Nancy Pelosi exits lying

Gavel down on Nancy Pelosi
John Boehner, (R) now firmly seated as the Speaker of the House after defeating Nancy Pelosi in a vote of 241 - 173 looks to 2011 Federal Debt Limit of 14.3 Trillion, realizing there is very little time to address the issues at hand in order to reset the course of history for America. Upon acceptance of the gavel he was quoted as saying, "That includes this gavel, which I accept cheerfully and gratefully knowing that I am but its caretaker. After all, this is the people's house." Former Speaker ...

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...

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...

Pelosi Hands Boehner the Speaker's Gavel: Good Day to be an American
Shell Oil's Gamble: Will It Be Able to Drill in the Beaufort Sea? Only twice since 1955 has the House changed from one political party to the other. But it happened again on Wednesday when Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore-born and San Francisco-elected Democrat, handed an oversized gavel to John Boehner, a Republican son of Ohio, who became speaker of the House. Some of the Rhetoric was flowery, some predictable. Civility, in these often un-civil times, was the order of the day, however, and the emotio...

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...

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...

Boehner in tears as 112th Congress convenes
The 112th Congress convened on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday at noon with the new Speaker of the House John Boehner in tears as he accepted the gavel from the outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The composition of the House of Representatives and the Senate is significantly different in the 112th Congress as compared to the previous Congress.  First of all, Republicans have a majority in the House with 242 members to 193 Democrats.  This means that Representative Boehner, a Republ...

The gavel passes and Boehner weeps but nothing else changes
There's a new sheriff in town and after listening to his opening address to the 112th Congress, it would seem things on Capitol Hill are about to change.  Or will they?  All hail King Boehner.  Please check your spirit of Bipartisanship at the door. Four years ago, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was given the honor of being elected the first female Speaker of the House.  Today, the gavel, and an unusually large one at that, was passed to Congressman John B...

GOP celebrates return to power, grapples with agenda
Reporting from Washington — Taking formal control of the House, Republicans returned to power triumphant from the Midterm Election but still facing doubts and tensions about their role in a country with an uncertain economy, massive Budget problems and a deeply split electorate. New House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), taking his place Wednesday as one of the country's Most Powerful men, immediately confronted turmoil within his own ranks between Activist Conservatives with a distrus...

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...

With 241 votes and a big gavel, Ohio'sBoehner becomes 61st U.S. House Speaker
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - The only surprise in Wednesday's vote for who will lead the U.S. House of Representatives during the 112th Congress was the 11 votes that Democratic Members sent to Rep. Heath Shuler (D., N.C.) instead of their Candidate for Minority Leader, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose liberal brand of politics Republicans across the board used as their main punching bag during the last election cycle. But for today's winner, John A. Boehner of West Chester in southwest Ohio, ...

Boehner officially becomes Speaker of the House (Daily Caller)
DEVELOPING - - Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner was officially selected to become Speaker of the House of Representatives Wednesday. Boehner received the votes of all House Republicans. He received the votes of 241 out of 435 Representatives. Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi received 173 votes, with conservative Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina receiving 11. Boehner represents Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, comprising areas near Cincinatti and Dayton. He wa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Republican House rules: Hoyer calls them "Pay-Go Hijinks"
Democratic Whip Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Maryland) spoke on the U. S. House Floor today in opposition of the Republican Rules package: “I rise in opposition to this rules package, not for small reasons, but because it authorizes Trillions of dollars of new Debt, without paying for it. There are two ways to create debt: you can buy things and not pay for it, or you can simply cut revenues and make yourself unable to pay for things. He continued in his Speech, “If you don’t cut s...

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 ...

Three new Wisconsin legislators join Repubican majority in Washington
For the 112th Congress, the swear-in today couldn't have been more dramatic as new Speaker of the House John Boehnor took the oversize gavel from Nancy Pelosi, ending 4 years of far-left Democratic rule that had led to an expansion of government and ballooning of Deficits beyond anything amassed by predecessors. Enter the new crop of Republicans, voted in on November 2, 2010 conservative resurgence from the American People: out of the 94 new House members who took the Oath-of-Office, 85 wer...

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...

No, Obamacare Will Not Reduce the Deficit
Kevin D. Williamson writes in his must-read piece at NRO: "No, Ezra Klein, ObamaCare Will Not Reduce the Deficit": Ezra Klein, he of recent "the Constitution's old, and stuff" fame, is one of the great and most persuasive cheerleaders for the belief that Republicans cannot Repeal ObamaCare and remain fiscally responsible since -- as everybody knows! -- ObamaCare reduces the National Debt by $100 billion over the next ten years. He makes his case here. Taking a slightly different but in many ways...

House GOP's Plan: Vote Early and Often Against The Obama Agenda
A twenty day period of votes against the Obama Agenda, which of course are not effectual on their own (as Democrats still control the Senate). But they hope to both demonstrate that they're carrying through on promises to voters and force Obama and the Democrats in the Senate closer to a Tea Party view of the world. Almost as soon as they take control of the House at noon Wednesday, Republicans will embark on a 20-day plan aimed at undoing major aspects of President Obama's agenda as they seek ...