Saturday, November 6, 2010

What do you have to do to make Nancy Pelosi go away? Voting her out did not seem to work.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Pelosi: 'I Am Running for Democratic Leader'

Published November 05, 2010

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Bucking speculation that she would step down after her Democratic Party suffered a "shellacking" in Tuesday'selection, outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will run for minority leader in the next Congress.

In a letter sent to Democratic House members Friday, Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, said she made the decision to run based on recommendations from her colleagues and her desire to continue the legislative work started during her tenure.

"Driven by the urgency of protecting health care reform, Wall Street reform, and Social Security and Medicare, I have decided to run," the letter reads.

Despite her party's loss of more than 60 congressional seats to Republicans, Pelosi was adamant that the legislative accomplishments of the House under her leadership would remain intact.

"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back. It is my hope that we can work in a bipartisan way to create jobs and strengthen the middle class," her letter continued.

Many on Capitol Hill have speculated that Pelosi, 70, who has held the No. 1 job in Congress since January 2007, would resign from the leadership, paving the way for the current No. 2, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to take the top job.

Hoyer announced he is still weighing whether to run for the minority whip post.

"Mr. Hoyer has a lot of support from the caucus. He'll spend the next few days talking to members and seeing if he can stay in leadership as whip," said Hoyer spokesman Dan Reilly.

But in what could be a squeeze play, the Maryland Democratcould find himself running against House Majority Whip James Clyburn. The minority party has one fewer leadership post than the majority in the House.

Rep. John Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, announced he will run to keep his post.

Earlier Friday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said he is stepping down as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a common move after one or two terms in the grueling position of getting members elected.

Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., one of the most conservative Democrats in the House and a member of the Blue Dog caucus, told Fox News on Friday he could not "in good conscience support Pelosi" if she were to run.

But the National Republican Campaign Committee welcomed Pelosi's announcement "based on her proven ability to create jobs for Republican lawmakers."

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result," NRCC spokesman Ken Spain said in a statement. "Of course, if House Democrats are willing to sacrifice more of their members in 2012 for the glory of Nancy Pelosi, we are happy to oblige them."

Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Obama's Pricey Asia Trip

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has blasted the White House for what she calls “over-the-top” spending on President Obama’s upcoming trip to Asia.

Obama leaves Friday on a trip that begins in India and will also take him to Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. Reports are circulating that the president and his entourage of about 3,000 officials, business people, journalists, and security personnel will spend some $200 million a day during his 4-day visit to India, which would put the tab for the entire trip well over $1 billion.

“We have never seen this sort of an entourage going with the president before,” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired on Wednesday.

“And I think this is an example of the massive overspending that we’ve seen, not only just in the last two years, really in the last four.”

bachman, obama, asia, trip, expense

Britain’s Daily Mail reported that the trip will involve 40 aircraft and six armored cars, including a black Cadillac with its own communications center that will transport Obama during his visit to India, with planned stops in Mumbai and New Delhi.

Some 500 American security personnel have reportedly been in India for weeks preparing for the presidential visit.

There is even a report in India that the United States will move a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, into position to patrol the sea lanes off the coast of Mumbai during Obama’s stay.

Commenting on the reported costs of the trip, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said: “Due to security concerns, we are unable to outline details associated with security procedures and costs, but it’s safe to say these numbers are wildly inflated.”

But several sources including The Telegraph in Britain are reporting that security measures in India are so extensive that all coconuts on trees near Mumbai’s Gandhi museum, one of the sites Obama will visit, are being removed.
Falling coconuts injure or even kill people in India every year. “We told the authorities to remove the dry coconuts from trees near the building,” an official at the museum told the BBC. “Why take a chance?”

Bailey Comment:
Why would you be surprised at the above story? My new name for Obama is, President Obama Spendaholic. This man and his wife has been spending our tax dollars like a kid in a candy store since he's been in office!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Can You Really Trust Them?

Can the American People really trust the voter polls? Two of the most hated and despised politicians in the government are still in office even after the majority of people wanted them out. Whenever you have a state that is run by the big unions, I would never trust anything that was voted on when they're involved! It is a impossibility that Harry Reid & Barney Frank should have been re-elected to office unless there was illegal activities going on. The first thing the Republicans should do is investigate voter fraud on these two guys.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

One more chance!

OK Republicans! Americans are giving you one more chance to get it right! We have started to clean up our government as you know by voting out the politicians that did not listen to us in the beginning. We did not get all of you this time but 2012 is right around the corner. Politicians like Barney Frank think they are safe now and that they can keep up their crap, but we'll get you the next time around.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Obama pulls back on 'enemies' remark to Latinos

By JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writer – Mon Nov 1, 7:51 pm ET

WASHINGTON – A day before the pivotal midterm elections, President Barack Obama pulled back from remarks he made last month when he called on Latino voters to punish their "enemies" on Election Day. In an interview Monday with radio host Michael Baisden, Obama said he should have used the word "opponents" instead of enemies.

Republicans were quick to criticize the president's remarks. HouseMinority Leader John Boehner was expected to use Obama's words in an election eve speech in Ohio to paint the president as a staunch partisan.

"Sadly, we have a president who uses the word 'enemy' for fellow Americans, fellow citizens. He used it for people who disagree with his agenda of bigger government," Boehner said, according to prepared remarks released in advance of his speech.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Get Out And Vote!

Tomorrow will be the chance to get out and vote to take back your country! Everyone who is tired of all the dishonesty in our government needs to hit the polls. If you do not then you have given control of your life over to idiots that spend most of their time in a wonder world watching stupid shows on TV like David Letterman and Comedy Central. These are the kind of people that Obama is counting on to keep himself in power. But you and only you can stop this crap by taking a few minutes out tomorrow to vote!