Posted on 11/03/2010 4:16:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington - Voters toppled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from power Tuesday, four years after she became the first female speaker in history, handing the majority of the House of Representatives to Republicans in a landslide surpassing the historic election of 1994.
Republicans defeated 58 incumbent Democrats, a stunning blow to President Obama and well more than the 39 seats they needed to seize control of the House, walloping Democrats from Florida to Michigan.
Pelosi, elected in San Francisco in 1987, had become a national symbol of voter rage.
The very achievements for which she was hailed as one of the most effective speakers in modern times - a huge health care overhaul, an $800 billion stimulus, climate-change legislation and a re-regulation of Wall Street - came to represent the overreach that independent voters rejected Tuesday.
More than anyone in Washington, it was Pelosi who delivered on President Obama's agenda. His plummeting popularity helped sink her, but she had become a near toxic figure in race after race, tied like an albatross to the necks of Democratic incumbents across the country. Without her, Obama will have to overhaul his legislative strategy.
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Obummer has no legislative strategy. The rest of his domestic agenda is DOA.
Beautiful!
who gets custody of the jet and the ginormous gavel?
Sweet. WE control the purse strings.
This is where dry heaving begins.
Which voters rejected in toto. The MSM is also in denial. Conservatism was on the ballot last night.
Oh by the way that puts an R second in line of succession.
I don’t know how soon it takes effect but at the very least this removes her from ever becoming POTUS in the event of both the President and VP are unable to function.
In some respects the taildragging about Obamas legitimacy to hold office in the SCOTUS may have been a shielding effect, because if they pulled him and Biden then Pelosi would have been POTUS.
I can hear doors slamming all across America behind Pelosi, thank God she is gone!
Amen. I never want to see her be Speaker again.
Pelosi, right after the house fell ...
The best part of the whole night was watching Pelosi’s legs sticking out from under the big house that fell on her... bye bye Nancy... good riddance!
Yes... her San Francisco district was safe. She’ll be around. I want her to be the House Democrats’ face as long as she’s their leader.
Y I P P E E E E E!!!!!!!!
Now she can go back to Ding Dong School or wherever the f&^% she came from.
She will have lots of time now to complete her education!!!
I suspect that in the lame duck session, the Dems will try to settle the Charles Rangel and Maxine Watters affairs before the Republicans take over and “drain the swamp.”
LOL!
who gets custody of the jet and the ginormous gavel?>>>>>>>>
Take away that pushy parasite’s airplanes now!
She shoved it in our face and we shoved back.So glad she is gone.WOOOOHOOOOO
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