TagsTagsAfter Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders called on him to resign, a spokeswoman for Congressman Anthony Weiner announced today that he'll be entering a "treatment center," and has requested a leave of absence from the House of Representatives.
Just in: House Democrats have re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader. After a closed-door vote, House Democrats have re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader for the next Congress. The vote ended at 150-43.
Nancy Pelosi is calling for an investigation into who's funding the Bigot Brigade. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she supports an investigation of groups opposing the building of a mosque near ground zero in New York. Pelosi told San Francisco’s KCBS radio that “there is no question there is ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Cordoba House, Mosque, Manhattan, Islam, Bigotry, Nancy Pelosi
Instantly classic video blogging from the Hawk del Iowa. [Video]
Economy, Budget, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Auto Industry, Humor, Iowahawk
Charles Krauthammer’s previous column provoked several angry responses from other pundits, and today he responds: The Torture Debate, Continued. This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to divulge ...
Obviously, Nancy Pelosi can’t continue to stick to her story that she was “never told” that the CIA was using waterboarding on a few detained terrorists, now that documents have been released showing that she was briefed on it. So now she says the CIA lied to her. House Speaker Nancy ...
In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Nancy Pelosi has changed her story again; now she says she was briefed on waterboarding—but she was told the CIA wasn’t going to use it. Candy Crowley — a tough, well-informed and underrated interviewer — kicked it off by asking the Speaker about ...
Did you know that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes that 500 million people are losing jobs in America every month? No? That’s because the media are doing their best to ignore it.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Nancy Pelosi
Blinky’s up next with her opening day speech to Democratic convention, and here’s a thread for persiflage.
LGF, Denver, democratic convention, recreate 68, Moonbats, Progressives, Nancy Pelosi
Pro-Syria summer camp starts in Golan. A pro-Syria summer camp for Druse children has started on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, it was reported on Thursday. Syrian flags could be seen in the footage, aired by Channel Two, and children were heard proudly singing the Syrian national anthem. The kids were ...
The Democrats are supporting the troops again. Canadian troops. And it isn’t the first time this has happened.
A member of the Syrian parliament has confirmed to Al Jazeera TV that Syria is arming its military to fight a war with Israel, expected to break out this summer. A member of the Syrian parliament, Muhammad Habash, confirmed on Tuesday that his country was actively preparing for war with Israel, ...
In the New York Observer of all places, an article that looks honestly at what it meant for reformists in the Middle East when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Syria, donned a veil, and praised dictator Bashar Assad as a man of peace: After Pelosi’s Syria Visit, Dissidents Cower. DAMASCUS, SYRIA—House ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whirlwind shadow diplomacy tour of the Middle East is already showing results: Syria: Accept Arab initiative or we’ll resort to violence. Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal threatened on Monday evening to return the Golan Heights to Syrian hands “by way of resistance If Israel [rejected] the Arab ...
Syria, Bashar Assad, Israel, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats
At Iran’s Fars News Agency (where they think nothing of faking photographs for propaganda purposes) we discover that a warm reception awaits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. No link because the Fars News web site is known to attempt various browser exploits. TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Vice Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s ...
The MEMRI Blog has a translated report from Egyptian daily Al-Masryoon that Democrats have invited the Muslim Brotherhood to visit the United States and speak to Congress. It just keeps getting worse; even though it’s a report from Egypt, I have little doubt that it’s accurate. Not only are they setting ...
At Reason Magazine, Michael Young (whose article for the Lebanon Daily Star we linked yesterday) has a look at reactions to Nancy Pelosi’s shadow diplomacy tour of the Middle East: Piling into Pelosi. As part of the article, he cites LGF approvingly: In the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes got a few good ...
Nancy Pelosi, Middle East, Terrorism, LGF, Leftists, Moonbats
Nancy Pelosi says she was helping President Bush, and “strengthening ties” with Syria. Ties. With Syria. Savor that one for a few moments. Pelosi: Mideast Trip Strengthened Ties. WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deflecting White House criticism of her trip to Syria, said Friday she thinks the mission helped President Bush ...
Syria, Bashar Assad, Israel, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats
The Speaker of the House is getting rave reviews for her appearances in the Middle East—from Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria Wednesday – in which she called for dialogue with Damascus – was “brave” and “very appreciated” and could bring ...
Nancy Pelosi, Middle East, Terrorism, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Militant Islam, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
Al-Reuters won’t call Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a terror-supporting tool of Iran, but they will call him ... a Republican? (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Damascus, April 4, 2007. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters) Maybe they mean to indicate that he’s the one ...
Syria, Bashar Assad, Israel, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Reuters
A Eurokid at Daily Kos pens a paean to Nancy Pelosi, who, for a brief, shining moment, brought hope back into the poor moonbat’s benighted existence, by sitting down with the corrupt thuggish leader of a terrorist state and showing genuine empathy: Daily Kos: Let’s Give Up A Moment For ...
Syria, Bashar Assad, Israel, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Daily Kos, Moonbats
Not even the Washington Post will defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s disgraceful trip to Syria, or her ludicrous statements about Syria’s readiness for “peace:” Pratfall in Damascus. “We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” Ms. Pelosi grandly declared. Never mind that that ...
Syria, Bashar Assad, Israel, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats
Israel-hating terrorist supporter Jimmy Carter, possibly the weakest president the US has ever had, thinks Nancy Pelosi is the cat’s pajamas: Carter backs Pelosi’s trip, despite Bush’s rebuke.
House Democrats, in a move remarkably reminiscent of the European Union, have finally done away with terrorism. No, not the act, silly. The word. No more GWOT, House committee decrees. The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war ...
Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Appeasement, Syria, Terrorism, Assad, GWOT