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Pelosi: Democrats Will 'Definitely' Retain Majority
Roll Call ^ | Feb. 9, 2010, 8:16 p.m. | Tory Newmyer

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; democrats; liberalfascism; pelosi
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To: SmokingJoe

Does anybody actually CARE what this butt-wipe says?


21 posted on 02/10/2010 12:40:27 PM PST by catchem (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

It will not matter. A majority of the voters are totally sick the democrats total incompetence and destructive policies and no amount of money is going to change this fact.


22 posted on 02/10/2010 12:40:44 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: DakotaRed

Famous last words, tee hee


23 posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:02 PM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

I think all dummies have that look.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/raymond/images/5/5a/TrafficCopTimmy.jpg


24 posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:33 PM PST by Britt0n
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To: Question Liberal Authority

impossible for her to stop grinning?

That’s not a grin, that’s a rictus.


25 posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:44 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SmokingJoe

She’s been paying stimulus premiums to AEI (ACORN Election Insurance).


26 posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:46 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: SmokingJoe

If she were Nancy Pelosi, California housewife, this delusional B***H would be strapped to a gurney in a rubber room at the Bay Area Home for the Perpetually Bewildered.


27 posted on 02/10/2010 12:41:54 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: dumpthelibs
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.

Her broom is a modified Segway.

28 posted on 02/10/2010 12:42:27 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: SmokingJoe

29 posted on 02/10/2010 12:42:43 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SmokingJoe

“....Uhm, Boss Pelosi??....Don’t you think we should be gettin outta here????”

(Audience: “Don’t open that door!”)


30 posted on 02/10/2010 12:42:49 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Botox rots your brain. Pass it on.


31 posted on 02/10/2010 12:42:50 PM PST by LostInBayport (2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Acorns voter fraud program will be working overtime for her.


32 posted on 02/10/2010 12:43:03 PM PST by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: SmokingJoe

33 posted on 02/10/2010 12:43:04 PM PST by Lucky9teen (A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.)
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To: SmokingJoe
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.

That would be the same expression that's stuck on her face now. Too much Botox..Her face is pretty much stuck like that...She can blink when she farts though.

34 posted on 02/10/2010 12:44:00 PM PST by skully (Libtard: A way to describe Democrats without insulting the retarded.)
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To: SmokingJoe

I can’t help but picture Return of the Jedi, with someone like Beck as Luke and with Pelosi as the emperor:

Beck: “Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
Pelosi: “Your faith in your friends is yours!”

I’m not sure who Vader would be in this analogy, but I don’t find the image of Pelosi shooting lightning out of her fingers to be that implausible for some reason.


35 posted on 02/10/2010 12:44:12 PM PST by OldGuard1
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To: SmokingJoe
Pelosi: Democrats Will 'Definitely' Retain Majority

Can we count on that as the next Christmas present to the American people, Na卐i Peloϟϟi?

36 posted on 02/10/2010 12:45:36 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: clove
John Dennis, a business owner and real-estate investor in California's 8th District, has decided to put the electoral smackdown on Nancy "I Love Botox" Pelosi and challenge her for the seat she has held since 1987. She has become a shining example of why congressional officials should have term limits.

Dennis, a libertarian conservative, graduated from Fordham University with a degree in business and went on to co-found Humanscale, one of the top 10 design firms that specializes in office ergonomics. In 2008, he served as Phonebank and Get Out the Vote director for Ron Paul's presidential campaign in San Francisco.

Cindy Sheehan has also entered the ring.

37 posted on 02/10/2010 12:46:07 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Oh dear baby Jesus, please allow this perception to continue and spread among the Democrat party. Amen.


38 posted on 02/10/2010 12:47:10 PM PST by Boiling point (Beck / Palin 2012)
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To: Lucky9teen

LOL!


39 posted on 02/10/2010 12:47:47 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
I have said it before but it is worth saying again. In a normal mid term election the party in power drops 27 seats. In 1994 the Dems lost 54 Seats. So if this year is only half as bad as 1994 (Personally i think it is a lot worse) the Dems would expect to lose (27+54)/2 = 40.5, call it 41 seats. Well if they drop 40 they are out of power so there is a good chance that it is back to the back bench for Nancy.
40 posted on 02/10/2010 12:48:32 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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