Speaker Pelosis Final Insult: Deficit Reduction Has Been a High Priority (Video)

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's historic run ends; GOP takes control
(01-05) 14:59 PST Washington - -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi ended her historic four-year tenure as House Speaker Wednesday, reciting her career highlights and vowing to defend them before handing power to her Republican successor, Ohio Rep. John Boehner of Ohio. Boehner will lead a 242-194 Republican majority, including a giant 87-member class of newly elected Republicans there in part because of a voter backlash against Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, who became the Minority Leader. California S...

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...

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...

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...

New House Speaker John Boehner: 'Our debt will soon eclipse the size of our entire economy'
BEFORE, 2007 AFTER, 2011 Remarks by House Speaker John A. Boehner, as provided by his office Madam Speaker, thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your service.  I’d like to welcome our new colleagues and their families. My own family is here as well: my wife, Debbie; our daughters, Lindsay and Tricia; my brothers and sisters, brothers- and sisters-in-law and their Children. I am honored and humbled to represent a great, hard-working community in Congress. The people of Ohi...

Opening Session of the 112th Congress -Livestreamed On Facebook
Watching the vote to officially hand the Speaker of the House title over from Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner. Give up the gavel Nancy, you have done enough damage!! At her final Press Conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, "Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go." 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 th...

Former Bush Budget Director Mitch Daniels: I Did Not Blow Up The Deficit (VIDEO)
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) -- on the short list of contenders for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2012 -- has an explanation for why the Deficit exploded under George W. Bush. And it's not the massive Bush Tax Cuts, which Daniels helped shepherd as Bush's director of the OMB. "The nation went into a Deficit then because the bubble burst and we had a Recession," Daniels told CNN this afternoon. "It wouldn't have mattered what policies you tried to implement, we were going to have a gre...

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...

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...

Boehner Elected Speaker
The New York Times reports: The new speaker of the House, John Boehner, promised a new era of transparency in lawmaking on Wednesday, but he also pledged to aggressively push forward the conservative agenda that swept his party into power. A roll-call vote of the chamber’s 435 members ended the way the results of November’s election determined that it would: with more votes for Mr. Boehner than for the Democratic Leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, making him speaker. In rem...

Republicans Vote Unanimously for John Boehner to be Speaker of the House; 18 Democrats Vote Against Pelosi
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Penny Starr House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio hugs outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. after receiving the gavel during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) was voted in as speaker of the House by his Republican colleagues on Wednesday, with all 241 Republicans voting in favor of the Ohio legislator and former House mi...

American Sauce: Three things missed about the new Congress
Senate Attic, Capitol Hill (CNN) - The GOP has taken over the U.S. House and the headlines. But there are other, significant stories of the 112th Congress. Here are three you shouldn't miss: the largest class of new members in decades, the Democrat divide and a rare, serious push to change Senate Filibuster rules. The 112th Congress has, believe it or not, 112 new members. That's if you include the three senators and two House members who won special Elections and were sworn in last Novemb...

19 Democrats Voted Against Pelosi
(Wall Street Journal) - House Democrats had a small uprising on their hands Wednesday, when 19 members cast Protest votes against Nancy Pelosi, their Caucus leader, to be speaker of the House. Pelosi assuredly had no chance of being re-elected speaker, as Democrats are now in the minority. But lawmakers are required to conduct a roll call vote for speaker at the beginning of a new Congress. Rep. John Boehner (R -Ohio) won handily with 241 votes. Pelosi, a California Democrat, received 173 votes....

New Senate Republican Says Defense Budget Could Be Cut
Pennsylvania's incoming senator, Pat Toomey, widely known as a fiscal hawk, says he is prepared to work with Democrats to "ratchet back the spending" and indicated he is even prepared to look at trimming a sacred cow, the Budget for the Defense Department. The economic crisis has refocused some Republicans, including newly-minted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., prompting them to step gingerly into this arena that is often fraught with political peril, always careful to reiterate, as To...

Time to grab the third rail, Madame Governor
Soon, Governor Martinez sends the 2011 Legislature her Budget for fiscal 2012. At last count, she is looking to plug a $400 million gap. She campaigned on the promise that she would not make Spending Cuts to education or Medicaid. Read my lips: ‘Where are you going to find $400 million to plug the gap, Madame Governor?’ The “Third Rail” of politics refers to extremely Controversial issues in which it is observed that, when acting unilaterally, “touch it, and you die...

Pelosi's handover to Boehner: Gracious -- and defiant
Michele Bachmann for president. Seriously?! Nancy Pelosi handed over the speaker's gavel Wednesday. And what a gavel. In a mostly gracious Speech introducing and congratulating Speaker John Boehner, the gentlewoman from California pointed out that the hefty wooden instrument wasn't the smallest in the House -- but the one Boehner preferred. Hoots from the floor. When she wasn't praising the new speaker, though, her valedictory address was about as subtle as Boehner's Thor-sized hammer. Pelosi o...

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...

Constitutional cites, NYT and fundamentalism
The New York Times editorial board wasted little time in attempting to attack the new Republican led House in the way smug elitists usually do … by invoking “Fundamentalism”.   In this case the fundamentalism is an apparent attempt by a party to refocus the Legislation it plans on debating and passing on the “fundamental” legal document of the land. That just won’t do: In any case, it is a presumptuous and self-righteous act, suggesting that they alone understan

Meet the New Boss
The deal is done: With a wave of his new, huge wooden gavel, John Boehner seized control of the House of Representatives. The gavel is an outsized block of wood that looks like the sawed-off top of a sledgehammer, far bigger than the medium-sized one Boehner handed to Pelosi four years ago, made by one of Boehner's constituents in western Ohio and given to the new Speaker as a gift. The symbol of Boehner's new power fits well with his straightforward, old-boy demeanor, which the outgoing Speak...

John Boehner Takes Gavel as GOP Takes Over Majority in House of Representatives
Kathryn Jean Lopez has the transript, "A Short Speech About Humility & Principle, Getting to Work." And at New York Times, "Boehner Takes Gavel in House With Pledge to Bring Change." The new speaker of the House, John Boehner, promised a new era of transparency in lawmaking on Wednesday, but he also pledged to aggressively push forward the conservative agenda that swept his party into power. A roll-call vote of the chamber’s 435 members ended the way the results of November’s el...

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...

Pelosi: Hey, we were all about deficit reduction!
When a leader leaves an organization, or at least leadership of it, one expects a rather rosy take on the leader’s stewardship of it. But come on: Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go. Fox makes sure everyone understands the context: 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 ...

19 Democrats Voted Against Pelosi
(Wall Street Journal) - House Democrats had a small uprising on their hands Wednesday, when 19 members cast Protest votes against Nancy Pelosi, their Caucus leader, to be speaker of the House. Pelosi assuredly had no chance of being re-elected speaker, as Democrats are now in the minority. But lawmakers are required to conduct a roll call vote for speaker at the beginning of a new Congress. Rep. John Boehner (R -Ohio) won handily with 241 votes. Pelosi, a California Democrat, received 173 votes....