Last week, the Washington "Moonie" Times wrote a story saying that, in effect, that Nancy Pelosi requested that the Air Force provide her flights to and from Washington whenever she actually deigns to come home to the City by the Bay. The story is potentially embarrassing to Pelosi as it plays on the caricature of her being shrewish bitch who requests military planes while our brave sons and daughters are dying to fight the war on terror even though Iraq has nothing to do with it and even Republicans wish the war would end but they're still going to stop non-binding resolutions to stop it. Or something like that. As these things tend to happen, the story got out into the Republican echo chamber and you know what happens whenever that occurs-- the press has to cover it like it's an important story. Also, so called blabber mouths in politics and cable news spout it off like it's the unbridled truth without actually investigating it. more ›

And so yesterday it was made official-- our Little Nancy is now Speaker of the House. No matter what you may think about her-- ultra-liberal, corporate sell-out, uninspirationalparty hack, and inspirational career woman-- it's a pretty big deal. Among other things it means, yes, pork, tons of pork headed to us. More pork than an All You Can Eat night at Jimmy Dean Sausage Emporium more ›

-Berkeley joins in on the Stadium fun. -Dems already start in with in-fighting: Pelosi backs John Murtha over Steny Hoyer. What kind of name is Steny anyways? more ›

show you how f----- up difficult the political situation is over the War of Iraq, one just has to look at the aftershocks of Nancy Pelosi's announcement that she backs the plans of John Murtha. So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized for the plan. Which is what's happening. Just check out the excitable Andrew Sullivan, probably one of the biggest critic's of the Administration, who has taken to calling the Dems "useless" due to their inconsistent bouts of incoherence. more ›

So the President gave his big "Wait! I got a Plan! I swear" speech today which went over as well, as, well, we don't know how well it went over, but we did notice while at the gym today that the news channels couldn't wait to switch over to live footage of some police chase in LA. One place the President's speech did cause a reaction was here in the Bay Area as this afternoon, Nancy Pelosi came out in support of John Murtha's proposed withdrawal plan. The one which got him called a "coward" by that scary congresswoman from Ohio. more ›