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House Democrats keep Nancy Pelosi as their leader
AP/YahooNews ^ | 11/17/10 | CHARLES BABINGTON

Posted on 11/17/2010 12:10:20 PM PST by Kartographer

House Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader Wednesday despite massive party losses in this month's congressional elections that prompted some lawmakers to call for new leadership.

Pelosi, the nation's first female House speaker, will become minority leader when Republicans assume the majority in the new Congress in January.

She defeated moderate Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, 150-43, in secret balloting in a lengthy closed-door gathering of House Democrats in the Capitol.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: pelosi; piglosi
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To: Kartographer

No one can say she isn’t going into the job with her eyes wide open.


41 posted on 11/17/2010 6:58:04 PM PST by csmusaret (Tax revenue increased 39% from2002 to 2007 as a result of the Bush tax cuts.)
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To: Kartographer; sickoflibs; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; Norman Bates; Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; ...

Unfortunately the rats avoided a nasty race-tinged battle between Hoyer and Clyburn by inventing some lame # 3 “Assistant Leader” or some such post for Clyburn.


42 posted on 11/18/2010 1:10:08 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Impy

Wait until the black caucus finds out “assistant leader” really means “step and fetch it”. The dumbcrats have fooling the blacks with bull shitte down to an art form.


43 posted on 11/18/2010 1:26:17 AM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Kartographer

NEWS ALERT: pelosi gets to fly free on Southwest...because “Bags” fly free on SWA...


44 posted on 11/18/2010 1:30:47 AM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Impy; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks impy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2629083/posts


45 posted on 11/18/2010 3:48:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Kartographer

Incredible.

This is all just downright incredible.

If this system of government is to work...then the ________ must do what we are doing and take their party back!

Is the Democrat Party so darn lost they can’t see what they have become? Rhetorical question...


46 posted on 11/18/2010 3:57:55 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: listenhillary

“They feel vindicated and are now stomping on the gas pedal.”

It’s a Thelma and Louise moment and they are behaving exactly as Thelma and Louise would when being chased by an angry posse eager to hold them to account.


47 posted on 11/18/2010 5:20:02 AM PST by DrC
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