Posted on 11/18/2014 7:55:58 PM PST by Steelfish
House Dems Again Choose Nancy Pelosi as Leader Nov 18, 2014 By ALAN FRAM
Rep. Nancy Pelosi overcame gripes about Democrats' losing campaign messages and breezed to re-election Tuesday as House minority leader.
Meeting behind closed doors, Democrats used a voice vote to give Pelosi, D-Calif., her seventh two-year term as their House leader. The rest of the party's top leadership in the chamber, including No. 2 leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was also re-elected.
Pelosi and her lieutenants faced no challengers. But just two weeks after an Election Day that deepened their minority status — they lost at least a dozen House seats — some said their party had done a poor job of persuading middle-class voters that Democrats were on their side.
"We need a full-blown discussion of who we are, where we're going, what are our priorities. If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority," said Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J. "It's all of our faults, not just the leadership."
"We should have stayed on message and not walked away from the successes of this president," said Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J. Many Democratic candidates distanced themselves from President Barack Obama, who is deeply unpopular in some regions.
Pelosi has been House Democratic leader since 2003, including a four-year stint as the first female House speaker. They've not been in the majority since 2010, and Pelosi said it was time for Democrats to focus more sharply on middle-class needs.
"What we want are initiatives that help the American people, that reduce the anxiety because it reduces the income disparity" between lower earners and the wealthy, Pelosi told reporters
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Same old, same old, all the way around.
Nancy Pelosi. Leader. ROTFL!!! Those wacky ‘RATS.
Same crap, same head.
She knows were the bodies are buried, not a chance she would not get her perpetual position back.
It’s a new season of House of Cards!
Suckers.
Bet the Senate still picks Reid to lead the DumyCrap side
Curious, why are leaderships voted on before the newly elected get to dc?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
My question, as well, my FRiend.
it’s great to see that they have learned NOTHING from the election. Pelosi........sheeesh
Shows how crazy the Democrat party is nowadays.
As good as it gets!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
“Selecting just the right knife for Hari-Kari is hard, but it must be done, right?” said the Dem.
They are stuck on stupid.
Imagine living in the tortured mind of a leftist democrat......
ugh
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