds right now:
Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson’s indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful Ways and Means Committee, could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the speaker and black lawmakers who were once [...]

Tags: black-caucus, Ethics, homeland-security, indictment, nancy pelosi, Political Correctness, Politics, ways-and-means, william jefferson

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The new, kinder, gentler, Nancy Pelosi led Congress.

When the new Democrat controlled Congress took over in January, they got a reprieve, with about a 15% jump in approval ratings just for being there. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid of the Senate came in with guns firing. They passed all kinds of major legislation [...]

Tags: 2006 US Senate Races, 2008 Presidential Race, gallup, harry reid, iraq, nancy pelosi, National Politics, National Security, out-of-iraq-caucus, Politics, Polls, progressive-caucus, The Media, war

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