Posted on 11/18/2014 7:55:58 PM PST by Steelfish
House Dems Again Choose Nancy Pelosi as Leader Nov 18, 2014 By ALAN FRAM
Rep. Nancy Pelosi overcame gripes about Democrats' losing campaign messages and breezed to re-election Tuesday as House minority leader.
Meeting behind closed doors, Democrats used a voice vote to give Pelosi, D-Calif., her seventh two-year term as their House leader. The rest of the party's top leadership in the chamber, including No. 2 leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was also re-elected.
Pelosi and her lieutenants faced no challengers. But just two weeks after an Election Day that deepened their minority status — they lost at least a dozen House seats — some said their party had done a poor job of persuading middle-class voters that Democrats were on their side.
"We need a full-blown discussion of who we are, where we're going, what are our priorities. If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority," said Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J. "It's all of our faults, not just the leadership."
"We should have stayed on message and not walked away from the successes of this president," said Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J. Many Democratic candidates distanced themselves from President Barack Obama, who is deeply unpopular in some regions.
Pelosi has been House Democratic leader since 2003, including a four-year stint as the first female House speaker. They've not been in the majority since 2010, and Pelosi said it was time for Democrats to focus more sharply on middle-class needs.
"What we want are initiatives that help the American people, that reduce the anxiety because it reduces the income disparity" between lower earners and the wealthy, Pelosi told reporters
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They’ll be stuck with Pelosi as leader till she dies. She will never give up the position.
these Dems are all as dumb as a box of rocks
The belong in reeducation camps , some place to de-program them from the stupidity , moral corruption and anti-Americanism that they have devolved into . Either that or just ban the damn party altogether . Idiots
Insanity=when you keep doing the same crap over and over expecting different results.
Insanity=crazy as an out house rat, nancy pelosi.
“These barking mad rump chunks are becoming laughable caricatures of themselves”
Thanks for the vivid imagery. I have been searching the dark recesses of my brain to find an apt description of Nancy and Steny. Especially when Steny carries her purse.
Yep....as I used to say, SSDD, DSSD, SDDS, DSDD......
“House Dems Again Choose Nancy Pelosi as Leader.” Obviously the janitor turned them down saying he was retiring to go to Florida.
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