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Dump Pelosi? Let's put the new House speaker on probation.
Slate ^
| Posted Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006, at 7:37 PM ET
| Timothy Noah
Posted on 11/20/2006 8:37:03 AM PST by .cnI redruM
I'll admit my timing could be better, since the incoming House Democrats, on a unanimous voice vote, just made Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaker of the House. But I think her party should give serious thought to dumping her.
The proximate reason, of course, is that she tried (and, thankfully, failed) to install as House majority leader Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. It's bad enough that Pelosi promoted Murtha (over the perfectly acceptable Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who won the caucus vote) in spite of Murtha's having once been named an unindicted co-conspirator in Abscam, a 1980 FBI sting operation in which G-men posing as representatives of an Arab sheikh offered $50,000 bribes to members of Congress.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; demcivilwar; dems; sphincterpelosi
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Hee, hee, hee. Even Slate Magazine has buyer's remorse. Even Timothy Noah-nothing just got the memo that Nancy is a putz!
In 2008, we should help the Dems withdraw from the HOR. It's already a quagmire!
To: .cnI redruM
It's amazing how she's not getting any honeymoon. I would have thought her enemies in the DemocRAT party would have waited till January 4 to start their infighting.
To: Paleo Conservative
Timothy Noah, in particular. The guy is a sycophant.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:41:21 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(2008 is another day and another battle.)
To: .cnI redruM
Oh, I think she will probably be more helpful to the Republicans in the majority leader chair. She's more visible that way.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:42:37 AM PST
by
twigs
To: .cnI redruM
The SNL skit on Pelosi's SF values was priceless and right on target.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:43:15 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: .cnI redruM
I vote to keep Bella Pelosi as Speaker for the next 2 years!
Its a blessing to Conservatives!
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:43:18 AM PST
by
ethics
To: .cnI redruM
...Murtha's having once been named an unindicted co-conspirator in Abscam...Notice Murtha no longer gets "decorated Vietnam veteran" attached to his name every time he's mentioned in the press? My, how things have changed.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:43:24 AM PST
by
RedRover
To: RedRover
The press no longer suffers from electile dysfunction when reporting on the moral shortcomings of Democratic Congressmen.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:44:29 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(2008 is another day and another battle.)
To: .cnI redruM
They don't have Diebold to carp about, so they come up with other things to fight over....
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:51:01 AM PST
by
NRA1995
(Clinton "tried", 3000 died)
To: Paleo Conservative
Hillary knows not to give her a chance.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:51:32 AM PST
by
103198
To: Paleo Conservative
Nancy's woes in the House of Representatives are entirely self-induced. She has NEVER been a good loser or a gracious winner. And team playing is not for faux-patricians of Italian descent.
Catherine de'Medici lives.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:52:21 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Facts do not cease to exist, just because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley)
To: RedRover
"Notice Murtha no longer gets "decorated Vietnam veteran" attached to his name every time he's mentioned in the press? My, how things have changed."Yeah ... amazing what a simple paper ballot by the rats did in a few minutes what half of pennsylvania and many supporters of Diana Irey couldn't do ... Dump Murtha.
If Senators are representarive, America doesn't want Murtha NOR Pelosi.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:02:02 AM PST
by
knarf
(Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
To: knarf
Murtha has been gerrymandered into that district. If Irey comes back two years hence, Fat-Jack may be ushered into retirement by Rahm Emanuel. The Dems will act to hold this seat. They are happy to toss Murtha under a bus.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:05:55 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(2008 is another day and another battle.)
To: .cnI redruM
The blind shall lead the blind- leave her in power- it's fun watching the blind stumble around- just give her a muzzel so she can'r bite anyone in the process!
Christian news and commentary at: sacredscoop.com ...
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:06:53 AM PST
by
CottShop
(http://sacredscoop.com)
To: Paleo Conservative
It's amazing how she's not getting any honeymoon. Honeymoon? Heck, she hasn't even walked down the isle yet, and taken her vows (been sworn in). The marriage may be over before it even happens.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:14:42 AM PST
by
AFreeBird
(If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
To: .cnI redruM
Not to worry.... She has her eye on the situation.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:16:47 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
To: .cnI redruM
The real facts about Nancy's approval will be known in a few weeks.
It is called "Counting the Money".
If the money comes in, then all is forgiven. If the money drops off or "the well goes dry", then she is history.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:17:08 AM PST
by
Prost1
(Fair and Unbiased as always!)
To: RedRover
My, how things have changedI wouldn't count on things remaining changed.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:25:05 AM PST
by
oyez
(Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
To: alloysteel
Catherine de'Medici lives.I see her more as Lucretia Borgia.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:31:05 AM PST
by
Socratic
(Give me web-journalists, not MSM cut and paste hacks.)
To: knarf
they didn't dump him for a member of the GOP.
Those stickers should have all read: "anyone but the GOP"
And thats how the dems voted in 04 & 06, and how they will vote in 08. Bet on it.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:41:13 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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