Posted on 11/13/2014 2:13:43 PM PST by SkyPilot
In her first public remarks since Election Day last week, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended her decision to run to keep her post atop the House Democratic Caucus, and doesn’t sound likely to relinquish it anytime soon.
“I don’t understand why this question should even come up,” the California Democrat said at a press conference Thursday. “I’m here as long as the members want me to be here.
Pelosi suggested that she wasn’t, as many expect, looking to serve one more term as minority leader before retiring in 2016 — when, colleagues hope, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be elected president.
“I’m not here on a schedule,” Pelosi said, “except for a mission to get a job done.”
She also hinted that there was implicit sexism in the constant rhetoric of “will she or won’t she.”
“When was the last time you asked Mitch McConnell … ‘aren’t you getting a little old, Mitch?’” said Pelosi of the Republican senator from Kentucky.
McConnell, who is 72, has been in Senate GOP leadership since 2003 and the minority leader since 2007. He was earlier on Thursday elected Senate majority leader for the 114th Congress.
At 74 years old, Pelosi has been in House Democratic leadership since 2002 — and has been at the very top of the caucus power structure since 2003.
Pelosi acknowledged that the 2014 midterm elections were disappointing for her colleagues, especially for the incumbents who lost re-election. She reiterated an argument she has made over the past week that the Democratic Party needs to do more in the next two years to engage a whole new base of voters, saying that the campaign should revolve around the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
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She is akin to a wicked Sorceress who now sees that she has become a wicked old hag.
Her language is brimming with defensiveness, cold calculating poison, and passive aggressiveness.
On display, for the entire world to see.
Its not that you’re too old madame speaker. Its that you’re too stupid.
When was the last time you asked Mitch McConnell if he was too old? I was on the cover of Time magazine once! Now you ask me tough questions about the recent election loss? What? Do you ask political questions because I AM A WOMAN!?? Is THAT it? Huh?
It’s really a sugar-coated way of saying that she’s too incompetent to lead. Four years after the Dems got a Congressional majority, she lost it, despite the Bush-era Iraq debacle and financial crisis.
We ought to nuke San Francisco.
Well, you must remember if you still can, you are madam, Mitch is sir
McConnell is years younger than that old hag.
I’m going to make sure Reid leaves. I’m updating my biography of him, and there is soooo much dirt.
But Leave Pelosi in place, the old plastic bag of bones can lead the Dems to hell.
Wacked out bi7ch!
Pelosi is older (74 vs. 72), so her implication that she’s being treated unequally is simply another lie — like her disavowal of knowing who MacGruber is.
not to worry, the Big’un will destroy the city and restore California to sanity
They are both too danged old to lead. But, even more important, they both made this mess in DC, they are too entrenched to see what Amercians want anymore. Go already. Go home. Retire.
I've asked him to retire because he's too liberal, too weak, too out of touch. If I thought asking him to get lost because he was too old would work, I'd be all over it but none of those other ones did so....
These arrogant libs are falling hard and she is one of the most arrogant.
Oh, Fran, no one thinks of you as a woman, really.
Nancy, Mitch is simply an evil coward. You are senile. Senility is associated with age. So it’s a legit question to ask.
Unless the mission is a permanent minority status, I don't think she is getting the job done. But don't go by me, I think she is doing great.
Pelosi - when was the last time you had a pysch eval done - or a major round of botox?
She can’t go away fast enough....
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