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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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To: b4its2late

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

I address her as: Ma’am
Ma’am, I fully expect you to be flat on your arse spinning down Rodeo Drive.....


61 posted on 09/28/2010 1:42:21 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.)
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To: traditional1
( "I have great confidence in my candidates?" )

" WTF ? "MY candidates"?"

Sounds like she and the Democrats got a ace up their sleeve.
Those candidate's elections should be watched closely for voter fraud or them stuffing the ballet boxes.
Hope they got honest election judges in those areas to check and see if the Democrats are up to no good.
62 posted on 09/28/2010 1:43:49 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m going to file that alongside her “worst economy in 40 years” pronouncements from six years ago.

Then every once in a while, I’ll take out the folder, page through it, and L-A-U-G-H.


63 posted on 09/28/2010 1:46:41 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Sub-Driver

America is going to have your head on a spike in 5 weeks.


64 posted on 09/28/2010 1:48:49 PM PDT by y6162
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To: B4Ranch

I stand corrected.


65 posted on 09/28/2010 1:49:28 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Sub-Driver

When Pelosi’s prediction doesn’t happen, she will claim the CIA lied to her about that too.

I love watching that old hag destruct.


66 posted on 09/28/2010 1:52:25 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Beat me to it.


67 posted on 09/28/2010 1:57:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Sub-Driver

I guarantee that the Cowboys will not win the Super Bowl this year!


68 posted on 09/28/2010 1:59:11 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This woman is either insane or knows there is going to be a lot of cheating.


69 posted on 09/28/2010 2:11:19 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Tzimisce
This woman is either insane or knows there is going to be a lot of cheating.

I don't know that you needed an 'or' in that sentence. An 'and' will do...

70 posted on 09/28/2010 2:14:03 PM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And I fully expect to win the lottery everytime I buy a ticket.


71 posted on 09/28/2010 2:14:49 PM PDT by csuzieque
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow, wouldn’t that instill confidence in you if you were a Democrat?

Nice statement nitwit Nancy. Even I’d expect you to be Speaker of the House five weeks from now. Come January, however, enjoy the back bench.


72 posted on 09/28/2010 2:17:39 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
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To: hoagy62
"Gee, that’s funny, Nancy. Five weeks from now, I expect to see you in a semi-drunken stupor, sitting on the floor of your election headquarters, saying “What went wrong?” over, and over, and over...."

...and then you and Harry finally get up to face the media...

Pelosi and Reid

73 posted on 09/28/2010 2:19:50 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sub-Driver

Perfect. Grab the video of that quote and tie every vulnerable Dem rep to Pelosi.

What a gift.


74 posted on 09/28/2010 2:22:25 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: al_c; All
"Pelosi aboard the Titanic ...

“What iceberg? I fully expected to be in New York in 3 days.”

Photobucket

75 posted on 09/28/2010 2:22:39 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: lurk; All
"What does her husband/manservant really see when she goes to bed at night? Which one is the real Nancy?"

Nancy Capitol Chest

76 posted on 09/28/2010 2:24:47 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

She is even dumber than she looks! Nothing will change on November 3rd. Except all that hopey-changey crapola will be in the past.

When the new Congress is seated in January 2011,I’m betting Princesse Pelosi will not be Speaker... hell, she may not even be present. Any takers?


77 posted on 09/28/2010 2:26:45 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * ? * RYAN * 2012)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pelosi couldn’t speak her way out of Nursery School, no offense to all those smatry children she poopedon with the health. “...you must vote on before you can read it.” I wonder how much Enzyte her husb...oh nevermind.


78 posted on 09/28/2010 2:57:20 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: DesertRhino
LOL,,,Anyone got that pic of Baghdad Bob? “There are no American troops inside Baghdad”

Now can any great FReeper photoshopper do some justice with maybe a few of these pics? My photoshp crashed...Not very good anyway.

79 posted on 09/28/2010 3:05:54 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: American Constitutionalist

With the uncovering of massive fraud in Houston, TX, and knowing that other major cities have the ACORN/SEIU/Union thugs doing all those shenanigans everywhere (and in Democrat enclaves, where they own the ENTIRE political machine, including Judges and Secretary of State’s, they steal more than they “really” win.....(Minnesota comes to mind for their last “U.S. Senator”)


80 posted on 09/28/2010 4:20:49 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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