Posted on 11/16/2006 7:42:45 AM PST by katieanna
WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi was unanimously named speaker-elect by House Democrats Thursday, the first woman to be ensured the post that constitutionally is second in line of succession to the presidency.
Even as Pelosi was enjoying her finest hour politically, her fellow Democrats remained divided by a family feud over whom to select as her top lieutenant.
Like lemmings over a cliff....
family fued?
if this were Republicans it would be called a "bitter, divisive brawl"
I don't think they would do it any other way or there would have been hell to pay.
This could be hugh and series...
I hear there's still undecided house races. Guess Nancy couldn't wait for all votes to be counted, heh heh.
A gross embarassment for America.
I thought that the whole House had to elect her as Speaker once the new Congress goes into session in January...???
Yes, SECOND in line for the presidency. Talk about scary!
Leading in Reverse
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 16, 2006
As Republicans contemplate the first Democratic wartime electoral success since 1974, a pervasive delusion has taken hold: “freshmen moderates” will give presumptive Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid headaches by confounding their far-Left agendas. Some have even called the election “a victory for conservatism.” The Democratic leadership’s promotion of its surrender full speed ahead plan should refute the notion.
The sanguine Right is willfully distorting the likely influence of new “moderates.” Although the incoming freshmen campaigned as moderate-to-conservatives, so too did the president who treated terrorism as a law enforcement issue for eight years prior to 9/11. Not all candidates exuded moderation: one of the new members of the Senate Democratic caucus will be socialist Bernie Sanders, pulling ever-leftward the actions of newly elected Majority Leader Harry Reid (who was himself once hailed as a pro-life “moderate”). The new representatives will almost certainly vote to the Left of the Republicans they replaced. Even were they not so minded, freshmen are by definition subservient to their party’s leadership. Pelosi – who donated to many of their campaigns – will use the power of scattered committee assignments to dilute the moderates’ influence, while her hand-picked committee chairmen will shape the legislation they must vote on. The notion that a tiny crop of incoming “moderates” will buck Pelosi’s call to retreat is tragically misguided......
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25540
"Are there enough democrats that would not vote for Nancy."
Not a chance.
Outstanding.
Ok. Is it Murtha or Hoyer?
Place yer bets.
Oh, pleeeease let it be Murtha!
I guess we will get to hear how impeccably dressed and coiffed she was in a new armani suit with no flag on her lapel.
Hoyer.
All hail the new Queen of the Culture of Corruption!
The losertarians will be proud ?
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Yes, SECOND in line for the presidency. Talk about scary!
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Well we can only thank the mindless voters that made this happen -- regardless of how they feel about Bush, to do THIS to America is beyond comprehension.
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