Pelosi Is BAAACK – Despite Dem’s Best Efforts

Pelosi is one step closer to becoming Speaker… despite the fact that Democrats are wising up to the fact she can only hurt them at this point.

According to the Hill:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed victory on Wednesday, saying she had won the Democratic nomination for Speaker amid an entrenched rebellion from insurgent lawmakers who pose the starkest threat to her long reign atop the party.

Pelosi won Wednesday’s Speaker vote, conducted by private ballot in the Visitors Center of the Capitol, by a vote of 203 to 32. It was reflective of the unusual nature of this year’s leadership elections that there were written ballots at all.

HAHAHA.

This is delicious.

Pelosi was running unchallenged for the Speaker nomination in the next Congress, and typically such races are decided by unanimous consent. This year, though, the clamor for casting a protest vote — particularly from incoming freshman who had promised voters to oppose Pelosi — was loud enough that party leaders offered paper ballots with a simple “yes/no” option on the question of whether Pelosi should be Speaker.

Cowards.

Indeed, Pelosi herself had given lawmakers the green-light to vote against her in the closed ballot, with the idea that it may liberate them to vote “present” in the Jan. 3 floor vote, according to a Democratic lawmaker familiar with the discussions.

“Pelosi has released some members to vote no in caucus and then vote present on the House floor,” the lawmaker said Wednesday morning, before the voting began.

How nice of her?

They needed HER permission? Is this how they operate?

The outcome was no surprise. Pelosi was running uncontested and enjoys widespread support within the liberal-heavy caucus she’s led since 2003.

The much higher bar will come in the first week of January, when the full House meets to choose the Speaker in a public vote requiring a majority of the entire voting chamber. It’s there that the insurgents feel they can block Pelosi’s ascension, even as Pelosi and her allies have projected nothing but confidence that she’ll retake the gavel she lost following the red wave elections of 2010.

The insurgents quickly claimed victory, noting that the 32 votes against Pelosi are enough to prevent her from winning a simple majority of the full House in January, assuming all members participate, no Republicans cross the aisle and no one votes “present.”

Several House races around the country are still too close to call, but the Democrats appear on track to hold 235 seats in the next Congress, meaning Pelosi could lose 17 Democrats on the House floor and still win the Speaker’s gavel.

Pelosi’s task between now and then will be to pick off several of those detractors before the public vote on Jan. 3.

My take?

Pelosi is a gift to us.

I think Republicans should ALL vote for her instead of abstaining. It would get under the Dem’s skin… and into their heads.

Can you IMAGINE how wigged out they’ be if they thought we basically chose Pelosi FOR them?