WHIP GETS CRACKING-Gephardt To Retire if House Stays with GOP

The American Spectator ^ | March 8, 2002 KGT | Washington Prowler

[codebreaker]

House Democrats expect that current minority leader Dick Gephardt will resign from the leadership post if his party fails, as expected, to win back the house from the Republicans. Gephardt would then focus all of his energies on a presidential bid.

Already Texas Rep. Martin Frost has announced his intention to succeed Gephardt should he step down. Although Democratic Whip Nancy Pelosi has been coy about going public with her plans, the California congresswoman has told several staffers in Washington and back home that she intends to challenge Frost for the leadership post.

Frost operatives have wasted no time attacking Pelosi. Several associates of Frost on the Democratic leadership team say Frost backers leaked information about contibutions Pelosi made to Democratic colleagues. In the most controversial, she gave 10,000 from her leadership PAC to Rep. Lynn Rivers, who is running against warhorse Rep. John Dingell for a newly redistricted Michigan seat. Pelosi stands to win big if Dingell loses: Her longtime friend and political ally Henry Waxman would be the new ranking member on the Commerce Committee.

"Waxman would do just about anything for Nancy," says a Democratic House member. "And she would do the same for him. There were other ways Nancy could have helped Rivers. The fact she did so directly had to be a message to Dingell on behalf of Waxman."

[mlmr]

To depose that lying albino piece of dog excrement would make my decade.

Don't hold back caddie, tell us how you really feel about Gephardt....

[BillyBoy]

>> Stupid Saint Louisans keep voting for this socialist Rat time and time again. <<

St. Louis is an ultra-liberal welfare haven and keeps electing a guy named William Clay over and over again (which is not suprising, the Clay machine is the Missouri version of Jesse Jackson's district in Chicago).

On the other hand, Dickie's district is in the middle-class, St. Louis SUBURBS. Why they keep electing him is anybody's guess! He almost lost back in '98.

[brat]

BU-BYE DICKIE! LOL

[brat]

Fantastic idea, Paul! I'm in! LOL

[HHFi]

I used to live in Frost's district. Our county, which is directly south of Dallas, was so Republican that in 1992, Clinton came in a distant third behind Bush and Perot. But Frost's district was drawn to make it impossible to get rid of him. It looked like a police chalk outline of a centipede. Every election, it was the same story: the Republican challenger would be ahead of Frost by 55-45%, then regular as clockwork, right around 10 p.m., they'd add in a bunch of votes from a south Ft. Worth housing project 50 miles away that had been gerrymandered into our district, and voila! Two more years of Martin Frost. He's like a malignant mole that you can't cut off. Redistricting is the only cure.

[brat]

With his nose, he could be a vacuum cleaner! I can hear the wife now....INHALE Henry, INHALE! LOL

[MissAmericanPie]

I would never have believed that one could blast Gephardt out of politics. Something must be up.

[Young Rhino]

His last act in Congress will be to insert a loophole in the CFR bill that exempts expenditures for eyebrow pencils from the spending caps.

[mtngrl@vrwc]

House Democrats expect that current minority leader Dick Gephardt will resign from the leadership post if his party fails, as expected, to win back the house from the Republicans.

Well this is good news, indeed!

[mafree]

Gephardt would then focus all of his energies on a presidential bid.

Darn-- just when I though the headline meant we'd never see him again.

[rockfish59]

i know! he could snort chrome off a trailer hitch!

[metesky]

I remember hearing or reading somewhere liberal women voted for clinton because of his looks.

Outside of the usual Dem voter fraud, that's why JFK got elected in 1960.

[metesky]

Even during the Civil War elections were not cancelled. In fact, in the 1864 election it was the Union army that overwhelmingly returned Lincoln to office so they could finish the job.

[rockfish59]

'vacuum sucks'