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New Petition Backs Up Pelosi On Superdelegates

Mike Lux | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Mike Lux

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.

Sam Stein

Clinton Campaign Stands By Harsh Letter To Pelosi

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 ...

Now, Team Hillary Goes After Speaker Pelosi

Matt Littman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Matt Littman

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.

Pelosi Should Recant, then Zip It Up on Pumping Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

Just Who Do These Rich Clinton Donors Think They Are?

Oliver Willis | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Oliver Willis

Pelosi is a figure demanding of respect -- especially from people who are supposed to be her fellow Democrats.

Clinton Donors Object to Pelosi Comment

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...

China Blasts Dalai Lama, Pelosi on Tibet

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...

Friday Talking Points [24] -- Which Side Are You On?

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Like the hapless characters in Waiting For Godot, America sits and watches in fascination as the Democratic nomination race grinds into yet another ca...

Nancy Pelosi Meets With Dalai Lama, Denounces China's Crackdown

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 ...

AEI's Michael Rubin: Pelosi Wants "Rwanda-Like Genocide" In Iraq

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...

Clinton's Iraq Vote -- Five Years Later

Jon Wiener | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home


Jon Wiener

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.

Pelosi's Delegate Stance Boosts Obama

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...

Dear John: It's Now Time to Endorse Hillary

Will Bower | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home


Will Bower

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.

Friday Talking Points [23]

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

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...

Pelosi: "The President Is Wrong And He Knows It"

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...

Nancy Pelosi: No Dream Ticket -- "Take It From Me"

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...

Key Endorsements Could Avert Superdelegate Crisis At Convention

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home


Nathaniel Bach

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.

The Olbermann Factor

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media


Allison Kilkenny

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.

A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

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.

House Votes For Independent Ethics Office

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...

Pelosi: Dream Ticket "Impossible" After Clinton's Commander In Chief Statements

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...

Dear Al: It's Time to Put That Nobel Prize to Work

David Bender | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics


David Bender

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.

Pelosi Tells Obama, Clinton: Quit Yer Bickering

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 ...

Nico Pitney

Pelosi Blasts McCain Over Anti-Catholic Pastor

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...

Clinton, Obama: A Modest Proposal in Lieu of a Badly Wrecked Train

Marshall Grossman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics


Marshall Grossman

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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