michellemalkin.com - 1/5/2009
humanevents.com - 1/5/2009
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humanevents.com —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House
rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is
unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought ...
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Pelosi Reverses House Fairness Rules
thehill.com - 1/6/2009
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thehill.com —
House Democrats are poised to approve new rules
that will significantly increase their authority while taking the
bullets out of the few legislative weapons Republicans have in the lower chamber. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has approved the ...
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Pelosi’s power move leaves House Republicans fuming
thehill.com - 1/8/2009
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thehill.com —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said
she will keep Congress in session through the Presidents
Day recess if an economic stimulus package isn’t completed for President-elect Obama by then. Pelosi’s comments came just minutes before ...
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Pelosi: No February recess without stimulus
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The Morning Scramble - 1/5/2009
No Runny Eggs —
... Michelle Malkin proves once again that playing nice with the ‘Rats just gives us rabies - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is planning on completing the neutering of the House Republican minority. I hope the GOP (or its successor) remembers that when the worm turns. ...
Pelosi's Battle of Ideas
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... — which may be voted on today — will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. Via Michelle. Posted by Val Prieto at January 5, 2009 02:28 PM Comments Post a comment
The First Plank in a New Contract with America
GayPatriot —
... This time, just as they did fifteen years ago, they can run against a Democratic leadership determined to centralize power, making it difficult for the minority to contribute. At the start of the current Congress, Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats rewrote House Rules, reversing Republican reforms and returning to old runs which made it all but impossible for the minority to offer alternative legislation or amendments to bills. ...
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Pelosi & the Pope: Do Not Be Afraid
theanchoressonline.com 2/18/2009 — A couple of emails from Catholics expressing displeasure at the news that Nancy Pelosi is heading to Rome with a contingent of legislators and will take a meeting with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.
Wrote a former marine who seem pretty angry:
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Were They At The Same Meeting?
corner.nationalreview.com 2/19/2009 — From the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
It is with great joy that my husband, Paul, and I met with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today. In our conversation, I had the opportunity to praise the Church's leadership in fighting ...
Pelosi wants investigation of Bush officials
videocafe.crooksandliars.com 1/19/2009 — Download | Play Download | Play Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Fox's Chris Wallace that there should be an investigation into whether the Bush Administration broke the law when firing Justice Department officials. "I think we ...
Pope Punks Pelosi Pic
theanchoressonline.com 2/19/2009 — In my piece for Pajamas Media , I said that basically, the meeting between The Pope and The Pelosi would produce no fireworks, and that “…the impact of this meeting may not be felt until it has been forgotten.”
Well. Not quite . ...
Air Pelosi? Uh, not so much...
swampland.blogs.time.com 3/12/2009 — There was much tut-tutting over Judicial Watch's allegation earlier this week that Nancy Pelosi "treats the Air Force like her personal airline." But over at ABC, Jonathan Karl and Luis Martinez actually read this "trove" of documents on what ...
How To Find Out What Nancy Pelosi Knew
keepinitrealyo.blogspot.com 5/17/2009 — I'm having a little trouble following the motivation behind the right's attack of Nancy Pelosi concerning whether she KNEW about waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. I'm just a simple country lawyer but it seems a tad confusing. ...
Weigel: Where They at the Same Meeting?
article.nationalreview.com 2/19/2009 — Were Benedict XVI and Nancy Pelosi in the same meeting, or even in the same city, this morning? Their separate statements might have you believing they werent.
Pelosi dismisses need for bipartisanship
thehill.com 1/29/2009 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn’t come to Washington to be “bipartisan”, one day after shuttling through an $819 economic stimulus bill without a single Republican vote. “I didn’t come here to be partisan, I didn’t come here to be ...
A Senate showdown or an orderly entrance? —
First Read 1/5/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland While exact details remain unclear about how and when Roland Burris will enter the U.S. Capitol tomorrow seeking Obama's vacant Senate seat, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer says it will be an orderly arrival. ...
Burris: 'I intend to be sworn in' —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
(CNN) – Democratic leaders have said publicly they will not seat him — but Roland Burris will be in the Senate when it meets Tuesday.
“I intend to be sworn in,” the former Illinois attorney general told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview ...
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