Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has appropriately called for an ethics investigation. His mentor and predecessor, Senator Chuck Schumer has let Rep. Anthony Weiner deal with his own crisis management. The normally wooden Harry Reid dissed Weiner the hardest: “I know Congressman Weiner,” Reid said. “I wish there was someway I could defend him but I [...]
I am sure the GOP’s obstructionism has got him wound up, but even more so his own party’s unnecessarily slow maneuvering in the Senate has got to be burning him up as well. The Republican Party is “a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry,” Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) charged on the House floor. When [...]
I don’t know all the “inside baseball” ramifications of this, but on its face, I like it. The Speaker recently assured her freshman lawmakers and other vulnerable members of her caucus that a vote on immigration reform is not looming despite a renewed push from the White House and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The House [...]