thehill.com - 8/25/2009
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A freshman House Democrat from Alabama said Tuesday he would not vote for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker again because of her “divisive and polarizing” image. “I would not vote for her,” Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) told a constituent at a town hall meeting when asked if he'd support ...
breitbart.com - 8/26/2009
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breitbart.com —
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Wednesday to
push through embattled health reform legislation this year following...
the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, who called the effort "the cause of my life". "Ted Kennedy?s dream of quality health care for all ...
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Kennedy health reform 'dream' will be real this year: Pelosi
thehill.com - 9/2/2009
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thehill.com —
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will let Rep. Charles
Rangel (D-N.Y.) keep his chairmanship despite his failing to...
report hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets on federal disclosure forms, according to Democratic aides. The chairman of the House ...
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Pelosi will let Rangel hold post despite latest allegations
online.wsj.com - 8/26/2009
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Earlier this year when President Obama was selling
his first budget blueprint, he promised to end years...
of "borrow and spend" budgeting. Yesterday, reality struck. Mr. Obama's White House and the Congressional Budget Office told us that current U.S. ...
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SSP Daily Digest: 8/25
Swing State Project —
... ? AL-05: Freshman Rep. Parker Griffith has announced he won't be voting for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker again, saying she's too divisive. Griffith is girding for a difficult first re-election in this R+12 district. ...
Marine who went nuclear on Democrat: “The swastika is on their own arm”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... small government, renowned for delivering juicy cuts of rhetorical red meat: Why not run him against Brian “Brownshirts” Baird next year? Sure, the Nazi comparison is offensive, but Baird and company started it. Let them spend the campaign defending it. Since he mentioned Pelosi, this seems like a fine opportunity for our Nan-bashing quote of the day. Which stalwart Republican said this: “I would not vote for her. Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together.” Answer here.
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openleft.com 8/28/2009 — Freshmen Blue Dog Parker Griffith jumps ship :
In a statement likely to intensify the GOP assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reign, a first-term Democratic "blue dog" congressman said that he would not vote to make her the top House Democrat again. ...
Worst Democrat of the Day: Parker Griffith —
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By Michael J.W. Stickings For publicly attacking Nancy Pelosi : I would not vote for her [again for speaker]. Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together. Republicans, of course, feast on this sort of Democratic divisiveness. Why the hell can't Democrats just ...
Dem Rep: Send Pelosi to the Loony Bin —
Weekly Standard Blog
Glenn Thrush quotes freshman Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.):
Freshman Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) — who has bucked Dem leadership on the stimulus and climate change — told a town hall back in north Alabama that he doesn't plan to back Nancy Pelosi as speaker again, saying she's too ...