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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:05 PM
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I support Nancy Pelosi for Leader
I am still angry with her about not going after bush. But I am also a pragmatist. She's a good leader who got a lot done in spite of a lot of obstructionist conservadems in her caucus. In the last two years, she is far and away the most liberal of our party's leadership - and the most effective.

I support her for Leader and want her back again as Speaker, too.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:06 PM
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1. Totally agree! n/t
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SargeUNN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:06 PM
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2. K&R
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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:08 PM
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3. Steny Hoyer is gunning for her. He is much more conservative.
Pelosi wants to move left and I think she will have fewer backstabbers and more progressives to deal with.

EJ Dionne has a great interview with her that sort of outlines her way of thinking.

Plus it will be a big F-U to the Republicants who hate her.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:12 PM
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5. Steny Hoyer is a Maryland democrat Democrat
Maryland really has no repubican party, our repubican governors notwithstanding. What we have are some pretty conservative Dems who, in years gone by, would have been Rockefeller Republicans.

Hoyer is one of them.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:17 PM
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10. Uh, Maryland's the state that keeps re-electing Barbara Mikulski
n/t.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:23 PM
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14. I'm sorry. What's your point? I voted for her and have since she first ran.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:27 PM
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18. It was in response to the term "Maryland democrat Democrat"
Which appeared to imply that Hoyer was the ONLY kind of Democrat who could win there. If that's not what you meant, never mind.

BTW, if your state doesn't have Republicans, how do you explain Spiro Agnew and the guy who beat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend?
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:30 PM
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20. Yes, that's what I meant
Our Democrat's opposition is our conservadems.

Agnew was old school.

Ehrlich was an aberration. He got there because of Clinton hatred
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:12 PM
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6. It would really suck if Hoyer uses DU as his evidence that Dems don't like Pelosi.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:11 PM
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4. Another voice for Nancy Pelosi
I'm glad to hear Rachel bring forward all that Speaker Pelosi has done because here on DU there were several other names mentioned. One being Anthony Weiner, I like him a lot. Donated to campaign and don't live in NY.

Loved this rant on the House Floor but, I'll stick with Nancy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4zwCMf8dsc
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:12 PM
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7. Wish I could second that, but I can't
I don't think she's much of a leader at all, and I'm unwilling to forgive her for Bush and/or the Bankster bailout, among many other things. She's been a very poor leader, in my opinion.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:20 PM
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12. Democracy is a fine thing and you're opinion is
respected.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:24 PM
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15. Thanks, and yours as well!
:toast:

We don't always have to agree in order to get along and get things done. :)
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Yeshuah Ben Joseph Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:13 PM
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8. Nancy made plenty of mistakes (i.e Chimpeachment "off the table" from day one)
and allowing them to kill the Public Option. But I'll take her over bank criminal prostitute Steny Hoyer.

Or the completely useless Heath Shuler. Can't his actual Democratic votes be counted on one hand?
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veganlush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:16 PM
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9. Absolutely !......n/t
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:19 PM
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11. LOL just saw that avatar in the middle of your post.
:rofl:
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:25 PM
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16. :wink:
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:20 PM
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13. ABSOLUTELY support her! nt
:thumbsup:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:26 PM
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17. As angry as I am about the impeachment off the table, I still support her
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:27 PM
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19. Me too!
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:49 PM
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21. She's undoubtedly the Top Gun of the Democratic Party ...
with a couple of timely resigations she would be President.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 04:02 AM
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28. If she is 'top gun' then the Democratic party
is in a whole heap of trouble, in my opinion.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 08:51 PM
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22. K to the R--there's a reason for those nasty ads the past two months.
She got things DONE.
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Howler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 09:34 PM
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23. Oh I do too!
shes beautiful and deadly!!!! Wish the other democrats would catch on.
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 09:36 PM
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24. yep....n/t
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 09:39 PM
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25. I love her and think she's hot!
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 11:34 PM
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26. Here's a young Nancy


She's to the left of her Dad, Tommy D'Alesandro, Jr., who was mayor of Baltimore and a congressman. Her brother, Tommy III, was also a Baltimore mayor.

Interesting note: after she graduated college, she interned for a Maryland senator along side a contemporary college grad, young Steny Hoyer. (I can't remember the senator's name)
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 05:24 AM
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31. with JFK
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 11:37 PM
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27. Yep. We need a liberal. n/t
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 04:04 AM
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29. Fuck Pelosi. If that's the best we can do, god help us.
Edited on Sat Nov-06-10 04:06 AM by Joe Fields
She was NOT a good leader. What the fuck are you smoking?

On edit. You have been too triangulated .
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:07 AM
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35. Wow, you're a pleasant chap
That's an effective argument you made.


Over the past two years, you can thank HER for whatever got done.

She's a skilled vote counter.

She managed to herd cats of vastly different breeds and get shit done.

She's a liberal.

Her only personal lack is an ability to sound tough when she speaks. But that may also be an asset as she cuts your nuts off.
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LAGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 04:07 AM
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30. I wish Cindy Sheehan had defeated her in 2008.
Edited on Sat Nov-06-10 04:07 AM by LAGC
We might have actually seen an end to these bullshit wars by now, that Congress keeps funding.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 05:25 AM
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32. do you really think that ? i mean Cindy couldn't beat Pelosi in a very liberal district
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 05:39 AM
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33. I think she did a great job in the circumstances, she is tough, and the GOP HATES her...
which is all I need to know - she must be doing it right.

mark
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 07:47 AM
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34. Me too!
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