Arizona: Nancy Pelosi

June 15, 2009 - 10:04 pm
NEWS FEED: AZNetroots

Urge Grijalva to Continue to Vote No on the War Supplemental

Congressman Grijalva is being pressured to change his vote on the War Supplemental by Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel.

Please contact Raul, if you live in his district, and ask him to vote "No" on the War Supplemental.  Forward him this video if you like.

The vote is tomorrow.

June 9, 2009 - 04:08 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

What, are Graham and Lieberman in the photos?

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Raw Story is reporting that at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-C.T.) threatened to shut down the Senate by blocking any further legislation unless their bill preventing the release of any further detainee abuse photos is passed. Graham, Lieberman threaten Senate shut down over abuse photo bill

“Both Senators said they were alarmed that a House-Senate conference committee on the supplemental war spending bill appears poised to eliminate language — inserted by the two Senators — that would block public disclosure of detainee abuse photos,” reported Roll Call. “The $90-billion-plus bill has been held up, in part, because House Democratic leaders have said they do not have the votes to pass it with the detainee photo provision included, because many liberal lawmakers have balked at the language.

May 17, 2009 - 02:23 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

Media Villagers and Beltway Bloviators Miss The Biggest Story of Our Lifetime

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Hey, media villagers and Beltway bloviators -- yeah, I'm talking to you. I realize that it has been years since any of you have done any serious investigative journalism, perhaps decades for some of you. Your investigative journalism skills have atrophied and died long ago. You couldn't find your own ass with both hands behind your back.

Others of you have sold out and become stenographers who simply repeat the conservative talking points you receive each day without a thought in your pretty little heads. Just smile and read the teleprompter. You are content to be part of the Mighty Wurlitzer conservative noise machine.

May 15, 2009 - 10:41 am
NEWS FEED: Exurban League

When you need a laugh...

"Okay kids. Let go of that string on the back of my head."

...Scott Ott (a.k.a., Scrappleface) delivers: Pelosi First Heard of 9/11 Attacks in Late 2003.

But for an even bigger laugh, Jim Geraghty has a transcript of Pelosi's actual remarks:
"They mislead us all the time. I was fighting the war in Iraq at that point, too, you know, saying to my members the intelligence does not support the imminent threat that they are conceding. But what’s the point? Yes, they did. They misrepresented every step of the way. And they don’t want that focus on them. So they try to turn the attention on us.

May 14, 2009 - 04:49 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

John McCain was against torture before he was for it

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The McMedia idolize Senator John McCain partly because of his experience as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam war. McCain was savagely beaten and tortured, and was broken to the point where he signed confessions and participated in propaganda videos for the North Vietnamese.

John McCain knows the horrors of torture, and he knows that it doesn't produce credible intelligence. His own recounting of his experiences as a prisoner of war is a first-hand account that a tortured prisoner will tell his torturers anything they want to hear just to make the torture stop.

The McMedia, almost none of whom have ever served in the military, idolize McCain because they know that they never could have endured the experiences McCain endured as a prisoner of war.

May 13, 2009 - 12:31 pm
NEWS FEED: Arizona Republic

Pelosi to speak at Phoenix fundraiser

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is due in Phoenix Friday to speak at a fundraiser for Emerge, a candidate-training group that she helped launch seven years ago in the Bay Area.
Pelosi's appearance will benefit the Arizona branch of Emerge, a labor-backed group that recruits and trains Democratic female candidates for offices ranging from school board to Legislature, as well as schooling women in the inside mechanics of running campaigns.
"I'm still pinching myself," said an elated Dana Kennedy, who runs the local Emerge chapter.
Kennedy helped recruit Pelosi, then a Democratic congresswoman from San Francisco, to serve on the inaugural board of Emerge ...

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May 10, 2009 - 04:46 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

Wingnuttia talking points and investigating the Bush torture program

Posted By AzBlueMeanie:

The latest wingnuttia talking point in the media is "what did Nancy Pelosi know about the Bush torture program and when did she know it?" The talking point is meant to suggest that Nancy Pelosi approved of the Bush torture program.

Republicans are using this as a threat to impede any investigations into the Bush torture program and an appointment of a special or independent prosecutor. If Democrats want to open an investigation into Bush administration officials for torture, so the threat goes, Republicans will retaliate against Democratic members of Congress who "did not object to" (and by implication approved of by their silence and acquiescence) the Bush torture program.

April 27, 2009 - 01:31 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

Time For Another 'Pecora Commission' to Investigate The Pirates of Wall Street

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I have made no secret of my disappointment in President Obama's decision to bring Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner into his administration. I said it was a mistake at the time, and recent events have only hardened my opposition.

Last week it was reported that After a Pause, Wall Street Pay Bounces Back:

The rest of the nation may be getting back to basics, but on Wall Street, paychecks still come with a golden promise.

Workers at the largest financial institutions are on track to earn as much money this year as they did before the financial crisis began, because of the strong start of the year for bank profits.

April 9, 2009 - 02:30 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

Licensed to kill?

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

There have been eight shooting rampages that have claimed 57 lives since March 10. It would be easy to simply dismiss the shooters as just "a crazy with a gun" or "a criminal" as Glenn Beck has. Oh, but not so fast, Glenn.

The shooters had more in common than unleashing carnage — nearly every gunman in this monthlong series of mass killings was legally entitled to fire his weapons. Many Recent Shooters Had Gun Permits

Assuming, arguendo, that the shooters purchased their guns from a reputable gun dealer who complied with the law by having the purchaser complete a background check, one can also assume that the shooters did not have a criminal record or a history of institutionalization for a mental disorder.

March 18, 2009 - 02:52 pm
NEWS FEED: Seeing Red AZ

Pelosi defines who’s “very, very patriotic” and who’s “un-American”

Seeks job protection for illegals while millions of Americans are out of work
Seeing Red AZ recently reported on leftist Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill), and his stop-off in Phoenix as part of his 17-city, pro-amnesty tour. Gutierrez, the odd political ally of Jeff Flake (AZ-CD6) appeared with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a gathering at [...]