Retiring Blue Dog Democrats Say Pelosi Reason They’re Leaving Congress…
Thanks, Nancy.
Via Politico:
In 2010, Nancy Pelosi starred in $75 million worth of negative ads that helped Republicans win control of the House and wrest the speaker’s gavel from her.
Now, the relative handful of moderate Democrats left say the fear of a rerun helps explain why so many of their breed are headed for the exits and why others ignored the pleas of party leaders to make comeback bids in 2012.
Three of the four leaders of the moderate Democratic Blue Dog Coalition have announced that they will retire at the end of this year. The latest to leave is Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), who got a country butt-kicking when he ran against Pelosi for House Democratic leader after the last election.
The argument, made by several sources who called POLITICO without solicitation, goes like this: Even if a moderate can withstand a bad lot in redistricting, raise millions of dollars and overcome ads warning of a second Pelosi speakership, his voice will be ignored in the next Congress.
“What I think is really lost here is a lot of the retirements were preordained the minute Nancy Pelosi decided to run again for speaker,” one retiring centrist said in an interview last week.
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To make a nautical analogy, Pelosi is like an anchor that is even larger than the boat.
You got to steal that picture Zip. She looks like a beat up old witch casting a spell.
It`s Blinky`s fault.
Wow, it makes a change from everything being George W Bush`s fault.
Too bad about Heath Shuler packing it in. He has been a rare Democrat in supporting American workers by border and workplace immigration enforcement.
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/may-27-2011/rep-heath-shuler-reintroduces-bi-partisan-save-act.html
Well Duh! …Who the hell can blame any of them?
Move along and do something better with your lives than by being under total control from that BITCH FROM HELL & her claws that dig into your soul if she can…you all can do better than this botoxed creature being your slave-master.
Btw…I think they all know that Debbie Downer is next in line…after-all SanFranNan created her too.
Moderate? Nonsense! NONE of the Democrats are moderate any more. Not a single piece of hardcore Liberal agenda goes by without their support. they can certainly blame Pelosi, but they were all too happy to force us to drink the Marxist Koolaid Obama demanded.
I told you all, conservative, moderate dems, JFK type dems have no place in the demonRat party anymore.
And the interesting thing is, is that only 20% of dems really consider themselves very liberal, close to 40% are conservative/moderate.
Most of us aren’t switching to republican, we’re switching to independent, which is why the number of independents have gone up a lot, number of dems gone down, and number of repubs gone up. Not the cocktail repub types, but more so the tea party repub types, reagan dems have a natural home in the Tea party, most of those people are blue collar, or small biz owners and employees.
the only people left in the demonrat party will be the OWS crowd
How many of these Blue Dog Democrats voted against ObamaCare, how
many did you say, yea i thought so…
Good riddance , you earned your pitch forks…….
February 5, 2012
Explosive new book: JFK’s dark affair with 19-year-old WH intern
In a new tell-all book, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
” now-69-year-old Mimi Alford writes candidly about her eighteen-month affair with the former president, starting when she was a 19-year-old White House intern.
A review by the New York Post summarizes some of the explosive details of the book, including Kennedy taking the intern’s virginity, pimping her out to “first friend” David Powers while he watched, forcing her to take drugs, helping to put her in touch with a then-illegal abortion doctor during a false-alarm pregnancy scare, flying her to Washington from her all-girls school while his wife was away and, in a dark moment of weakness during the Cuban Missile Crisis, admitting that he would rather see his children “red than dead.”
Throughout it all, they never kissed. “The wide gulf between us — the age, the power, the experience — guaranteed our affair would never evolve into anything serious,” Alford writes.
First spotting Alford in the White House pool, Kennedy instructed Powers to invite her to a party that evening. After Alford had drank a number of daiquiris, Kennedy gave her a “tour” of the White House, where he took her virginity in first lady Jackie Kennedy’s bedroom.
“The fact that I was being desired by the most famous and powerful man in America only amplified my feelings to the point where resistance was out of the question,” Alford writes. “That’s why I didn’t say no to the president. It’s the best answer I can give.”
“On one excursion, she met Vice President Lyndon Johnson,” the Post reports. “When she told the president about the introduction, he lost his composure. ‘Stay away from him,’ he commanded, likely worried that Johnson could use knowledge of the affair against him.” (RELATED: New tapes reveal that Jackie Kennedy believed LBJ was behind JFK’s assassination)
The book, available nationwide, is likely to stir controversy, shifting public attention to dark aspects of the former president’s legacy. There has been no word from serial Kennedy biographer and MSNBC host Chris Matthews about how future renderings of the Washington “Camelot” legacy might accommodate Alford’s disturbing presidential portrait. (RELATED: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Why his brand new Kennedy book is different)
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/05/explosive-new-book-jfks-dark-affair-with-19-year-old-wh-intern/
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this is what the dems are like..
screw any thing that moves
“Blue Dog Democrats voted against ObamaCare”
19, they were all defeated or retired in 2010.
and the other cowards who voted for that crap like Bart Stupak took the easy way out by retiring, those that wanted to stick around voted against the crap legislation after Peeee-losi threatened enough members to vote for it.
Yeah, the photo on the link is a keeper. Truly the hag from hell looking like the hag from hell.
The look she had on her face as she walked up the Capital steps with that oversized gavel will forever be burned into my memory.
Since that day look how she has fallen. We had the unsupportable claims of racist slurs and spitting on them that day, the 2010 Republican election landslide, and now Dems retiring rather than risking reelection just to put up with this witch.
The crowning jewel of her fall from grace would be a conservative President being elected this year. Too bad we’re not nominating one.
@a former dem
A lady who was like a second mother to me was a lifelong dem – two years ago she joined the Tea Party and has never looked back. She emails me the meanest nastiest jokes about bs you ever heard.
the only people left in the demonrat party will be the OWS crowd
…and they’re gonna vote for Rosie!
and health schuler was one of the congressmen who challenged Peeee-losi for the leadership after the 2010 defeat. And not more than 5 dems stepped up, the rest of the dem cowards are still there.
I hope she continues to stay in – as long as she wants. It’s easy to hate her guts.
Her fellow Dems will face the consequences….. and most of them don’t even know it.
Xavier says:
February 5, 2012 at 10:45 pm
LOL, I can believe it. The anger comes when you feel you’ve been lied to all these years. I don’t even think the repub establihsment understands what the TP did. Most of the events I’ve been to are middle income people, they want a strong middle class, strong educational system, a strong manufacturing, strong military, strong safety (NOT welfare) net.
Now, I don’t agree with some of the tea party things, like completely getting rid of public education, but I agree with getting rid of the unions that run it so bad teachers can be fired, and bringing that money more locally, and having more competition, like charter schools.
But the demonrat party itself’s voting bloc is contrary to its supposed goals, so when they state they want a strong education system, yet are beholden to teacher’s unions that protect bad teachers, why should I believe what they say their goals are?!?
and this thinking is what the TP exposed a lot of independent minded dems to. the solutions are there, and yet the dems block it, so then the only conclusion an independent minded person comes to is that they are lying about their goals in the first place.
ANd its easier for a former lefty to argue against current lefties because they know the trap that’s been set for them, in terms of how their thoughts are misled and manipulated.
check out this picture of pelosi
http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu114/loveej/Political/Pelosicare.jpg
Fail. #Occupy Protesters Heckled Outside Super Bowl
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, February 5, 2012, 9:51 PM
Fail. Only around 50 Obama-endorsed #Occupy protesters turned out today to protest the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
They were heckled by spectators who told them, “Get a job!”
Reuters reported:
A small group of about 50 activists marched to Lucas Oil Stadium where the Super Bowl will be played later on Sunday to peacefully protest Indiana’s new anti-union “right-to-work” law.
Indiana on Wednesday became the 23rd state in the nation and the first in the U.S. industrial heartland to adopt a law allowing workers to avoid paying union dues at unionized businesses.
Supporters led by Indiana’s Republican Governor Mitch Daniels have said it was necessary to attract jobs to the state. Critics including Democrats and unions called it “union busting” and have said it would lead to lower wages.
The small group of protesters walked peacefully the five blocks from downtown Indianapolis to the stadium, although the demonstrators were heckled along the route by some of the people they passed.
“I think they need to get jobs,” said Jeff Eichler, who was visiting Indianapolis from Baltimore, Maryland.
Pelosi is also the reason that thousands of men in her home district, are gay.
first thing that enters my mind is…Quitters. When the going gets tough…the blue dogs go enuff. If this country’s worth saving, isn’t the sacrifice worth it for them.
I’m reminded of that scene in Brave Heart where Longshanks re-institutes the policy of “Prima Nocta” saying “That should fetch just the type of lords we want…”.
I surmise Nancy Pelosi has been doing the same type of thing in the Democratic party. Forcing reluctant kool-aid drinkers out and, if all goes to plan, replacing them with amoral degenerates lusting for power much as herself.
Who’s afraid of the evil witch—there is a special place for people like her and it ain’t heaven!!!
Bye Bye democrat party.
The conservative ascendency begins.
“Bye Bye democrat party.
The conservative ascendency begins.”
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The Republican party is still only part way through it’s own transformation. We need to keep the pressure on them.
Nancy Pelosi, the gift that keeps giving….
She said when they took over congress in 2006 that she was going to get rid of the Blue Dogs, she has gotten her wish. Now let’s hope the American People will see Liberals as they really are.
You can wrap shit up in a shiny bow, but it’s still shit. You can try to pin a moderate label on Nancy Pelosi, but she is still shit.
Keep up the good work nancy the few liberals the better it,ll be for the nation
I owe Nanzi a thank you then.
Jerry Costello (D-IL) announced he is retiring.
We figured he’d die in office after we were completely bankrupt .
And still be elected by dead people.
So ty Nan,now about that insider trading……….
Nanny-gov, I’m only a few (okay, 6) years younger than, but you should have retired that many years ago. Yer nuthin’ but a greedy old biyotch.
I’ve a secret…my greedy, nasty uncle/godfather found it out when he died.
All the stuff he revered and stole, especially from corpses (not necessarily corpsmen, though he was a former Marine) went to his daughters (my cousins), who both despised him. He was a Milwaukee cop who became a multi-millionaire…and his older brother, my dear dad who sponsored him into the Milwaukee Police Department, died in 1994, after having to retire on a $453/month pension with no Social Security.
Yes, there seems to be inequality in the world…but then you die.
St nancy will be back in Nov to finish draining the swamp and will hold Busgbaccountabe for the mrss we are in…dont worry folks…come Nov all will be ok.
Nancy is very inspirational to us women…its mean some of you potty mouth people make fun of her looks…she still is very attractive for her age.
@Cherry Sullivan
Attractive is a matter of opinion. Princess Nancy’s appearance is mostly Botox and plastic surgery. I don’t find that particularly attractive. And as for being an inspiration, she’s petty, dishonest, vindictive, spiteful, and hypocritical. Those aren’t the traits that I would want my daughter to emulate.
I’m glad that she is still in the game. Between her, Reid, and the pResident, the DemocRAT party is being well and truly destroyed.
They belong on history’s rubbish heap and Pelosi will get them there in short season.
The only thing that keeps Pelosi in power, is:
The Majority of Democrats who keep voting her into power as their Leader.
Any other Party Leader would have been fired after the 2010 election.
Her minions re-elected her without challenge.
ALL DemonRats are evil.
The same delusion that there are “Moderate Muslims” applies to the Dems too.
There is no such thing as a “moderate” Democrat.
Pelosi is as useless as using a Jumbo Tampax twice.
Rufus says:
February 6, 2012 at 8:11 am
The only thing that keeps Pelosi in power, is:
And she is perfect comedy fodder.
She represents liberal greed,lies,abuse of power,shallowness and is ugly inside and out.
They could use her in Planned Parenthood Ads and business would double.
Pelosi is in early stages of Parkinson’s. How could she manage that while being such a bitch?
Seeing as they get full salary and benefits for life, why wouldn’t they quit?
Nancy Pelosi is not an inspiration to me, Cherry Sullivan. She is an embarrassment, both as a “Catholic” and an American (supposedly) of Italian heritage. Any “potty mouthed” comments directed towards here are well deserved. She is the she-devil of the lunatic fringe, she is an advocate of the most horrendous crime in the world — murder of an unborn child — and she is a lying, evil harridin. She is the ugly face of the left. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, complimentary to say about this witch.
I can’t find enough words to describe how much I despise her.
The only way to permanently get rid of a witch is to drop a house on her. I have an old two story house that I would love to donate. I would even claim its value on my tax returns
Best comment ever on Pelosi and her rhetoric:
There’s nothing more nauseating than watching a toilet back up.
Pelosi challenged: Should you, Reid and Obama take ownership of the economy? [VIDEO] http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/02/pelosi-challenged-should-you-reid-and-obama-take-ownership-of-the-economy-video/#ixzz1lL2fnDHC
Cherry:
Are you really even a woman? Probably not.