Nancy Pelosi Confident Of Taking Back House

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Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) struck a confident chord Sunday in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "If the election were held today, you think the Democrats would win?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"Yes, I do," Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, said. Pelosi noted that current House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had himself predicted about a one-in-three chance that Republicans would lose the House. "What he did say that was correct was that there are about 50 Republican seats in play. I would say 75. I feel pretty good about where we are," Pelosi said.

Republicans are defending a huge class of 89 freshmen who swept in to Congress on the 2010 wave, some of whom are safe, but many of whom are looking at tough races. Because they were elected largely as protest candidates, many of the freshmen never had to fully introduce themselves to voters. Today, they have many of the political disadvantages of being incumbents in a time of hostility toward office-holders, and few of the traditional advantages of incumbency, such as an established reputation and personal familiarity.

Democrats need to pick up 25 seats to regain control of the House. Boehner told Stephanopoulos he felt "pretty good" about the GOP's chances of holding the House, but allowed: "You never know what's gonna happen.”


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Speaker Nancy Pelosi... Again.

[patrice]

1. My center-right, long-time-Dallas resident, with husband who grew up in Highland Park, friend is

bitching and moaning about Congress.

[jerseyjack]

2. If the Dems take back control,

will they be as useless as they were from '08 - 10?

Who can ever forget, prosecuting Bush and Cheney is off the table?

[The Stranger]

11. Exactly right. The Pelosi disaster robbed us of the greatest political leverage in the history of

Congress -- at least for the past decade or so.

Instead of keeping her fucking mouth shut and letting prosecution loom -- and giving us leverage -- she inexplicably "took [it] off the table," betraying her party, us, the nation, and people of moral conscience screaming for vengeance.

She will always be the Pelosi Disaster.

[harun]

15. I am betting on more useless. You'll have the blue dogs stopping any meaningful legislation

just like before, yet somehow corporate welfare, defense spending and war will magically find a way.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Two years ago, she was publicly confident of holding onto the House

These public statement may not represent her real feelings.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. I remember that too

We didn't take NJ 7th - but we might this time. Te demographics of this district have changed - and many more are that we're here in 2006 and 2008 are now citizens . . . And can now vote. Did follow up canvassing in my complex this morning and all 15 households were indeed registered. So . . . Maybe we can get this one seat. I'm not going to hold my breath - but I'll do my best in a place where a Democratic party member has a shot.

[Igel]

13. "Real feelings." ? n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

24. As in, she really thinks it's highly unlikely that the Democrats will take control of the House

But she's saying that they have a good chance in order not to dispirit the voters or the party workers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Of course she is.

What's she gonna say? "We're going to lose"?? LOL

[bluestateguy]

5. We shall see

She was publicly confident that Democrats would hold the House right up until election day 2010.

[pasto76]

6. my money is on her not being Speaker again

democrats, liberals, lefties. All of us I think are disappointed in her past performance. I wouldnt be sad if she was speaker again, but someone from a little further outside the game would be nice

[Texifornia]

8. She was incredibly effective

Remember, almost the entire Obama agenda passed the House, it died in the Senate.

I can't think of a more effective Speaker for the Dems since Sam Rayburn.

[Texano78704]

12. +1

Indeed, something like close to 300 bills were sent from the House to the Senate and were not passed.

[FarCenter]

19. Bill only become law if they pass both houses of Congress -- so they were useless.

[cheapdate]

17. She passed a succession of bills to truly begin to restore the middle class,

for which she was viciously demonized by the rabid, ideologues in the US Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity, The American Enterprise Institute, et. al.

[Cleita]

7. Somehow my gut agrees with her. Now if we can get Harry Reid to end the filibuster

rule in the Senate, if we still retain the Senate, then maybe Obama's next term might bring some real change.

[kestrel91316]

10. I'm not sure it will matter. Last time we controlled the House AND Senate

and White House Democrats STILL complained that they couldn't get anything done.

If we had 90% Dems in both houses they still would make some excuse.

[jerseyjack]

14. One thing in our favor, at least the Senate won't have Ben Nelson

(and the dead cat on top of his head) along with Mary Landreu to obfuscate.

[jmowreader]

20. Kestrel, you know we didn't control the Senate

We had a 60-seat majority, I'll agree with you there. But control? No. If we had 61 Democrats--enough to shut down a filibuster--or enough common sense to get rid of the permafilibuster rule they've got now, we would have had control. If the Republicans have more than 40 votes in the Senate (and when we held the 60-seat majority, they had Lieberman in their hip pocket), they have control of the Senate because nothing gets past the worthless bastards.

I swear, if the House sent the Senate a bill that eliminated the corporate income tax, the capital gains tax and the personal income tax on anyone making more than $1 million per year, the Republicans would kill it just to keep Obama from getting any credit for it.

[BlueIris]

16. I'm glad Pelosi feels confident.

I have...confidence her career is almost over, though. Not saying that's right or fair, (nor am I celebrating it) but I think this is the kind of false bravado and optimism that shows up at the gallows end of one's professional life. I remember similar comments from Tom Daschle.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. Good!

[unkachuck]

21. "If the election were held today, you think the Democrats would win?"

"Yes, I do," Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, said.

....now that's a leading leader, that leads the leaderless, with legendary strength and confidence!....there's no keeping her powder dry!

[L. Coyote]

22. This is a definite at this point.

Exactly what Madam Speaker said at a private reception recently:

[ffr]

23. Dems better take back control before redistricting makes all our votes insignificant.

Get out and VOTE. Get every liberal leaning person of legal age to vote.

Even the worst Dem is better than the best Rethug.

NO MORE REPUBLICANS!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

25. We'll be lucky to pick up ten.

I know in my own district.....i have a bad feeling it's gonna flip red.