Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi ( /pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to hold the office and to date, has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi has represented California's 8th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco, since 1987. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House. She served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, and was House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th and 109th Congresses. Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress. After the Democrats took control of the House in 2007 and increased their majority in 2009, Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House for the 110th and 111th Congresses.
Thomas Anthony Marino (born August 13, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The district, located in northeastern Pennsylvania, includes Lackawanna and Luzerne counties outside of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre (communities such as Clarks Summit, Kingston, and the Back Mountain towns of Trucksville, Shavertown, and Dallas) as well as all or most of Bradford, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Union, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming and a small part of Tioga counties.
Marino was born and raised in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Marino received his undergraduate degree from Lycoming College and his juris doctor from Dickinson School of Law.
Marino served as a Lycoming County District Attorney from 1992–2002, and was then selected as a U.S. Attorney.
Marino defeated Democratic incumbent Chris Carney on November 2, 2010.
In 2011, Rep. Marino became a co-sponsor of Bill H.R.3261 otherwise known as the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Dennis Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and radio personality. He is known for his critical assessments laced with pop culture references. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC and in syndication. He currently hosts a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Dial Global.
Although in his early years of fame he was perceived to be quite liberal and anti-Republican, in recent years, Miller has become known for his right-leaning political opinions. He is a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Miller Time", and previously appeared on the network's Hannity & Colmes in a segment called "Real Free Speech".
Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Castle Shannon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he graduated from Keystone Oaks High School in 1971. His parents separated and Miller was raised by his mother, Norma, a dietitian. Miller is of Scottish descent. At Point Park University, he majored in journalism because he thought it would be easy: "I remember seeing All the President's Men and thinking Redford looked cool in his crinkled tie."[citation needed] He was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. About his social status during this period, Miller writes: "When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made me do some things I'm not proud of, although they made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele" (I Rant, Therefore I Am). Miller graduated from Point Park University in 1976.
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is widely known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central.
Stewart started as a stand-up comedian, but branched into television as host of Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, called The Jon Stewart Show, and then hosted another show on MTV called You Wrote It, You Watch It. He has also had several film roles as an actor. Stewart became the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in early 1999. He is also a writer and co-executive-producer of the show. After Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim, resulting in his sixteen Emmy Awards.
Stewart has gained acclaim as an acerbic, satirical critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular those of the US media networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his "fake news" desk. Stewart agrees, saying that neither his show nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire and comedy. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for news and journalism awards. Stewart hosted the 78th and 80th Academy Awards. He is the co-author of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which was one of the best-selling books in the U.S. in 2004 and Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race released in 2010.
Megyn Marie Kelly (born November 18, 1970), formerly known as Megyn Kendall, is an American journalist and news anchor employed by the Fox News Channel. Kelly currently hosts America Live from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST live from the network’s New York City headquarters. She occasionally also co-hosts on America's Newsroom along with Bill Hemmer during the Fox Channel Network's Morning Line-Up at 10:00 AM EST. Since 2007, the two have hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve special every year.
Kelly was nine years of age when her parents moved to Delmar, New York from Syracuse, New York. At Bethlehem Central High School, she played on the basketball and field hockey teams, as well as captaining the cheerleading squad. Kelly's father, who was on the staff of the University at Albany, died when she was 15. After high school, she pursued an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Syracuse University and later pursued a J.D. from Albany Law School; she served as an associate editor of the Albany Law Review while enrolled at Albany Law School. Kelly's first marriage to Daniel Kendall, an anesthesiologist, ended in divorce in 2006. In 2008 she married Douglas Brunt, the President and CEO of Authentium, at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York. They have two children: Edward Yates Brunt (September 25, 2009) and Yardley Evans Brunt (April 15, 2011).
Republican Tom Marino angers Nancy Pelosi with immigration comments on house floor
Nancy Pelosi Charges GOP's Tom Marino on House Floor
Dennis Miller: Nancy Pelosi is Bat Shit Crazy
Dennis Miller: Nancy Pelosi is Bat Shit Crazy
Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of Nancy Pelosi
The Colbert Report: Nancy Pelosi Interview
Pelosi taken apart by David Gregory on false Obamacare promises
Teen leaves Nancy Pelosi owned & alone
Jon Stewart's Nancy Pelosi Sketch
Another Pelosi Meltdown, Is She Mentally Competent? Is The Empress Naked?
LIBERAL COWARDICE: Hypocrite Nancy Pelosi Flees Interview
Megyn Kelly Destroys Nancy Pelosi Hobby Lobby Hysteria
Cold Opening: Nancy Pelosi - Saturday Night Live
Greta On "Nancy Pelosi" Netanyahu
Plot
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
Keywords: accountability, aide, aig, bailout, bank-fraud, bank-of-america, banker, bankruptcy, based-on-fact, bear-stearns
Henry Paulson: [TIREDLY] The Fed can lend to non banks under unusual and exigent circumstances, we're thinking of taking over 80% of the company.::Jim Wilkinson: [INSISTENTLY] Hank we can't! This morning we were lecturing the entire country on moral hazard.::Henry Paulson: [INCREASINGLY ANGRILY] AIG has collateral, they have assets, Lehman didn't, we couldn't lend into a hole, its not the same story!::Jim Wilkinson: [PLEADINGLY] Nobody is going to care, its another bailout, with no legislation, the Hill is gonna go crazy, the country is gonna go crazy.::Henry Paulson: [ANGRILY LECTURING] The plane we flew in on this morning leased from AIG, construction downtown AIG, life insurance 81 million policies with a face value of $1.9 trillion. Billions of dollars in teachers' pensions. You want "too big to fail" here it is! You got a better idea -the suggestion box is wide open!
Mack's Assistant: Tim Geithner's calling again.::John Mack: Cover your ears. You tell Tim Geithner to fucking blow me. I'm trying to save my company.
Michele Davis: They almost bring down the US economy as we know but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it! [the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs upon hearing that the 9 bank CEOs may refuse to take free money from the federal government if they had to be held accountable for how they spent it]
Richard Fuld: [on the phone with Neel Kashkari] Last February, we were at 66 a share. Lehman Brothers is *not* Bear Stearns. We have a great business. Real estate will come back. I am not *fucking* giving this company away!
Ben Bernanke: I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be far, far worse. We don't do this now, we won't have an economy on Monday.
Ben Bernanke: I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down.
Michele Davis: I hate to do this right now, but I'm going to have to have a press call first thing, and I don't know what I'm going to tell them.::Jim Wilkinson: Okay, here's how you explain it. Wall Street started bundling home loans together - mortgage-backed securities - and selling slices of those bundles to investors, and they were making big money. So they started pushing the lenders saying, come on, we need more loans.::Henry Paulson: The lenders had already given loans to borrowers with good credit, so they go bottom feeding, they lower their criteria.::Neel Kashkari: Before, you needed a credit score of 620 and a down payment of 20%; now they'll settle for 500, no money down.::Jim Wilkinson: And the buyer, the regular guy on the street assumes that the experts know what they're doing. He's saying to himself, if the bank's willing to loan me money, I must be able to afford it. So he reaches for the American Dream, he buys that house.::Neel Kashkari: The banks knew securities based on shitbag mortgages were risky...::Henry Paulson: - you'll work on 'shitbag'...::Neel Kashkari: - so to control their downside, the banks started buying a kind of insurance. If mortgages default, insurance company pays. Default swap. The banks insure their potential losses to move the risk off their books, so they can invest more, make more money.::Henry Paulson: And while a lot of companies insured their stuff, one was dumb enough to take on an almost unbelievable amount of risk.::Michele Davis: AIG.::Jim Wilkinson: And you'll work on 'dumb.'::Michele Davis: And when they ask me why they did that?::Jim Wilkinson: Fees!::Neel Kashkari: Hundreds of millions in fees.::Henry Paulson: AIG figures the housing market would just keep going up. But then the unexpected happens.::Jim Wilkinson: Housing prices go down.::Neel Kashkari: Poor bastard who bought his dream house? The teaser rate on his mortgage runs out, his payments go up, he defaults.::Henry Paulson: Mortgage-backed securities tank. AIG has to pay off the swaps. All of them. All over the world. At the same time.::Neel Kashkari: AIG can't pay. AIG goes under. Every bank they insure books massive losses on the same day. And then they all go under. It all comes down.::Michele Davis: [horrified] The *whole* financial system? And what do I say when they ask me why it wasn't regulated?::Henry Paulson: No one wanted to. We were making too much money.
Richard Fuld: [on the housing crisis] You know, people act like we're crack dealers. Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and said, "Hey, nimrod, buy a house you can't afford, and you know what? While you're at it, put a line of credit on that baby and buy yourself a boat."::Joe Gregory: [chuckles] You heard anything from Buffett?::Erin Callan: He's asking for preferred shares at 40, with a dividend of nine percent.::Richard Fuld: [annoyed] We were just at 66. What the fuck?::Joe Gregory: Maybe it's just an opening gambit, Dick.::Richard Fuld: Sounds more like a goddamn insult!::Erin Callan: Dick, we're at 36 right now. We haven't been anywhere near 66 in months. The markets like Buffett. His name will push the price up overnight.::Richard Fuld: You know, I don't care who he is. I am not spending $360 million a year for the pleasure of doing business with him. Real estate will come back.::Joe Gregory: Koreans have been sniffing around.::Richard Fuld: There you go. And they won't steal us blind. I've seen this before: CEOs panic and they sell out cheap. Right now, the Street's running around with its hair on fire, but the storm always passes. We stand strong, and on the other side, we'll eat Goldman's lunch.::Erin Callan: So what do we do about Buffett?::Richard Fuld: Screw Warren Buffett.
Ben Bernanke: [Having breakfast with Henry Paulson] Lehman's down another 10%.::Henry Paulson: You are not gonna let me get down a single bite, are you?::Ben Bernanke: This is why I have oatmeal.
Chris Flowers: Make sure Fuld's not keeping any bad news out of the mix.::Rodgin Cohen: It's "open kimono", to quote Dick.::Chris Flowers: There's a revolting image.
Plot
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
Keywords: accountability, aide, aig, bailout, bank-fraud, bank-of-america, banker, bankruptcy, based-on-fact, bear-stearns
Henry Paulson: [TIREDLY] The Fed can lend to non banks under unusual and exigent circumstances, we're thinking of taking over 80% of the company.::Jim Wilkinson: [INSISTENTLY] Hank we can't! This morning we were lecturing the entire country on moral hazard.::Henry Paulson: [INCREASINGLY ANGRILY] AIG has collateral, they have assets, Lehman didn't, we couldn't lend into a hole, its not the same story!::Jim Wilkinson: [PLEADINGLY] Nobody is going to care, its another bailout, with no legislation, the Hill is gonna go crazy, the country is gonna go crazy.::Henry Paulson: [ANGRILY LECTURING] The plane we flew in on this morning leased from AIG, construction downtown AIG, life insurance 81 million policies with a face value of $1.9 trillion. Billions of dollars in teachers' pensions. You want "too big to fail" here it is! You got a better idea -the suggestion box is wide open!
Mack's Assistant: Tim Geithner's calling again.::John Mack: Cover your ears. You tell Tim Geithner to fucking blow me. I'm trying to save my company.
Michele Davis: They almost bring down the US economy as we know but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it! [the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs upon hearing that the 9 bank CEOs may refuse to take free money from the federal government if they had to be held accountable for how they spent it]
Richard Fuld: [on the phone with Neel Kashkari] Last February, we were at 66 a share. Lehman Brothers is *not* Bear Stearns. We have a great business. Real estate will come back. I am not *fucking* giving this company away!
Ben Bernanke: I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be far, far worse. We don't do this now, we won't have an economy on Monday.
Ben Bernanke: I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down.
Michele Davis: I hate to do this right now, but I'm going to have to have a press call first thing, and I don't know what I'm going to tell them.::Jim Wilkinson: Okay, here's how you explain it. Wall Street started bundling home loans together - mortgage-backed securities - and selling slices of those bundles to investors, and they were making big money. So they started pushing the lenders saying, come on, we need more loans.::Henry Paulson: The lenders had already given loans to borrowers with good credit, so they go bottom feeding, they lower their criteria.::Neel Kashkari: Before, you needed a credit score of 620 and a down payment of 20%; now they'll settle for 500, no money down.::Jim Wilkinson: And the buyer, the regular guy on the street assumes that the experts know what they're doing. He's saying to himself, if the bank's willing to loan me money, I must be able to afford it. So he reaches for the American Dream, he buys that house.::Neel Kashkari: The banks knew securities based on shitbag mortgages were risky...::Henry Paulson: - you'll work on 'shitbag'...::Neel Kashkari: - so to control their downside, the banks started buying a kind of insurance. If mortgages default, insurance company pays. Default swap. The banks insure their potential losses to move the risk off their books, so they can invest more, make more money.::Henry Paulson: And while a lot of companies insured their stuff, one was dumb enough to take on an almost unbelievable amount of risk.::Michele Davis: AIG.::Jim Wilkinson: And you'll work on 'dumb.'::Michele Davis: And when they ask me why they did that?::Jim Wilkinson: Fees!::Neel Kashkari: Hundreds of millions in fees.::Henry Paulson: AIG figures the housing market would just keep going up. But then the unexpected happens.::Jim Wilkinson: Housing prices go down.::Neel Kashkari: Poor bastard who bought his dream house? The teaser rate on his mortgage runs out, his payments go up, he defaults.::Henry Paulson: Mortgage-backed securities tank. AIG has to pay off the swaps. All of them. All over the world. At the same time.::Neel Kashkari: AIG can't pay. AIG goes under. Every bank they insure books massive losses on the same day. And then they all go under. It all comes down.::Michele Davis: [horrified] The *whole* financial system? And what do I say when they ask me why it wasn't regulated?::Henry Paulson: No one wanted to. We were making too much money.
Richard Fuld: [on the housing crisis] You know, people act like we're crack dealers. Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and said, "Hey, nimrod, buy a house you can't afford, and you know what? While you're at it, put a line of credit on that baby and buy yourself a boat."::Joe Gregory: [chuckles] You heard anything from Buffett?::Erin Callan: He's asking for preferred shares at 40, with a dividend of nine percent.::Richard Fuld: [annoyed] We were just at 66. What the fuck?::Joe Gregory: Maybe it's just an opening gambit, Dick.::Richard Fuld: Sounds more like a goddamn insult!::Erin Callan: Dick, we're at 36 right now. We haven't been anywhere near 66 in months. The markets like Buffett. His name will push the price up overnight.::Richard Fuld: You know, I don't care who he is. I am not spending $360 million a year for the pleasure of doing business with him. Real estate will come back.::Joe Gregory: Koreans have been sniffing around.::Richard Fuld: There you go. And they won't steal us blind. I've seen this before: CEOs panic and they sell out cheap. Right now, the Street's running around with its hair on fire, but the storm always passes. We stand strong, and on the other side, we'll eat Goldman's lunch.::Erin Callan: So what do we do about Buffett?::Richard Fuld: Screw Warren Buffett.
Ben Bernanke: [Having breakfast with Henry Paulson] Lehman's down another 10%.::Henry Paulson: You are not gonna let me get down a single bite, are you?::Ben Bernanke: This is why I have oatmeal.
Chris Flowers: Make sure Fuld's not keeping any bad news out of the mix.::Rodgin Cohen: It's "open kimono", to quote Dick.::Chris Flowers: There's a revolting image.
Plot
Two versions of the American dream now stand in sharp contrast. One views the money you earned as yours and best allocated by you; the other believes that an elite in Washington knows best how to allocate your wealth. One champions the traditional American dream, which has played out millions of times through generations of Americans, of improving one's lot in life and even daring to dream and build big. The other holds that there is no end to the "good" the government can do by taking and spending other peoples' money in an ever-burgeoning list of programs. The documentary film I Want Your Money exposes the high cost in lost freedom and in lost opportunity to support a Leviathan-like bureaucratic state.
Plot
Saturday Night Live celebrates the 2008 Presidential Election with a best of clip show featuring some of the best sketches about the election. Sketches include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talking about the presidential nomination Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin, Hillary Clintong talking about the nomination process, Bill Clinton giving a non-endorsement of Obama on Weekend Update, George W. Bush giving an endorsement to McCain and Palin, the 2008 vice presidential debate between Biden and Palin, the CNN Univision Democratic Debate 2008, the town hall debate between Obama and McCain, and a montage of best moments. The special also features political comedy from SNL's history including Carter giving drug advise, Ronal Reagan mastermind, Perot and Stockdale in a car, a Michael Dukakis advertisement with puppets, a debate between Bush and Dukakis, and a debate with Gerald Ford. John McCain and Sarah Palin also appear.
Keywords: sketch-comedy, u.s.-president
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The Colbert Report: Nancy Pelosi Interview
Pelosi taken apart by David Gregory on false Obamacare promises
Teen leaves Nancy Pelosi owned & alone
Jon Stewart's Nancy Pelosi Sketch
Another Pelosi Meltdown, Is She Mentally Competent? Is The Empress Naked?
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