Posted on 11/07/2010 1:47:48 PM PST by truthandlife
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's aim to remain the leader of House Democrats is an indication the party is ready to go to war with Republicans in the next Congress, not cut deals across the aisle.
The California Democrat is a radioactive figure in many districts across the country, where Republicans parlayed her unpopularity to pick up seats in Tuesday's landslide elections. But she's also a master at energizing the Democratic base, and her liberal resolve, some Democrats say, will draw much sharper distinctions between the two parties than that of more conservative members who might otherwise assume the leadership spot.
"The lesson [of the elections] is not to back down from a fight," Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. "The lesson learned is we need to fight harder for real, fundamental change for the middle-class. And no one fights harder than Nancy Pelosi."
Put another way: "She's in a better position to throw the bombs back at Republicans," a former House Democratic aide said tersely. "I mean, who's the better person to make John Boehner look crazy? It's Pelosi."
Before Friday's surprise announcement that Pelosi will run for minority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer, the current No. 2, was widely seen as heir apparent to head the party. The Maryland Democrat is known, in the words of one Democratic strategist, as "a dealmaker, a tactician" someone who "makes the trains run on time."
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I have no problem if no appropriations can move forward because the Dims refuse to go along with what the pubbies put forward.
Their directive is personal self preservation.
Until they change their attitude they will drop like flies from political existence.
Regards,
EGPWS (T)
Why can’t we just put them all in California?
Dead on. It sounds simplistic, but there’s nothing new about this war. It is the selfsame war that has raged since the beginning of time. The actors change, but the forces behind them are the same.
We have to stop using the term “health care” when we mean OBAMAKKKARE. There’s no “health” in Obamakkkare, nor can there be. It’s all about taxes ~ and you need look no further than the special taxes the Democrats levied on prosthetics.
Pelosi isn’t stupid...
She knows that her hate-rhetoric gins up the crazies, and they send money by the wheelbarrow loads to them, and the shadow organizations that now control the Democratic Party.
Real Democrats (non-Insane) haven’t got a chance against the power and money coming from the Socialist/Communist Shadow Network.
That could be in the cards
How about deporting them to Delaware?
Have you noticed the MSM isn’t pushing ‘bi-partisan’ work in the House? Seems the MSM only want us to work with THEM - when ‘them’ is ‘dem’. No bias there...
As GWB once said: “Bring it on!
Well, that’s exactly what harry reid said too. So can we believe him? Ha!
With the exception of a couple of things they will be able to get a majority on (even now), like Bush tax cuts and limiting parts of the HCB, a do-nothing congress will be just fine. :)
That’s the feeling I get. The American people have had enough already. If the dems continue down this path, they are going to do more damage to America but, they will be completely destroying themselves.
IMO it's ego and they would be beyond mortified if Obamacare is repealed after 2012. She is a true believer in her own crap and we can smell her from miles away, even if she doesn’t read what she pushes.
A sign that Soros, the puppeteer, has the strings firmly in hand!
Pelosi just doesn't get it. With her as the face of Obamacare, no one will have any difficulty pulling the trigger on it.
We are in a spiritual crisis on our planet because the dark hearts are ruling the world. They are the ones who are only able to see the world through the eyes of personal gain, without concern for the whole of humanity. The dark hearts are empty vessels that need to be filled with outside energy, power and material wealth. They are truly godless beings because they have closed off all access to the God force, or to the light of God/Goddess/Spirit or whatever you are comfortable calling it. Even some who are atheist still draw light from nature or the universe in some way, and dont need to extract it from human souls. But the dark hearts feed off of human souls. They feed until they have depleted or exhausted their source and then they discard the worn out source for a fresh one.
http://www.narcissismfree.com/art_darkhearts.php
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