Nancy Pelosi's Leadership Post Is Safe

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Even if she loses the majority in the midterm congresional elections, rumors of a successful leadership challenge to Speaker Nancy Pelosi are being doubted. The reason: More moderates than liberals are likely to be ousted in the midterm elections and remaining left-leaning Democrats make up her base, say her associates.

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...and Pelosi was my poster (bleep)!

It's a good thing Barney Fife, I mean, Barney Frank is still with us. He's my new (bleep)!

Foot'nahalf of MA 8:56AM November 05, 2010

If the midterms are as predicted, realize this country will have taken a "fork in the road." It will have effects for years, perhaps decades. Please! Spare the whinning when this has to be acknowledged. Republicans have necessarily shown they prefer to be in power above all else. For a "single cause" the media has sang their song! (It dares to allege President Obama did not "work with the republican congress. HA!) Republicans have stood, on principle, for neither the people nor the constitution; and only begrudgingly for monied causes because they themselves need it. They have willfully, and with malice, repeatedly attacked the Office of the Presidency, because President Obama is in it.

The "road less traveled" which President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have taken, represents honored promises. Nancy Pelosi is one of the best things that ever happened to this country. President Barack Obama is one of the best things that ever happened to this country. Arguably, Harry Reid is also.

When we become "angry" with politicians who actually honor their promises, or make a reasonable effort to, its our "mirror," (the voters') that needs looking in. It is "Americans," like many of you writing on this page, whom I find increasingly frightening. The so-called "Tea Party" movement is a great example: At the end of the day this movement is "Joe Plumber" en masse. A "plant" by the republicans to gain power by any means. Our very ability to reason, analyze, or simply think using normative standards is infringed.

The "Tea Party," the radical republican right, almost all talkshow hosts 95.5 % are republicans, libertarians, or conservatives), and the fringe elements of both parties, for example, fail to even acknowledge that this country's national elections cannot be won by a "third party," so called, unless (aha!) the Constitution is changed. Right now, its (1) single-member district, plurality vote, winner takes ALL. Even if a few of them get elected under other party labels, they cannot change this.

. of MA 7:27PM November 02, 2010

I hate to sound discouraging but Pelosi will just move on to another challenging position in the House. I have been watching her since she was the whip, and I think no matter how crueling the Houses work tends to get there is always an place for Pelosi.

Nathaniel T. of CA 5:25AM November 01, 2010

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