Nancy Pelosi

Mr. Cuomo Goes To Washington (To Beg For Cash)

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's got a busy day ahead of him in Washington D.C. -- which includes meetings with White House officials, the House speaker, and the Senate majority leader -- where he'll make the case for New York's need for a $42 billion appropriation to help the state recover from Hur ... More >>

Michael Bloomberg Slams Barack Obama, Mitt Romney On Gun Policies

Immediately after the Aurora, Colo., shootings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded that Pres. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address gun violence. And this morning on "The John Gambling Show with Mayor Mike," Bloomberg continued his call to action and went on the attack, lambasting Obama and Romney for ... More >>

Rep. Barney Frank Breaks Down the Same-Sex Marriage Barrier in Congress

In 1981, as the booming gay culture was being hit with the AIDS epidemic and a rising conservative culture in Washington, Barney Frank, a young Democrat from Massachusetts, entered Congress. Six years later, he became the first elected official on the Hill to voluntarily tell the public about his ho ... More >>

Ted Nugent, I Have Two Movie Roles For You!

Gun-toting rocker Ted Nugent told the National Rifle Association convention that if Barack Obama is reelected, "I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." That kind of veiled threat--even if intended hyperbolically--doesn't generally go over too well with the Secret Service, and I be ... More >>

Jaded NYC Liberals and Progressives Drink to Obama's State of the Union

​It seemed like every archetype of New York liberalism--from your pashima-wearing UWS grannie to the pseudo-anarchist who introduces himself with a PGP -- was out and in rare form Tuesday night. At the Drinking Liberally State of the Union Watch Party at Forum, the drinking wasn't liberal enough ... More >>

Merry Gingrich! Rightbloggers Brighten the Holiday Season with their Big Newt Fight

Maybe it's because of the holidays, but we're learning to stop worrying and love Newtmentum. Amazingly, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looks like the front-runner in the Republican Presidential race. This delights rightbloggers who enjoy Gingrich's cantankerous style. But it's not a ... More >>

Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!)

​Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industry? Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Capitol Hill about bills that would affect those companies. Conflict of interest? Just a teensy ... More >>

Rightbloggers Not Really Enjoying This New York Gay Marriage Thing

Gay marriage has been passed in the New York state legislature, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature will make the Empire State the sixth state to allow same-sex couples to wed. You can imagine how rightbloggers feel about this. A few say they don't mind, but the majority fulsomely display one ... More >>

Rightbloggers Go Alex Jones, Denounce Bipartisan "Ruling Class," Propose Groovy Revolution -- to Elect Republicans

Recently the top Google Trend item -- with "volcanic" traffic -- was "Obama Deception Censored." The phrase relates to filmmaker and Infowars proprietor Alex Jones' claim that his movie Obama Deception had been "erased, obliterated, censored" from YouTube via a hacked password. (He doesn't explai ... More >>

More Songs About Treason And Pork: Here Are Eight Talking Heads Tracks That'd Also Work Great In Political-Campaign Ads

We've been here before. So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without a ... More >>

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" To Get Most Anticlimactic Death Possible

It's finally happening: the White House is officially behind Congressional efforts to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" this week.

The New Tea Party People: Now With Black People (Onstage, Anway), Proud to Teabag, But Still Batshit Insane

There were several Tea Parties on April 15, and rightbloggers who normally have nothing good to say about the "main stream media" (whom they consider biased and/or corrupt) were surprised by relatively flattering coverage from the New York Times, CBS, and other agents of the evil MSM. Perhaps bec ... More >>

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 >>

The Kids are Alright -- Unless They Vote for Ron Paul at CPAC, Say Rightbloggers

The 37th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which took place in D.C. last week, came at a happy time for conservatives, what with the recent election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the increased visibility of the Tea Party movement due to their own recent convention, and a wav ... More >>

Bruce Blakeman to Announce for Senate on Sunday

Maybe Pete King and Susan Molinari haven't got the stomach to run against Kirsten Gillibrand as the Republican candidate for Senate this year, but Bruce Blakeman does. Having floated the possibility in December, he today notifies us that he'll announce formally on Sunday in Valley Stream, his "boyho ... More >>

Senate report: Bush, Rumsfeld let bin Laden get away

​The hot topic in Washington this week is President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point on Tuesday, which is expected to call for deploying 30-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Just ahead of the Sunday news shows, the Senate Foreign Relations committee chaired by John Kerry has releas ... More >>

Rangel Probe Widens, GOP Keeps Up Pressure

Is Charlie Rangel in trouble? The House Ethics Committee has "expanded" its probe of the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, begun this summer, to include his most recent financial disclosure statements, made in August, when he must have known the heat was on and been extra careful about them. ... More >>

Sheikh's PR Push Includes Bus Ads, Facebook, Twitter

A friend sends us this shot of an ad which he claims is appearing "on buses all over town." We don't get around much, so we can't verify that, but we see that the Sheik in question, the Royal Protector of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, hired government relations firm BKSH & Associates in Feb ... More >>

The Acorn Tapes

Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan's West Side, stands up for the Constitution

Rightbloggers, Sarah Palin Celebrate Failure of Obama Hitler Health Care Speech

Congressman Joe Wilson's cry of "Lie!" at President Obama's health care speech had not stopped reverberating in the halls of Congress before rightbloggers declared it a failure. Scared Monkeys refutes Obama's claim that preventative care would save money. "Preventative medicine saves lives, it doe ... More >>

Liveblogging the Obama Health Care Speech

​ 8:05. The look of surprise Hillary Clinton uses when she greets people in crowds makes her look like she's trying to wake herself up. We wonder if she has a callous on her cheek from getting kissed. Whoops, Brian Williams said "death panels" was bogus! Liberalmediabias! Do a shot! 8:11. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Protest the Incivility of Their Gay Treasonous Douchebag Opposition

Last week Michelle Malkin wrote a column, which she also published at her site, called "$%^&*!!: Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama." Her theme was that liberals were uncivil and intolerant; also, mean and profane. Her primary example was the comments of gossip blogger Perez Hilton, not ... More >>

Fox News Gets Mafia Guy to Call Democrats Mobsters, Traitors

In the immortal words of The Simpsons, "The Fox network has sunk to a new low." Here are two Fox News bobbleheads getting mobster/author Michael Franzese to tell them that the Obama Administration is like a crime family. "What do you mean?" asks the female bobblehead. "Extortion?" "I mean just thi ... More >>

Barrett: Another Lame Paterson Decision

It's hard to imagine a dumber political move than David Paterson's decision to call a special election for the upstate congressional district vacated by new U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand than the date the governor picked for it, March 31. It's the day before a disaster state budget is due.And now, ... More >>

Everyone Mad at AIG, Some Murderously So

With Bernie Madoff safely locked away, the nation is turning its righteous indignation toward AIG, which has been taking our tax dollars and giving them to other failed businesses and its own failed executives. Charles Grassley of the senate finance committee suggested those excecutives kill thems ... More >>

Gary Ackerman's blast at SEC? Just theatrics from AIPAC loyalist who once took cash from Bernie Madoff.

Yeah, yeah, blah, blah: Ackerman at last shows interest in the SEC's operations. Congressman Gary Ackerman's rip-snorting attack on the SEC for not catching Bernie Madoff's scam is good entertainment, but it's only bluster to impress his constituents who got took. Still, it's not a bad dog-and-po ... More >>

Rightbloggers Mixed on Gillibrand, Enjoy Discomfort of Liberals

Conservative reaction to the Kirsten Gillibrand appointment thus far has been mixed. Some approve, on the grounds that it will bother liberals. "LIBERAL DEMS HOWL," heds the New York Post. Wake Up America is happy that liberal blogs are unhappy. NewsBusters says the mainstream media's refusal to us ... More >>

Paterson Presents Senator Gillibrand

Your new Senator with Al D'Amato (l.) "So it's August the 14th, 2003," says Governor Paterson, "and I am going to meet a lawyer who is going to be meeting me in an office building in Manhatan." (He wanted her not to run for Congress in '04, as she had planned, but the state senate.) "All the light ... More >>

The New Commander in Chief Can Take on the CIA

Having made history, now for the hard part

Times Joylessly Analyzes Lack of Obama Jokes

Daily Flog: America's King Henry; money bailout for Wall Street but no bailout from Mets' bullpen

Daily Flog: Holy hell on Wall Street; crap-out on Capitol Hill

Daily Flog: Smears and schmears; meltdowns on Wall Street and in the Arctic

The 'W.' Stands for 'War Criminal'

The House and a shot not yet heard 'round the world

Women Politicos Ponder Clinton's Next Move

Dr. John and the Lower 911's City That Care Forgot

Crucial, caustic postcards from New Orleans

The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere

A confederacy of dunces

What the CIA Had to Destroy

The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle

Congress and the Disappeared

Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

We're All Suspects

As our civil liberties disappear, where are the Democrats?

The Torture Doctors

These physicians have a strange way of preserving the American way of life

Blue Wall of Lawlessness

The NYPD has a long-standing reputation for its "excessive" surveillance. Now more than ever.

NY Mirror

The Squeeze Is On

Morning Report 6/21/05
America's Mullahs and Their Moolah

FBI Turned Loose

Privacy rights may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes

Whitewashing Rumsfeld

Circling the wagons around the defense secretary and his commander in chief

Dean Takes Over

Blasted by the pundits, the Democrats' new party chair can't be all bad

Targeting Congress on Torture

Making the Bush team responsible for international crimes against detainees

Genuflecting Before Jiang Zemin

Blood on CEOs’ Profits