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Nancy Pelosi

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Occupy Wall Street, Kind Of

    video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The dreaded political co-opting of Occupy Wall Street began in earnest yesterday when Nancy Pelosi appeared on Christiane Amanpour's Sunday morning show and (kind of) lent support to the Zuccotti campers. "I support the message to the establ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Debt Deal a "Sugar-Coated Satan Sandwich," Says Congressman

    ​After a night of looking at the debt agreement deal, Democratic leaders and pundits are coming to terms with its right-leaning slant. Despite this, it will still probably pass today. President Obama said that this isn't the deal he would have preferred. Without new tax revenues, many lawmaker ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Anthony Weiner Resigns for Real, Effective at Midnight

    ​Sexting congressman Anthony Weiner said he'd call it quits from the House of Representatives back on Thursday, explaining that the "distraction [he] created" -- with his penis, mostly -- makes his work "impossible." Today came the official letter, addressed to New York Secretary of State Cesa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Anthony Weiner to Resign, Reports New York Times

    According to a breaking news alert from the New York Times, disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner is set to resign over his sexting scandal. ​The Times reports that Weiner "came to the conclusion that he could no longer serve after having long discussions with his wife, Huma Abedin," who had returned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Weiner Is Stepping Down

    ​He won't "stick it out" anymore. That's what the congressman is telling friends, according to the New York Times. The lies, the scandals, and the pressure from the President and Nancy Pelosi have prompted a disgraced exit for this guy with big balls (and the balls to show them).

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2011

    Nancy Pelosi, Other Top Democrats Call For Anthony Weiner's Resignation (Update)

    ​Though she's heretofore stopped short of calling for Anthony Weiner to resign, Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi is changing her tune in light of allegations that Weiner corresponded with a teenage girl online. She and other top Democrats -- Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Gabrielle Giffords Is a Woman: Here's Why It Matters

    ​On Wednesday night, four days after being shot through the head, Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords opened her eyes. Along with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, she was surrounded by a group of women whom she considers both friends and mentors, including New York Senator Kirsten Gillibran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Gabrielle Giffords Opened Her Eyes

    ​In a speech full of heart-wrenching moments last night, President Obama went off script to describe the condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head on Saturday in Arizona by Jared Loughner. "Gabby opened her eyes," announced the president. "So I can tell you, she knows we a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    But Really, Is It Okay for Men to Cry?: A Retrospective

    ​Following House Speaker-designate John Boehner's Sir-Weeps-a-Lot moment on 60 Minutes recently, along with the salty, flowing waves of 2010 man-tears (including Charlie Rangel's please don't censure me sobs and Chris Brown's spontaneous waterworks at a Michael Jackson tribute), the Today Show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Lady Gaga Tops Pelosi and Sotomayor on Power List

    ​Forbes magazine has named Lady Gaga the seventh most powerful women on the planet, topping House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor. This is an outrage! Gaga should have been higher! Maybe even at number one, above their actual choice, Michelle Obama. After all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Howard Fineman and the Harmans: a Match Made in Journo-Political Hog Heaven

    ​It's one thing for a reporter to have a billionaire in his pocket and pick his own next owner. It's another for the reporter, Newsweek's esteemed Howard Fineman, to have pocketed the billionaire by boosting his wife in print for years. I went to the Columbia Journalism dinner in 2006 when Fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    A Presidential Menu; a Caveman's Kitchen Tool

    This week in food blogs ... Grub Street found out what President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi ate at the $15,000-a-plate Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner at the St. Regis. Eater learned firsthand just how hard it is to get into Provocateur without a reservation ... even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Top Chef: Washington, D.C. Promises Us Eric Ripert, Three New York Chefs, Bad Dreads, and an Occasional Cross-Dresser

    BravoIt's called the Oral Office, Beavis.​So close, yet so far: Bravo today announced that there is but little more than a month remaining until the premiere of Top Chef: Washington, D.C., which will premiere on June 16. Season Seven already has a few things going for it, including three New Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Gary Vee Flying High with Virgin America; White Dog Has Its Day

    ​Gary Vaynerchuk designed Virgin America's new in-flight wine program, and his Wine Library TV show is slated to be aired during flights. In addition, an in-flight wine tasting with the online wine personality is planned for the summer in First Class. [PR Newswire] White dog, or unaged whiske ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Video: Barack Obama's Health Care Speech Crashed by Childlike Lost White House Staffer

    ​Remember that movie Labyrinth where David Bowie and a bunch of Muppets torture Jennifer Connelly with a giant maze and musical numbers? Apparently the White House is kinda like that.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Rightbloggers Agree: Passage of Health Care Bill an Affront to Jesus

    Jim Hoft's obstreperous Gateway Pundit blog is associated with the conservative Catholic magazine site First Things. That may seem odd to those of us who know Hoft best for his non-sectarian ravings against Pepsi Cola and Honest Tea as "in the tank" for President Obama or, more recently, items like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Eric Massa: The Final Indignities

    Saturday Night Live got on the Massa thing, and even hauled in Jerry Seinfeld for the snorkeling jokes. Other late coverage has similarly devolved to the fanciful. Queerty asks "Why Does Every Cable News Chatfest About Rep. Eric Massa Have to Suck So Bad?" and notices that Bill Press, one of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    41 is the New 51: Why America's Political Numeracy Crisis Continues

    ​We were kidding (to the apparent mystification of some of our readers), but this front page item from the Philadelphia Metro discovered by Atrios shows the impression persists that Scott Brown's election, which turned the Democratic Senate advantage from 60-40 to 59-41, is actually the dawn o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    "May The Holidays Bring An Oscar for Mo'Nique...

    ​And a pawn shop willing to give her equal value for it." That's what the holiday card from the famed comedy club Carolines on Broadway says, among other things. And here are some of the other things:

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Good Morning, Kellesimone Waits, Whose Paintings, Given That She Is Tom Waits' Daughter, Are Every Bit As Perverse As You Might Expect

    ​Here we have Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, part of Power Plays, a new exhibit of Kellesimone's work at a gallery in, uh, Santa Monica. The Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paintings are way more intense. They're on view until January 2nd. Recommended for political junkies and/or s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2009

    Next-day stories

    Brian Schroeder, 26, turned himself in to police yesterday evening in connection with yesterday's fire in the 9/11 Memorial Chapel. Police sources tell the Post that Schroeder, a texan-born graduate of Duke and Harvard Law, may have set the fire on a drunken dare. Yesterday's 5-alarm fire destroy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Gigantic Health Care Bill Here for You to Not Read

    ​Here it is, folks, all 1,990 pages of it -- the House of Representatives' Health Care Bill, which was unloaded today by Nancy Pelosi. It is said to be "very similar" to the Senate version now working, which may speed reconciliation sufficiently that we may have a finished product by the time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Latest Rightblogger Rumor: Pelosi Will Ban Fox News from Congress

    A story floated by Glenn Beck claiming Nancy Pelosi is preparing to ban Fox News reporters from "the halls of Congress" has made its way to the pages of Hugh Hewitt and other citizen journalists. "Talk about an abuse of power!" cries In My Opinion. "Has Nancy Pelosi lost her mind," asks Patriot Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Say Something Nice

    Gossip boards like this one so often become forums for venting and kvetching, and that's fine--in fact, that's my bread and rancid butter. But just for once--just for one teeny, tiny second--let's reflect favorably on the world and post a nice thought or two. Anything nice, as long as it's not sarca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Special Stuffed Peppers

    Three people who bought peppers at a Queens store last night discovered they were stuffed with bags of cocaine. [NY Post]Whole Foods and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a settlement in the Wild Oats case.[Triangle Business Journal]Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Democratic House Spea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Post Chimp Drama Persists, Rightbloggers Leap to Defense

    People are still mad about Post cartoonist Sean Delonas' comparison of the recently slaughtered Travis the Chimp to someone connected to the stimulus bill who may or may not be Barack Obama. Al Sharpton has called for a boycott, picketers have appeared at the Post HQ, etc. Rightbloggers have struck ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Rightbloggers Celebrate Obama's Defeat on the Stimulus

    The stimulus bill made it through both houses of Congress and awaits the President's signature. Its passage required nearly all available Democratic votes and a handful of Republican ones in the Senate. Considering how some of Bill Clinton's first encounters with Congress went, despite Clinton's m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Pelosi Drops the "N" Word, Others Contemplate Bank Takeovers

    On "This Week" at ABC, Nancy Pelosi raised the dreaded specter of nationalization, which is what Castro did and fellow socialist Truman tried to do. "If we are strengthening [the banks]" with taxpayer TARP investment, she said, "then the American people should get some of the upside of that strength ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Albany Cools toward Kennedy, Catches Gillibrand Fever

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    At Forum, Maloney "Absolutely" Wants Clinton Seat, Pelosi Defends Rangel, Palin

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Happy Days are Here Again!

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    Edible News Roundup: Padma's Not a Gold Digger; Obama's New Chef

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    Daily Flog: The Wall Street bear, the Capitol Hill bull; Kucinich irrelevant but his bailout plan isn't

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2008

    Consider the Constitutions of Obama and McCain as You Choose Sides

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2008

    China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

    The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

  • News

    January 22, 2008

    Getting Our Reputation Back

    People around the world who aren’t our enemies now distrust us as allies

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2007

    A Walking Call to Impeach Bush Arrives in the East Village

    People around the world who aren’t our enemies now distrust us as allies

  • Film

    May 1, 2007

    209 Weeks Later

    War on zombies, war on terror, what's the diff? Killer 28 Days sequel draws the parallel

  • News

    January 9, 2007

    Our Human Rights Show

    Countries abusing their prisoners say they are following America's practices

  • News

    January 17, 2006

    Reform School Dropouts

    Congress vows changes but makes only a few after Abramoff scandal

  • News

    November 29, 2005

    The War on Murtha

    Congressman's theatrics about Iraq spark a new fracas out in the lobby

  • News

    November 15, 2005

    What's the Deal With John Murtha?

    The veteran congressman who wants troops out of Iraq

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2005

    Morning Report 9/28/05
    Barney Fife on Capitol Hill

    The veteran congressman who wants troops out of Iraq

  • News

    September 27, 2005

    Hammer Slammer Ding-Dong

    Merry Christmas! There is a G-D! And other reactions to the Tom DeLay criminal indictment

  • News

    March 29, 2005

    The Courting of Bill

    Busting that GOP dream plot: shut out Hillary by appointing hubby to Supreme Court

  • News

    March 29, 2005

    While Hillary Drifts Along, Other Women Move On Up in Congress

    Busting that GOP dream plot: shut out Hillary by appointing hubby to Supreme Court

  • Film

    March 11, 2003

    Cults of Personality

    Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

  • News

    November 12, 2002

    Nation

    Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

  • Specials

    June 13, 2000

    Letters

    Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

  • News

    July 28, 1998

    The Seduction of Bill Clinton

    President Jiang Believes He Can Kill or Jail Dissenters

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