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Yeah, and any party that spends a kajillion dollars in borrowed money as stimulus and can't convince anyone that it did a lick of good, that party should probably hang up the gloves too.
Pelosi showcases the same levels of abject denial and cluelessness that GOP leaders demonstrated in 2006 and 2008. She's practically reading off the same index cards that guys like Denny Hastert and Mike Huebsch used. For that alone, someone should send her to the back bench.
Pelosi's impending re-election to leadership does not bode well for Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has the “overwhelming support” of fellow Democrats in her bid to become minority leader in the next Congress, and says she’s not to blame for the Democrats’ mid-term debacle.
“We didn’t lose the election because of me,” Ms. Pelosi told National Public Radio in an interview that aired Friday morning. “Our members do not accept that.”
Instead, the California Democrat attributes the loss of at least 60 seats to high unemployment and “$100 million of outside, unidentified funding.”
“Any party that cannot turn (9.5% unemployment) into political gains should hang up the gloves,” she said.
Yeah, and any party that spends a kajillion dollars in borrowed money as stimulus and can't convince anyone that it did a lick of good, that party should probably hang up the gloves too.
Pelosi showcases the same levels of abject denial and cluelessness that GOP leaders demonstrated in 2006 and 2008. She's practically reading off the same index cards that guys like Denny Hastert and Mike Huebsch used. For that alone, someone should send her to the back bench.
Pelosi's impending re-election to leadership does not bode well for Democrats.
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You are probably right about Pelosi the individual.
At the same time, though, I don't think going more moderate is necessarily the answer, and the Republicans proved that. John Boehner is even more conservative than Dennis Hastert, and Little Fitz is even more conservative than Mike Huebsch.
The ideal pick would be someone who is just as strong of a liberal but harder to caricature. I'm not exactly sure who that would be, though.
This assumes, of course, that one believes John Boehner and Jeff Fitzgerald were somehow responsible for their good fortune, and weren't a couple of blind squirrels who found the nuts that people like Nancy Pelosi and Mike Sheridan left at their doorsteps. I'm not sure I'm there yet.
I suspect what most Americans want is responsible, reasonable governance. Absent a party that represents such a thing, and absent a viable third-party option, I suspect Americans are going to keep teetering and tottering between the two parties every two to four years.
It wasn't until the grand failures of Mondale and Dukakis that Democrats realized the left wing of their party wasn't the answer. We'll see if the GOP learns from that, or if they're going to tee up Sarah Palin in two years.
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