Posted on 10/29/2010 10:08:31 AM PDT by freespirited
As Nancy Pelosi goes, so might a generation of her colleagues.
If Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives next week, there is a good chance that the House Speaker will opt to spend time with her eight grandchildren rather than toil in the relative obscurity of the minority. Even if she wanted to stay on, it's not clear that she would win the position of minority leader: seven Democratic incumbents and several candidates oppose her leadership — and another 20 have refused to say one way or another. Pelosi is more likely to leave gracefully, trading the red-eye slog for the pleasant commute between her San Francisco and Napa homes, and leaving the caucus in the hands of majority leader Steny Hoyer, who has been chafing in her shadow for decades. ...
Other Democrats are sure to follow Pelosi out of the Capitol. After the GOP lost the House in 2006, 27 Republicans called it quits. But in the case of Pelosi's Democratic cloakroom, the exodus could be deeper: five of 20 current committee chairmen are her allies from California. Without their champion, some veterans such as Education and Labor Committee chairman George Miller, who has been in Congress since 1975, may be inclined to leave. Even if they don't head for the exits, they might choose to abandon their gavels: Standards Committee chair Zoe Lofgren, also of California, is serving at Pelosi's request and has made no secret of her distaste at being her colleagues' ethical watchdog.
Others are older — Rules Committee chair Louise Slaughter and Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, both 81, know that life in the minority holds less appeal for octogenarians. And, in any case, it might be time for some fresh blood.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Retire to Federal Penitentiary.
Great minds....:)
What you said!
It's also amazing to read a Time or Newsweak article and note how lifeless the writing is and how insipid the analysis is. They are both in their death throes.
Pelosi cannot do anything “gracefully”.
This writer is living his own fantasy.
Murkowski will open a ski lodge & Pelosi will be her business partner.
Well, these Democrats are hopeful that they will keep control of the House after Tuesday’s election results. That’s why they are running for re-election, because they don’t know what the result will be.
So if Dems. somehow keep control, these Democrat leaders will stay. If Republicans take back control, then these Democrat leaders could take their balls and go home.
Once you have been Speaker, it’s hard to go back to being just another congresswoman. Nancy might just quit rather than go back to lesser status.
Murkowski will open a ski lodge & Pelosi will be her business partner.””
Then they can fight over which one will be the SCREWOR & which one will be the SCREWEE.
It just shows how little these rats care about public service. All they care about is power and perks”
Ding Ding Ding....we have a winner...give the Freeper a Kewpie Doll
Where can I buy a vuvuzela? It's too late for mail-order.
I plan to watch MSNBC on election night. I want to see Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schulz, etc. reporting big wins for Republicans coast to coast. We might even hear them report that Republicans have taken control of the House. And I can’t wait to hear their expert commentary on what comes next after big GOP gains in Congress.
Just like SORE LOSER Dick Gepthart (sp).
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
That fits so well with this article and a few others.
Ding, Dong......
They will not be missed!
petulent bitch til’ the end....
Wait until the investigations start... the dems will dropping like mosquitoes in a bug zapper.. wanting to resume a more wholesome family life..
And the RINOS still don’t get it. In their ego, they still can’t believe they are also the problem. They think it is all about the democrats; and herefore, they (RINOS) are safe.
So right. The political trend in San Francisco has been to go from very bad to so much worse. The current crop of likely successors to Pelosi strains credulity. Suffice to say that the current Board of Supervisors have often accused hyper-liberal mayor Gavin Newsom of being a fascist.
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