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Gingrich: Pelosi Not Good Enough Liar to Be Speaker

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.20.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lashed out today at the current Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, calling the congresswoman unfit to be Speaker of the House "because she's not a good enough liar."

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MSNBC's Slippery Fishing Expedition

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

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Stephen C. Rose

MSNBC, for taking a tempest in a teapot and trying to gin up a coup, a further slide down an already slippery slope.

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Feinstein Defends Pelosi; Says CIA Briefings Are Intentionally Vague

Roll Call | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday became the latest high-profile Democrat to defend Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) fr...

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Green News Report - May 7, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Fires and bats and bears -- Oh My!; Congress to offer Cash For Clunkers; Some Democrats side with Republicans in stalling cli...

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Pelosi the Hawk

Stephen Zunes | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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Stephen Zunes

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has steadfastly stood by her insistence that the U.S.-backed Israeli government has no legal or moral responsibility for the tragic consequence of the war.

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Pelosi Favors Probe Modeled On Pecora Commission

Bloomberg | Mark Pittman and Laura Litvan | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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Wall Street may be heading for the deepest investigation of its practices since a congressional panel's probe of abuses following the 1929 stock marke...

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Pelosi Calls For Pecora-Style Commission

Swampland | Jay Newton-Small | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she'd like to form a Pecora-style commission to investigate what happened on Wall Street that perpetrated the fi...

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Pelosi Wall Street Probe In The Works

San Francisco Gate | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying that the American people are demanding "discipline and accountability" after the multibillion-dollar fed...

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Conservative Group Resuscitates Old Pelosi Plane Smear

Progress Illinois | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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As some may remember, the right-wing manufactured a controversy in early 2007 around the notion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was regularly commande...

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Top Dem Strategist Leaves Politics to Lobby for Utility Industry

Josh Nelson | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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Josh Nelson

Brian Wolff's new job at the Edison Electric Institute, at least ostensibly, is to make it difficult for his former bosses to succeed on energy policy.

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GOP Rep: "Our Goal Is To Bring Down Approval Numbers" For Dems

The Plum Line | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy...

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GOP Finding Pelosi An Elusive Target

Politico | Glenn Thrush | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans have met the enemy -- and she isn't Nancy Pelosi. As Democrats settle in on Rush Limbaugh as their Man in Black, GOP leaders are co...

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Gordon Brown To Address Congress

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will address a joint-session of Congress next Wednesday, March 4...

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Obama Right to Resist Left Turn

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home

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Jim Jaffe

Public consensus takes a long time to get. But it is worth waiting for if the goal is a lasting result.

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Pope Tells Pelosi To Reject Abortion Support

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in America, and told her Wednesday...

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Pelosi To Meet With Pope Benedict

AFP | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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Visiting US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during her weeklong visit to Italy, a Vatican o...

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New Connections Will Pave the Road to Economic Recovery

Sara K. Gould | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Sara K. Gould

Why do we not take action to realize the potential economic contributions of half our population as we prepare to spend billions of dollars to stimulate the economy?

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Poll: Stimulus Backed By 66 Percent Of Americans

Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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A new Diageo-Hotline Poll finds that 66 percent of Americans, when provided with specific details, support the current proposed stimulus package. That...

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Do Contraceptives Stimulate the Economy?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Linda Bergthold

There has been a lot of damage done to family planning funding over the past eight years. However, this may not be the right issue around which to have the battle.

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Congress May Soon Freeze Salaries

Politico | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama's decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do -- bloc...

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Pelosi On Obama: "Let Him Lead"

MyDD | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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On Wednesday morning, January 21, I had the opportunity to sit down with the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to talk about Barack...

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Pelosi Draws Her Lines With Obama

Politico | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi call her a grand master at "three-level chess" -- a skilled politician who games out her complex relationships wi...

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Pelosi Reached Out To Ted Haggard After Sex Scandal

U.S. News And World Report | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor and National Association of Evangelicals president felled by a gay sex and drugs scandal in 2006, says that House S...

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Pelosi's Power Reigns Supreme: 'Even Gingrich Pales In Comparison'

Politico | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

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As Pelosi enters her third year as speaker, by any measure, she has become the most powerful woman in U.S. political history and is now preparing to w...

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Impeachment: Key to Dems' Win in November

Rob Kall | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

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Rob Kall

Impeachment hearings would finally show that the Congress is doing its job -- protecting the constitution -- and it will very likely cause a drastic bump in the ratings for the Dems in congress.

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