Democrats Stick with Pelosi

...Hi there djbtol, Well there is no guessing game when you read the comments posted here so far. For forty years there was no health care in this country, she is the reason it passed. Also the finance reform billand everything else they got through. The woman is smart and knows how to get the votes needed to get things done. Why was the vote one-hundred and whatever to thirty something for her to be the leader? Who else could do as well.... NOBODY!? They know who has the goods and all of the negativity means not one thing. Most of the time leaders have to make the hard, tough choices. Ever look back and see how much public protest there was over the passage of Social Security and Medicare? Try to take them away from people now. So keep opinning about Ms Pelosi being such a bad choice as she keeps doing a great job. In addition the GOP has done a great job getting people to vote against their own best interests, so very interesting on its face. Now they want to give the rich more money when they don't need it but those who need unemployment benefits are tough out of luck if they are waiting for the GOP to extend them. So very humane of them. So keep on trucking. Cheers

I guess they really want Republicans to win two years from now. I kind of do feel sorry for James Clyburn, he really wanted that #2 spot.

Apparently, to the House Democrats, failure IS an option. ;~D

Years ago they were called Communists. They are getting so far left it is not funny. They should choose a more moderate leader and not someone who will take away America's freedoms.

It really is baffling, but whatever. The republicans got smacked down in 2008 and learned that it might be a good idea to actually listen to the voters and at least PRETEND to care about fiscal responsibility and the constitution. Democrats I guess are just a little too full of themselves and some are so stupid they don't even seem to realize that they lost because voters were not happy with the agenda they were pushing.

I fully expected the democrats to stick with Pelosi. It proves to me what I've been saying for a while now which is that the progressives and the democrat party as a whole has moved to the extreme left. There is no denying that Pelosi is a little left of socialist so what does it tell you about the party when such a majority supported her? I think that over the last 20 years or maybe more, there has been a shift of both parties leftward. The democrats of years ago wouldn't be accepted into the party as it is today. Likewise the republicans have moved leftward and have become more moderate than they used to be, generally speaking. A prime example is John McCain. Another example is their recent willingness to increase the size of government and government spending. I believe it's also why there has been an uprising of people disillusioned with both parties. It's what has given rise to the tea party and an increase in the number of people discovering and identifying with the Libertarian party. The democrats/progressives have clearly been trying to push this country toward socialism and people are revolting against that push. The fact that they are supporting Pelosi so strongly shows that they want to continue to push us in that direction. It's very clear that they do not care what the people want. They believe that the government knows best and should run everything the way THEY think it should be run. This is a socialist or even communist ideal, that the government or ruling class should run things the way they see fit, the people be damned. I think a large majority of people realized this and showed it at the polls. I also think that as the democrats continue following Pelosi down the socialist path, more and more people will open their eyes and it will show in the next election. I'm glad they are showing their extremism so plainly for people to see. It gives people a clear choice in 2012, socialism or freedom.

I think this is a good thing. I was afraid it would be a boring two years. But look at the endless hours of entertainment we will get for all that tax money!

Actually, I see this as a good thing. Now she can finish the destruction of the democrats as her out of touch ideology leads the rest of them over the cliff.

I think its great that they voted her in, it does show that they are so out of touch with the American people and its because they are Socialists! Of course they are out of touch, but not out of reach, that was proven on November 2, 2010. She is an idiot and what ever comes out of her mouth will be fodder for all the newspapers because nobody, and I mean nobody, backs a losing horse. They may still have Congress but they are going to spend the next two years saying "No" to all the GOP proposed legislation that repeals every stupid thing Obama has done to the American people.