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Pelosi: GOP is ‘Laissez, Laissez, Laissez, Laissez, Laissez, Laissez, Laissez-Faire’ By Terence P. Jeffrey June 21, 2012 (CNSNews.com) - At her Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said congressional Republicans have stalled and diverted attention from legislation that would create jobs because they embrace a philosophy of “laissez, lassez, laissez, laissez, laissez, laissez, laissez faire.” Pelosi made the statement after pointing out that House Republicans were moving to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt rather than moving to legislation to fund transportation programs and extend low interest rates on student loans. “Combined with their...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has changed her public position on an issue that divided Democrats during the fight over raising the debt ceiling last summer. She now says that President Obama should use the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling by fiat — to preserve the country’s credit rating and avoid another economically harmful brinksmanship over the country’s borrowing limit. “I would like to see the constitution used to protect the country’s full faith and credit,” she told a handful of columnists at a roundtable. According to Matt Yglesias, “She didn’t offer a legal argument in favor of...