By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
WSJ - The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."
Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and […]
By Eric Cantor
TOWNHALL - “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.”
-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nov. 16, 2006
These kinds of promises are easy to make when the wind is at your back. That was then, in the wake of midterm elections, before $4-plus gasoline. It was before high energy […]
By MARTIN KADY II & PATRICK O'CONNOR
POLITICO - California Democrat Nancy Pelosi may be trying to save the planet — but the rank and file in her party increasingly are just trying to save their political hides when it comes to gas prices as Republicans apply more and more rhetorical muscle.
But what looks like […]
“It is then that the movie turns into a farce, as Ms. Pelosi is crying out, ‘Quick! Give him some more money!’ Hahahaha! Nice work, Ms. Pelosi! Groucho Marx would have been proud of us both!”
Caroline Baum at Bloomberg News writes, “President Bush and his Treasury secretary, Hank Paulson, are pumping out plans as quickly […]
