Taxpayers Finance Pelosis Lavish Hawaiian Farewell

Congress to Tackle Healthcare, Filibuster Rules
On Wednesday, congressional observers were treated to a spectacle which used to be rare—a changeover in power at the House of Representatives. Both the House and the Senate swore in new members, and the new 242-seat Republican majority in the House handily elected Ohio Representative John Boehner to become Speaker of the House. In between raucous cheers and some campaign-style Rhetoric from both sides, now-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi handed Boehner the gavel and watched him give h...

Reports Of China's Stealth Fighter Come As Pentagon Proposes Cuts
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force puts on an air display to mark its 60th birthday in Beijing on November 15, 2009. (Those are not stealth prototypes.) "Defense Secretary Robert Gates is announcing the latest round of cost-cutting measures for the [U.S.] Military, including a plan to do away with a new amphibious vehicle that can ferry Troops to shore while under fire." (The Associated Press) Call to mind a Weekend Edition Sunday story from last August by NPR's Tom Gjelten, he...

Sensis Successfully Demonstrates Critical 3DELRR Technology
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensis Corporation has successfully completed the demonstration of critical technologies for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR). Sensis demonstrated the capabilities of its full-scale 3DELRR prototype in a relevant expeditionary environment to Military and civilian participants from the USAF, U.S. Marine Corps and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).   3DELRR will replace the U.S. Air...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
Wall Street Journal: A Chinese Stealth Challenge? By JEREMY PAGE Beijing—The first clear pictures of what appears to be a Chinese stealth fighter prototype have been published online, highlighting China's Military buildup just days before U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to Beijing to try to repair defense ties. The photographs, published on several unofficial Chinese and foreign defense-related websites, appear to show a J-20 prototype making a high-speed taxi test—usually one o...

Lessons for Boehner from Pelosi, Gingrich and Rayburn
What history may know as the “Boehner Era” began yesterday. In what must have been the most anticipated and widely covered House transition in recent memory, John Boehner mounted the rostrum for the first time as the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives. He got off to a good start. Boehner will not be remembered for his oratorical flourishes. The contrast between Boehner’s brief address and the one to which outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred in her farewell remark...

Nancy Pelosi ends history-making tenure as speaker
(01-06) 04:00 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 she handed power to her Republican successor, 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 Se...

U.S. officials cast doubt on China stealth jet reports
Why is Canada so good? It's tradition Undated photos of what is believed to be China's J-20 stealth fighter jet prototype. The uncredited photos are thought to be taken by Chinese aviation enthusiasts. Sebastien Blanc, Agence France-Presse · Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 Beijing — China appears to have completed a prototype of its first stealth fighter, highlighting Beijing’s Military modernization drive, but experts said Wednesday the jet will not be operational for years to come. Ph...

New Stealth Fighter for Chinese Air Force?
Is it a new Chinese stealth fighter or just a cleverly ‘photo-shopped’ picture? The buzz today is over images allegedly leaked on the Internet of a new stealth fighter for the Chinese Air Force. Looking very similar to the American F-22 Raptor and the old F-23 Black Widow II (that was canceled before production), many question the authenticity, and capability of the Chinese jet. Even it’s designation is mysterious with some calling it the J-20, the J-14 or the J. 13. For sever...

China stealth plane 'years away'
The US is downplaying pictures which appear to show a working prototype of a Chinese stealth Aircraft, invisible to radar. The images - first published on websites - show what looks like a stealth fighter on a taxi run. Beijing has not commented on whether the pictures - published ahead of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates' visit later this week - are genuine. The Pentagon says China is still years away from deploying a stealth aircraft. In late 2009 the deputy head of China's air for...

Stealth Jet Delay Could Screw Marine Corps
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is expected to announce on Thursday that he’s cutting a bunch of poor performers from the Pentagon arsenal as part of his plan to save $100 billion from Military accounts. But the most profound decision won’t be a termination at all. Gates is widely expected to tell the Marine Corps that they’ll have to wait an extra two years before they can get their version of the gazillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter. The delay for Marine plane — fr...

Pelosi, Obama Hawaiian vacations end, but taxpayers left with the bill
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – Nancy Pelosi’s final days as Speaker of the House were spent at the exotic Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu in Kona on the island of Hawaii. Escorted throughout her trip by a mini security Motorcade that included Secret Service and Hawaii County Police officers, Pelosi was seen at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Kailua-Kona, where she received Communion. Parishioners greeted her warmly, Hawaii Reporter was told. Two police SUVs w...

Ethic complaint filed against Straus in speakers race
Image via Wikipedia Houston Chronicle: A citizen's group aligned with other conservative organizations in an effort to oust House Speaker Joe Straus has filed ethics Complaints alleging the San Antonio Republican has unlawfully accepted corporate contributions and failed to disclose required details in Campaign Finance reports. The Complaints filed with the Texas Ethics Commission says "Texans For Joe Straus" failed to disclose occupations or employers for major campaign contributors, as requi...

The politics of green
Some would say the average politician is full of . . . eh . . . biosolids.  Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  Politicians are, however, very aware of the green associated with them.  We're not talking about the green waste that is sometimes mixed with biosolids to make compost.  Rather this is the greenback variety that can add up to hundreds of millions of wasted Taxpayer Dollars.  That is where the second part of this story begins. The average person doesn't think of the di...

GOP promise to cut $100 billion may end up more like $30 billion
"Now they are talking about cuts as slim as $30 billion," he writes , "blaming the change on the fine print that no one read -- or if they read, did not understand." According to Fineman, the GOP meant it would cut $100 billion from a Budget that President Obama proposed, but which was never passed . Nearly halfway through the Fiscal Year, we still don't have a Budget as Congress continues to pass so-called continuing resolutions, so forget about the $100 billion. Even tea partiers admit th...

Tomgram: William Astore, We're Number One (in Self-Promotion)
Can you believe that, in certain circles, support for Obesity is becoming an American birthright (as in “the freedom to be…”) and a political position? Like various radio and TV shock jocks, Sarah Palin has been attacking Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative as yet another example of “the Nanny State run amok.” (It’s enough to make you hyperventilate on the couch while watching “Law and Order” reruns!) Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Governor ...

DeMint Sounds Off
You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. Nancy Pelosi passes on the symbolic gavel as John Boehner becomes the 61st Speaker of the House....

New DCCC Head: Yes, We Want Pelosi to Be Speaker Again
The NRCC is giddy this morning: Dem campaign chief: Goal is making Pelosi Speaker again House Democrats’ goal is to make Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) the Speaker of the House again, their campaign chairman said Wednesday evening. Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), set his goal as nothing short of winning back control of the House in the 2012 Elections. ”We’re all trying to win it back,” Israel said on MSNBC whe...

Congress to read the Constitution today
At 10:30 a.m. today the newly elected Congress will read the Constitution of the United States. 2009-2010 were not good years for this founding document which is supposed to govern everything our government does. Those who have studied the founders and Federalist Papers know that the founders had studied every form of government known to man before writing this document. They had weighed all they pros and cons. They also knew that governments left unchecked would eventually enslave the people. T...

CHANGE: Democrats Defection From Pelosi Is Historic. With 19 Democrats withholding support from
CHANGE: Democrats’ Defection From Pelosi Is Historic. “With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party’s speaker nominee in nearly a century. The resistance in the Democratic Party to back now-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the ceremonial first vote of the 112th Congress registered higher than at any point since 1913, according to data from the Congressional Research Service.”...

Could John Boehner be a Great Speaker?
I have long been Bullish on the man who is now Speaker of the House.  Perhaps, it’s that John Boehner and I grew up not far from one another, he in the Working Class Cincinnati suburb of Reading, I in the more affluent enclave Wyoming just west of the Republican leader’s hometown. Cincinnati folk have always struck me as hard-working, decent Americans, largely respectful of their peers and generally treating people from different backgrounds with dignity.  It is no wonder that th...

Baffled Vieira to Bachmann: Why Vote to Repeal Obamacare If It's Just Going to Get Vetoed?
NBC's Meredith Vieira seemed baffled by the concept of taking a principled stand against ObamaCare, as she repeatedly pressed Michele Bachmann, on Thursday's Today show, why Republicans would bother to vote to Repeal the Health Care bill in the House if it wasn't going to get passed in the Senate or signed by the President. Vieira's very first question to the Republican Minnesota Congresswoman set the aggressive tone for the entire interview as she demanded: "Given the fact ...

Historic Defection from Pelosi
With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker yesterday, the Washington Post reports "it represented the largest defection from a party's speaker nominee in nearly a century." "The resistance in the Democratic Party to back now-former Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) in the ceremonial first vote of the 112th Congress registered higher than at any point since 1913, according to data from the Congressional Research Service." Politico: "It was a scene unlike any other in recent Ho...

John Boehners Inaugural Speech: Echoes Of House Speakers Past
ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports: “To my friends in the minority party,” newly-elected House Speaker John Boehner said yesterday, “I offer a commitment: openness.” If that sentiment -- and even some of those words -- sound familiar, it’s probably because they bear a striking resemblance to the comments of previous House speakers who took power during times of political upheaval. “Let us join together in the first 100 hours to make this Congress the most honest a

Dems goal for 112th Congress: Put Pelosi back in charge of House
The 111th Congress is now history, and its successor—the 112th—is officially open for business. Mindful of that reality, Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), has stated his party’s goal for the new House of Representatives. And what is that goal? Is it to work with the new leadership to forge laws that reflect the will of the people? To refocus attention on reducing Unemployment and restoring the country to fiscal solvency? Nope...

Portraying Boehner
(CNN) - It was a moment on the House floor Wednesday that instantly made for a powerful photograph - newly installed House Speaker John Boehner clearly weeping as Democrat Nancy Pelosi gets ready to hand the gavel over. Interestingly however, only two of the major, national papers featured this memorable and unique photograph in their Thursday editions, and they both happen to share one thing in common - conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's NewsCorp owns both the New Yo...