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After Democrats took a historic shellacking for ramming unpopular, extreme-left policies down the American people's throats, Nancy Pelosi now vows to continue to fight for those policies, and even make more.
Pelosi seems to be a rare example of a rat swimming TOWARD a sinking ship.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-line-opposition-pelosis-bid-minority-leader/
Moderate Dems Line Up in Opposition to Pelosi's Bid for Minority Leader
Published November 06, 2010
(AP)
In the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stunning announcement on Friday that she will seek to remain as leader of the diminished House Democrats, moderate members of the party are beginning to line up in opposition.
Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., said he was "disappointed that Speaker Pelosi is going to seek the position of Minority Leader."
North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell's office said he hopes Pelosi "will change her mind and step aside."
Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma told Fox News that voters sent a message Tuesday that they want the Democratic Party to move in a new direction.
"They want someone to lead the party who is going to be bipartisan," he said. "This is very disappointing for a lot of us in the center."
Several Democratic lawmakers in conservative districts had vowed to oppose Pelosi as speaker, but some of them lost their re-election bids all the same, making her bid to stay on as leader all the more likely.
Pelosi, the first woman to lead the House of Representatives, said Friday that many colleagues urged her to seek the post of minority leader in the new Congress that convenes in January.
That will be the Democrats' top post, because Republicans, who grabbed more than 60 Democratic-held seats Tuesday, will elect the next speaker. It will be John Boehner of Ohio, who will swap titles with Pelosi if she succeeds in her bid.
Republicans piled up the biggest gains in the House in over 70 years, while the Democrats will preside over the lower chamber for the shortest period since the 1950s.
But that hasn't deterred Pelosi.
"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back," Pelosi, 70, said in a letter to her colleagues.
During her four years as Speaker, Pelosi used all her political muscle to enact contentious measures such as Obama's health care overhaul.
Pelosi seems to be a rare example of a rat swimming TOWARD a sinking ship.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-line-opposition-pelosis-bid-minority-leader/
Moderate Dems Line Up in Opposition to Pelosi's Bid for Minority Leader
Published November 06, 2010
(AP)
In the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stunning announcement on Friday that she will seek to remain as leader of the diminished House Democrats, moderate members of the party are beginning to line up in opposition.
Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., said he was "disappointed that Speaker Pelosi is going to seek the position of Minority Leader."
North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell's office said he hopes Pelosi "will change her mind and step aside."
Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma told Fox News that voters sent a message Tuesday that they want the Democratic Party to move in a new direction.
"They want someone to lead the party who is going to be bipartisan," he said. "This is very disappointing for a lot of us in the center."
Several Democratic lawmakers in conservative districts had vowed to oppose Pelosi as speaker, but some of them lost their re-election bids all the same, making her bid to stay on as leader all the more likely.
Pelosi, the first woman to lead the House of Representatives, said Friday that many colleagues urged her to seek the post of minority leader in the new Congress that convenes in January.
That will be the Democrats' top post, because Republicans, who grabbed more than 60 Democratic-held seats Tuesday, will elect the next speaker. It will be John Boehner of Ohio, who will swap titles with Pelosi if she succeeds in her bid.
Republicans piled up the biggest gains in the House in over 70 years, while the Democrats will preside over the lower chamber for the shortest period since the 1950s.
But that hasn't deterred Pelosi.
"We have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back," Pelosi, 70, said in a letter to her colleagues.
During her four years as Speaker, Pelosi used all her political muscle to enact contentious measures such as Obama's health care overhaul.
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