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'Blue Dog' Democrat: Pelosi Is Too Divisive to Be Speaker
U.S. News and World Report ^ | August 25, 2009 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 08/25/2009 5:01:16 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe

In a statement likely to intensify the GOP assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reign, a first-term Democratic "blue dog" congressman said that he would not vote to make her the top House Democrat again. Rep. Parker Griffith, a former oncologist from Alabama, told a town hall meeting this week that Pelosi is too divisive to be speaker. "I would not vote for her [again]," he added. "Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together."

Griffith has been fairly independent this year, opposing the stimulus and the cap-and-trade carbon emissions plan, according to the Huntsville ( Ala. ) Times, which reported his comments.

His words and jokes about Pelosi's iron fist were music to Republicans' ears. "It's not surprising that the August heat is leading House Democrats like Parker Griffith to abandon support for Speaker Pelosi, but what's more shocking is that it's taken them this long to understand what Americans have known all along," said Paul Lindsay, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; bluedogs; democrats; pelosi
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1 posted on 08/25/2009 5:01:17 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
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To: Wardenclyffe

Perhaps he belongs on the other side of the aisle.


2 posted on 08/25/2009 5:05:45 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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To: Wardenclyffe

Send her packing!!!

3 posted on 08/25/2009 5:05:49 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: Wardenclyffe

We never should have given them the right to vote.


4 posted on 08/25/2009 5:05:53 PM PDT by donhunt ("If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti)
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To: Wardenclyffe

Received an e-mail alert from a friend this morning. He was warning me about e-mails circulating with the sbject: Nude Photos Of Nancy Pelosi.

He warned me not to open it if I got one.

Because, there are nude photos of Nancy Pelosi in them.....

;-)


5 posted on 08/25/2009 5:07:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Wardenclyffe

He is just afraid he’s going to be swept out along with the other RATS. He’s in a very conservative part of the state and just hoping to hang on.

At heart, though, he’s still a RAT.


6 posted on 08/25/2009 5:08:08 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ It is Tuesday and JT is at Fort Collins.)
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To: Jemian

Pelosi is a disgrace plain and simple.

Pelosi is a bully, a fascist, a Nazi and engages in bribery and blackmail to force conservative and moderate democrats to join her as she joyfully takes the entire democratic party over the cliff and into the abyss.


7 posted on 08/25/2009 5:11:00 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Jemian

Pelosi is a disgrace plain and simple.

Pelosi is a bully, a fascist, a Nazi and engages in bribery and blackmail to force conservative and moderate democrats to join her as she joyfully takes the entire democratic party over the cliff and into the abyss.


8 posted on 08/25/2009 5:11:16 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Wardenclyffe

Pelosi is too stupid, too gutless, and too frigging psychologically damaged to be Speaker.


9 posted on 08/25/2009 5:11:33 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Wardenclyffe

Pelosi is an elitist B****. She probably could care less what this Dem says. I can just hear her now. WHO cares what he says..he has NO POWER.


10 posted on 08/25/2009 5:11:41 PM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: donhunt

You do mean DEMS ...RIGHT!!!!!


11 posted on 08/25/2009 5:12:21 PM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Wardenclyffe

What beautiful eyes, who did them?

Pray for America and Our Troops


12 posted on 08/25/2009 5:13:07 PM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: donhunt

Stupid libs, does it matter if it’s male or female? As long as they oppose conservatives, they’ll find a cause.


13 posted on 08/25/2009 5:16:14 PM PDT by Indy Pendance ("The beauty of the 2nd is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

There’s a few of the newly elected Dems that are rightfully repulsed by her and the direction this administration is taking our country. Good for him. Walt Minnick is another one, a good common sense man who ran his own business.

Hopefully, sanity will be restored in short order and the voting public will have gotten a long overdue wakeup call and start doing their own research before blindly accepting what the lamestream media is spoonfeeding them. And hopefully, it can all be done and fixed before the damage these clowns becomes irreversable.


14 posted on 08/25/2009 5:17:31 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: Ev Reeman

Pelosi is a spoiled rotten wife a rich man, who badly needs a spanking......with a belt, of course.


15 posted on 08/25/2009 5:19:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Wardenclyffe

They are just now figuring this out? They have not only a severe lefty as Speaker, but a LUNATIC one at that!


16 posted on 08/25/2009 5:22:08 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I hope you gave a hearty thanks to you friend, he just may have saved your sight, sanity and soul. ;-) (LOL!!!)


17 posted on 08/25/2009 5:29:38 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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To: Wardenclyffe
Rep. Parker Griffith, a former oncologist from Alabama . . .

Pelosi is a cancer on the body politic. Perhaps Rep. Griffith's background qualifies him to excise that cancer.

18 posted on 08/25/2009 5:30:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: SueRae

I pray for our leaders every night, that a few of them at least will have the character to stand with the American people at any cost.


19 posted on 08/25/2009 5:30:17 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Wardenclyffe
One Democrat.

In the Deep South.

Woo hoo.

20 posted on 08/25/2009 5:30:26 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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