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Pelosi: 'I fully expect to be speaker of the House five weeks from now'
The Hill ^

Posted on 09/28/2010 12:20:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi: 'I fully expect to be speaker of the House five weeks from now' By Michael O'Brien - 09/28/10 01:20 PM ET

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she still expects to have her job in five weeks after voters head to the polls.

Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, whose job as speaker makes her third in line to the presidency, said she would retain that position.

“I fully expect to be speaker of the House five weeks from now,” Pelosi said at a NBC/Universal women's forum in Manhattan, as reported by the New York Times.

“I have great confidence in my candidates,” she said, “and they’re doing just fine in their districts.”

Pelosi's been confident to date about her party's fortunes going into an election cycle in which her party is expected to fare poorly. House Democrats in particular are in a tough position, fighting to stave off the kinds of losses that would hand control of the House to Republicans.

The GOP needs 39 seats to take back the House, and projection services show their candidates within striking distance of doing so.

Pelosi's words are also a confident prediction about the state of her own power in the House. Republicans have long criticized her since she became speaker in January of 2007, but some Democrats have also begun distancing themselves from the reliably liberal Pelosi.

Some centrists facing tough reelection challenges have refused to commit to vote for Pelosi for speaker, and other members, like Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), have run advertisements distancing themselves from the speaker.

Republicans seem to suggest some opportunity from the internal Democratic discord, as well. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), the chief deputy whip for Republicans in the House, suggested over the summer that if Republicans come close to winning the majority but ultimately fall short, the GOP could poach dissatisfied Democrats to effectively rule the House.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; congress; democrats; elections; fail; pelosi
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1 posted on 09/28/2010 12:20:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s fine. Let’s see what you’re doing in January.


2 posted on 09/28/2010 12:21:09 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Conservatives want a CHOICE not an echo - No more RINOs!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Since the new congress isn’t seated until after the first of the year...well yeah!


3 posted on 09/28/2010 12:21:39 PM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Sub-Driver

Duh. It’s not til January that the new electees (sp?) take office.


4 posted on 09/28/2010 12:21:47 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Sub-Driver

She’s probably got a stable of GOP Reps who will caucus with the Dems and elect her.


5 posted on 09/28/2010 12:21:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Sub-Driver

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the laugh Old Nasty!

That witch is as delusional as ever...


6 posted on 09/28/2010 12:22:00 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is she building a new house? Surely she can’t be talking about the peoples House.


7 posted on 09/28/2010 12:22:03 PM PDT by RC2 (Remember who we are. "I am America")
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d call it bravado, but five weeks from now, no one elected or defeated will be changing status. That’s in January. Think she thinks we don’t know this?


8 posted on 09/28/2010 12:22:52 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: Sub-Driver

...we’ll have to vote on it to find out Bela


9 posted on 09/28/2010 12:23:19 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

LOLOL!!! She is really smoking some primo sh!t these days,ainshe? :)


10 posted on 09/28/2010 12:24:23 PM PDT by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yea, yea, whatever, you hoary old hag. I’m sure Hitler had similar delusions while in the bunker, too.


11 posted on 09/28/2010 12:25:42 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Obama, Pelosi and Reid - the Trio of Twits)
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To: gimme1ibertee

I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to walk with that giant gavel shoved up your ass, Nanzi...


12 posted on 09/28/2010 12:25:42 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I can’t vote you out, Nancy, but I can pray you out. Pride goeth before a fall.


13 posted on 09/28/2010 12:26:03 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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14 posted on 09/28/2010 12:26:55 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

in the end, Nancy, it’s always about you...never the country


15 posted on 09/28/2010 12:27:37 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Sub-Driver
“I have great confidence in my candidates,” she said,

Which proves that a vote for a Democrat is a vote for Pelosi.

16 posted on 09/28/2010 12:28:50 PM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Madam Speaker, I fully expect you to be flat on your arse spinning down Rodeo Drive.....


17 posted on 09/28/2010 12:28:50 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: MrB
I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to walk with that giant gavel shoved up your ass, Nanzi...

Sorry. Barney Frank called "first dibs".

18 posted on 09/28/2010 12:31:34 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If the RINO’s can’t keep Boner, they might just vote for her.

/s


19 posted on 09/28/2010 12:31:38 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: MrB

It must be over Pelosi says it is. Why even vote. /:(


20 posted on 09/28/2010 12:31:55 PM PDT by pburgh01
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