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The Politico reported on Monday that a Democrat Congressman demanded that the notorious terrorist supporting Marxist front group Code Pink be allowed to attend the classified House briefing by Gen. Petraeus last week.According to an unnamed Republican who participated in the meeting, Rep. Hank Johnson, Jr. stunned the panel by demanding an explanation for why the Code Pink protesters just outside the closed hearing room weren't allowed inside. His fellow Democrats had to set him straight and his demand was rejected.Johnson is a freshman who defeated Code Pink ally Cynthia McKinney in a primary run-off last August. Even though Code...

His quixotic bid for the White House has rarely caused headaches for Democratic leaders in Congress because it’s been largely ignored. But now Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich is giving Speaker Nancy Pelosi a reason to reach for the aspirin. Months after Pelosi, D-Calif., defused impeachment talk from the left wing of her party, Kucinich, D-Ohio, plans to file articles of impeachment Tuesday against Vice President Dick Cheney. Pelosi’s office isn’t amused. “Nothing’s changed. It’s off the table,” insisted Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami. “We’re focusing on tough issues like energy independence.” Kucinich gave a preview of his impeachment crusade on YouTube...

SAN FRANICSCO, (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed past peace activists Monday who camped outside her home overnight to demand that Congress stop funding the war in Iraq. The small group confronted Pelosi and asked for a meeting at about 6:30 a.m. as she hurried to a waiting vehicle without stopping to speak. "My home is my home," Pelosi curtly told the protesters before being driven away. The activists gathered outside the speaker's Pacific Heights home were the remaining few of a group that marched Sunday across the Golden Gate Bridge to meet with the Democrat. "San Francisco has...

It was in the summer of 2005 that the Bush Administration began to lose the support of the American public for the war in Iraq. A principal catalyst of this momentous transformation was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. Casey Sheehan's mother Cindy Sheehan famously camped outside the President's ranch in Texas and demanded a meeting with him. (In fact, she demanded a second meeting, since they had met before.) President Bush's refusal to meet with her again in such a public fashion was the opening that Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi had been waiting for -- a...

The anti-war group Code Pink has planned a protest outside the White House Wednesday during a much-anticipated meeting between President Bush and congressional leaders over a war-funding bill for Iraq. But the target of this protest isn’t Bush, but rather House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “The peace community will use the power of protest and creative action to urge the congressional leaders to commit to bringing the troops home by the end of the year,” their release states. Code Pink protestors will appear with members of Iraq Veterans Against War. Visuals listed: “Women...

It’s Paul Hodes, a freshman from New Hampshire who cast one of the 218 votes that pushed Pelosi’s withdrawal bill over the finish line — barely. Here’s video from Granite Grok of a few of his constituents having a word with him about that. Their points are all familiar; the novelty is watching a leftist having to sit there squiriming and respond without being able to call them a bunch of chickenhawks and storming off. Levin and Schumer said yesterday that if Reid really thinks he and Feingold are going to answer Bush’s veto by cutting funding, he’s kidding himself....

Peace organizations staged a nonviolent “occupation” of the Hart Senate office building Thursday, calling on Democrats to end the Iraq war. Fellow protesters and Senate staffers looked on, leaning over railings above Hart’s ground-floor atrium, as demonstrators read personal information about U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. The demonstrators spoke from a circle of cardboard headstones, each displaying the photo of a U.S. soldier who had been killed. “The point we’re trying to make is that since January 4th the Democrats have had the chance to end the war,” said Kevin Zeese, director of Democracy Rising, a participating group. “Instead of...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A small group of protesters continued a vigil at Rep. Nancy Pelosi's Pacific Heights home today, where members of an anti-war group have been posted for 12 days. The protesters were demanding that Pelosi de-fund the Iraq war, and said they were disappointed with today's vote in the House of Representatives, where members approved a $124 million spending bill that sets an Aug. 31, 2008, date for withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iraq. Toby Blome, the lead organizer of "Camp Pelosi," said the group would hold a candlelight vigil . . .