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Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Newt’s a Fighter, No Doubt About That!

By Jim Geraghty
Newt Gingrich, when you do stuff like this (HT: Ace of Spades), I almost forget all my doubts about your abilities as the GOP nominee: “One of these days we’ll have . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich

Relax, Mr. President, Pelosi Says All the Polls Are Wrong.

By Jim Geraghty
From a new profile of Nancy Pelosi in the New Yorker: “Pelosi rarely watches television, except for sports, and she hasn’t watched any of the Republican Presidential-candidate debates. She believes . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi

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Americans: We Don’t Have Much Faith in Anybody Right Now

By Jim Geraghty
I know it will come as an enormous shock to you, but the Washington Post found that Americans don’t have much faith in any figure in Washington to resolve the . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi

Yawn. Another Bold Prediction From Nancy Pelosi.

By Jim Geraghty
I understand that when Nancy Pelosi predicts that Democrats will do well in upcoming elections, reporters probably have to mention it in their coverage. But how the prediction justifies headlines, . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

A Madlib Statement From a Mad Lib

By Jim Geraghty
Can you think of a bad thing, a key voter demographic, a good thing, and some group designated to be villains by the Democratic party? Then you too can write Nancy . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

New DCCC Head: Yes, We Want Pelosi to Be Speaker Again

By Jim Geraghty
The NRCC is giddy this morning: Dem campaign chief: Goal is making Pelosi Speaker again House Democrats’ goal is to make Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) the Speaker of the House again, their campaign . . .

Tags: DCCC, Nancy Pelosi, NRCC, Steve Israel

Stand in Awe of the Power of Delusion

By Jim Geraghty
Two notes from today’s Morning Jolt, the first under Speaker Boehner . . . From Nancy the Fancy to Boehner the Saner No matter what you think of John Boehner, there was . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

19 Democrats Vote to Avoid Seeing Nancy Pelosi in Ads in 2012

By Jim Geraghty
It is helpful to the National Republican Congressional Committee that some incumbent House Democrats publicly self-identified that they were extremely vulnerable if they’re tied to Nancy Pelosi. It appears there are . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi’s Reign: Least Popular Congresses in Decades

By Jim Geraghty
Not sorry to see you go! Gallup: The 111th Congress received an average 25% approval rating from Americans over the course of 2009 and 2010. While this is similar to the 23% average . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Early Suggestions for Time’s Person of the Year Are… Who?

By Jim Geraghty
Via Politico: TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year panel, held last evening at the Time & Life Building in New York, featured Meghan McCain, Wyclef Jean, Marissa Mayer, Joe Trippi and Daisy . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

The Only Letters That Stop Pelosi Are G, O, and P

By Jim Geraghty
From this morning’s Jolt: If House Democrats’ Mass Extinction Event Didn’t Deter Pelosi, a Letter Won’t Stop Her Interesting and amusing, but ultimately irrelevant, I think: “FOX has obtained a letter being . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Bad News, Leader Pelosi. The In-Flight Movie Is ‘An American Carol.’

By Jim Geraghty
A reader wonders just how badly Nancy Pelosi wants to be House Minority Leader: “Let’s see how she feels after a year or so of flying on (shudder) commercial airplanes . . .

Tags: Barney Frank, Chellie Pingree, Nancy Pelosi

Also, There Are No U.S. Tanks in Baghdad!

By Jim Geraghty
“This is not a national election,” says the woman whose face features in probably half the ads for GOP House candidates from coast to coast. . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Democrats Against Pelosi: Catch the Fever!

By Jim Geraghty
Huffington Post: Bobby Bright, a Democrat from Alabama, became the first House Democrat to definitively say that he will not vote to make Nancy Pelosi the Speaker of the 112th House . . .

Tags: Bobby Bright, Mike Oliverio, Nancy Pelosi, Parker Griffith, Rob Miller

Obama? Pelosi? Never Heard of Them!

By Jim Geraghty
Here’s another incumbent Democrat, insisting he’s nothing like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi: Ike Skelton of Missouri. The ad’s opening line: “If Vicky Hartzler is trying to compare Ike Skelton to . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Ike Skelton, Nancy Pelosi, Vicky Hartzler

NRCC Keeps Bringing Up Nancy Pelosi, the Typhoid Mary of Blue Dog Democrats

By Jim Geraghty
It appears that the difference between a good year for the NRCC and a great year is how many House Democrats become defined by their relationship and loyalty to House . . .

Tags: Chet Edwards, Dina Titus, Earl Pomeroy, Ike Skelton, Mike McIntyre, Nancy Pelosi, NRCC

Who Went Into Our Dreams and Planted the Idea of the Tea Parties?

By Jim Geraghty
For many of us, between high unemployment, a collapsed housing market, a health-care bill we didn’t want, runaway debt, an unsecure border, a sluggish oil-spill response, promises broken, our elected . . .

Tags: 2010, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Obama

Pelosi’s Confession

By Jim Geraghty
Hmm. In Politico, we read, “Pelosi acknowledged the problem and assured the Democrats that, while organized labor was helping with field operations, she was trying to get allied liberal groups . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

A Titanic Decision Facing Vulnerable House Democrats

By Jim Geraghty
This new web ad, from the Republican Party of Virginia, is insensitive to Titanic victims! Or Kate Winslet! Or, er, something. It’s amusing to see a state GOP committee mocking a . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Tom Perriello

Liberalism’s Greatest Impediment: Liberals

By Jim Geraghty
The closing thoughts from today’s Jolt: I understand why we on the right hate Nancy Pelosi; she’s haughty, elitist, arrogant, unthinking, tone-deaf, insular, dismissive, San Francisco liberalism incarnate. What I don’t . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Best Anti-Obama, Anti-Pelosi Ad of the Year Comes From . . . an Indiana Incumbent Democrat!

By Jim Geraghty
Man, this ad for Joe Donnelly in Indiana is just the sort of thing I want to see.  He laments “just how bad the situation on the border is” and talks . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Jackie Walorski, Joe Donnelly, Nancy Pelosi

Charlie Rangel Is Big, But He’s Not Bigger Than Our Economic Woes

By Jim Geraghty
I think in a normal year, the ethical troubles of Charlie Rangel — coupled with the reports of the Sestak and Romanoff job offers and the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana . . .

Tags: Charlie Rangel, Nancy Pelosi

Invoke Her Name

By Jim Geraghty
A finance director for a House GOP congressional candidate reveals the e-mail header that generated the biggest response during his candidate’s campaign so far: “NANCY PELOSI.” That’s it. Nothing more, . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi Feels a Great Disturbance in the Force

By Jim Geraghty
Nancy Pelosi’s latest fundraising e-mail could probably double as one for the NRCC: Speaker Pelosi just sent this message to DCCC supporters: Friend –Thank you for helping Democrats surpass our grassroots goal . . .

Tags: Nancy Pelosi

Remember Pelosi and Biden’s Promises on Job Creation

By Jim Geraghty
Just a reminder . . . February 25, 2010: While discussing the health-care bill, Nancy Pelosi declares, “It’s about jobs. In its life [health-care reform] will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 . . .

Tags: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi

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