At least that's what former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling the nation, and it forms the basis for her bid for House Minority Leader. Less than one week ago Republicans piled up the biggest gains in the House in over 70 years, while the Democrats will preside over the lower chamber for the shortest period since the 1950s.
Keeping Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in leadership roles in Congress will tend to reassure the voting public that the Democratic Party did not get the message. Or maybe they did - as Obama put it, he simply hasn't explained himself to the American people enough. He needs to talk more.
"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back," Pelosi, 70, said in a letter to her colleagues. One has to pause for a moment and ask if "our great achievements" means Pelosi's perceived achievements or America's achievements. Having the Democratic Party soundly repudiated in the election last week has not deterred Pelosi! Not one bit.
Pelosi's bid presumably will keep her atop the Democratic caucus, which will number about 190 members next year. Many Republicans are secretly (and some not-so-secretly) hoping that she turns out to be the anointed Minority Leader. Her unpopularity combined with the reptilian Harry Reid (retained as Senate Majority Leader) puts Republicans in a spectacular position to take the White House in 2012.
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"Democratic Party wisdom"
Now that's an oxymoron.
Christopher - it's simply what passes for "wisdom" in those circles.
I've
Had
Enough
Of
Pelosi
Reid
AND
Obama.
Have a terrific day. :)
No wonder Pelosi and Obama work so well together. They both have a tin ear to anybody's ideas other than their own.
Opus, I expect that Obama, Reid and Pelosi sit in a fancy room. On the table in front of each of them is a mirror. They simply chat with the beautiful face in the mirror --- endlessly, and come away refreshed that they are indeed the fairest (and the smartest) in the land.
LL: They are after all the one's they've been waiting for.
Your vision of those three together in a room each adoring his/her own reflected image and the sounds of their own voices brings to mind Sartre's "No Exit" except that its us who suffer the Hell of it all for at least the next two years.
The dems may switch horses in the middle of the stream. And get their feet wet.
LL,
Liberals look into mirrors?
No, they are adverse to those objects of reflection for they show us to be what we actually are be it good or bad and it is the latter they seek to avoid as that is all they will see if they dare peer into one.
Christopher - normally I'd suggest that radical leftists, as with vampires, cast no shadow and have no reflection.
How much do they pay you to be a shill for corporate plunder? Can't be all that much can it? Do you work for the pentagon?
Do your readers know who you work for?
Doesn't that say someting to you? Does being a propaganda-specialist make you feeeeel warm inside?
Too bad the days of hyper-rich white-guyism will come to an end sooner or later. Slaves always revolt and people like you are always the first to get what they deserve.
theyre sinking fast girl!:)
The delusional left never fails to amuse. And then there's Michael rolling in for the bonus round.
The first time our House of Representives actually worked and yet we still complain because it is not what we like. Same as liberals. Whining and Moaning when things do not go your way. Give me a break!!
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