Posted on 11/09/2006 7:27:20 AM PST by indcons
As Representative Nancy Pelosi faced the cameras Wednesday morning, after the Democrats had taken a majority in the House and put her on the brink of becoming the first female speaker, she spoke so softly at first that some reporters insisted they could not hear her.
“I’m not in charge of the technical arrangements,” Ms. Pelosi said quietly, fiddling with the microphone.
Then suddenly, she was commanding: “But I could use my mother-of-five voice!”
It is a line Ms. Pelosi uses often, and a voice she may have to rely on frequently as she tries to ensure that the new Democratic majority lasts more than two years.
As speaker, she would be second in line to the presidency — the closest a woman in elective office has come to the White House. And while she has been a leader in Congress for years, and the target of Republican attacks, many Americans still do not know who she is. Her new job places her on a more visible stage, with much greater stakes.
Ms. Pelosi, 66, who has been a San Francisco congresswoman for 20 years, became minority leader and then guided her caucus to victory by enforcing remarkable party discipline. She curbed the demands of those who share her often-caricatured liberal values, while making a place for the party’s conservatives, for whom San Francisco is sometimes as distant as the moon.
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An excorcism might be in order..
I'll bet the men in the party do not want to see her as majority leader but they have to keep their mouths shut.
What a piece of pinko filth.
The Great One questioned whether or not her face was sandblasted last night before going on TV. Every little bit helps.
Maybe I should crawl under a rock until the MSM-gasm has subsided some.
I can't take it.
Oh, Good Lord. How many times will we hear THAT crap during her tenure?
Queen? How about the first female "JOKER".
Bolton replaced?
Yes, I know. I know.
That line is right up there with this one: "If your folks didn't have children, the chances are you won't either."
It's just as appropriate, only funnier.
I've got a feeling this is going to be a fun couple of years. The Dem powers-that-be kept Pelosi and Reid out of sight and out of mind for the last month or so of the campaign, to allow more "conservative" Dems to win their races. Now that the election is over, we hear a lot of talk about Nancy-this and Nancy-that, but I'm guessing those same powers-that-be will have her on a short leash so as not to ruin the gains they have made. Nancy ain't gonna like a short leash, so I'm betting the internal squabbling is going to be intense.
Dear Conservatives who stayed home: thank you for not for not voting.
-the American Left
I like your point of view! Like a litter of growing puppies scrappin for a toy.
Ha! Good analogy!
There's just no way they're gonna let Nancy "loose." They have another election coming up soon, and behaving like moonbats over the next couple of years isn't going to help them win it.
The Scarecrow's Song
I would while away the hours
Thinking 'bout flower-power
And jettin' round the world
And my head should be spinnin'
'bout the power I was winnin'
If I only had a clue.
I've being peeing on the outside
remarks vitrolic and snide
'till my face was blue
But now I'm on the inside
I'm one of those who I would deride
But I never had a clue..
Oh, I
could tell you why
our taxes should go to the poor
I could think of things we'd never taxed before
And then I'd shout
"Let's tax some more!"
It would not be just rhetoic
My stories allegoric
Claiming I could "feel your pain."
But now I need solutions
to things like war, jobs and pollution
If I only had a clue...
Then there's the wars that need a-funding
illegal immigrants a-running
o'er the Rio Grand
cut and run and then it's over
surrender to them muzzie soldiers
If I only had a clue.
If Pelosi could not keep the Democrats on the same page as minority leader, What makes anybody think she can keep them on the same page as Speaker of the House?
The squacker of the house.
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