Look at that smile on Nancy Pelosi's face. Is that a smile or is it a grimace?
Whatever it is, she's not happy.
Steny Hoyer, on the other hand, is looking very pleased. He has the expression of a winner.
John "Total crap" Murtha, standing in the background, is pouting. Poor Murtha.
Twenty-six years ago, he predicted that he would be in a position of leadership.
Watch and listen to Murtha brag about his tremendous influence in Washington here.
He thought he had the votes to be elected. He thought he was so close to becoming majority leader in the House that he could taste it.
Murtha was wrong, REALLY WRONG.
Steny Hoyer was voted to be the majority leader by a vote of 149-86.
That's a massive defeat for Murtha.
It's a disastrous defeat for Pelosi.
Her fellow Dems decided that putting the ethically-challenged, McGovern-esque Murtha in such a high profile position would be giving the Republicans a gift.
They determined it would be better to hand Pelosi an absolutely humiliating defeat rather than let Murtha speak for the Dems.
From The New York Times:
House Democrats chose Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland as their majority leader today after a bruising fight that cast a cloud over the party’s post-election celebration.
The election of Mr. Hoyer over Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, by a vote of 149 to 86, was an embarrassing setback for Representative Nancy J. Pelosi of California, who will be Speaker of the House in the new Congress and who had backed Mr. Murtha.
Mr. Hoyer, 67, is in his 13th term in Congress and his second as party whip under Ms. Pelosi, who has been the Democratic minority leader. She was put in line to become speaker when Democrats regained control of the House in last week’s elections.
After the vote, Ms. Pelosi smiled broadly and offered “great congratulations” to Mr. Hoyer. “I look forward to working with him in a very unified way to bring our country to a new direction for all Americans, not just the privileged few,” Ms. Pelosi said.
“We’ve had our debates,” she continued. “We’ve had our disagreements in that room, and now that is over. As I said to my colleagues, as we say in church, let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with us. Let the healing begin.”
Oh, how lame!
"Let there be peace on Earth." The next line is "and let it begin with ME," not "us."
When was the last time Pelosi went to church? I mean to worship, not campaign.
Anyway, she has called for the healing to begin.
I think that's going to take a while.
It's a safe bet to assume that Pelosi hasn't been this battered and bruised since her last cosmetic surgicial procedure.
...Ms. Pelosi was chosen unanimously by her Democratic colleagues to be speaker in the 110th Congress, which convenes in January. Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina becomes the new Democratic whip, while Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois will be chairman of the Democratic Caucus, making him No. 4 in the Democratic hierarchy in the House.
Mr. Emanuel’s promotion paid tribute to his role in this year’s Congressional campaigns. Intending the words as a compliment, Ms. Pelosi described him as “cold-blooded, capable, calculating in terms of winning an election.”
HAHAHAHA
The Times needed to stress to its readers that when Pelosi refers to Emanuel, "cold-blooded" is a compliment.
...When Ms. Pelosi was asked what the election of Mr. Hoyer said about the wisdom of her backing of Mr. Murtha, she said she still stood “very, very proudly” behind her support of Mr. Murtha because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
And did she have any regrets? “No,” she said. “I’m not a person who has regrets.”
Maybe that's her problem.
She should regret her stunningly stupid move to back Murtha.
Why is it that a Dem without regrets is a hero, but a Republican without regrets is stubborn and close-minded and unintelligent?
Another double standard at play.
I regret something. My regret is that the battle for majority leader is over.
The Dems' implosion over the leadership position was very entertaining.
If only it could have lasted just a little while longer...
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I was listening to Medved today, and he went over the Pelosi/Hoyer feud.
I didn't realize they've been competing against each other for over 40 years........Started when they were both in the same extern program.
Hoyer's a Lib, and I would rather have had Murtha in the spot, but if it has to be the more Liberal representative it may as well be one who causes Nancy some pain........:)
This is just round one......Nancy will have many battles on her hand in the next two years, including vs. Hillary, and vs. the Blue Dogs.
Then she'll have to fight the Left fringe who get pissed at her trying to pretend to be a moderate, and those upset by her not getting much done.
Its not a smile, its the Botox injections!
The reason that Pelosi and the Dems are in such a bind now is because they won through deception.
They promised the fringe Left that they would deliver for them.
They promised independents and moderates that they were really mainstream.
I don't see how they can keep up the charade for the next two years.
And Nancy didn't achieve that face with just Botox injections.
It took major surgery to get that look. :)
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