Nancy Pelosi

Lewis Black: Romney's So White He Makes Dubya Look Jamaican!

The comedian kvetches about Mitt and Obama—but cops to being hopeful

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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).

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

"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:

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Happy Days are Here Again!

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

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

Consider the Constitutions of Obama and McCain as You Choose Sides

China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

Getting Our Reputation Back

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

A Walking Call to Impeach Bush Arrives in the East Village

209 Weeks Later

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

Our Human Rights Show

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

Reform School Dropouts

Congress vows changes but makes only a few after Abramoff scandal

The War on Murtha

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

What's the Deal With John Murtha?

The veteran congressman who wants troops out of Iraq

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

Hammer Slammer Ding-Dong

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

The Courting of Bill

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

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

Cults of Personality

Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

Nation

Letters

The Seduction of Bill Clinton

President Jiang Believes He Can Kill or Jail Dissenters