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Political Quote of the Day
From former Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”A little context from Fox Nation: The numbers tell a different story. When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the National Debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi’s Speakership on December 22, 2010 the National Debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 - a roughly $5.2 Trillion increase in j...

Pelosi on crack!
Outgoing Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in a news conference on January 4thsaid about Democrat’s Congressional spending, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us.  It has been our mantra, pay as you go.” Is this woman on crack?  She may well be since she and Obama are spending money like a pair of crack whores with a stolen Credit Card!  With the blessing and support of Barack Obama, Democrats have been using the American Economy as their own perso...

Republicans take over House, dilute cuts
By Thomas Ferraro and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON | Wed Jan 5, 2011 12:45pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans scaled back plans for deep cuts in Government Spending as they took power in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, diluting a key promise that helped them to victory in November's election. A senior Republican also signaled the party could work with the administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to avert a Debt crisis in the coming months. "Our spending has caught up...

Send in Your Transpo Questions for the 112th Congress
The new Congress has been sworn in and John Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House, 241-173. Nancy Pelosi has handed him the (strangely over-sized) gavel and he just took the oath of office. In his Acceptance Speech, he stressed fiscal discipline and Spending Cuts. The first vote the new Congress will take will be on new rules governing the Congress, including the one we told you about Monday that would allow Congress to withhold transportation funds. By holding the money in the bank, law...

Democrat Blames Reagan, Bushes For Deficits
(CNSNews.com) - In his last day as House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) put much of the blame for America’s growing Debt on past Republican administrations, including former President Ronald Reagan. “Ronald Reagan came in and adopted an economic program that created $1.4 Trillion in Deficits over the next eight years,” Hoyer said in a Capitol Hill Press Conference on Tuesday, where he appeared with other members of the Democratic House Leadership. “George...

GOP House Leaders and New Spending Promises
One of the most explicit promises Speaker John Boehner, R-Oh., and the newly empowered Republicans made was to cut Deficits immediately by returning to 2008 spending levels. "Which, if we were able to do with the whole Fiscal Year, would reduce spending by 100 billion dollars," says Representative Mike Pence, R-In. But Republicans won't have a whole Budget year to work with. Congress failed to pass a current Budget even though the fiscal year began last October. So the government is now operatin...

Pelosi Sets Another Record: Least Amount of Party Votes For Speaker in Over 80 Years
(Washington Times)- When Rep. Nancy Pelosi lost 19 Democrats on Wednesday’s vote to be House Speaker, it marked the worst showing for a party’s nominee in more than 80 years. Mrs. Pelosi won the support of 173 Democrats, but 18 others voted for someone else and one voted “present.” Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, won the vote with the support of all 241 Republicans who voted. According to figures from the House historian’s office and the Congressional Researc...

WaPo temporarily upset at GOP deficit chicken-hawks
On Sunday, the WaPo editorial pages finally woke up and realized that the GOP isn't serious about cutting the Deficit.. On Monday, Jason Linkins at HuffPo took notice of the belated realization: WaPo Editors Finally Realize The GOP Isn't Serious About The Debt First Posted: 01- 3-11 12:37 PM | Updated: 01- 3-11 08:45 PM For the better part of the past year, the editors of the Washington Post have been generically a-screech with worry over the deficits, and their insistence that the Obama ad...

Finally The Day Has Arrived When Nancy Pelosi Loses Her Speakers Gavel And The Constitution Is Taken Seriously In The Peoples Ho
Today is finally the day that Nancy Pelosi loses her Speaker’s gavel. But she hasn’t gone quietly. She has been engaging in a massive Public Relations campaign to re-write her dismal record with outright lies. Yesterday, Pelosi demonstrated how far she is willing to stretch the truth. At her final Press Conference as House Speaker (thank goodness) Pelosi portrayed herself and fellow Democrats as Deficit hawks: Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay...

HuffPost TV: Roy Sekoff On Boehner's Tears And Robert Gibbs' Ideal Replacement (VIDEO)
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on the Joy Behar Show tonight to discuss the ideal replacement for outgoing White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, as well as the swearing in of the new Congress. Given new Speaker of the House John Boehner's propensity for crying at almost any significant occasion, Sekoff was surprised that he didn't break down even further than he did, considering he's "the valedictorian at the Glenn Beck school of weeping." He also pointed out that Pelosi and Boehner h...

Bill OReillys First Concern For Speaker Boehner: The Crying Thing
Today rang in a new era in Washington as the Republican majority settled into their places in the House of Representatives and their leader, House Speaker John Boehner , took the gavel away from outgoing Nancy Pelosi . With questions flying about what this takeover (and Boehner’s leadership) would mean for Congress, tonight Bill O’Reilly opened his first discussion with a different concern about Speaker Boehner: the “crying thing,” and what it would mean for his leadershi...

Hume on Pelosi: It was as if the nations first woman speaker could not quite believe today was not about her
Jeff Poor covers the media for The Daily Caller. He covered business news at the Media Research Center prior to coming to The Daily Caller. Jeff is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama. He is also a political columnist for Mobile, Ala.-based Lagniappe. On the opening day of the new Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke longer than the newly minted Speaker of the House John Boehner. What should one make of that? On Wednesday’s “Special Repor...

Boehner Elected Speaker of the House
(NewsCore) - Republican John Boehner of Ohio was officially elected the 61st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives by the 112th Congress Wednesday, vowing more transparency and accountability in the “people’s House.” Boehner was handed the Speaker’s gavel after receiving 241 of the 432 votes cast, while outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received 173. Calling Boehner a “legislative leader of skill,” a "man of conviction" and a man of “great ...

Boehner cries again (and again, and again)
Stumble This! Incoming House Speaker John Boehner -- already famous for his crying stints -- let the waterworks flow Wednesday as he assumed the Speaker's chair from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. ABC News reports that Boehner broke out in tears no fewer than three times during the ceremony on Capitol Hill -- once as he walked down the aisle to applause, again as Pelosi read her introduction, and finally as he took the podium. And Boehner was apparently not alone -- his relatives teared up too,...

Liveblog Part II: May This Boehner Be Long and Earmarks Be Hard On
The members of the House are now supposed to leave the floor so they can escort John Boenher back in, apparently. They will all lock arms but wear rubber sleeves so they don’t get all of his orange tan cream on their clothes, we assume. Isn’t this exciting! We are moments away from having as our House Speaker a man who was raised by diapers and was forced to eat his brothers and sisters when there was no food. So he knows what Americans are going through these days. And he knows they...

No Speaker of the House?
As the House votes member by member on the nomination of Republican John Boehner to Speaker of the House, exactly who holds the position at this very moment? While Nancy Pelosi will be the one to ceremoniously hand over the gavel after the culmination of the vote, she doesn't actually hold the position now. Pelosi's term as Speaker ended at noon on Monday, which means there actually is not a House Speaker until, as expected, Boehner is sworn in later today. Behind the vice president and speake...

Photo of the Day
Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (in blue) hands the speaker's gavel to incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) after Boehner was elected Speaker on the opening day of the 112th United States Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 5, 2011. [Reuters Pictures]Sob. And if that isn't enough to make your barf bieberous chunks, get a load of this pic of Boeher puckering up to plant one on Pelosi. Eugh. Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (in blue) hands the speaker's gavel...

House Speaker John Boehner makes a big deal on his first day about being humble.
By John DickersonPosted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, at 7:50 PM ET Usually when politicians come to their big moment they crank up the lofty Rhetoric. They swirl around in the heavens, or do some resolving, or take a backstroke through the great American this or that. Backward run their sentences as Kennedy they try to approach but closer to Yoda they come. John Boehner, the new House Speaker, went the other way. He started in the dust—the Catholic Ash Wednesday ritual of smearing ashes on the...

Good Luck On The Bipartisanship Thing
“We must stand ready to find common ground,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said just before handing an outsize gavel to the new Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio.). But in interviews off the House floor, several members from both sides of the aisle said that Compromise won’t come quickly, and it won’t be easy. Rep. Carolyn Mccarthy (D-N.Y.) said all the members were going through a period of adjustment to the new GOP majority. "I was in the minority befo...

A Humble Beginning for the 112th Congress
In case you missed it, via the Right Scoop, here’s video of John Boehner’s first Speech as Speaker of the House. You can read the transcript of the Speech here. Here’s an excerpt: “In the Catholic faith, we enter into a season of service by having ashes marked on our foreheads. The ashes remind us that life in all its forms is fragile - our time on this Earth, fleeting. As the ashes are delivered, we hear those humbling words: ‘Remember you are dust, and to dus...

The Final Gates Defense-Budget Showdown Begins
What, you thought Roberts Gates was out the door as Pentagon chief? Before the Defense Secretary retires, it’s looking like he’s got one more fight over the defense Budget left in him. Gates’ likely last hurrah is his “efficiencies initiative,” an effort to wring $100 billion in budgetary fat out of the Pentagon so he can re-invest it in the guns, planes, and ships that thinks are vital. Unless the fat’s cut, he’s argued, the pressures of the Budget de...

New GOP member doesn't "know" what will happen if debt ceiling isn't raised
Speaking of clueless Republicans in the House that Teabaggers built, here's part of the new brain trust entering office today: Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). Yesterday, newly-elected Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) appeared on Fox Business to talk about his own intention to vote against raising the Debt ceiling. The host asked Muvlaney if he was willing to “risk the possibility of a default on our debt.” Mulvaney responded that he has “no difficulty in” voting against raising the ...

Bipartisan consensus: A good first day for the new governor
Gov. Dan Malloy balanced Connecticut's past glories as an industrial and entrepreneurial power against the challenges of its contemporary fiscal crisis today in a State of the State address praised by fellow Democrats, opposition Republicans, business and Organized Labor. "I was impressed. I think it was a good start," said House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk "When we are in these dark days and you have a brand new Governor, regardless of party, you want to see energy, you ...

Bipartisan Consensus: Democrats Looking for Social Security Changes
Many progressive advocates have said that Social Security is under a greater threat now than it was in 2005 with President Bush’s privatization scheme. Why? Because they have to now fend off attacks from both parties. It’s completely normal for the likes of Mitch Daniels to claim that Young People will live to be more than 100 because we will be able to “replace body parts like we do tires,” and so we must raise the Retirement Age. That kind of innumeracy and belief in ...

HA! Weaker Pelosis parting shot Deficit reduction has been a high priority
HA! Weaker Pelosi’s parting shot - “Deficit reduction has been a high priority” Nancy Pelosi proves that Botox rots the brain. Pelosi also proves that Liberalism/progressivism is a Mental Disorder. San Fran Nan had her final Press Conference as House Speaker today. And according to Fox Nation, Pelosi had the audacity to say: “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.” WHAT THE F? Lets examine the FACTS. Democrats took over C...