Tag: Nancy Pelosi
Speeding Tea Party rhetoric bangs against Ref C guardrail in Loveland
At last week's 4th congressional district candidate forum in Loveland, theoretical anti-tax anti-government consensus broke down briefly during discussion of Referendum C, Colorado's 2005 voter-supported "TABOR timeout," which has become a litmus-test topic for state Republican candidates this year.
Final push: Public-option support groups pressure Pelosi
In the eye of the health reform storm, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been backing away from the public health insurance option...
Pelosi draws heat for calling quits on public option
Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced that he’d whip “aggressively” for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation...
The resolution may be televised: C-SPAN asks to broadcast health bills...
The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions — not in a formal...
Catholic pastors directed to distribute anti-health reform materials at mass
This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the...
Operation Rescue Halloween: Nancy Pelosi Burn in Hell Contest
Randall Terry, the founder of fanatical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is sending around an email to supporters asking them to burn Speaker of the...
Ritter joins governors group in expressing support for health reform
Governor Ritter joined 21 other Governor's today signing a letter that urges federal lawmakers to adopt national health reform legislation before the end of...
Bachmann: ‘Slit our wrists, be blood brothers’ to beat health care...
DENVER -- In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”
“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
Pelosi health-care protest: Did anyone say ‘euthanasia’?
At Stout Street Clinic in Denver, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Colorado Democratic Reps Jared Polis and Diana DeGette are scheduled to...
Health-care showdown brewing at Denver Stout Street Clinic
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, are touring the Stout Street Clinic for the homeless...