Pelosi and the arm flex
Time for another round of “caption this.”
Murtha plans to “fence the funding” for the Iraq war
Buried in this piece by Bush-hater Arianna Huffington was this tidbit of info on Murtha’s plans to control the Iraq war purse strings (emphasis added):
Dems take control of Congress today
It’s a big day for the Democrats and their friends in the MSM, as the Dems take control of Congress for the first time in 12 years. Here’s a mini-link roundup of stories, opinion pieces, and blogposts related to the swearing in of the 110th Congress:
VIDEO: Cindy Sheehan, other far left anti-war protesters, disrupt Dem press conference
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) was nicer than he should have been in the face of the disruption. Of course he probably realizes that crowd, as part of the Nutroots faction, helped get his party elected to the majority, so showing a little ‘respect’ for Sheehan and Co. appeared to be what he chose to do in response. Taking sort of a “don’t bite the hand that feeds” approach.