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Title: Pelosi says she would drain GOP 'swamp'
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Yahoo News (AP)
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_on_el_ge/pelosi_time_1
Published: Oct 6, 2006
Author: DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
Post Date: 2006-10-07 19:45:02 by robin
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Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule. As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats — in her fondest wish — win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history. Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation." Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients. Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds — "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday. All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority. To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above "a certain level." She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era. Details will have to be worked out, she emphasized. "We believe in the marketplace," Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. "They have only rewarded wealth, not work." "We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few, she added. Pelosi, 66, has been a leader of the House Democrats since 2002. But her political apprenticeship dates to childhood, when her father was mayor of Baltimore. Now, her political base is about as liberal as it gets, San Francisco. It's a fact that Republicans love to emphasize to voters who might want to visit, but not feel comfortable living there. Republicans find her an attractive political target, and recently said she would try to "cut-and-run" from Iraq while "launching bitter partisan investigations" of the Bush administration, possibly including impeachment hearings. A grandmother five times over, Pelosi pops chocolates, shuns coffee and flashes her wit. Asked what offices should would occupy if in the Capitol if she becomes speaker, she laughed. "I'll have any suite I want." She would, too. "If the election were held today we'd be successful," Pelosi predicted, claiming that her party's prospects are expanding as the campaign enters its final month. "So many other races are emerging right now," she said. Democrats must gain 15 seats to regain the majority they lost in 1994, and have candidates in competitive races for 30 or so Republican-held seats, according to strategists in both parties. By contrast, only about a handful of Democratic-controlled seats appear ripe for possible Republican takeover. Democrats have a pamphlet that lists all their promises and have run through several slogans in the past year or so as they test campaign messages. In recent days, Pelosi said, their prospects have improved by the discovery that former Republican Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) of Florida had sent sexually explicit computer messages to teenage male pages. Not long before sitting down for a lunchtime interview, she turned down a suggestion from Speaker Dennis Hastert that they jointly appoint former FBI Director Louie Freeh to recommend improvements in the page program. "That was about protecting their majority" rather than the pages, she said dismissively. Instead, she wants to put Hastert and other Republicans under oath and make them say what they knew of Foley's actions, when they learned it and what they did to stop him. The potential for political gain is clear to her. "It's an opportunity for growth among women" for the Democrats, she said. "They don't always vote and this could be a motivation." With married women, in particular, it's a huge issue, she added. Among older voters, too. "If there's an ethical issue, seniors take a hike" and abandon politicians they blame, she said. "If we hold onto seniors we win the election."
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#1. To: robin (#0)
What kills me is the way the cable news networks are spinning the consequences of the Dems winning the House. It's, "If the Democrats win the House, it will keep Bush from getting his agenda through." No mention of Bush's real problem, which is that the Dems will investigate his sorry a$$. But the networks don't want to air that, because it would imply that Bush has done something which needs investigating.
Conyers would love a chance to complete his Impeachment legislation.
And BusinessWeek recently pointed out that Henry Waxman would get the chair of the Gov't Reform Committee which oversees the Halliburton contracts in Iraq.
We'll be learning the names of new corporations. But just the changing of the guard might give us a little relief.
That was kind of the focus of the BusinessWeek article -- the corporate winners/losers in a Democratic takeover.
It's just time for another side of the CFR to be the winners.
This alone would be worth a total sweep by the Dems. The concept of Cheney having to explain under oath why he was doing business with Iran in the 1990s when they were under complete sanction...I would take emergency leave from my job to spend a week or two sitting in that gallery, chomping popcorn.
I agree with her, and hope the democrats will drown in it too
That does sound appealing, I must say.
it would hard to find anyone worse than child raping hypocritical butt pirates who ship jobs overseas, take corporate bribes, allow massive illegal immigration siphoning taxpayer dollars, engage in extremely bizarre secret society perversion, get busted with several tons worth of cocaine and heroin in natl sec. aircraft, lose two wars started on false pretenses, allow for the highest opium crop recorded in afghanistan, behave perfectly bizarrely at world summits by massaging european chancellors in conference, behave as if intoxicated at other summits while stating with open mike comments about how some man was 'sweet' with another male world leader, showing up with really weird eye bruises after a lame excuse about choking on snack foods you have to chew to eat, reading to school children while your vice president is calling a stand down to interceptor jets at the same time sophisticated aircraft make impossible maneuvers by untrained pilots into massively huge skyscrapers that fall at the rate of gravity days later with atomized metal fragments and molten pools of steel, all caused, apparently according to media, by jet fuel that burns only at 1500 degrees, concurrently as an aircraft purported to be a passenger airliner penetrates reinforced walls of the pentagon yet leaves no debris, wings, bodies nor scorch marks and a hole too small to fit through, guts the constitution while attempting to create a police state through a cheap mimic of nazi legislation and tactics while blackmailing an inept and literally castrated and ungendered congress of child molesters and fascist self serving small dicked man bitches, while wrapping oneself in the flag and utilizing any religious leverage one can muster, at the same time utterly working as a tool of israeli/zionist insanity/ blackmail, not to forget working tirelessly to cripple the united states sovereignty and in general commit treason wholesale on every level. we haven't got yet to goatfucking, or human sacrifice, but then again, it's been whispered and even hardcore freaks get bored with garden variety perversion
To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. ~Don Juan Matos, Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda Pelosi, remember, appeared at an AIPAC gathering and pleged total, undying American support for Israel. IMO she is an establishment whore who would obstruct any real reform in a Democrate Congress. If the Democrates win the House, Murtha has said he will run for speaker. Unlike Pelosi, Murtha will kick ass and take names. As Speaker of the House Murtha is much more likely to back Conyers in bringing impeachment charges against Bush/Cheney than Pelosk would be.. Go Murtha!
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
Wow! What a sentence!
Pelosi and Boxer both bother me. Go Murtha!
like Henry James.
To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. ~Don Juan Matos, Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda and, suitable for tag lines.
To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. ~Don Juan Matos, Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda ha! or campaign slogan ;P
LOL! I hope it comes to pass.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William S. Burroughs
I've already said too much.
#2. To: MUDDOG (#1)
#3. To: robin (#2)
I've already said too much.
#4. To: MUDDOG (#3)
And BusinessWeek recently pointed out that Henry Waxman would get the chair of the Gov't Reform Committee which oversees the Halliburton contracts in Iraq.
#5. To: robin (#4)
We'll be learning the names of new corporations. But just the changing of the guard might give us a little relief.
I've already said too much.
#6. To: MUDDOG (#5)
the corporate winners/losers in a Democratic takeover.
#7. To: MUDDOG (#3)
Henry Waxman would get the chair of the Gov't Reform Committee which oversees the Halliburton contracts in Iraq
#8. To: robin (#0)
#9. To: Mekons4 (#7)
This alone would be worth a total sweep by the Dems. The concept of Cheney having to explain under oath why he was doing business with Iran in the 1990s when they were under complete sanction...I would take emergency leave from my job to spend a week or two sitting in that gallery, chomping popcorn.
#10. To: robin (#0)
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#11. To: robin, Mekons4 (#9)
#12. To: gengis gandhi (#10)
#13. To: Zoroaster (#11)
#14. To: robin (#12)
#15. To: robin (#12)
#16. To: gengis gandhi (#15)
#17. To: Mekons4 (#7)
I would take emergency leave from my job to spend a week or two sitting in that gallery, chomping popcorn.
I've already said too much.
#18. To: MUDDOG (#17)
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