Congressional fumbling should help McCain
Posted on August 28, 2008 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Earmarks, Economy, Elections, Energy, Fiscal Responsibility, Government ethics/corruption, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, News, Obama/Biden, Politics As Usual, Socialism, U.S. House, US Senate | 1 Comment
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By KARL ROVE
Democrats and Republicans have scripted their conventions as tightly as possible. But after delegates return home with buttons, badges and banners, the curtain will rise on a more unruly drama: the fall session of Congress. And it could affect the November election more than the conventions. The House and Senate return to [...]
Nancy Pelosi on drilling: “Can we drill your brains?”
Posted on August 26, 2008 - Filed Under Economy, Energy, Government ethics/corruption, Nancy Pelosi, News, Revisionism, Socialism, Stupidity, U.S. House | 4 Comments
You stay classy, Pioneer Pelosi:
House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”
Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”
Seeming to enjoy the back and [...]
A good conservative comment from the WSJ:
Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under Congress, Government ethics/corruption, News, Politics As Usual, U.S. House | Leave a Comment
As the 110th Congress continues its August recess, the big legislative news is that it has passed fewer laws than any Congress in the last two decades. An outfit known as Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that the fighting 110th has passed a mere 294 laws, while nonetheless finding time to consider 1,932 resolutions favoring [...]
Read More..>>SM Friday: Nancy Censors The Troops
Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Congress, Fallen Heros, Gov.Censorship, Government ethics/corruption, News, Politics As Usual, Stupidity, Surrender Monkey Friday, U.S. House, War On Terror, military | Leave a Comment
The Surrender Monkey jumps in the way back machine today, to a time when he put on his pink party dress and visited Queen Nancy on the floor of the House, along with his French cousin Reddition, in light of this new story by the San Francisco Chronicle
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-S.F., has done something [...]
Wait. We Have How Much Oil?
Posted on August 21, 2008 - Filed Under Congress, Economy, Energy, News, Politics As Usual, Socialism, U.S. House | 1 Comment
Refuting the liberal’s meme that America just doesn’t have that much oil, so we should all sit in the dark quite a bit of the time when it is cloudy and/or the wind is not blowing. And that we should all become corn farmers
(CNS News) Let’s start with some sense of the oil resources America [...]
Playing Political Games, Dems to Offer Drilling Bill of Their Own
Posted on August 16, 2008 - Filed Under Congress, Economy, Elections, Government ethics/corruption, News, Politics As Usual, Socialism, Taxes, U.S. House | Comments Off
Cross-Posted FROM Gribbit’s Word
Sensing blood in the water, their own blood that is, House Democrats will offer a bill that includes drilling. But somehow I don’t believe that it is a genuine drilling bill. Let’s investigate.
The al-Reuters headline reads:
Democrats to offer bill with offshore oil drilling
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday when the U.S. [...]
John Boehner Calls Dems Bluff on Drilling
Posted on August 5, 2008 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Congress, Economy, Elections, News, Politics As Usual, U.S. House | Comments Off
John Boehner puts the so-called pro-drilling democrats on the spot.
- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement in response to an article in today’s Politico that suggests Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has secretly signaled to rank-and-file House Democratic lawmakers that they should feel free to portray themselves publicly as pro-drilling if [...]
Coastal oil drilling
Posted on August 5, 2008 - Filed Under Congress, Economy, Global Warming, News, Politics As Usual, Science/pseudo-science, Socialism, U.S. House | Comments Off
Krauthammer, the psychiatrist, is better at economics than the economist, Krugman. Dr. Charles Krauthammer remains the clearest thinker in the punditocracy. Former Enron advisor Paul Krugman, not so much. The two squared off today on Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco’s statement that by shutting down new oil production in the [...]
Read More..>>House GOP To Continue Floor Protest Today
Posted on August 4, 2008 - Filed Under Communism, Congress, Economy, Gov.Censorship, Government ethics/corruption, News, Politics As Usual, Socialism, U.S. House | 3 Comments
From John Boehner’s webpage
House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the rest [...]
Drilling: The Election Issue Of All Election Issues
Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Congress, Economy, Government ethics/corruption, John McCain, News, Politics As Usual, Socialism, U.S. House | 4 Comments
I caught this one myself through an email from a friend of mine in New Joisey (I’m originally from there, I’m allowed to write it that way. Exit 98), but, I think John Hawkins at Right Wing News puts it perfectly;
Yesterday, the fine folks over at Americans for Prosperity alerted me to the fact that [...]
