DEMOCRATS VOTE - A BLOW TO PELOSI
Democrats voted today and elected to no ones surprise Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. She then nominated John Murtha as Majority Leader and by a vote of 149 - 86 House Democrats elected Steny Hoyer former Minority Whip to the leadership position. Pelosi put her prestige as incoming Speaker on the line by backing Murtha and House Democrats defied her as they overwhelmingly voted for Hoyer. This was the first test of Pelosi as Speaker and she failed in every respect. She went against House members in backing Murtha and has shown that she has an agenda of her own that may not necessarily agree with the majority. Pelosi in her acceptance speech for Speaker also called for untiy in the party yet when the first opportunity for party unity under her leadership was put to a test party unity was furthest from the result. This does not bode well for Democrats since the caucus was looking to put on the face of total unity of purpose. As I write this Pelosi in her first public statement after the vote casually mentioned the Hoyer win and at length praised John Murtha only stating after the praise that she and Hoyer have had there differences and, "that is over." Sounds more like a bitter woman who has had her hand slapped when she finally gained her long sought power as Speaker. This discourse could be the beginnings of in-fighting yet to come.
Ken Taylor
Ken Taylor
posted by The Liberal Lie The Conservative Truth | 12:32 PM
9 Comments:
Hardly. She's fair, after all, she's a democrat.
Did you hear her public statement at the Capitol after the vote ? Didn't sound like a fair person to me but one who was upset because she didn't get her way !
By the way you want to talk about fair. The Constitution states that the President appoints judges with the advise and consent of the Senate. Democrats still have not allowed even up or down votes to many of Bush nominees. Yeah realy fair to me! This is how Dems govern. Obstructionist and not ,"fair." They will lead in similar manner.
Are you saying this Bush administration is fair? Perhaps fair to the rich, and to his friends, what about the rest of the country?
Mudhog isn't fair, she's a liar that makes up stories in a futile attempt to discredit factual claims made by conservatives. She has a buddy who had cancer and had to flee to Canada to be treated don't ya know?
Miss Nancy got a thumpin' today. To all those who voted against HER, she said they would have no chairmanships. That's almost like picking up her toys and going home.
Miss Nancy sounded like she was paraphrasing Sally Fields: "You don't like me! You really don't like me!"
Too bad the House Dems didn't make it absolutely clear by voting another member as Speaker. At least, she won't have an easy time herding the 44 Blue Dogs, most of whom don't support her socialist positions.
The next big show will be if Nancy's Pick for House Select Committee On Inteligence, Alcee Hastings will get the job. He probably will even though he has been Censured, Impeached and removed from office in the past beacuse of Ethics violations.
Nancy is on a roll now, Ethic Violation Free Congress? I dont think so.
This is quickly becoming the "Congress Of Corruption"!
She wasn't upset at all, you are reading in to it. Murtha lost fair and square. Believe me, Nancy girl is just fine. Don't kid yourselves. I realize your grieveing and all, but get it together people. This won't even be on the radar a week from now.
Now, why aren't you talking about cleaning your own house? Why aren't you talking about keeping the same people in power that brought you to the unfortunate position that you find yourselves in.
Nope, seth, that's you projecting.
Nope, Mudkitty, that's "me speakum truth". :-)
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