Pelosi is on FIRE!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

Kudos to her.

[yellowcanine]

1. Regarding what? All caps and an exclamation point demand details.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. She is ripping the pugs for the debacle in Iraq.

The inability to account for their safety, for the loss of 8 Billion dollars, for inadequate training, lack of diplomacy...

[southernleftylady]

2. Bringing the troops home to early.. its too late for that! ... you go girl! nt

[still_one]

3. and the MSM who helped propel us into this war are not even covering it

If hasert was the speaker taking the opposite position you can bet it would be on all the airwaves

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Yep. Thus my image in my footnote.

Absolutely shameful.

[KittyWampus]

6. Thank GOD code pink is on her case

:sarcasm:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. I tend to stay out of these flame wars, but

Code Pink is way off base in their actions regarding Nancy...

[grytpype]

20. Didn't you see the :sarcasm:?

:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. No. Where was it?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :evilgrin: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[MoonRiver]

7. God she's good!

Nancy :yourock:

[npincus]

8. when is the vote?

[MADem]

21. It is happening RIGHT NOW...it'll be done in fifteen minutes.

None of this GOP bullshit and arm-twisting, none of this 'midnight voting' and threats on the House floor.

Dave Obey waved his magic wand; it's made of PORK, but if that's what it takes, that is what it takes. Practical and tactical--that's how we get out of Iraq.

[npincus]

27. thanks- I have it up now.

cross ya fingers, toes, etc.

[MADem]

33. He GOT his 218!!! It would have been 219 if the Rep from NC had made it. NT

[MistressOverdone]

9. She is EVERYTHING Bush isn't.

[saltpoint]

10. It was just made clear that the bill has power beyond the House walls.

Good for Nancy Pelosi.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

12. Taking a 15 minute vote right now. Protesters are now being removed

from the gallery. Geesh...

[Monkeyman]

14. Code Pink was removed

[HCE SuiGeneris]

19. Have they removed them from in front of her house?

[saltpoint]

17. It gets awfully quiet in that chamber when they vote, doesn't it?

[MADem]

23. No, it gets LOUD as hell. They turn the sound off. Before, they left it on,

and you could hear ALL SORTS of juicy gossip over the mics. People talking about other people, snide comments, conversations of the "Let's go have a drink" variety to "Jeeez, I got hammered last night" so they changed the coverage to turn volume OFF while votes were going on.

When it lasts forever, like it did in the GOP era, they'd either play music or go to a WASHINGTON JOURNAL kind of call in show, where people could gripe about the legislation.

[saltpoint]

25. Come to think of it, it's probably a good thing that Wilbur Mills

died before the onset of C-Span!

[MADem]

30. Yep, he left Congress in 76, and they started CSPAN up three years later.

Gee, wonder what the Argentine Firecracker is doing these days?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/tidalbas.htm

Oct. 11, 1974
© The Washington Post
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) yesterday broke three days of silence and denials by admitting that U.S. Park Police found him with his face cut after they stopped his speeding car near the Tidal Basin at 2 a.m. Monday.

In a statement issued by his Capitol Hill office, Mills said his face was cut from his eyeglasses, which broke as he tried to stop an ill woman neighbor, Mrs. Eduardo Battistella, from leaving the vehicle, which, according to police, had no lights on. Identified by police as Annabell Battistella, 38, the woman jumped into the Tidal Basin and was rescued after the car was stopped.

Mills, 65, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he had left his wife, Polly, home at her request Sunday night as she had a broken foot. He said he left to give a party for Gloria Sanchez, who he said was a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Battistella and was visiting the couple from Argentina. Police said Mrs. Sanchez also was in the car.

Mills said Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Battistella have "grown to become close" friends of his family since Mills and his wife last year moved into the luxury Arlington apartment complex where the Battistellas reside....Reporters were told yesterday that Mrs. Battistella worked as a stripper at the Silver Slipper at 815 13th Street NW in 1973 under the name Fanne Foxe. She was billed as the "Argentine Firecracker."

[saltpoint]

34. And there they are again, just as if it had happened last night!

Wilbur Mills apparently knew how to have a good time in Washington.

I'll say this for him -- he knew zing when he sw it.

[Monkeyman]

13. A Lady of Class and she is right

[Bandit]

15. Are we sure she isn't wearing flame retardant clothing?

:shrug:

[MADem]

16. Some assholes (gee, wonder who??) are creating a "disturbance in the gallery"

They're being removed right now. What a bunch of fools. I hope they arrest them and fine them. Enough of this shit. They have the right to protest, they do NOT have the right to interfere with government. By so doing, they are infringing on MY right to an effective, proactive, law-passing legislative body.

[bdamomma]

22. there are some who people who believe in freedom of expression!!

[MADem]

26. Let them express their sorry asses out on the public streets. There SHALL BE decorum in the HOUSE.

It's MY House, too--like it or not. They have NO RIGHT to disrespect it.

Fuck them. They're IDIOTS, and I think they're being paid by Karl Rove, frankly. I disavow them, and call them FOOLS. Because that, IMO, is what they are.

FOOLS.

[TheLeftyMom]

29. Tell us how you really feel!

;-)

For the record though, I agree about Code Pink. They are protesting the very people who are doing their damndest -- within the law -- to get things done and get them done right.

[MADem]

32. I honestly do feel that their SHALL be DECORUM in the HOUSE.

If those nitwits, and they are nitwits, want to protest, let them go get a permit and take to the streets. Of course, they can't get sufficient critical mass to even REQUIRE a permit, I will bet, so they can just hang around in front of the building with signs without a permit with no problem, most likely.

They've no business interfering with the work of MY legislators. I have rights, too. And by their conduct, they are INFRINGING on MY rights, and I don't take kindly to that. Their rights end where mine begin!

Dave Obey got his 218!! I'm happy. It's not what those bozos want--they want the IMPOSSIBLE, yesterday--but it's the best we were gonna get--he had to pork the thing like mad, but that's politics, quid pro quo and compromise are the rules of the day.

[donco6]

36. I agree, their strategy suffers from - incoherence, I think.

I just don't quite get what they're going for with this lately.

[Marrah_G]

37. Just because they can say it doesn't mean we have to support them on it.

The more I see them the more I am convinced they were bought off by Rove just to make the lives of the Dem leaders more stress filled.

[IWantAChange]

18. IMO Repukes were all about wrapping themselves in the flag and Dems were about espousing reality

[MADem]

28. The Repiglicons, Kings of Pork, were trying to cry about the bacon in the bill,

that Obey, Murtha et.al. used to pry those votes from the unwilling.

They also tried to call those bits of bacon 'earmarks'--but the problem is, the people putting the bacon in the bill were not earmarking for their own districts, so that ploy didn't work!

They resorted to the flag waving when all of their other whining got shot down.

It was amusing to watch.

[louis-t]

35. Same nitwits that call VA funding "entitlements".

Sheeesh!

[MADem]

31. DAVE OBEY just got his 218!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t