Tag Archive 'speaker-of-the-house'

That pesky unemployment rate just keeps getting bigger and bigger

Posted by Moonage on 07 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: economic-policy

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?

Posted by Moonage on 19 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: National Politics

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

Posted by Moonage on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics

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 [...]