Pelosi: I dont plan to stay in this new, smaller office for long

Pelosi: Democrats Lost House Because of ... Bush!
"We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let's take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives, Tax Cuts are for the wealth, recklessness by some," Minority Leader Pelosi told CNN. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... ...

Minority Leader Pelosi's statement about the jobs report
“Today’s jobs report provides evidence that the policies of the Democratic-led Congress are helping to create jobs and revitalize our economy - adding more jobs in 2010 than President Bush did over eight years. With so many Americans still looking for work, now is not the time to reverse course. “Republicans must join Democrats in focusing on putting people to work, instead of making their top priority repealing critical patient protections, putting Insurance Companies ba...

Obama Plays Right Into Republicans Hands By Issuing Veto Threat On Obamacare Repeal
Politically playing directly into Republican's hands, Barack Obama wades into the ObamaCare Repeal fight being publicly fought in Washington between House Republicans and Senate Democrats by issuing a Veto threat should a Repeal bill make it to his desk. Is he worried that the 23 Senate Democrat that are up for Reelection might actually vote to Repeal Obamacare? By The Numbers Polling numbers, averaged by RCP from a variety of polling organizations, show that on average 53.4 percent of of Amer...

Time for Rep. Shuler to step into the spotlight
I read with interest the press coverage of yesterday’s vote count for Speaker of the House. If you didn’t catch it in The Hill, you need to study the implications of what those votes that were cast AGAINST Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meant for her future as the Democratic leader in the House.   All told, 18 of the 193 Democrats voted for someone other than Pelosi. Historically, the minority party knows it cannot possibly nominate its choice for Speaker, so they all throw their vote behin

Weekly Mulch: With D.C. in GOP Hands, Environmentalists Must Fight Harder
For the environmental community, this coming year offers a chance to regroup, rethink and regrow. Two years ago, it seemed possible that politicians would make progress on Climate Change issues—that a Democratic Congress would pass a cap-and-trade bill, that a Democratic president would lead the international community toward agreement on emissions standards. And so for two years Environmentalists cultivated plans that ultimately came to naught. What comes next? What comes now? It’s cl...

Pelosi Shows Off New Office: 'I Don't Plan To Stay Here That Long'
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shows CNN her "sparsely decorated" new office in the Capital. Pelosi said she does not expect to be in this office for too long. Rumors are if the Democrats take control of the House in 2012, Pelosi will run for Speaker again. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Ame...

Governments stealing from the people
In the United States, we have two types of Pensions.  Funded private pensions in which people invest a part of their income for their whole lives to collect on Retirement such as 401(k)k  Unfunded government pensions like Social Security that relies on working people being taxed to pay for those who are retired. Social Security was originally fully funded until Democrats under President Johnson nationalized the fund and spent it.  They then declared that Social Security was ‘r...

Is the attack on Pelosi played out?
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve Israel's comments to Politico about Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi raises the question: Will the GOP attacks on the San Francisco lawmaker still resonate through the next cycle? POLITICO's Josh Bresnahan and Alex Isenstadt quote one Democratic Strategist who says keeping Pelosi on as leader "sent a message that we don't give a [expletive]." But Israel argues the Pelosi card has been played out, and says the GOP "won't be able...

Gene Sperling named Director of the National Economic Council today
Mr. Sperling, 52, was nominated this morning by President Obama to succeed Lawrence Summers as the Director of the National Economic Council.  Sperling, who has served on the council and has advised Timothy Geithner through the economic downturn has helped the Obama Administration weather the recent economic Recession and provided guidance on maintaining US employment.  Sperling served in the same post in the Clinton White House as well.  While the economic situation differs drast...

Casey looks pretty solid
PPP's early looks ahead to the 2012 Senate races have found a lot of the Democrats first elected in the wave year of 2006 to be extremely vulnerable for Reelection- Bob Casey is not one of them. He has solid approval numbers and leads five prospective opponents tested against him by margins ranging from 7 to 23 points. 41% of voters in the state approve of the job Casey is doing to 29% who disapprove. He's on positive ground with Independents but the most striking thing within his numbers is th...

Democrats Becoming A Minority Party Comprised of Minorities
If Minorities are so supportive of Democrats, why aren't there more Minorities holding elected office under the Democrat banner? Major Garrett, formerly of Fox News and now writing for the National Journal, pointed folks to an article written by one of his colleagues, Ronald Brownstein, which was a dissection of the racial demographics of the voters in the latest national election. The report is disturbing in that it points to a real divide in this country along racial lines in regards to part...

House To Hold Test Vote On Health Care Repeal Today
The Republican-led House of Representatives today will hold a key test vote on its top priority: repealing the new Health Care law. The up-or-down vote will set the terms of the debate on the Repeal bill itself, which is scheduled to hit the floor (and pass) on Wednesday. During that debate, Democrats will be unable to introduce their own amendments and have been closed out of the process more generally. An earlier plan to force committee-level votes on popular elements of the bill was scuttl...

Senate Dems Want Secret Ballot for Chairmanships But Bolshevik Card Check Laws for American Workers
Their hypocrisy is never ending. Senate Democrats want to start using secret ballots to elect committee chairmanships. Senate Democrats elected in 2006 and 2008 are challenging the internal Caucus procedures that have allowed Veteran lawmakers to lock up committee chairmanships for years on end. A group of junior Democratic senators are pushing for committee chairmen to stand for election at the beginning of each Congress, a requirement that has not been in effect for years, according to lawmak...

Democrats Goal is to Make Pelosi Speaker Again
Democrats’ Goal is to Make Pelosi Speaker AgainFriday, January 7th, 2011 Yeah, good luck with that. Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), set his goal as nothing short of winning back control of the House in the 2012 Elections. “We’re all trying to win it back,” Israel said on MSNBC when asked if it was Democrats’ goal of winning back enough seats to make Pelosi, the former Speaker and new Minority Leader...

Pelosi: Democrats Lost Because Bush Ran Unemployment Up To 9.5%
“We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% Unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for his initiatives, Tax Cuts are for the wealth, recklessness by some,” says Pelosi. Of course, the government manipulations of Lending that created the subprime Mortgage market in the name of turning housing into some sort of a social program entitlement for the poor had nothing to do with our national Recession...

Another Mixed Jobs Report. Another Contest Over What It Means.
Yahoo! Buzz Friday’s mixed employment report – job growth was weaker than forecast, but the Unemployment Rate fell -gave both the White House and Congressional Republicans material to promote their competing formulas for lifting The Economy. The White House and Congressional Democrats said the report shows the Obama administration’s efforts to strengthen the economy – including stimulus spending and Tax Cuts – are bearing fruit. “The overall trend of economic dat...

A bipartisan target: Obamas czars
The issue of the Federal Government’s exploding cadre of un-appointed, unconfirmed mandarins has festered since the nascent days of the Obama Administration — and I remind you that opposition to Obama’s czar fetish is, ahem, Bipartisan . Flashback September 2009: Doubts about “czarism” were expressed long before the Jones dust-up by Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), who wrote to Obama in February that “the rapid and easy accumulation of power by White House staff can

Veto threatened for healthcare repeal
Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 8:01 AM U.S. President Obama will Veto House Republicans' attempt to Repeal the healthcare law if the Repeal Legislation reaches his desk, the administration said. UPI/Olivier Douliery/POOL WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama will Veto House Republicans' attempt to Repeal the healthcare law if the Repeal Legislation reaches his desk, the administration said. In a statement of administration policy released Thursday by the Office of Management and Bud...

The Republicans who should fear the Tea Party the most
Perhaps the biggest lesson of the 2010 Elections is that in the age of Obama, it doesn't take much for a Republican leader to run afoul of the GOP base (aka the Tea Party). Just like they were in the late 1970s, Conservatives are actively engaged in what amounts to a purification campaign, using party nominating contests to Purge (supposed) ideological apostates from the GOP. In '10, this meant surprise defeats for, among others, Sen. Robert Bennett in Utah, Rep. Michael Castle in Delaware,...

Coxs Fashion Advice For Cuomo
(OK, not really, it’s actually a metaphor). State GOP Chairman Ed Cox was on hand for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first State of the State address Wednesday and said the Republicans plan to hold the Democratic Governor’s feet to the fire when it comes to making good on his pledges of Fiscal Conservatism. “The governor stole our clothes, we want to be sure he wears them the right way,” Cox said. Cox said he’s optimistic about the Cuomo era. He also sounded a hopeful ...

Gallup: Plurality, Some Democrats, Support ObamaCare Repeal
As House Republicans take the first step today towards voting on a bill that would Repeal the Abortion-funding ObamaCare bill pro-life groups oppose, a new Gallup Poll finds a plurality of Americans support that effort. Approximately 46 percent of U.S. voters support the Repeal effort, some 40 percent oppose it, and 14 percent say they do not have an opinion yet on repealing the government takeover of the Health Care industry. “Americans’ broadly divided opinions on repealing the hea...

Three Little Words: How Bill Daley Can Be Your Next Hero
Wall Street is widely despised by an American public that lives with the consequences of bank behavior every day. The President and the party were once widely trusted by the public to rein in the banks and save The Economy, but that reputation's been tarnished by the fact that they're now seen as overly cozy with the big financial players. And who can forget those visitor logs that showed just how entwined the Administration and the big banks had become? The choice of a JPMorgan Chase exec to...

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Three Little Words: How Bill Daley Can Be Your Next Hero
Wall Street is widely despised by an American public that lives with the consequences of bank behavior every day. The President and the party were once widely trusted by the public to rein in the banks and save The Economy, but that reputation's been tarnished by the fact that they're now seen as overly cozy with the big financial players. And who can forget those visitor logs that showed just how entwined the Administration and the big banks had become? The choice of a JPMorgan Chase exec to...

Obama's plan to deal with new Congress: Bypass it
In a disturbing trend that should alarm Georgians of both parties, the Obama Administration is increasingly enacting policies through regulatory agencies that Democrats in Congress either cannot or will not pass.  This legality of this tactic is questionable, but without a doubt it circumvents the will of the people and their elected representatives in Congress.  When the people of Georgia, as well as a majority of voters in other states across the country, voted to end the Democratic ...

Sink or Swim: Jobs #s Key For Obama
The uptick was accompanied by a significant drop in the nation’s Unemployment Rate, which slid from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent. “Today’s jobs numbers are proof that our work to bring The Economy back from the brink is beginning to pay off,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement. “The Unemployment rate fell by nearly half a percent, more than 100,000 people have gone back to work and we added double the number of Manufacturing jobs expected. ...