Entries Tagged as 'Nancy Pelosi'

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Cee Dee Ate

The other night when Pima County Democratic Chairman Jeff Rogers read the Republican Primary Results from Congressional District 8, it was like the dropping of the Time Square Ball. Everyone in that room knew it was going to happen, but they were excited anyway.
Jonathan Paton would have been a formidable candidate against Gabrielle Giffords. Both [...]

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Local Man Gets Mentions on National TV

Our own Raúl Grijalva has caused quite a stir by publicly telling Barack Obama that the progressive caucus will not vote for a bill that doesn’t have a public option. The position that he and the progressive caucus have taken apparently caused Nancy Pelosi to later say that she won’t vote for such a [...]

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Kirkpatrick to Homeland Security

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office has announced committee assignments for freshmen. Our own newly elected Ann Kirkpatrick has been assigned to the Homeland Security committee, along with the newly elected Ben Lujan of New Mexico.
This means that Kirkpatrick will have oversight responsibilities for Janet Napolitano’s department. Hrm…
By the way, Kirkpatrick’s website is up. Like all freshman [...]

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Everyone Gets Those Squarish States Confused

So, my mom is watching C-SPAN the other day (yes, she’s one of THOSE), and she sees one of these endless motions to recommit or some such thing. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was elsewhere, so the chamber was presided over by Tammy Baldwin.
“The gentleman from New Mexico, you have two minutes…the gentleman from New Mexico…the gentleman [...]

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

More “Wisdom” From the Aptly Named Mike Barnicle

I suppose I should appreciate Mike Barnicle’s writting, but he sucks as a political commentator. His recent turn as a sub on Hardball was untouched by any knowledge of American political life and the inept questions almost ventured into territory previously explored by The Chris Farley Show.
His political commentary gives us such “gems” as this, [...]

Friday, August 5th, 2005

Speakers, and They Got Extra Quads

Three people spoke at the YDA convention yesterday. Well, more spoke, but they tended to be YDA officers, and why the heck would any of you care about that?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi spoke first. She’s good. The speech was just a run down of what the has been doing to younger folks. She also had good [...]

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