Nancy Pelosi would sell her mother for a vote, a real piece of slime.

Chaos, arm-twisting gave Pelosi win

After lawmakers had devoured the last of the Kalua Pig at last Thursday night’s White House Luau, Nancy Pelosi summoned her team back to the Capitol — to ensure the climate change bill wasn’t the next thing roasted on the spit.

Pelosi and her top lieutenants would spend the next four hours whipping, cajoling, begging and browbeating undecided Democrats — and triple-checking their whip lists to decide who was a solid “yes” and who was prevaricating on the cap-and-trade legislation.

Yet no matter how many calls they made — or how many times they checked and rechecked their list — Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) kept coming up between 12 and 20 votes short of the 216 votes needed to win.

“We didn’t have the votes — and we had to have this vote,” said a leadership aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “This was the big one for us. [Pelosi] staked her prestige on this one. ... This was her flagship issue, and this was a flagship vote for us.”

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 passed by only 219-212, after an epic day replete with Republican ambushes, petty betrayals, hastily rearranged flights and disappearing acts.

Yet for all the apparent chaos, the action was commanded by a House speaker maneuvering with the urgency of someone who knew her reputation was on the line.

Despite Republican promises to punish battleground state Democrats for supporting a “cap and tax” plan, Pelosi and her fractious caucus passed their most serious test to date.

And whatever the fallout, aides say that both Pelosi and President Barack Obama now know that their majority can hold together — barely — when placed under withering pressure — which may bode well for the equally arduous trials on health care reform.

At the end of it all, Pelosi, who floated in and out of the House cloakroom all day, impossible to miss in an arctic-white linen pantsuit, gambled big and pulled off one of the most important legislative victories of her career, a win she views as a personal vindication, according to those close to the San Francisco Democrat.

“There’s no question about it,” Clyburn said after the vote. “She went back to her whipping days of old. She is an incredibly good whip. I’m trying to learn from her every day.”

Despite the most coordinated push yet between Democrats on the Hill and the Obama White House, the outcome was not certain until the very end, according to two dozen aides and members of Congress interviewed by POLITICO.

“It was really never a solid [216],” one person said afterward.

Party leaders agreed to bring the bill to the floor during a meeting Monday night, even though some of the members present had reservations about forcing vulnerable Democrats to cast votes on a package that may not go anywhere in the Senate.

In the days leading up the vote, the number of Democratic “yes” votes was locked at 200, according to people familiar with the tally. Every time they’d pick up one vote, another would slip. Democratic leaders needed a cushion to help protect the most vulnerable among them, and they didn’t have it.

As the frustration grew, an aide joked in one meeting that White House staff should give fence-sitters the same colored leis so that the president and his Cabinet secretaries would know who to buttonhole. The desperation was such that others in the room paused for a split second to consider the joke before abandoning it as a logistical impossibility.

During the luau, Clyburn set up shop in the Oval Office with Obama to meet with wavering Democrats, like freshmen Reps. Frank Kratovil Jr. of Maryland and Eric Massa of New York. Members of Clyburn’s whip team patrolled the White House lawn, cornering colleagues and making the case for the bill.

As the week wore on, Pelosi was directing former Vice President Al Gore whom to call, but everyone decided late Wednesday night that the list of undecided members was small enough that he should stay in Nashville, Tenn., to make calls.

On the day of the vote, the bleary-eyed tag team of Pelosi and Clyburn camped out in the cloakroom, just off the House floor, for nearly three hours.

One of Pelosi’s first targets was Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), a key fence-sitter who wanted more money generated from the carbon trading to be directed to the research and development of green technology.

Pelosi talked to him again and again, but he wouldn’t budge. Her message to him was the same as it was to others: It wasn’t worth voting against the bill because of what wasn’t in it.

According to witnesses, Pelosi perched herself on the arm of Holt’s chair and went nose to nose with him for a half-hour warning him that his no vote could scuttle the entire climate change effort — and that liberals would have another chance to make their case once the bill came back from the Senate.

Around 2 o’clock, he became a “yes.”

Next up was Austin, Texas, liberal Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who had seemed to be leaning toward the bill during a Thursday night visit with Obama in the Oval Office — but then infuriated the White House midday Friday by declaring the measure too weak on polluters to win his vote.

An exasperated White House staffer told POLITICO it was “stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president but of his constituents and the country.”

Then Pelosi began working Doggett as the two stood in the back of the chamber near the railing, making the same perfect-is-enemy-of-the-good argument she had used against Holt. Doggett ended up voting “yes.”During the vote, Washington Rep. Jay Inslee, one of the taller members of the House, guarded the doors on the floor leading out to the Speaker’s Lobby, warning members not to leave the floor in case anyone needed to switch his or her vote. But that didn’t stop some Democrats, like Colorado Rep. John Salazar, from voting no early and sneaking out to avoid getting pressured by party leaders.

Leadership aides say Texas Rep. Ciro Rodriguez promised Pelosi he’d vote yes, but voted no and sprinted from the chamber. California Rep. Xavier Becerra tried unsuccessfully to flag him on his cell phone — and Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) bounded into the ornate Speaker’s Lobby off the floor shouting, “Rodriguez! Rodriguez!” as puzzled reporters looked on.

Pelosi forced members to postpone their trips abroad to stay in town for the vote, aides familiar with the situation said. At one point, she even promised to escort one member out to the airport in her motorcade to catch an early flight — as House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stalled the proceedings with an hourlong reading from the 300-page manager’s amendment.

California Rep. Ellen Tauscher, a master of floor procedure who left the House on Friday to take a top job at the State Department, may have made the biggest personal sacrifice by postponing a dinner the night before her wedding to preside over the debate — her last as a member of Congress.

When another Californian, Rep. Joe Baca, declared himself undeclared, Pelosi and her whip team surrounded him — and burst out into applause when he cast one of the decisive “yes” votes, according to an eyewitness.

Members who wanted to be spared of the Pelosi treatment — slinked in and out of the chamber hoping the speaker wouldn’t notice them.

Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) — another progressive who didn’t think the bill was strong enough — was an especially elusive target, according to leadership aides. Pelosi’s attempts to contact Filner early Friday weren’t successful, staffers say, but she began lobbying him furiously when he showed up for a series of procedural votes leading up to the fateful climate change measure.

After Baca and others had cast their “yeas,” the speaker walked up to Filner and calmly said, “It’s now your time to be on the record, Mr. Filner,” according to a witness.

He voted yes.

HEY CHINA ! TELL PELOSI AND HER GANG HELL NO TO CAP AND TRADE !

Wheeee ....what do you think about me now. I am all dressed up like a big girl. I have had so much botox that I don't look to bad today as a 70 year old brain dead idiot, Now do I ?













Nancy Pelosi the "LIAR" that accused the CIA of being Liars,and will not retrack what she said has snuck off to China to drum up support for the CAP AND TRADE TAX BILL and she took John Scarry Kerry with her among others. She will be trying to get them to sign on to charging their folks more money for these services so Americans want feel as though they are having to pay while no other countries sign on to Al Gores BullShit ! She knows it is going to be a hard sell and as it is right now the house and the senate are not on board with the bill. Lets hope and pray they stay that way.
IT WILL COST ALL AMERICANS MONEY OUT THE YING YANG FOR ALL ENERGY THEY USE, WHETHER IT BE ELECTRICITY, GAS FOR YOUR CAR, HEATING OIL, ETC.ETC.
Every time you use "anything", buy anything, it will cost you a lot more. Every single company that uses energy of any kind what so ever will have to pay more for that energy. The cost will be passed on to the consumer. What a sad time for AMERICA right now with all these socilaist/communist running this country. I hope we can survive for 4 years.

The many nasty pictures of NANCY,a terribly disturbed women that drank too much of the Kool aid.























Speaker Pelosi visits China; protesters seek help

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, meets with Han Zheng, Shanghai's mayor, unseen, in Shanghai, China, on Monday, May 25, 2009. U.S. House Speaker Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial center of Shanghai on Monday on a visit meant to highlight common goals in promoting clean energy to fight climate change.

SHANGHAI (AP) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial capital on Monday on a visit focused on environmental issues rather than human rights, though her presence emboldened protesters.
Pelosi took a low-key approach as she prepared for meetings in Beijing just days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.

The apparent shift approach dovetails with President Barack Obama's new emphasis on engagement with Beijing, rather than confrontation over its human rights record. Visits by Pelosi and other senior U.S. figures have been aimed at highlighting cooperation between the two countries on a slew of issues.

Still, the leading Democratic lawmaker's reputation as a strong human rights defender galvanized petitioners in Beijing, where several hundreds gathered Monday morning near the capital's South Railway Station to air their grievances. Dozens of police stood guard and most protesters were kept behind police lines.

While many complaints were about individual cases, photos posted on the Chinese-language Web site Boxun.com, a U.S.-hosted Web site banned in China, showed one group of demonstrators holding up a black-and-white cloth banner that said: "Welcome Pelosi. Pay close attention to human rights. SOS."

Speaking to U.S. business figures Monday in Shanghai, Pelosi noted her commitment to human rights issues over the years.

During a 1991 visit to Beijing, the Democrat from California unfurled a banner that read "To those who died for democracy in China" in the square. Years later, she attempted to present human rights petitions to then-visiting President Hu Jintao. When Tibetans staged protests against Chinese rule last year, Pelosi visited their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

"I will continue to speak out for human rights in China and around the world," Pelosi told members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

"Indeed, protecting the environment is a human rights issue," she said according to a copy of the speech distributed to journalists. "We hope to send a clear message that transparency, accountability, enforcement, and respect for the rule of law are essential if we are to protect our planet," she added.

Pelosi did castigate North Korea after Pyongyang announced that it had successfully carried out an underground nuclear test, weeks after threatening to restart its rogue atomic program.

"If today's announcement is true, these tests would be a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which requires that North Korea not conduct any further nuclear tests. Such action by North Korea is unacceptable and cause for great alarm," Pelosi said in a written statement.

Pelosi said she and other members of her delegation planned to urge Chinese leaders to use their influence to get the North to return to six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear program.

The lawmaker arrived over the weekend accompanied by a delegation of four Democrats and one Republican, all members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The main focus of their visit is the shared goal of promoting clean energy and combatting climate change.

Pelosi met Monday with Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng. The two exchanged pleasantries but made no substantive remarks before reporters. The delegation will later meet in Beijing with Hu and other leaders.

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and Democrat Sen. John Kerry is also in China, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will arrive next week. He is expected to reassure Beijing about the strength of the U.S. dollar and thus the value of China's vast holdings of U.S. Treasury notes.

NANCY PELOSI IS A BALD FACE LIAR ! RESIGN NANCY NOW !

Nancy, It sure is getting deep up there in Washington these days. Have you given out rubber boots so your other cohorts and thieves can come to work without falling in all the BS you people come up with everyday. You are a disgrace to America. RESIGN NOW !










CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'
By Paul Kane
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.

The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a matter of heated debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for many years precisely the techniques CIA agents were using in interrogations, and only protesting the tactics when they became public and liberal antiwar activists protested.

In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said today that she had never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal technique to use in interrogations.

"As this document shows, the Speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman.

Pelosi's statement did not address whether she was informed that other harsh techniques were already in use during the Zubaydah interrogations.

In December 2007 the Washington Post reported that leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees had been briefed in the fall of 2002 about waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and other techniques, and that no congressional leaders protested its use. At the time Pelosi said she was not told that waterboarding was being used, a position she stood by repeatedly last month when the Bush-era Justice Department legal documents justifying the interrogation tactics were released by Attorney General Eric Holder.

The new memo shows that intelligence officials were willing to share the information about waterboarding with only a sharply closed group of people. Three years after the initial Pelosi-Goss briefing, Bush officials still limited interrogation technique briefings to just the chairman and ranking member of the House and Senate intelligence committees, the so-called Gang of Four in the intelligence world.

In October 2005, CIA officials began briefing other congressional leaders with oversight of the intelligence community, including top appropriators who provided the agency its annual funding. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam and an opponent of torture techniques, was also read into the program at that time even though he did not hold a special committee position overseeing the intelligence community.

A bipartisan collection of lawmakers have criticized the practice of limiting information to just the "Gang of Four", who were expressly forbidden from talking about the information from other colleagues, including fellow members of the intelligence committees. Pelosi and others are considering reforms that would assure a more open process for all committee members.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/cia_says_pelosi_was_briefed_on.html

Madame Botox is the phoniest bastard on Capitol Hill since, well (insert democrat politician name here). Of course she knew about waterboarding, but as we all know, pressure from code pink is a son of a gun. I'm sure the "House Ethics Committee", (is that rich or what?) will get right on a thorough investigation of the botox queen, after they finish up their current work on Chuck Rangel..Ultimately, it's all just a smokescreen for ramming cap and tax into oblivion, and socialized healthcare down our throats.

Nancy Pelosi The Socialist Communist Runs her old 70 year old botox mouth again.

70 YEAR OLD SOCIALIST COMMUNIST LIAR Nancy Pelosi calls Tea Parties 'astroturf' From the looks of her the Botox is NOT working. LMAO.
















70 YEAR OLD SOCILAIST COMMUNIST LIAR Nancy Pelosi calls Tea Parties 'astroturf'

If Tea Partiers didn't have enough to be angry about, this ought to help. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the Tea Parties were "astroturf."

Here is what she said on KTVU-SF San Francisco:

"What they want is a continuation of the failed economic policies of President George Bush which got us in the situation we are in now. What we want is a new direction. This [tea party] initiative is funded by the high end we call call it astroturf, it's not really a grassroots movement. It's astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class."



Astroturfing is used to describe fake grassroots campaigns - get the full definition here.

This will be music to Republican ears. The GOP has already been mentioning Pelosi in their fundraising emails and now they can use her to capitalize on the Tea Party movement now that the parties are over.

Case in point: The National Republican Congressional Congressional Committee sent that quote out to its press list.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is on a mission to save the planet. She has consistently refused to allow a vote on drilling for oil because she says she believes it is all a hoax. But maybe Speaker Pelosi has other reasons.

The dcexaminer.com has recently revealed what that motive might be. The good Speaker owns stock in Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CEFC). Have you ever heard of T. Boone Pickens? Yes, I’m referring to the Texas oil billionaire who is now promoting his new wind-power business on television. CEFC is T. Boone’s baby. This project will depend on federal subsidies and, don’t forget, high oil prices along with continued government restrictions on drilling for oil in the US.

Wind power may be useful, but it is not as reliable as the commercials paint it to be. This, however, is not my point. Does anyone else see a possible conflict of interest here? If gasoline prices remain high because Congress refuses to make drilling our number one economic priority, Pelosi stands to make substantial profits in the wind-power business. She is also in a position to help push federal subsidies toward CEFC. I wonder how many other national elected officials have invested in this deal along with Al Gore’s carbon credits? According to the dcexaminer.com:

“A search of Pelosi’s official web site found no announcement of the investment in the Pickens operation. A request to the Speaker’s official spokesman yesterday for information about the investment went unanswered. Coincidentally, Pelosi’s investment came the same month as the House passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which she hailed as making the Congress over which she helps preside “the most open and honest in history.” There are numerous ways Pelosi could provide assistance to . . . Pickens, including helping secure federal tax advantages. Pickens expects at least 15 percent profits on the wind farm and associated initiatives. At . . . $14 per share value, Pelosi appears to own between 7,000 and 17,000 shares.”

By the way, Pelosi and Pickens are already encountering opposition to their little business deal. Pelosi’s friends, the radical environmentalist groups around the country, are blocking both wind-power and solar-power production because they believe the wires carrying the electricity would disturb the beauty of the natural landscape and endanger some wild animals. Who would have thought?

This story has got to get legs. Republicans and Democrats alike would probably like to see Pelosi go. She is giving the Congress their lowest rating in years… lower than BUSH!

If corruption won’t do it, what will? There is nothing more devious than politicians who decide what legislation comes to the floor when they personally benefit from that legislation. It is a CRIME. Ask Duke Cunningham! Of course, he was a Republican.

Demand that Nancy Pelosi step down as Speaker of the House!

We’re FEDUP!

http://samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/are-pelosis-green-investments-a-conflict-of-interest

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Ok, so I’m a little late commenting on this article.
While I am not against alternative energies, there is one very critical piece that the liberals (Pelosi, et al) keep overlooking.
Homes do NOT run on solar or wind or thermal or horse-dung burning generators. Rather, homes can run on batteries. All of these “sources” of energy simply charge the batteries.
So what, you ask?
It takes several TONS of batteries to power your house. For 100 million homes across American (and that is a low estimate), it would take 100’s of tons of batteries. Lead batteries.
I thought we already had enough issues with “lead” in our homes, and landfills, and creeks, rivers, ocean fronts, etc.
And, keep in mind, these batteries only last 4-5 years.
So every 4-5 years we will be replacing and recycling 100’s of millions of tons of LEAD batteries all over this country.

Any idea on how much it costs to transport all those heavy batteries??

STITCH!


Nancy Pelosi has to go. She is a waste of taxpayers money. She is a self serving POS. If she goes maybe we could have her takes the rest of the irresponsible democrats with her.SHE WOULD DO WELL IN BOTOX COMMMERCIALS.LMAO....

NANCY PELOSI DOES HER AROBIC WORKOUT WITH HER COMMI FRIENDS

I could not help but notice all the jumping beans and springs in the seats in the capitol building while The Messiah was lying to the AMERICAN Public about no Pork in any of the spending bills he has signed and will be signing in the future all the other lies he is telling to the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Richard Simmons needs to get her on his show sometimes. LMAO




Here is another video. LOL