Pelosi vows to hang onto House in 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that Democrats’ majority in Congress is not in danger going into the 2010 midterm elections.
Pelosi said that while every election cycle is competitive, and acknowledged the particularly large margin by which Democrats control the House, [...]
The Murfreesboro Republican said, “I have been out front in my opposition to energy tax schemes such as Cap and Trade throughout 2009. With our President jetting off to Denmark to bow at the alter of radical environmentalism and Nancy Pelosi determined to burden us with higher energy [...]
Greg Johnson doesn’t think it matters who the Tennessee Democrats run for Congress:
After all, it really doesn’t matter how conservative a Democrat from Cookeville or Dresden might be. Obama will still be president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the boss of congressional Democrats, and their agenda will still [...]
Speaker Pelosi’s Spendapalooza
The Foundry
Next week Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is expected to attach a provision to the Department of Defense appropriations bill that would increase our national debt limit by $1.925 trillion. This debt limit raise would authorize the U.S. Treasury to borrow as much as $14 [...]
Obamacare is Seriously Unconstitutional
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On October 23rd, a reporter asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?” Speaker Pelosi shook her head and before moving on to another question replied: “Are you [...]
Pelosi Rejects War Surtax Proposal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has all but killed a proposal by senior House Democrats to levy a tax on nearly all Americans to pay for the Afghanistan war.
Pelosi, speaking at her weekly press briefing Thursday on Capitol Hill, said she was “not in support” [...]
The Definition of Economic Insanity
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In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed [...]
