House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that defense spending shouldn’t be exempt from President Barack Obama’s proposal for a three-year freeze on federal spending. In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, Obama is expected to address worries about the federal deficit by proposing a three-year freeze on all “non-security” spending. But just hours before the speech, Pelosi told POLITICO that any spending freeze should be “across the board.” (more)

A spokesman for Nancy Pelosi tries to pull the knife she thrust into President Obama’s back yesterday (via NYT): Asked about Obama’s campaign trail promise [on transparency/C-SPAN], Pelosi remarked, without elaboration, ”There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail.” Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said Wednesday it was not a slap at the president. ”It was a quip,” Daly said. (more)

Oh yeah, I'm loving it. ha ha! h/t Ed Driscoll on Twitter, full report via TPM. But Pelosi did toss a jab President Obama's way. Referring to one of Obama's campaign pledges, a reporter asked Pelosi whether C-SPAN cameras would be allowed to film the House-Senate negotiations. "There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail," said a bemused Pelosi. (more)

Here's a link to the op-ed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). It's not very good, and not at all factual (haven't they read the bill?), but as its headline, helped along by Drudge, has made it notorious, I thought folks might like a link... (more)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country. And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn. (more)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will roll the dice on a top priority this week, bringing a contentious climate change bill to the floor despite strong misgivings from her rank-and-file and an outspoken chairman who remains a major impediment. (more)

Current 34% of Americans view the Democratic House Speaker favorably while 37% view the Republican former Vice President favorably. (more)

How worried were Chinese officials about Nancy Pelosi’s trip to their country last week? Chinese officials in Washington quietly pressured the speaker’s office to curtail visits with dissidents, according to people familiar with the situation, to avoid a repeat of her 1991 trip, when Pelosi humiliated China’s leaders by brandishing a pro-democracy banner in Tiananmen Square. (more)

A senior House GOP aide this morning confirmed that House Republicans will demand a bipartisan investigation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) accusations that members of the Central Intelligence Agency “misled the Congress” in their briefings on terrorist detainees and interrogation techniques (more)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who became Speaker of the House to great fanfare as the first woman to serve in that post, has now reached a watershed moment: according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, she is now as (un)popular as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. A series of scandals and hubris is what most analysts believe deep-sixed Gingrich’s once promising political career. But now Pelosi has entered a political polling danger zone in the wake her of the furor o... (more)