Well, the founding fathers did intend for the Senate to be the saucer to cool the hot coffee from the House, so it makes sense the Senate is the one barrier to complete dictatorial powers by any one party.
Nancy Pelosi is openly critical of the Senate now.
Frustrated by lack of legislative progress in the Senate, [...]

Nancy had big words to say the day after last year’s elections, but it seems they were only words and her base is not happy with the leadership of the Democrats in Congress.
From a Sept. 26 editorial in the Boston Globe we read this:
LAST NOVEMBER, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, “The American people spoke with their votes [...]

Not holding hands now, I bet.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Bush are certain to have a lot of restless nights in the very near future because Cindy Sheehan has declared she will run against Pelosi if Pelosi doesn’t agree to impeachment proceedings against President Bush by July 23.
Now there’s a woman who knows how [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid have said they will announce a new plan to end the Iraq war, to which I say, Just defund the darned thing and get it over with! Stop playing games and be the transparent Congress leaders you promised in the last election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants adult children of Congresscritters whose spouses can’t go along for a free vacation to go along for the ride free.
Why not? She wanted a jumbo jet to take her to San Francisco along with her family.
Why not enjoy the perks of office and take the kiddies out for a nice [...]

When Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi campaigned last year she campaigned against the Republican “culture of corruption”.
With yesterday’s indictment of William Jefferson, Speaker Pelosi is being watched to see what she plans to do with the indicted congressman.
Some expect her to discharge him from his committee asignment on the Small Business Committee and some are [...]

California Conservative does a pretty good job of fisking the comments made by Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi after the president’s veto speech last night.
Here’s the transcript of their speech:
Statement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on President Bush’s veto of the Iraq spending bill, as provided [...]

From the Washington Times:
President Bush yesterday invited congressional leaders to the White House to discuss redrafting a new war-spending bill next week, and warned Democrats he is willing to wield his veto power repeatedly to block troop-withdrawal deadlines for Iraq.
“I’m optimistic we can get a bill, a good bill, [...]

From The American Spectator Online comes the story of our Speaker of the House refusing to meet with the President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, who is an ally of the United States in the war on drugs.
According to sources within the House Democratic leadership, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied the request [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has for the second day since returning from a two-week Easter break postponed naming conferees for the reconciliation of the military supplemental spending bill.
She says it’s because a lot of Representatives from the Northeast were unable to get to Washington due to the recent storms and because some lawmakers attended services [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says President Bush is as isolated as Richard Nixon during Watergate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared President Bush to former President Nixon today, suggesting Bush is “as isolated” now over the Iraq war as Nixon was during the Watergate scandal, reports Politico’s Carrie Budoff.
Reid was responding to questions [...]

Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi have reconsidered and have accepted the president’s invitation to the White House to talk about several items, including the supplemental military spending bill.
Democratic leaders last night accepted President Bush’s offer to discuss the war-funding standoff, capitulating to the White House request after a day of alternately snubbing the invite [...]

The above headline is directly from the San Francisco Gate.
Please pay attention to the important words “may be interested”.
It does not say they are interested or they will go.
Rep. Lantos has said he is sponsoring a bill he expects to pass in May that would make available for all nations, including Iran, [...]

President Bush invited Senate Majority Leader Reid to the White House to discuss the stalemate over the war funding supplemental.
Mr. Reid’s response? Basically he told the president to take his invitation and shove it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday turned down President Bush’s invitation to meet at the White House next week to [...]

Here is the text of a letter sent to Speaker Pelosi by some of the GOP leadership in the House and the Senate, courtesy of the Drudge Report.
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
We are writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency [...]

This editorial appeared in today’s Washington Post, a newspaper that is certainly no friend to President Bush or to conservatives in general.
HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian [...]

Big Mo has a wonderful post up at Hang Right Politics, showing us, according to James Madison, one of our founding fathers, why Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria which has been described by Rep. Tom Lantos as “an alternative Democrat foreign policy” is possibly going to get us into a constitutional crisis.
Some quotes:
For [...]

Sister Toldjah has an interesting post up today titled Can Nancy Pull it Off?
Josephine Hearn reports this morning that the honeymoon is over for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
The California Democrat faces the first knock-down, drag-out legislative battle of her short tenure as speaker as early as Friday, when she and her [...]