Subject: Nancy Pelosi

• The Party's Over

  Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as they had a ball like it was any other chance to party. By the way, Moxley--who has been covering these GOP monster truck pulls since 1994--would like to readjust his crowd figures. In an earlier post

  November 8, 2006

• Nguyen: Loretta tried to lynch me

  Theo Douglas reporting from ... GARDEN GROVE--It was almost 9:30 election night, and when Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said on TV "The Democrats vow to lead the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history," the mood at 47th Congressional District Republican candidate Tan Nguyen's campaign headquarters turned sour. "That's a lie," a stocky man in a lime green sportshirt grumped. Make that sourer. No one ever thought Nguyen had a real chance against four-time incumbent Democrat Lorett

  November 7, 2006

• Survey Says...Not Much

  We recently heard from a reader in Santa Ana who received a copy of the "Republican Party Census Document," along with an introductory letter from the RNC stating that "your answers will represent the views and opinions of ALL Republican voters living in your voting district...Unless we hear from YOU, we will not have an accurate BLUEPRINT -- a full legislative agenda and campaign plan -- and a unified Republican Party."" Problem is, our reader is not now nor has she ever been a registered Repu

  February 28, 2008

• Ringy Dingy With the Wingy Dingies

  Don't you hate it when solicitors, poll takers and bill collectors phone just as you're sitting down to dinner? But who in their right mind would hang up on their Man in Congress? In this case, Dana Rohrabacher was conducting a telephonic town hall the other night. The thing that became most clear while the rabidly right-wing Republican reached out and touched me: constituents in his Huntington Beach-based 46th District are nuttier than he is. Most callers during the 35 minutes this listener c

  July 28, 2008

• The Wars Most Unusual Casualty

  April 17, 2003

• Where Obama Might Chow Down During His OC Visit

  We may have been thwarted in our attempt to get tickets to see Obama speak at the OC Fair & Event Center later today, but that doesn't stop us from trying to guess where he might fill up on his OC jaunt, should hunger strike. Both Barack and Michelle are known for their love of food. They don't eat healthily all the time, by their own reckoning, but they enjoy what they eat, whether it's comfort food or more upmarket fare. Eddie Gehman Kohan at Obama Foodorama kindly gave me a few tips, nam

  March 18, 2009

• OC Toilet-to-Tap Plan Wins Funding in Omnibus Package

  Included in the land- and water-conserving Omnibus Public Land Management Act signed into law today by President Obama is a bill providing $6 million in federal funding to help finance future phases of the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment Project--a.k.a. the "toilet to tap plan." The project takes sewage water, cleans it well beyond public-health standards and then infuses it into central Orange County's groundwater aquifers, where it will remain until being drawn up and further fil

  March 30, 2009

• Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

  November 6, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] OC Media Asked to Ignore Still-Emerging Dirt on Mike Carona's PSR Mess

  August 28, 2008

• New Reviews

  We recommend: After the Wedding, Away From Her, The Ex, The Hi

  May 10, 2007

• Living Doll

  Ibsen, via Bergman, gets a treatment thats too lively

  April 19, 2007

• I Hate People

  Poor, pitiful pearl goes to OCMA

  January 25, 2007

• Commie Girl

  Madam Chairwoman: Rock on!

  November 16, 2006

• Letters

  May 4, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 27, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 19, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 22, 2003

• Monopoly Man

  April 24, 2003

• Letters

  April 17, 2003

• The Party's Over

  November 21, 2002

• Ron Packard, Military Whore

  October 8, 1998

• Will Little Saigon Bring Down Loretta Sanchez?

  Sanchez Slayer?North Orange County state Assemblyman Van Tran announced thru the Register's Martin Wisckol today that he hopes to be the 2010 Republican challenger to OC's lone Democratic member of congress: Loretta Sanchez. The news is as surprising as a six-hour traffic jam on the 55 or four-year-old, three-foot pot holes in Santa Ana.Over the last 13 years, local Republican Party heavyweights, disturbed they lost a unanimous Republican congressional delegation in Washington, have made no sec

  May 6, 2009

• As Rep. Calvert Beams Over Gipper Statue, Many Fume

  Courtesy U.S. Capitol"Ladies and gentlemen, the statue of Ronald Reagan," the announcer inside the Capitol Rotunda said last Wednesday before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped 87-year-old Nancy Reagan to her feet so she could tug back the blue drape cloaking Chas Fagan's 7-foot bronze statue of the Gipper.The audience rose to politely applaud. Among them were a bipartisan collection of the type of folks you'd normally see shouting each other down on the Sunday chat shows. From the right came for

  June 9, 2009

• Lt. Dan Choi on His "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Setback

  Former Tustin resident Lt. Dan Choi issued the following statement regarding a military panel in New York recommending he be discharged from the Army: Dear friend -- I've got some bad news. After 10 years of service to our country--including leading combat patrols, rebuilding schools and translating Arabic in Iraq for 15 months--the Federal Recognition Board issued its recommendation on Tuesday that I be discharged from the Army for "moral and professional dereliction" under the military's

  July 2, 2009

• UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

  The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence?  With healthcare premiums expected to rise 94 percent by 2020, everyone agrees something must be done. Well, everyone except town-hall criers. And Fox News. And Republicans. The main stic

  September 16, 2009

• Pelosi Coming to OC, Maybe Celebrates Her Disapproval Spike

  ​It'll only cost ya $150 to see Nancy Pelosi in Orange County. The Democratic Party of OC's 15th annual Harry S. Truman Awards Dinner on Dec. 4 will feature the House Majority Leader as keynote speaker. Santa Ana State Assemblyman Jose Solorio will take home the Truman, while Florice Hoffman will net the Samuel Gompers Award and Marti Schrank the Lifetime Achievement Award. No, we don't really know what any of these things mean.Hey, look at this: The latest Field poll finds Pelosi "not po

  October 20, 2009