Posts Tagged ‘Nancy Pelosi’
Watching Nancy Pelosi getting interviewed by George Stephanopoulos this morning she seems to support the notion of nationalizing the failing banks, but is uncomfortable with the calling it “nationalization”.
In general I understand why politicians are uncomfortable with terminology that sounds socialist, but in the present context it’s hard to understand the hesitation. This isn’t [...]
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Tags: Banks, Nancy Pelosi, Nationalization, TARP
Not sure it’s still the bold prediction it was when I first imagined it, but here it goes:
Both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner will lose their leadership positions because their management of bailout bill.
Boehner is toast. Nothing he do about it. I can’t imagine the majority of House Republicans that killed the [...]
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Tags: John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi
So the experience of watching Nancy Pelosi and Harold Ford at Netroots Nation has really got me thinking about how you can manage evasive speakers. As I said yesterday the thing I really enjoyed about Netroots Nation how smart and knowledgeable the audience was, however what I didn’t mention was how poorly they confronted Harold [...]
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Tags: Harold Ford, Nancy Pelosi, netroots nation, NN08, Speaking events
In the early afternoon session here at the Netroots Nation conference, I’m listening to Matt Stoller make a strong case that the conference should not have cheered for Nancy Pelosi.
Basically he’s argued that by not booing or otherwise showing our displeasure we’re treating her like royalty. It’s true there are very legitimate grievances against Pelosi. [...]
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Tags: Matt Stoller, Nancy Pelosi, netroots nation, NN08
I’m watching Nancy Pelosi speak currently. I think she’s doing a good job, although the format is clearly designed to help her out by managing the grumpy questions and throwing at a couple of soft ball questions.
One thing I hadn’t heard her say before was that although she voted for the FISA “compromise”, [...]
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Tags: Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, NN08
I read this Editorial on Monday arguing that the way the house passed the SCHIP compromise was counter productive. Basically the Post thinks that rushed the bill though and didn’t really do enough to convince “on the fence” Republicans. I usually am pretty skeptical of the claims that the Dems are really close to picking [...]
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Tags: Democratic Party, House Democrats, House of Representives, Nancy Pelosi, SCHIP, Speaker of the House
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