Posted on 11/30/2016 8:56:02 AM PST by Cheerio
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday fended off a challenge to her long leadership reign, defeating Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) in a closed-door vote prompted largely by Donald Trumps unlikely ascension to the White House.
Pelosi got 134 votes to Ryan's 63. The victory sends a message that while there's a growing appetite for major changes in the party's leadership structure and messaging tactics, it's not strong enough to loosen Pelosi's grip on a liberal-heavy group that's rarely challenged her authority.
Ryan and his supporters had argued that the Democrats' grim performance in this year's elections the latest in a string of cycles planting Republicans firmly in the majority was a clear signal that Pelosi's leadership strategy has failed to attract the broad coalition of voters required to return the Speaker's gavel to the Democrats' hands.
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I love Nancy Pelosi tree note?
(I Love Country Music....)
The DUmmies are thrilled about this right now.
Also still clinging to recount hope.
Their total disconnect from reality is now complete.
How on Earth can these Democrats call themselves “Progressives” with that bunch of old geezers leading the pack?
How can the “Snowflake” college students call themselves “Progressives” when they fawn over 75 year old Bernie Sanders and his promotion of Karl Marx’ 150 year old treatise?
Is it because they admire fellow leeches who managed to ‘work the system’?
Good. Can’t wait to hear Trump ridicule her ....
Satchmo would say, “Ooh, yeaaaah!” They still are stuck with Nancy.
This is the best present we could have gotten from the Democrats. We can look forward to more dumb and dumber stuff coming from between her lips.
You are absolutely correct. That’s why Zell Miller’s book “A National Party No More” is so revealing.. He saw it coming and opted for retirement from the circus. I do believe my parents were democrats even tho’ politics was never discussed in the home. My parents drove to town to vote and that’s as near as they came to bringing the subject to the dinner and supper table. I just put 2 and 2 together later in my life. That would have put them in the decades when democrats weren’t as objectionable as they are today - FDR/Truman/JFK and I guess I’ll end there...After that, I really can’t say as I had moved 3000 miles away when Ike was in office - probably never did change.
Suckers!
The GOP should work on him and Ryan and get them to convert.
But he managed to get 63 votes!
Tim not Paul
Nice.... was thinking the same thing.... Congrats Nancy, you get to stay in charge of the same pile of crap you helped create.
They are worse but it’s very similar to how they were in the past. They’ve been devoted to socialism for decades. Kennedy and HHH were socialist swine.
Easy on the praise there, Tim Ryan is still a 90% communist, he’s not an American. Very few rats in Congress are. He’d have had a different message but the same policies, tax and spend.
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