Here it is.
Posted on 10/29/2010 10:08:31 AM PDT by freespirited
As Nancy Pelosi goes, so might a generation of her colleagues.
If Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives next week, there is a good chance that the House Speaker will opt to spend time with her eight grandchildren rather than toil in the relative obscurity of the minority. Even if she wanted to stay on, it's not clear that she would win the position of minority leader: seven Democratic incumbents and several candidates oppose her leadership — and another 20 have refused to say one way or another. Pelosi is more likely to leave gracefully, trading the red-eye slog for the pleasant commute between her San Francisco and Napa homes, and leaving the caucus in the hands of majority leader Steny Hoyer, who has been chafing in her shadow for decades. ...
Other Democrats are sure to follow Pelosi out of the Capitol. After the GOP lost the House in 2006, 27 Republicans called it quits. But in the case of Pelosi's Democratic cloakroom, the exodus could be deeper: five of 20 current committee chairmen are her allies from California. Without their champion, some veterans such as Education and Labor Committee chairman George Miller, who has been in Congress since 1975, may be inclined to leave. Even if they don't head for the exits, they might choose to abandon their gavels: Standards Committee chair Zoe Lofgren, also of California, is serving at Pelosi's request and has made no secret of her distaste at being her colleagues' ethical watchdog.
Others are older — Rules Committee chair Louise Slaughter and Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, both 81, know that life in the minority holds less appeal for octogenarians. And, in any case, it might be time for some fresh blood.
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I would suggest Pelosi consider becoming a statue in a house of wax exhibit, but she is likely underqualified for such a position.
I hope she has to take the bus back to California.
Call it quits when? I assume they mean in 2012? If she is planning to resign before then, good. By why would someone run for reelection and then resign their seat??
Don’t let the door...
make it so!
Doesn’t matter to her. She’s done her job, put in place the poison pod that will kill our eventually kill our freedom, and many of us as well.
Her time is over. Her public career can shrivel and die. She’ll be replaced by another, probably worse.
Where is that wonderful applause animated graphic (from the 50’s by the women’s dress) when you need it!
it’s not retiring its firing!
For Pelosi, I am guessing before then. Dont know about the others.
Because they wanted power, and the minority party has very little of it in the House. There is far more money to be made as a K Street lobbyist than as a minority member in the House.
Thats how I feel.
They’ll all take jobs at ABC/CBS/NBC/NPR/CNN/MSNBC so they can complain about people running for president who work for Fox News.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya...
I’ll be happy to buy her a bus ticket home, if she’ll just go home.
Here it is.
If the Republicans/TEA Party win big on Tuesday night, horns should be honked and bells rung from the East Coast to the West Coast as jubilation sweeps the nation. Special prayers of thanksgiving should be rendered by all the children of our gracious God.
(because I want to see the left watch and report on the news our celebrating a great a victory... so they know the American people's loathing of their rule)
She’ll lose her military VIP 757, her big office and the other perks.
It just shows how little these rats care about public service. All they care about is power and perks.
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