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Pelousi indicates "openness" to offshore drilling vote

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Posted by gorb 2008-08-12 01:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Say "Thanks Vladimir".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-08-12 02:11|| 2008-08-12 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a good chance that Pelosi won't be elected speaker by the next House of Representatives. If only 19 Democrats make a deal with the Republicans to select somebody else, they will win.

This is possible, because Pelosi has deeply offended a lot of her fellow Democrats. So if the Republicans agree to a much more moderate Democrat, with only 8% of the Democrats joining them, they will win.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-12 09:54|| 2008-08-12 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Good point, Anonymoose.

Pelosi has been the least effective SOH in my lifetime, worse even than Foley. So bad that there are plenty of Dems who would like to see her go.

I'm guessing that if McCain gets in, Pelosi is gone for sure. In the ugly event that BHO is elected, she has a small chance of staying in place, but only just.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-08-12 10:18|| 2008-08-12 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks to me like she is thinking that she can wrap enough garbage up in a huge bill that Republicans can't swallow, they they will reject the bill. Trying to turn Republican lemonade into rotten lemons? Still, she hasn't shown any ability to finesse anything to that. We can hope that she blows this, too.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-08-12 11:12|| 2008-08-12 11:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Eww. Did you have to mention Pelousi and blows in the same thread?

Posted by gorb 2008-08-12 13:12|| 2008-08-12 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 In the ugly event that BHO is elected

In the IT world BHO means a Browser Helper Object. These are sometimes useful, but are usually malware.....

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