John Boehner’s nemesis Nancy Pelosi did an “Ask the Leader” panel at Netroots Nation today; there’s a Storify about it here. Here’s Dave Weigel’s take: Netroots Nation hasn’t been overly defined by security issues, and it hasn’t centered around massive keynote speeches. The exceptions came during the Saturday lunch session, when activists grabbed Sierra Club-sponsored …
NANCY SMASH!
The Best Part About the Farm Bill Fail
The absolute best part of the farm bill failing is that an actual House leader who can actually count the votes in her caucus told Boehner yesterday that this would happen: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor shortly before the vote on McGovern’s amendment and urged Democrats to vote for it, …
Nancy Smash! Boehner Owned Edition
I’m trying not to blog for a bit while I get through some of that stuff that they call “work.” But this, via TPM, is both too delicious and too catastrophically on point not to notice. In an interview with Chris Hayes, Nancy Pelosi assessed the performance of her successor as Speaker, delivering the results …
Late Night Open Thread: Nancy Not Smash — Just Yet
A little Masshole self-indulgence, here. Per Janet Wu at Boston’s WCVB (Ch.5), “Pelosi not taking sides in special election“: BOSTON —House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Thursday sidestepped questions about the special democratic US Senate primary between two of her colleagues. Pelosi was in Boston to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the family medical leave act. …
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Raising the Minimum Wage (Good for Nancy Pelosi)
Via Travis Waldron at ThinkProgress: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called on Republican House leadership to take up legislation recently introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) that would raise the federal minimum wage above $10 an hour. Miller and Harkin announced the bill, which would set the minimum …
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Don’t Make Nancy Mad. Just Don’t
I rather think John Boehner may still be feeling a sharp, shooting pain radiating from his groin. Consider this shot, delivered last night: “I don’t understand that because he’s a gentleman, the speaker is,” Pelosi said in an interview with CNN published Wednesday. “But that remark [on the President’s “weakness”] was — I mean, it …
Early Morning Open Thread: I Love A Woman Who Knows What’s What
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) __ Now that Senator Elizabeth Warren (I still loving saying that) looks to be joining the Senate Banking Committee, here’s a look back to an interview she did with Charlie Pierce for Esquire before the election: CHARLES P. PIERCE: How did we get back again …
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