New Petition Backs Up Pelosi On Superdelegates
Today, Open Left and MoveOn are co-sponsoring a new petition to Nancy Pelosi, supporting her position on superdelegates and telling her that we'll back her up when she is threatened.
Today, Open Left and MoveOn are co-sponsoring a new petition to Nancy Pelosi, supporting her position on superdelegates and telling her that we'll back her up when she is threatened.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that they knew key fundraisers for her campaign were sending a letter to Nancy Pelosi, castigating the ...
Matt Littman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
The Speaker won't be the last Democrat threatened by Team Hillary -- a desperate group of people, clinging to the last vestiges of a presumed power. They will come after anyone who dares see things objectively.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Pelosi's silly saber rattle had to rank as one of the most asinine lapses of judgment, common sense, not to mention political ethics by a top Democrat in recent memory.
Oliver Willis | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Pelosi is a figure demanding of respect -- especially from people who are supposed to be her fellow Democrats.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: It doesn't sound like the letter had much effect on Pelosi's attitude towards the nomination. From her press office: Speaker Pelosi is confi...
AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics
CHENGDU, China — China accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of stoking Tibetan unrest to sabotage the Beijing Olympics and also berated House Speake...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Like the hapless characters in Waiting For Godot, America sits and watches in fascination as the Democratic nomination race grinds into yet another ca...
AP | GAVIN RABINOWITZ | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
DHARMSALA, India — Walking arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, the U.S. House speaker lent her support Friday to the Tibetan cause, calling China's ...
CSN News | Monisha Bansal | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Bush's Iraq policy has failed. She spoke in response to comments made last week by Gen. David Pet...
Jon Wiener | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home
The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war is an appropriate moment to revisit Hillary Clinton's argument in favor of authorizing Bush's use of force, and to contrast it with the case made at the time by Bush's opponents.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it would be damaging to the Democratic party for its leaders to buck the will of national conventio...
Will Bower | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home
Barack Obama -- for all his many strengths and merits -- is no longer an electable candidate in his 2008-bid for the White House. That's why, Senator Edwards, you need to through your weight behind Clinton now.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...
Talking Points Memo | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responding to the president's remarks this morning that the House bill will "undermine America's security": QUESTIO...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
The Democratic presidential ticket will be a "Dream Team," Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, it just won't have both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's name...
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home
The conventional media wisdom (oxymoron?) is that Hillary Clinton's March 4th resurgence in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas (well, initially in Texas) stanched the flow of superdelegates to Barack Obama.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media
I'm glad to see Keith is willing to criticize liberals. I was concerned that he had become the left's answer to O'Reilly: yet another egotistical windbag, who confuses his position as an entertainer with journalist.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.
CNN | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
The House voted Tuesday to create an outside ethics office with the authority to investigate perceived ethical misconduct by its members. The 229-182...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
Via Politico: Nancy Pelosi tells Boston TV that a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton ticket is "impossible." "I think that the Clinton administration ha...
David Bender | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Those halcyon days when you could eviscerate an opponent on Monday and lock arms with him (or her) on Wednesday are long gone. EVERYTHING sticks.
San Francisco Chronicle | Zachary Coile | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged both leading Democratic presidential candidates to cease their bickering, warning that the escalating rhetoric could ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most prominent Catholic serving in the U.S. government, called on Sen. John McCain to reject the endorsement of Texas televa...
Marshall Grossman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
Hillary, Barack: this cannot continue to be about you. One of you is going to have to take one for the team, and it has to be soon.
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Mike Lux | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics