Posts Tagged ‘speaker-of-the-house’

Throwing Petraeus under the Moveon bus

June 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is precious. I displayed my prophecy skills adeptly a couple of days ago in predicting General McChrystal’s departure.  OK, the whole country did too.  What I don’t think too many people did was predict the replacement.  Here’s a discussion Obama had with Petraeus in 2007:   He opposed everything Pestraeus was wanting to do.  [...]

That pesky unemployment rate just keeps getting bigger and bigger

November 7th, 2008 | No Comments

People pretty much tend to blame employment, or lack thereof, on the President.  However, economic policy and spending comes from Congress.  Sure, the Senate has some input, but what gets voted on is purely the Speaker of the House’s prerogative.  So, I tend to look at the politics of it all a little different.  I [...]

What difference does the Speaker make?

January 19th, 2008 | No Comments

Nancy Pelosi took over as House Speaker on January 3, 2007.  Most people I think took that as no big deal.  Just another politician with a big title.  However, I think people need to consider who runs our country a little better and the impact they have.  For instance, from the period of one year [...]

Nancy’s not stupid, she just gets bad advice from Nadeam Elshami

June 21st, 2007 | 13 Comments

The debate started innocently enough, and I was fairly bored with it. It started something like this: Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wants to limit Pelosi’s travel to foreign countries through an amendment tacked onto an appropriations bill for the State Department and foreign operations. King sent out a release Thursday titled “Who will she meet [...]