Nancy Pelosi/Articles

The following are articles & commentary about Nancy Pelosi.

2001

 * John Nichols, "Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party?" The Nation, August 6, 2001.

2002

 * Doug Ireland, "Pelosi's Problems," LA Weekley, November 13, 2002.
 * Chris Suellentrop, "Nancy Pelosi: The Leader the Democrats Deserve," Slate, November 13, 2002.

2003

 * Mary Lynn F. Jones, "House Rules: Nancy Pelosi, Tom DeLay, and the Media's Double Standard," The American Prospect, January 13, 2003.
 * Edward Epstein, "Pelosi Accused of Pork Barrel Politics," San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2003.
 * "Pelosi's address to AIPAC," April 1, 2003.

2004

 * Ted Barrett, "Pelosi Rips Lawmaker on Job Offer," CNN, January 28, 2004.
 * "Pelosi PAC Fined $21,000 by FEC," Associated Pres, February 11, 2004.
 * Hans Nichols, "Rep. Pelosi prepared to blast Bush on Iraq," The Hill, April 21, 2004.
 * Harold Meyerson, "How Nancy Pelosi Took Control," The American Prospect, June 7, 2004.

2005

 * Stephen Dinan, "Pelosi Helped Donor to PAC," Washington Times, May 4, 2005.
 * Mark Gaffney, "Nancy Pelosi Gives a Pep Talk to AIPAC," Common Dreams, May 27, 2005.
 * The Prowler, "Nullification Nancy," The American Spectator, July 5, 2005.
 * Edward Epstein, "Pelosi Willing to Give Up S.F. Funds for Recovery," San Francisco Chronicle, September 21, 2005.
 * Josephine Hearn, "Pelosi Calls for Investigation into Ney's Dealings with Wireless Firm," The Hill, October 20, 2005.
 * Mike Crowley, "Steny Hoyer v. Nancy Pelosi," The New Republic, December 26, 2005.

2006

 * Marc Sandalow, Erin McCormick, and Chronicle Staff Writers, "Pelosi's goal: Democrats back on top Minority leader practices hardball politics to position her party for midterm election," San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 2006.
 * Erin McCormick and Marc Sandalow, and Chronicle Staff Writers, "Pelosi mines 'California gold' for Dems nationwide," San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2006.
 * Erin McCormick and Marc Sandalow, and Chronicle Staff Writers, "Making House races a referendum on GOP," San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2006.
 * John Bresnahan, "Pelosi Blasts Citations of DeLay, Cunningham," Roll Call, July 17, 2006.
 * Charles Babington and Jim VandeHei, "Hill Democrats Unite to Urge Bush to Begin Iraq Pullout," Washington Post, August 1, 2006.
 * Perry Bacon Jr., "'Anybody knows not to mess with me'. Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House," TIME Magazine, August 27, 2006.
 * Katherine Shrader, "Pelosi asks for closed House session," Associated Press (Yahoo), September 26, 2006.
 * Michael Stickings, "The character of Nancy Pelosi," The Moderate Voice, October 23, 2006.
 * Kurt Nimmo, "Nancy Pelosi Gives the Neocons a Get Out of Jail Card," Axis of Logic, October 23, 2006.
 * Dave Lindorff, "Why Nancy Pelosi has it wrong on impeachment," Atlantic Free Press, October 25, 2006.
 * Mark Matthews, "ABC7 Interview With Nancy Pelosi. Will She Be The Next Speaker?" ABC7 News, October 27, 2006.
 * Helen Thomas, Opinion: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi," Sacramento Bee, October 27, 2006.
 * Geoffrey Dickens, "Chris Matthews Compares Nancy Pelosi to DiMaggio," NewsBusters, October 30, 2006.
 * "Nancy Pelosi: U.S. Not 'Winning' in Iraq," NewsMax, November 1, 2006.
 * "Pelosi: Bush's Failed Economic Policies Are Leaving Middle-Income Families Behind," U.S. Newswire, November 2, 2006.
 * "Pelosi: 'Decision to Put Nuclear Weapons Information on the Internet Is a Serious Security Breach'," U.S. Newswire, November 3, 2006.
 * "Pelosi: In Bush Economy, Millions of Americans Are Working Hard and Unable to Get Ahead," U.S. Newswire, November 3, 2006.
 * David Gregory, "What will the Democrats do if they win? Bush taunts audiences while the minority party ponders a different future," MSNBC, November 3, 2006.
 * Ruth Marcus, Opinion: "Pelosi's choice," Sacramento Bee, November 4, 2006.
 * Politiko, "Where in Line?," Room Eight, November 10, 2006.
 * Jonathan Weisman and Lois Romano, "Pelosi Splits Democrats With Push for Murtha," Washington Post, November 16, 2006.
 * Lois Romano and Jonathan Weisman, "Democrats Elect Hoyer as New Majority Leader," Washington Post, November 16, 2006.
 * "Pelosi announces Iraq 'Democratic forum'," The Raw Story, November 21, 2006. re Exit Strategy from Iraq
 * Zachary Coile, "Pelosi readying a pre-emptive House agenda. She's not going to let State of the Union overshadow the state of the nation," San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2006.
 * Bob Egelko, "Pelosi's first priority is to halt Iraq war. Speaker taking office Jan. 4 comes home to talk up plans," San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2006.
 * Faye Fiore, "Pelosi piques public's interest. As incoming head of the House, with more eyes on her, she intends to paint her own picture," Los Angeles Times, December 11, 2006.
 * Rob Kall, "Pelosi and Conyers&mdash;Smarter Than Impeachment," OpEdNews, December 25, 2006.

January

 * "Pelosi: 3,000 US death toll is 'sad reminder of consequences of Bush Administration’s failed policy'," The Raw Story, January 1, 2007.
 * Joe Sudbay, "Pelosi to Bush: The days of the blank check are so over," AMERICAblog, January 7, 2007.
 * “Pelosi: No blank check for troop surge,” ‘’MSNBC.com,’’ January 7, 2006.
 * "Pelosi Bans Smoking Near House Floor," Associated Press (delivered by the Washington Post), January 10, 2006.
 * Jackie Kucinich, "House GOP proposes bipartisan Iraq oversight," The Hill, January 23, 2007.
 * "Pelosi in Iraq to see for herself how war is going," Reuters, January 26, 2007.
 * Edward Epstein, "In Baghdad, House members push for pullout," San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2007.
 * Erica Werner, "Pelosi Reaches Out to Blogging Community," Associated Press (Washington Post), January 30, 2007.

February

 * Michael Abramowitz and Paul Kane, "At Democrats' Meeting, Bush Appeals for Cooperation" Washington Post, February 4, 2007.
 * "White House defends Pelosi over plane," CNN, February 8, 2007.
 * Jonathan E. Kaplan, "Pelosi, Hoyer at odds again," The Hill, February 12, 2007.
 * "Pelosi: Bush thinking on Iraq 'impaired'," CNN, February 28, 2007.

March

 * Nico Pitney, "Pelosi: 'We Don’t Need Moral Judgment From The Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs'," Think Progress, March 13, 2007. re Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace
 * Jonathan Kaplan, "Pelosi tells Bush to 'calm down threats'," March 28, 2007.

April

 * Scott Lilly, "Pelosi in Syria," Center for American Progress, April 4, 2007.
 * Scott Horton, "President Carter: Bush Ordered Me Not to Go to Damascus," Harper's Magazine, April 6, 2007. re Jimmy Carter / Democratic delegation to Syria
 * Helene Cooper and Carl Hulse, "As One Syria Trip Draws Fire, Others Draw Silence," New York Times, April 7, 2007.
 * Michael McAuliff, "100 days report card: Nancy Pelosi. Hit & miss for Speaker of the House Pelosi," New York Daily News, April 7, 2007.
 * William M. Leogrande and Jim Lobe, "Wright Redux. The flap over Nancy Pelosi's Syria trip echoes a 20-year-old fight with a previous Democratic House Speaker -- and is being driven by the same right-wing Republican hawks," The American Prospect, April 9, 2007. re Dick Cheney, Elliott Abrams, and Newt Gingrich
 * "The Hill, ABC uncritically reported Gingrich's criticism of Pelosi's Syria visit," Media Matters for America, April 9, 2007.
 * Carla Marinucci, "Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran," San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2007.
 * Richards1052, "Lantos: White House Pressured Olmert to Deny He Gave Pelosi Peace Message for Assad," Warren Reports/TPM Cafe, April 10, 2007.
 * Wings of Justice Award: Nancy Pelosi, BuzzFlash, April 11, 2007.
 * Liz Cheney, Op-Ed: "The Truth About Syria," Washington Post, April 12, 2007.
 * Jamie Holly, "The President is Not King," Crooks and Liars, April 13, 2007.
 * Faiz Shakir, "Evidence Emerging Of Cheney-Led Smear Campaign Against Pelosi Over Syria Trip," Think Progress, April 14, 2007.

May

 * Jonathan E. Kaplan and Elana Schor, "Pelosi threat to sue Bush over Iraq bill," The Hill, May 9, 2007. re presidential signing statements

Swiftboating Nancy Pelosi

 * "Pat Buchanan on Scarborough: This Happened Because Nancy Pelosi Is a Flamer," Wonkette!, October 6, 2006.
 * Joseph Klein, "Nancy Pelosi: Anatomy of a Trainwreck," FrontPageMag.com, October 9, 2006.
 * Deborah, "O'Reilly Warns Voters About Nancy Pelosi and Her 'San Francisco Values'," News Hounds, October 12, 2006.
 * "Hume smeared '[un]popular' and not 'respected' 'Speaker Nancy Pelosi,' claimed she would harm an '08 Clinton presidential bid," Media Matters for America, October 15, 2006.
 * Ken Hughes, "Has Nancy Pelosi Put The Cart Before The Horse," American Chronicle, October 20, 2006.
 * Chrish, "Gingrich and O'Reilly rag on (absent) Nancy Pelosi," News Hounds, October 24, 2006: Newt Gingrich "continues to criticize her 'San Francisco liberalism'."
 * Janie, "Fox's Latest GOP Campaign Contribution: Attacking Nancy Pelosi," News Hounds, October 25, 2006.
 * Margaret Talev, "GOP takes aim at Nancy Pelosi to turn out their voters," McClatchy Newspapers (The State (SC)), October 26, 2006.
 * Edward Epstein, "GOP ads warn of 'homosexual agenda' from S.F.," San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2006.
 * "Gingrich: Stop 'Speaker Pelosi'," NewsMax, October 29, 2006.
 * Margaret Talev, "Republicans zero in on Pelosi. Republicans hope that drawing attention to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco will turn out votes against Democrats, but it may alienate female voters," McClatchy Newspapers (Miami Herald), October 30, 2006.
 * "Beck, Mowbray tag-teamed to bash Pelosi; Beck compared Santorum to Churchill," Media Matters for America, October 31, 2006.
 * Rich Galen, "Uh, oh. You mean I was right?" Townhall.com, November 1, 2006: "Pelosi represents that hotbed of neo-conservative thought: San Francisco." (??????)
 * "Luntz on Pelosi: 'You get one shot at a facelift. If it doesn't work the first time, let it go'," Media Matters for America, November 1, 2006.
 * Jim Meyers, "The 'Real' Speaker Pelosi," NewsMax, November 1, 2006.
 * Editorial: "Pelosi's budget votes," Washington Times, November 2, 2006.
 * "Wash. Times editorial falsely suggested Pelosi would cut Iraq-war funding," Media Matters for America, November 2, 2006.
 * Nico Pitney, "Drudge Floats Conspiracy Theory That Pelosi Has ‘Vanished,’ Ignores Clinton Rally, CNN Profile," Think Progress, November 2, 2006. See banner posted at Limbaugh Falls for Drudge's Fiction.
 * Dana, "Anti-Pelosi Watch," Campus Progress Blog, November 2, 2006.
 * Judd Legum, "Dornan: ‘Loyal’ Christians Should Not 'Jump Into The Hell Fire Of A Nancy Pelosi Catholic'," Think Progress, November 2, 2006.
 * "On MSNBC, Dornan accused Pelosi of making 'a racist statement' to support abortion rights; no follow-up from Robach," Media Matters for America, November 2, 2006.
 * "Blitzer failed to challenge Boehner on false claims about war, ethics," Media Matters for America, November 2, 2006.
 * Rush Limbaugh, "Gutless Pelosi in Hiding While Bush Campaigns," RushLimbaugh.com, November 3, 2006. Subscription may be required.
 * "Where is Nancy Pelosi? A 'How To' Guide for Advancing Conservative Misinformation. How a Bogus Claim from a GOP Organization Ended Up on MSNBC," Media Matters for America, November 3, 2006.
 * "'Where's Nancy?' Trajectory of a GOP smear on Pelosi," Media Matters for America, November 3, 2006: "The claim that Pelosi was '[a]lmost entirely absent from the campaign trail' appears to have originated with The Freedom Project, House Majority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) political action committee ..."
 * Editorial: "A look at Pelosi's voting record," Washington Times, November 3, 2006.
 * Nico Pitney, "‘Vanishing’ Pelosi To Appear At Multiple Public Rallies Tomorrow," Think Progress, November 3, 2006.
 * Joe Garofoli, "Three dirty words: San Francisco values," San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 2006.
 * Hanke Plante, "'San Francisco Values' Under Attack," CBS5.com, November 3, 2006.
 * "SanFran 'values' new GOP watchword," UPI, November 3, 2006.
 * Joe Garofoli, "'S.F. Values' Creates GOP Buzz. Phrase takes hold in media, cyberspace," San Francisco Chronicle (MontereyHerald.com), November 4, 2006.
 * Doug Powers, "Nancy Pelosi Stars in Misery II: We’ll Release You After The Cocka-Doody Election!," Vox Populi (MensNewsDaily.com), November 4, 2006.
 * John W. Lillpop, "Can America Survive a Pelosi Political Plundering?" News Blaze, November 3, 2006.
 * Mark Finkelstein, "Nancy Pelosi: The Speaker from Fahrenheit 9/11?" NewsBusters, November 3, 2006.
 * Randy Hall, "Dems' 'New Direction' for Economy Is 'Straight Down,' GOP Says," Cybercast News Service, November 3, 2006.
 * Carl Nolte, "Those much-aligned values of life in S.F. -- free to be you, me," San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2006.