Posted on 11/06/2014 9:32:02 AM PST by Morgana
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says she want to remain the top Democrat in the House, announcing she will run again for her leadership position.Her take on the massive pro-life election victory on Tuesday night is that Republicans won a victory because of “voter suppression.”
The Washington Times has more:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked her fellow Democrats to keep her on as their leader in the new Congress next year, saying she still has unfinished goals she wants to accomplish.
She said the chief message she took from Tuesday’s election, which saw Democrats eviscerated at all levels, is that voter suppression was a problem. “To succeed, we must inspire, educate and remove obstacles to participation. Only by changing our political environment and broadening the universe of the electorate can we build a strong sense of community and an economy that works for everyone,” she said.
The Californian is likely to get her colleagues’ support to remain as their leader, and Senate Democrats’ leader, Sen. Harry Reid, has indicated he will stay on as they shift to the minority, meaning that despite devastating losses in both chambers, Democrats will keep their leadership team intact.
Reid will lose his post as Majority Leader to pro-life Sen. Mitch McConnell after Republicans won enough seats to take over the Senate, but he plans to stay on as the Minority Leader and top Democrat. However, one report indicates he may not have as much support as he had had int he past from his pro-abortion caucus.
When Senate Democrats meet for the first time next week since Election Day, Harry Reid is expected to easily win reelection as their leader. He’s raised millions of dollars for his colleagues, served as the public face of GOP disgust and tried, though failed, to protect some of his colleagues by blocking legislation from votes in the past year.
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But the loss of as many as nine seats has only intensified the anger and frustration that’s been brewing among a small band of Senate Democrats, who suggested Wednesday that they might withhold support for their leader.
Reid (D-Nev.) still enjoys the support of his top three lieutenants, Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who said through aides on Wednesday that they will back him again. Other rank-and-file Democrats are expected to close ranks. In the words of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), “It’s his — if he still wants it.”
But a small group of moderates who say they have a deeply principled, if naive belief that they’re supposed to be legislating on a regular basis, will head into closed-door meetings with the hope of extracting assurances that Democrats will be more willing to cut deals with members of both parties and allow votes on all sorts of legislation. They have very little sway over operations of the Senate, but see the results of Tuesday’s elections a signal that things must change quickly.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), a first-term senator who’s clashed with top leaders before, declined twice during an interview on Wednesday to express support for Reid.
“I think we’re going to have a discussion about how we move forward and I think until we have that discussion, I don’t think anyone should be making any judgements about leadership,” she said.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) was especially explicit, calling the Democratic defeat “a real ass-whuppin.”
Reid has done pro-abortion President Barack Obama’s bidding and ensured that abortion-funding Obamacare was passed through on a party-line vote, with not a single Republican voting in favor of the legislation. Reid made sure that no pro-life bills received a vote in the Senate — including measures to stop taxpayer funding of abortions and a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, when unborn babies can feel pain.
With Republicans winning the Senate, pro-life advocates will have control of both the House and Senate and a real opportunity to pass pro-life bills or put pro-life language in must-pass legislation in a way that would force pro-abortion President Barack Obama to either sign the bills or veto them and face intense pro-life opposition.
If there is one main takeaway from Tuesday’s mid-term elections, it’s the fact that the phoney, baloney “war on women” is over. Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and their pro-abortion allies have desperately tried to tag pro-life groups and candidates with the anti-woman tag by claiming the oppose women by virtue of the fact that they oppose abortion and being forced to pay for abortion-causing drugs.
Ridiculous
Let’s see ... I believe those waskally wepubwickans opened the weir, and because I hate them, I’m not going to get washed away ... I refuse ...
Can anyone explain why personhood lost in North Dakota by a wide margin? Colorado seems understandable, but ND has been against babykillers for a long time. Just low turnout due to no competitive races this year, so the abort activists flooded it, or what?
I hope that's true ... but "(R)" is not synonymous with "pro-life."
“Can anyone explain why personhood lost in North Dakota by a wide margin?”
I’ve been waiting for pro life websites to report on that and none yet. I want to know. They reported on Colorado, but not North Dakota.
Does anyone know how many staff members Reid has? Just thinking about the major real estate sales that a change of leadership might bring to D.C. with new ones coming in and I assume many leaving.
Democrats would do good to rid themselves of Pelosi and Reid.
“...saying she still has unfinished goals she wants to accomplish.”
Which means, when translated, ‘It’s important to me to be important’.
Nancy, you’re doing a fantastic job, and you should definitely retain control of the 1/3 of Congress that you have remaining.
In fact, Nancy, they should throw out Debbie Schulz and make you the DNC Chairwoman, person, thing.
Wait, no, Nancy, go for it all. Let Hillary! know that you’re all in and that it’s actually your time in 2016.
She is a feeble minded idiot.
At least 54 “calibration error” voting machines were found and removed from MD [all in heavy R districts] and we suddenly have an R governor.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Fraud was “suppressed”.
Thank God.
Botox side-effects.
if having to have an ID is voter suppression then my constitutional right to own firearms has been HEAVILY SUPPRESSED !
1 Have ID
2 Sign that you have not broken a series of secific laws (4th & 8 amend violation)
3 Have a background check by a virtually unaccountable agency decide if I may buy the firearm.
IF allowed then have my name in a data base of owners that will be destroyed in some unspecified time (law says next day.. which BATFE violates)
“She is a feeble minded idiot.”
She is? They all are! A bunch of Dinosaurs. The place looks like Jurassic Park.
This must be ONE EVIL B*TCH if they cannot get rid of her...
Who would even WANT someone like that to be in charge?
Only in Government could someone this sleazy get ahead.
In the corporate worlds she would have been an executive secretary AT MOST, until she lost her looks (which was probably around 1920)
Pelosi, Reed, EbolaObama, Debbie whatever is her name and other loud mouth and rude liberals are a blessing.
Every time they open their fangs and spew their lies, they drive more Americans away from them.
They enforce us to continue to fight them and drive many of their newer voters away from voting. When they don’t bother to vote, that is a win for our side.
Seriously insulting comment, IMHO, insulting to all excellent, honest, of the highest integrity Executive Secretaries/Assistants (me included)!!!!
“Democrats would do good to rid themselves of Pelosi and Reid.”
Quiet now. These vile and loud mouth venom spreaders are an asset to our side.
Hopefully, ABCNNBCBS will continue to focus on airing their vile and inane remarks. These losers drive away voters with half of a brain.
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