Will Nancy Pelosi manage to keep her mouth shut before the next House of Representatives vote? Here's a reason why she should...

Nancy Pelosi's partisan speech attacking George Bush and the Republican party for mishandling the economy has been blamed for many of the Republicans voting against the Bush bill. You can see Nancy Pelosi's speech here...


Maybe Nancy Pelosi could mull over the revelations in The Washington Post that:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife's committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer."

Do you think the BBC will be covering this story? Do you think the BBC would be covering the story if the payments were being made by a Republican? How about if it had been Sarah Palin paying any money at all to her husband from state funds?