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Tweet George Orwell, 1984: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Nancy Pelosi, on the unreasonableness of the democratic legislature process: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy. Barack Obama, on the occasion of his 2nd inauguration: [...]

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Tweet A friend wrote to me quite appropriately outraged about the fact that Nancy Pelosi is saying that, if there was a security failure in Benghazi, blame belongs to the Republicans: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on CNN Tuesday attempted to shift the blame for the disastrous handling of the deadly terrorist attack on [...]

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Tweet I’m with American Crossroads, which believes that Joe Biden is just what the Democrat ticket needs: Gravitas! (Giggle, giggle.) I’m suspect, though, that the Democrats themselves are becoming disenchanted with Good Old Joe. Apparently they cast around for the Hillary alternative, only to get a resounding “No!” from a woman who neither wanted to [...]

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Tweet Writing a couple of years ago about the streets of San Francisco, in a post I called “Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco,” I had this to say: Last week, I had occasion to make four separate trips to the City.  Each was unpleasant. The first trip, I got a flat tire from broken glass in [...]

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Tweet Newt made a very good point about his earlier support for an individual mandate when it came to health care:  The Heritage Foundation, as reputable a conservative think tank as one can find, actually thought the idea was a good one.  Then, as Newt did, it backed off when it realized the ramifications: Scott [...]

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Tweet David Axelrod’s talk yesterday included a shout-out to the lovable Nancy Pelosi, whom he feels is unfairly maligned by the Rushes of this world.  Per David, Nancy is not an effete San Francisco liberal.  Instead, she’s a tough political operative — for all the right, i.e., Progressive, reasons, of course — who was trained [...]

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Tweet Nancy Pelosi may be mad at Robert Gibbs for admitting that the upcoming elections aren’t going to result in Democratic gains, but the fact is that she sounds pretty desperate herself in this email I got begging for funds: Midnight tonight is your last chance to contribute to the DCCC before one of the [...]

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Tweet As part of a longer post about the Democrats’ anti-democratic tendencies, Peter Wehner has this to say: If you wanted a sound bite that embodied much of what is wrong with contemporary liberalism, you could do worse than listen to the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on health care: We’ll go through the [...]

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Tweet It wasn’t a huge turn-out, but it was an imaginative, committed, informed turn-out — and that, in the long run, will matter a great deal.  Check out The City Square for photographs of yesterday’s “Sick-In” in San Francisco protesting PelosiCare.

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Tweet That Nancy Pelosi is a pistol.  Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read, to have bills in [...]

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Tweet To protest against the Healthcare Bill, instead of a 60s sit-in, Bay Area Patriots will be having a “SICK-IN” We are sick to death of being ignored; We are sick to death over what the Health Care bill will do to us and our children; We are sick to death having this govt intrude [...]

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Tweet In 1993, Clinton tried to raise taxes.  Bad idea.  In 1995, Gingrich tried to cut Medicare.  Bad idea.  Both of those moves set up a resounding rebuff from voters.  As Kristol explains, Pelosi is setting herself up as a classic overachiever and trying to do both, plus a little bit more: Politicians aren’t altogether [...]

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Tweet The San Francisco Chronicle, although the major newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, is basically fish wrap.  Today’s front page story about the protests at town hall meetings, in just the first few paragraphs, reports as true proven lies: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her chamber home for the summer recess with a [...]

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Tweet It says an enormous amount about Nancy Pelosi’s credibility that the public, by a two to one margin, believes spooks rather than her.

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Tweet Steven Crowder’s Nancy Pelosi impression (love the lipstick, dude) is hysterical:

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Tweet The Politico headlines reveal that the Dems are picking a direct fight with the CIA.  Pelosi says they lied to her, while the Dem leadership is accusing the CIA of breaking laws. My idle question is this:  Is it wise to pick a fight with those who ferret out and keep the secrets?  Bush [...]

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Tweet Richard Cohen, after an opening paragraph in which he basically begs Leftist bloggers not to attack him (“I hate Cheney more than you do”) goes on to do a pretty honest evaluation of the merits of Cheney’s claim that “enhanced interrogation techniques” save lives (and throws in a nice little attack on Pelosi’s embarrassing [...]

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Tweet This morning Mr. Bookworm offered me something:  “Hey!  You want to blog about something Obama’s doing that I don’t like?” I was curious.  “What?” “This Employee Free Choice Act.  What’s up with that?” “That’s been around for a while,” I said.  “It’s one of the platforms on which Obama ran.” He asked, “What do [...]

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Tweet After noting Pelosi’s assurance that millions for STD treatment will help stimulate the economy (or, I might add, at least stimulate some libidos), Mark Steyn has this to say: The more interviews Speaker Pelosi gives explaining how vital the STD industry is to restarting the U.S. economy, the more I find myself hearing “syphilis” [...]

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Tweet This is about the most depressing video I’ve seen in a long time: It’s obvious that the media effectively got its message across — and it’s impressive how unperturbed these voters are by their abysmal ignorance.  The last woman, who is also the most charming, openly professes surprise at her ignorance, but discounts any [...]

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Tweet Was I the only one who found it hysterically funny that Nancy Pelosi, after building a political career on the cult of victimhood — especially women’s victimhood — is now snapping at all those well-trained victimized women to give it up and get with the program? “I think that women, we have to get [...]

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Tweet IBD does an enjoyably neat job of cutting Nancy Pelosi down to size: When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m [...]

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Tweet The story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing.  According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose: There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with [...]

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Tweet My father was a very angry man. At whichever job he had, he was pretty darn certain that management was out to get him. At stores, he knew he was being cheated. My mother always attributed this anger, not to the poverty and dislocation of his youth (placed in an orphanage at 5, refugee [...]

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