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RUSH: Here’s a tweet from Nancy Pelosi: “I want every single California Republican to understand this. Your ideology doesn’t come first. Your party doesn’t come first. The PEOPLE come first. If you fail to recognize that, you don’t belong here.” She’s talking about the tax bill. Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, “The tax bill is evil in the extreme.” You talk about unhinged and worse. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I checked the email during the break. “Rush, I don’t get it. What is Pelosi talking about here in that tweet that you read? ‘I want every single California Republican to understand...

Obamacare is in the crosshairs. We have known this for a while. Congressional Republicans have attempted dozens of times to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act—all of which have been stopped by either Obama’s veto or Harry Reid when he was Senate Majority Leader. Now, the GOP controls Congress and they will soon control the White House, with a man who said he plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. Most of Obama’s legacy is regulatory. It can be rolled back—and he seems to know this because he plans to meet with Congressional Democrats next week to discuss ways...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, the two things that are being underreported, first, the House leadership election vote, they wanted to delay it because they don't want Pelosi. Not all of them, but enough House Democrats, they're tired. Look, there are some House Democrats and Democrats around the country who realize what's happened here. They're happy Harry Reid is going, and they don't want Pelosi to be around scaring people left and right. Pelosi can't tell the truth about things. Pelosi is just poison. I mean, the Democrats have proven that the people they have been using out front as their...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The story here at TheHill.com: "Trump: I'll work with Democrats." I saw that headline, I said, "Now, wait just a minute. What's this?" So I read the story. "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stressing his bona fides as a dealmaker who'd be able to enter the White House and work with congressional Democrats to hammer out agreements. 'I think I'm going to be able to get along with Pelosi -- I've always had a good relationship with Nancy Pelosi,' Trump said Tuesday on MSNBC. ... 'Reid's going to be gone. I've always had a decent relationship...

In January, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked by a reporter if an unborn baby at 20 weeks is a human being. She shot back that when she was a new member of Congress, someone quipped, "Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope." She added, "Yeah. That would be true." That same smarter-than-the-pontiff feminist arrogance unfolded again on Oct. 1, a few days after Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards testified to Congress regarding that group's fetal body parts-for-profit scandal. Sam Dorman of our news outlet CNSNews.com asked Pelosi a very simple and pertinent question....

They’ve all been reelected several times, but the four top congressional leaders remain an unpopular choice among voters nationwide. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters have an unfavorable opinion of House SpeakerJohn Boehner, and 53% say the same of House Democratic leaderNancy Pelosi. Unfavorables are only slightly lower for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (46%) and his Democratic counterpart, Minority Leader Harry Reid (50%), but that’s probably in part because they are not as well-known to voters. A closer look at these numbers finds that Pelosi remains, as she has been for...

<p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said comparing Republican treatment of President Obama to how Democrats handled President George W. Bush is a false equivalence and that Democrats don’t bear culpability for the comparatively fewer number of bills being passed by Congress and signed into law.</p>

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner this afternoon saying she would not be sending any Democrats to sit on the Benghazi select committee because it "isn't fair," or something. More from the Washington Examiner: Democrats say they are concerned it will not allow their party to participate fairly in the investigation, which will involve subpoenas and viewing of classified materials related to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. According to a Democratic leadership aide, Pelosi rejects a rule that will not prevent chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., from issuing unilateral subpoenas...

Asked whether she needed to apologize to the formerly insured who have lost their health insurance plans, former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, "Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience." Pelosi, whose net worth -- combined with her husband's -- is estimated between $35 and $180 million, never "met anybody who liked his or her plan"? Her out-of-touch comment reminds one of then-New Yorker film critic, liberal Pauline Kael....

OK here it is: 1. 17 GOP(real ones NOT RINOS/GOP-e)House members vote for Piglosi as Speaker(therefore FIRING Boner). 2. She gets to appoint ALL Committee Chairman BUT they ALL have a GOP Majority 2. EVERYTHING SHE(and GOP-e) puts forth is the House gets Voted DOWN! 3. We get to sit back pop popcorn and SMILE with sadistic GLEE!

House Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader Wednesday despite massive party losses in this month's congressional elections that prompted some lawmakers to call for new leadership. Pelosi, the nation's first female House speaker, will become minority leader when Republicans assume the majority in the new Congress in January. She defeated moderate Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, 150-43, in secret balloting in a lengthy closed-door gathering of House Democrats in the Capitol.

BEIJING (AFP) – US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime critic of Beijing's rule over Tibet and its rights record, arrived in China on Sunday for a trip focused on energy and climate change. US embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson confirmed Pelosi had arrived in Shanghai but could not say who the top US official was going to meet in the country's financial hub. Pelosi is scheduled to attend a clean energy forum in Beijing on Tuesday along with Senator John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Other details of her itinerary were not immediately known.

Politics: "I'm trying to save the planet," declares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which is a lot for one person. Maybe she should just try to save herself from the embarrassment that comes with spouting such inanities.When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet," she responded. "I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy." If the San...

In an interview yesterday with the San Francisco Chronicle, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed the U.S. troop surge failed to accomplish its goal. She then partially credited the success of the troop surge to “the goodwill of the Iranians,” claiming that they were responsible for ending violence in the southern city of Basra. Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded: Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That...

In visiting Syria this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt meant well. She wants dialogue. As a woman, mother, and now the third-highest-ranking elected official in American politics, she has achieved a great deal in life by talking with people. On this trip she made a point of showing how easy it is to interact with Syrians, with an itinerary that included a visit to a souk in Damascus - where she was photographed holding out her hand while a cheerful vendor gave her some nuts. Unfortunately, that photo-op sums up the best that can be said about Pelosi's...

President Bush, left, walks away from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after shaking hands before a speech to the House Democratic Issues Conference on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, in Willamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The House will vote next week on a non-binding resolution rejecting President Bush's plan to add more troops to Iraq. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Tuesday that Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and International Relations Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) are working on crafting the language for the measure. The decision to move forward in the House comes a day after Senate Democrats failed to move a bipartisan resolution to a vote.   The House, not bound by the same procedural constraints as the Senate, likely will have an easier time passing such non-binding language.   "The reason we are...

Dems' agenda lacked transparency By: BRIAN BILBRAY - Commentary: On Dec. 6, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "(W)e promised the American people that we would have the most honest and most open government and we will." Unfortunately, she went back on her word. The Washington Post recently wrote, "When Republicans took over in 1995, they at least went through the motions of putting their 'Contract With America' proposals through the normal committee process. Democrats under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have decided not to bother with that, nor to let Republicans offer amendments on the floor, nor even to...

While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Chicken Little Democrats are running around screaming the sky is falling over “Global Warming” and asking the real world to tighten their belts and reduce the use of oil, the HBIC herself is requesting use of her own version of Air Force One to lug her Globe Trotting liposuctioned ass around the world at the expense of American Taxpayers. It would seem that the Global Warming crowd would want to lead by example, but oh no, not this bunch. Al Gore jumps from point A to point B by use of...

A congressional source who read the letter signed by Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie said it essentially limits her to the commuter plane used by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, which requires refueling to travel from Washington to Mrs. Pelosi's San Francisco district. A second source, in the Bush administration, confirmed the contents of the letter.