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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/17/2006 8:07:35 PM

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So, majority leader and majority whip become, minority leader and whip by a large margin.......

seems like it will be business as usual. Thoes guys have 12 years of fucking around and being recalcitrant and thats the offer?

I actually love it, like playing civilization when it was a board game.........

So, fundamentally the message is, we did a good job and we are staying the course, and knowing the way the world really works they will not make one consession to a democratic majority? Seems like ..........

Well, whatever...........out of the limelite.

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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/17/2006 8:22:12 PM

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I know this is more than a tad cynical but politicians as they are are all about raising money. The Republicans want to raise the most money and that means sucking up to their base. What has the base been saying for the past week... That what they believe the rest of the country still believes but just got a little confused. To make a change is to admit problems and rule number one in the Republican handbook, never admit to making mistakes or to problems. Changing the leadership would be a sign of weakness to them.

Of course people can focus on the Dems and rip them, they are now back in the spotlight to get the same treatment, but I am dissapointed that the Republicans have really made no effort to respond to the voters and try to distance themselves from Bush. Outside of McCain doing his best Republican version of a Kerry/Gore which way is the wind blowing today politics nothing but the same old same old.

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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/18/2006 10:08:40 PM

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By the way, what kind of yankee name is Steny, anyway?

I don't think Maryland really counts as "Yankee." It's south of the Mason-Dixon line (which forms its northern border). And if I'm remembering my history right, Maryland would have seceded but for Lincoln's intervention. I believe he had key legislators arrested/detained on their way to Annapolis.

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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/19/2006 2:21:54 AM

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By the way, what kind of yankee name is Steny, anyway?

I don't think Maryland really counts as "Yankee." It's south of the Mason-Dixon line (which forms its northern border). And if I'm remembering my history right, Maryland would have seceded but for Lincoln's intervention. I believe he had key legislators arrested/detained on their way to Annapolis.

We often look at anyone north of us as "yankees"........

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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/19/2006 5:21:56 AM

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Exactly ... anyone north of Austin (and in North Austin really), is considered yankees (unless you're a member of the Dallas Cowboys, in which case you become an honorary southerner, providing you don't throw stupid interceptions (we are deporting Drew Bledsoe) or drop too many touchdown passes (TO's paperwork is being processed, pending performance).

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RE: Pelosi faces first loss - 11/19/2006 6:44:58 AM

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I was irked by the whole affair.

Murtha has done some admirable things, but he is FAR from free of scandal. Pelosi is making a lot of noise about this being the most ethical Congress ever, and on that basis alone she should not have supported him.

On the other hand, the Reps have done a lot better than the Dems by presenting a united front, whereas the Dems are always all over the place. As many problems as I have with Pelosi and her style and her politics, she has been very useful in keeping the Dems 'on point' so far, and we've seen the results. I'm hoping this isn't the beginning of a refracturing which will doom the party and spell its return to obscurity.

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