1. Randi Rhodes says she stood by Murtha purely out of loyalty
and that Hoyer will be a built-in check and balance. So maybe Pelosi went into this knowing she was going to lose--and knowing how much stronger she'd look when she reunited the party leadership anyway.
5. No big deal actually...early media "loss" in a procedural leadership race
takes some of the performance pressure off Madame Speaker. Talking heads need something to talk about and this will be a 2 day wonder before we move on to the important business on hand.
Still it is amusing that the chattering class is in a little swoon because the Congressional Dems had an actual contested, democratic election. Someone won and someone lost. Get over it.
The alternative?:I guess the preferred governing model of these crypto-fascist commentators is unquestioned loyalty to a Supreme Leader. Yucchh.
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