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Two Democrats Blame Rep. Pelosi For Past Electoral Losses; Want Her Out Of Party’s Leadership
CBS SF Bay Area ^ | 04/08/2015 | CBS SF

Posted on 04/08/2015 4:05:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON D.C. (CBS SF)– Two Democratic stalwarts from Massachusetts are suggesting that Rep. Nancy Pelosi should leave the party’s leadership team in Congress after big electoral loses last year and in 2010.

Reps. Michael Capuano and Stephen Lynch made the statements on WGBH’s “Greater Boston,” with Lynch predicting outright that “Nancy Pelosi will not lead us back into the majority.” Asked by host Jim Braude if the answer to the question whether Pelosi “should go?” is “yes,” Lynch said, “Right.”

Capuano was also asked if the 75-year-old Pelosi should quit leadership ranks. He said: “That, or she should change, one way or the other.”

Pelosi responded to those comments on Wednesday touching on her ties to the White House.

“One of the concerns that some of those people have is that they think I’m working too closely with President Obama and that’s what they’re about,” she said.

Pelosi’s Senate Democratic counterpart Harry Reid, who is 75, recently announced that he’s not seeking re-election.

Each of the top three House Democratic leaders is in his or her 70s.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2014midterms; capuano; democratic; democrats; lynch; majority; massachusetts; michaelcapuano; minority; nancypelosi; pelosi; stephenlynch
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1 posted on 04/08/2015 4:05:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’ll be called Racists ,LOL


2 posted on 04/08/2015 4:07:33 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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They’ll be called Racists ,LOL

Not if they back the venerable Shiela Jackson Lee as her replacement.

3 posted on 04/08/2015 4:10:14 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If those Progressive Democrat morons legalize the votes of millions of illegal aliens, they’ll be in power forever.

IMHO


4 posted on 04/08/2015 4:15:31 PM PDT by ripley
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why are they bringing this up now, five months after the midterms? We already know both parties wanted to changed their leadership, but that didn’t happen. The only good thing Boehner has done from my point of view is to invite Netanyahu to speak to Congress, in open defiance of the White House. I was proud of him for once.

Otherwise, it’s like having a Dagwood Bumpstead and Blondie as party leaders, and if you know that comic book character, you know he was notoriously henpecked.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 4:15:54 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
pelosi photo: Pelosi Pelosieyesclosed.jpg

They'd just replace her with someone even more radical.

Say what you will about her, she's a relentless fund raiser, it's how she's survived so long.

6 posted on 04/08/2015 4:16:51 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: lee martell
Reid, gone, Frankenstein, yet to announce, Boxer, gone, Pelosi, yet to announce. These living fossils should all be gone. Is there a better argument for term limits?
7 posted on 04/08/2015 4:20:30 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is a faith in the scientific church.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To the Dems.

Please keep Nancy around and in power for your side.

She is perfect for another old leftie, the one who destroyed her illegal server.


8 posted on 04/08/2015 4:21:02 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is she going to have a disagreement with an exercise machine too? The democrats like to portray themselves as The West Wing while they act like House of Cards.
9 posted on 04/08/2015 4:23:30 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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In that case, Stay Pelosi!


10 posted on 04/08/2015 4:24:05 PM PDT by Signalman
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Isn't this funny? When Hillary shows up, she casts Nancy Pelosi's shadow!


11 posted on 04/08/2015 4:24:07 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It seems to me Democrats have a knack for picking the wrong people for leadership and now it looks like they picked Schumer (Madoff’s BFF and his SEC cover http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0210/Schumer_denies_report_he_called_SEC_on_Madoff_probe.html ), as Harry Reid’s replacement. Maybe they can find a leadership spot for Menendez and his Florida pal and some underage Latino girl friends as staffers.

With 330 million people in the USA why are the political elites stuck fishing and picking from the stinking cesspool?


12 posted on 04/08/2015 4:25:00 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Be the person that your dog thinks you are........)
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To: Fungi

Scalia?


13 posted on 04/08/2015 4:34:34 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why would the Democrats want to replace Pelosi as a leader? Shoot, she has Boehner carrying hers and Obama's water.
14 posted on 04/08/2015 4:41:52 PM PDT by buckalfa (First time listener, long time caller.)
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Thank you for referencing that article E. Pluribus Unum. Please bear in mind that the following snide remark is directed at the article and not at you.

Stop the clock!

So how many years did it take for blind-leading-the-blind Dems to figure that out that Pelosi is not an asset to the abbey?

Also, I cannot figure out a way to blame the 17th Amendment for Pelosi but that amendment needs to disappear anyway.

15 posted on 04/08/2015 4:45:08 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No s#!t Sherlock. However I say keep her pleeez. Just don’t let her talk. It’s like fingernails on a blackboard.


16 posted on 04/08/2015 4:46:15 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gee I can hardly imagine why...


17 posted on 04/08/2015 4:50:55 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: markomalley
Not if they back the venerable Shiela Jackson Lee as her replacement.

Doesn't Maxine Waters have seniority on Lee? I think the Dems should go with her.

18 posted on 04/08/2015 4:51:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh please pick Debby Blabbermouth Schultz.

The real culprits for failure are Obama and Schultz.


19 posted on 04/08/2015 4:55:50 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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Oh please pick Debby Blabbermouth Schultz.

The real culprits for failure are Obama and Schultz.


20 posted on 04/08/2015 5:01:01 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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