Posted on 11/03/2010 4:16:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington - Voters toppled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from power Tuesday, four years after she became the first female speaker in history, handing the majority of the House of Representatives to Republicans in a landslide surpassing the historic election of 1994.
Republicans defeated 58 incumbent Democrats, a stunning blow to President Obama and well more than the 39 seats they needed to seize control of the House, walloping Democrats from Florida to Michigan.
Pelosi, elected in San Francisco in 1987, had become a national symbol of voter rage.
The very achievements for which she was hailed as one of the most effective speakers in modern times - a huge health care overhaul, an $800 billion stimulus, climate-change legislation and a re-regulation of Wall Street - came to represent the overreach that independent voters rejected Tuesday.
More than anyone in Washington, it was Pelosi who delivered on President Obama's agenda. His plummeting popularity helped sink her, but she had become a near toxic figure in race after race, tied like an albatross to the necks of Democratic incumbents across the country. Without her, Obama will have to overhaul his legislative strategy.
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Just call he SanFran Nan....minus her jets now and flying commercial.
Obama is so screwed that Hillary may indeed take him down from within in 2012.
I have a feeling with Pelosi gone there will be a sudden surge in cases going forward concerning Obama and his qualifications to retain office.
The SCOTUS now I think a great big green light to go ahead with eligibility cases. Or fraudulent SS number cases.
Not true. If Bammy quits before January and Plugs has an “accident”.... Nazi Pelousy become president for the next 2 years.
I want to see that big bus with the FIRE PELOSI written on the side.............sitting in front of the Capitol today!!!
I want to see that bus parked out front when the dums return to D.C. later this month.
Let’s do it.
Now, maybe, she will have time to read the Obamacare bill and find out what is in it.
[How’s that hopey, changy thing working for ya, Nancy? It’s working GREAT for the rest of us right now!]
I say to Nancy what she had the audacity to say to the Wall St. crowd after the crash .......... “The party is OVER....”
“Sweet. WE control the purse strings.”
I’m afraid this is where we, and the new House members will stop thinking. We all have to remember how evil the dems are, how they’ll do ANYTHING (lie, cheat, etc.) to annihilate the GOP members. We don’t remember because that kind of nastiness isn’t inherent in us as it is in them.
We need to get a kick-ass spokesperson out there who can think one step ahead of them, and someone who isn’t mealy-mouthed and wimpy. Someone like Tammy Bruce would be good. She’s been entrenched with them before she left the Dark Side, and she understands how they operate. She won’t back down or take any crap. I’m not saying it needs to be her, but it needs to be someone like her.
I’m so afraid that, once the dems’ attacks and lies begin (and that’ll be this week), we’ll just roll over like we always do. Not only do we HAVE to DEFEND ourselves enthusiastically, we need to be in attack mode ourselves and be quick to point out their lies and elitist actions.
Example: We need to have someone out there who’ll get the word out about Obama spending $200,000,000 (that’s million!) A DAY on his current vacation while the jobs situation for Americans sucks.
In fact, don't be surprised this will be her last term in Congress--her age and her increasingly unpopularity in Washington, DC could mean of her influence even if she becomes House Minority Leader again.
Well we must be mice and we will just have to bell the cat when its asleep.
Correction of wording: it should have said “could mean a major reduction of her influence” in the second paragraph.
Does this mean we can sell the plane and pay down some debt?
Thanks. It will be fun to see if she remains Minority Leader or resigns.
That plane is probably on the way to India in O’s fleet.
This pathetic beatch from Commiefornia no longer has any power.
For her it was nothing more then an ego trip.
I expect she will just quit, and go home in tears.
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