Posted on 02/10/2010 12:29:29 PM PST by SmokingJoe
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is literally laughing off the suggestion House Democrats could lose their majority in the midterm elections.
In an interview with Roll Call Tuesday, the top House Democrat said her party would “definitely” retain control of the chamber and emerge from the November balloting with “much more than a simple majority.”
That was a rosier view than the one offered last month by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), when he told an interviewer he would consider Democrats successful if they simply managed to outnumber Republicans after the elections.
The assessment comes as political forecasters hike their predictions of Democratic losses and begin to discuss the possibility — remote but real — that the party could actually lose enough seats to cost them the majority.
But Pelosi, Speaker since Democrats assumed House control in January 2007, also made clear she is gearing up for a tough midterm battle in which she intends to scrap for each of her incumbents.
“We will not be taken by surprise,” she said emphatically, echoing a pledge her lieutenants have made to not repeat Democrats’ mistake in 1994 when the GOP caught them napping amid a rising tide of voter anger and swept them from power. “I am not yielding one grain of sand. My responsibility is to protect and preserve my incumbents and that’s what I intend to do… I’m fighting for every seat.”
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I just love over confidence.
It burns them every time.
I think the Red Queen is in for a big suprise.
She’s definitely going to pass healthcare by Labor Day 2009, too.
Was she literally laughing, or has the botox simply made it impossible for her to stop grinning?
Don't forget. They have hundreds of millions in campaign cash.. a.k.a., stimulus money.
.. and HUAC (House un-American Activities Cabal) has more legislation pending to add more 100s of millions of dollars to the Rat coffers.
Is the stuff legal in San Francisco?
Pelosi better be worried about getting reelected.
Yeah. And the health care bill will “definitely” have a public option.
BUT WILL PELOSI? HOW IS DANA WALSH DOING AGAINST HER? TIME TO KICK IN WITH THE OPPOSITION.
Pelosi is unemployed as of November. Wonder how she’ll handle it?
You may be onto something there.
Stretch Pelosi’s botox indulgences could’ve made
it IMPOSSIBLE for her to do anything but wear that
“I’m takin’ happy pills!” expression, and that in turn
could’ve affected the way she thinks about things.
Could also be the other way around.
In any event, someone should post the picture taken after the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Robert Gibbs with his famous arms-out expression and the faint smile indicating “We’ve got everything under control!”. He’s the 21st Century Patron Saint of Implausible Deniability.
Election day 2010 is going to be oh so sweet.
I’m not going to pin down a number in the House since I honestly don’t have the time to analyze 435 individual races. However I’m confident enough to know that the Speaker of the House in 2011 will most certainly not be Representative Botox from San Fransicko.
Even if the Socialists retain a majority, which I don’t honestly believe they will, the damage will be so great and so seismic that she will by hook or crook be removed from the Speaker’s chair.
Just think people, she is third in line for the Presidency.
Tell her to get back on her broom and fly back to la-la land where she and her gay friends can continue to torment any good people left in CA.
lol
Man .. the more she fights the deeper she digs her whole ... and the funniest part is... she doesn’t even see it !
ROFL
Same here.
She won't see what hit her.
I'd give a lot to see the expression on her creased, leather like face, at the moment that Republicans take the majority of the seats in the House, on election night.
There you have it, folks - in black and white.
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