Posted on 01/30/2014 3:18:38 PM PST by seanmerc
With Rep. Henry Waxman's retirement announcement, many of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's top lieutenants are abandoning ship. Waxman joins his California colleague, Rep. George Miller, and Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia as close Pelosi allies to retire after this Congress. And after last year's 2012 elections, Pelosi's leading in-house strategist Jen Crider left her office, later announcing she was working for Microsoft.
Their decisions are as strong a signal as any that veteran House Democrats hold little hope of taking the House in 2014, and they probably are pessimistic about their long-term prospects for a congressional majority. Miller and Waxman would be in line to chair influential committees if their party took control of the chamber. A third Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, wouldn't commit to running again in an interview this week. He would be in line to head up the Agriculture Committee in a Democratic majority.
Democrats need to net 17 seats to hand Pelosi the gavel, and analysts expect little movement, with President Obama's low approval ratings and redistricting reducing the number of competitive districts.
The decisions by Pelosi's California allies also raise the prospect that the minority leader herself could decide to retire—if not this year, then in the near future.
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I'm sure Paul, Jr. is just the tip of the "next generation" iceberg. After all, Soros has children who will soon take over the "family business", too. Certain people will have to be, shall we say, positioned for maximum opportunity.
I do know this: I sat next to him at many 49er games over the years (the Pelosi's had two seats next to mine and the two behind that. This was from '94 until some time after she became speaker. The kid was dumb as a stump (football wise). His sister knew the game better!
Love the cartoon, all it needs is an outstretched
arm holding a giant gavel coming from underneath
the cupcake.
She is already dead, she aint fallen over yet.
I believe Pelosi is epoxying her fingernails to toughen them up for hanging on to her office. She means to leave her seat in a box a long time from now.
These announcements actually shock me.
I thought it was the goal of most everybody in Congress to go from the Capitol bldg to the mortuary.
I count 49 members of the House at age 70 or older.
Melt her down and recover the fiberglass...
That wasn’t a cupcake?
What was it?
Ok, I’m sorry, I should have used it’s specific name.
Ding Dong.
Sorry, my mistake.
and nobody will even realize she is dead until the janitorial staff is cleaning the chamber at night.<<
and then they will still have to pass by her for a long time to see what is in her....
She should occupy that seat for the next hundred years, dead and rotting, as a reminder of how far liberalism can take a country astray!
Yes.
As in:
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead...
I guess the creme filled center threw me off,
there IS no squiggle on top.
I stand corrected.
I think she will just be embalmed, and keep running.
I’m kind of hoping she would take five gallons of gas
and a cigarette lighter and commit suttee on Obama’s
grave.
Not to mention her legacy statement
“We have to pass the bill to see whats in it”
Seriously..has there ever been a dumber statement issued by a congress critter?
(well...Maybe Hank Johnson’s “Guam will tip over and capsize”)
I found it later, it was the branch mortgage Countrywide of B of A that he worked for, and there was some sort of hearing after the crash.
WE do not need any more Pelosi’s in government, inmho.
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