Cheers erupted whenever a speaker talked of ousting Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Dana Walsh, who will oppose Pelosi for the seat in the 8th Congressional District, said, “If the Republicans don’t take back the House in 2010, it’s over. The speed with which Obama and Pelosi have taken over our government is out of control.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward.

Asked this weekend to grade her performance as speaker, Nancy Pelosi gave herself an “A for effort.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued during the health care summit that the health care bill, if passed, will essentially erase the past two years’ job losses and create over 4 million jobs for Americans (many of them “immediately”) — a stunning figure that’s either untrue or indicative of an unprecedented expansion in the government’s bureaucratic control over the health care sector.

In the end, the big White House health-care summit was basically what it was expected to be: many hours of talk that will ultimately be seen to have served as an anchor on which Democrats steadied their legislative ship while they tried to regain momentum for a push through Congress.

Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement Monday morning to say the plan “contains positive elements from the House- and Senate-passed bills.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is getting her hands dirty.
In a rare rebuke from the speaker, Pelosi is taking direct aim at individual Republicans, hinting at hypocrisy in their opposition to the stimulus package, saying it provided hundreds of thousands of their constituents tax cuts.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has issued 260 statements on the stimulus package over the past year in an effort to win a debate that could be the key to retaining the Democrats’ majority in the House.

Over a year ago, the American people placed an enormous amount of trust in President Obama to make good on his promises of renewed responsibility and a new era of political bipartisanship. However, when faced with an extreme economic downturn he used the crisis as a means to his liberal ends and with the help of his Congressional allies forced his failed $862 billion stimulus package on America.

The Obama administration’s efforts to find common ground with congressional Republicans ran into two pockets of resistance Tuesday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner.

When President Obama went into the lion’s den a few weeks ago, he talked to the House Republican caucus about bipartisanship. All well and good, said the Republicans, but have you mentioned this to Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

Once again the Archbishop of San Francisco had to correct Speaker Pelosi on her faith:

Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America’s “political instability” was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed “obstructionist Republicans,” “spineless Democrats,” and an “incoherent public” for the problem.

Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

After a year of disastrous “leadership” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it’s time for her to step down. Now.

The public interest group Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that a court order issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia states the Central Intelligence Agency must give Judicial Watch documents regarding congressional briefings on “enhanced interrogation techniques” by April 15 of this year.

As one of the top four leaders on Capitol Hill, Pelosi had numerous tools at her disposal if she had truly wanted to block waterboarding. She could have threatened to put a hold on funding for the CIA interrogation program, or held up funding for other administration priorities, or worked with her Senate counterparts to hold up nominees for senior CIA positions, or simply called the national security adviser—as she reportedly did in the case of the Iraq program. Pelosi did none of those things when she learned about waterboarding. By her silence, Pelosi gave her consent—and then misled the media by claiming she was powerless to act.

President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be all smiles as the president arrives at the Capitol for his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, but the happy faces can’t hide relationships that are fraying and fraught.

Thanks to recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers.

The Senate approving the House’s health-care bill would be the easiest way to pass a reform package without stepping back to more partisan bickering. So says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, our colleague Sarah Kliff, and a growing drumbeat of angry and despondent progressive voters. Sort out the particulars later, they say. For now, just grow some cojones, bite the bullet, and git ‘er done.

Chris Matthews on Friday accused Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) of pandering to the far-left members of the liberal blogosphere known as the netroots.

House Minority Leader John Boehner said on Saturday that GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s unlikely win in Massachusetts, “the bluest of blue states,” should have been a wake-up call to Democrats that Americans have rejected the president’s agenda.

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Scott Brown’s shot heard ‘round the political world left congressional Democrats stunned and befuddled about what to do next in the yearlong push to overhaul the country’s health care system.

Determined to enact a health-care reform bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggled Wednesday to sell the Senate version of the legislation to reluctant Democrats, even as party moderates raised doubts about forging ahead without bipartisan support.

Nancy Pelosi is projecting confidence about health care legislation’s survival, but not all of her members share the sentiment:

Unlike just about every Democrat west of Faneuil Hall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t fretting about oh, NEARLY EVERY POLL showing Republican Scott Brown winning Ted Kennedy’s old Massachusetts Senate seat.

Furious with the Senate and desperate to regain a foothold in the health care debate, a wave of rank-and-file House Democrats assailed the Senate’s tax on high-end health care plans Tuesday night, on the eve of a critical White House meeting with the president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed by the White House, has said the House and Senate – each of which have passed versions of healthcare reform – were putting the final bill together “behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats.”

Thoughts from a Senate insider this morning: “There won’t be a conference, at least not in the sense that most of us think of a conference, with public debate and amendments. This will be written like most of the health-care legislation has been written — in a Democrat’s conference room with a handful of members and White House staff.”

Interview with Brian Sussman, KSFO 560

Mar 09, 2010

This morning, Dana had the pleasure of appearing on the KSFO Morning Show with Brian Sussman! Click the Play button below to listen:

 

Dana Walsh for Congress #5 - Dana's Interview on KSFO 560 Morning Show with Brian Sussman

My Reaction: California Republican Assembly

Mar 09, 2010

The California Republican Assembly Convention last weekend gave me a great opportunity to meet one-on-one with the Party faithful.

My goal was to introduce myself to as many attendees as I could; as important as it is to get our message out, it is every bit as important to listen.  Citizens want to be heard and I was given plenty of ideas to think about and information to review.  

The message that ‘Nancy Pelosi Must Go” was a common theme.  The strong-arm tactics employed by Pelosi were certainly discussed, but the bigger issue was that Health Care Reform – as presented in the current legislation – is totally unacceptable. And there was the recognition that this is just one battle in the war against big government.  Equally dreadful legislation on Cap and Trade, Immigration Reform and The Fairness Doctrine are next on the Democrat Agenda.   

My remarks at the after-dinner event on Saturday night were well received and brought us additional endorsements and volunteers. I’m looking forward to the CRP Convention this weekend and plan to build on the momentum created at the CRA. Hope to see you there!   

 

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