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Boehner on JPMorgan: No Law Against Stupidity

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:06:03 CDT

John Boehner today took to ABC's This Week to offer his characteristically blunt assessment of JPMorgan, and promptly asserted that Dodd-Frank wouldn't have averted the bank's $3 billion blunder : " There's no law against stupidity . No law against stupid trades. As long as there's no risk of a taxpayer bailout—they...

Thousands Demand Dems Yank DNC From N. Carolina

Kevin Spak — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:50:15 CDT

Thousands of angry progressives are demanding the DNC pull the Democratic National Convention out of Charlotte in protest of North Carolina's vote to amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage. A Change.org petition advocating the move has already drawn more than 27,000 signatures, and the same sentiment is...

Obama to Dems: No Cash for You

Kevin Spak — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:09:17 CST

For Democrats who President Obama showered with cash in 2008 and 2010, well, they'd better get ready to raise their own darn money this time around. As in the last two election cycles, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi recently asked the Obama for America campaign and the Democratic National Committee...

Nancy Pelosi Lobs Attack Ad at Colbert

Kevin Spak — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:00 CST

Nancy Pelosi is trying to drum up support for the long-languishing DISCLOSE Act, and she's found the perfect foil: Stephen Colbert. "Stephen Colbert used to be my friend," she says in a new YouTube ad. "But since the day he started his super PAC, taking secret money from special interests,...

Watered-Down Insider Trading Bill Set to Pass House

Kevin Spak — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:50:02 CST

House legislators are almost sure to pass a bill officially banning them from insider trading today, but it will be missing a few teeth compared to its Senate counterpart. Eric Cantor has pulled out a provision that would have required K Street consultants who sell Congress' inside tips to Wall...

Pelosi: 'Something I Know' About Gingrich

John Johnson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:06:19 CST

Nancy Pelosi is again dropping cryptic hints about some apparent dirt she has on Newt Gingrich. Asked by CNN's John King yesterday about the prospect of him becoming president, she said flatly: "He's not going to be president of the United States. That's not going to happen. Let me just...

Gabrielle Giffords Resigns

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:27 CST

Gabrielle Giffords was feted by colleagues including Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz today in her last day on the House floor. "Today I know that now is not the time. I have more work to do on my recovery before I can again serve in elected office,...

Huntsman to Romney: Who Are You?

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:16:38 CST

The GOP candidates were busily piling on Mitt Romney during the Meet the Press debate , and Jon Huntsman took it a step further on State of the Union today, bashing Romney as having "morphed himself" too much for voters to know who he really is. "You run for the Senate...

Pelosi Daughter: Mom Wants to Retire

John Johnson — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:48:20 CST

In the for-what-it's-worth department: Nancy Pelosi's daughter tells the conservative Big Government website that her mom would love to leave Congress. "She would retire right now, if the donors she has didn’t want her to stay so badly," says filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi. "She’s 71, she wants to have a life,...