The Hill: Speaker Pelosi to discuss her future in interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer

[flpoljunkie]

(Speaker Pelosi carried the water for President Obama's agenda which sadly, the president failed to sell to the American people and which, I think, he now regrets. I am not at all looking forward to Steny Hoyer becoming minority leader.)

Pelosi to discuss her future in interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer

By Russell Berman and Mike Lillis - 11/03/10 12:11 PM ET

Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) will sit for an interview Wednesday with ABC News as House Democrats wait for a decision on her future in Congress.

The decimated Democratic caucus is “in a holding pattern,” one Democratic aide said Wednesday, hours after the party suffered a landslide loss of their House majority

Unlike Republicans, who are now jockeying for leadership posts in the 112th Congress, House Democrats are keeping their powder dry until they get a signal from Pelosi, who has given no indication of whether she intends to remain in the party leadership or stay in Congress at all.

In a statement on the election results early Wednesday morning, the Speaker defended the Democratic record but made no reference to her future.

“Over the last four years, the Democratic majority in the House took courageous action on behalf of America’s middle class to create jobs and save the country from the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression,” Pelosi said in a statement issued after 1 a.m. EST.

“The outcome of the election does not diminish the work we have done for the American people. We must all strive to find common ground to support the middle class, create jobs, reduce the deficit and move our nation forward.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/127483-pelosi-to-discuss-her-future-in-prime-time-interview-with-sawyer

[babylonsister]

1. What can she do? Will she have to retire? I don't

even know if she's an elected House member; must be, right? Sigh. She was so effective; I will miss her.

[PBS Poll-435]

4. CA-8. Pelosi won with 80% of the vote. nt

[littlewolf]

5. she is elected ... SF area I believe ....

and she doesn't have to step down or retire ... she can run and
probably be elected Minority Leader ....

[flpoljunkie]

7. Healthcare, compromised as it was, would never have happened without her stiffening the Dems' spines

It can be made better and it will be.

[Crazy Dave]

2. Run for president in 2012 n/t

[krawhitham]

9. she will be 72 n/t

[Crazy Dave]

12. Just like McCain was in '08 n/t

[krawhitham]

13. His age was a major reason he lost n/t

[Crazy Dave]

14. I thought it was because he was a republican prick...

...and his VP was/is a nut job.

Plus Obama ran a helluva campaign so what polling did you read to make you think or believe he lost solely because of his age?

Your argument makes no sense. He just won reelection last night at age 74 and Ronald Reagan was 74 when he won his 2nd term in office duh!

[krawhitham]

19. a lot of republican pricks won last night

Don't get me wrong I would love her to be president, but I will not support anyone who primaries Obama. That means she will be 76 in 2016. I would vote for her in a heartbeat but will independents

[kenny blankenship]

3. I don't see why it's automatic that she resign from leadership. Senate Democrats ruined the agenda

not Pelosi.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. ??? Repubs have the majority in the house...

She's not a republican. She won't be speaker of the house. There are intra-congressional elections.
Is it possible that she remain speaker? Yes, if republicans vote for her over thier own leader.
But it ain't gonna happen. Republican majority will mean a republican speaker.
She doesn't have to resign... but the'll get voted out. That's just how it works.

I guess she could be minority leader... lol.

[kenny blankenship]

8. I know she's not going to be Speaker, I don't know why she must lose her rank as top D in the House

I don't see her as having failed. The Senate Democrats sabotaged the Democratic Party's agenda, yet Harry Reid, by most accounts, will remain Majority Leader. He's the point of failure if one has to be singled out.

[Crazy Dave]

10. It's an ego thing

Once a politician has been in a leadership role they rarely accept a demotion.

Just a hunch, I think she will retire from congress, write a book telling us why the dems lost control of congress in 2010 and why it was all Obama's fault, not hers and put out feelers to see if she should challenge Obama in 2012.

[flpoljunkie]

18. Bullsh*t!

[socialshockwave]

11. Lower class...

Why are they never mentioned? You should support everybody, not just the "middle class". Those on the lowest end of the financial spectrum need more support then those near the top.

[Crazy Dave]

15. Good point but...

Here in America the politicians only want the lower class to come out to vote for them, then they tell them to go back home and wait for them to fix things the next time they get reelected.

[craigmatic]

16. She was the best speaker since the Great Society. She should stay when we go into opposition.

[flpoljunkie]

17. I agree. She was great with Diane Sawyer who kept asking her cheesy gotcha questions.

Nancy Pelosi, whether she remains as minority leader or not, did the very hard work to pass healthcare--imperfect as it was, (it can be improved just like Social Security has been) for the American people. She will be remembered for this. It is something that Democrats have tried to do since Harry Truman and Republicans since Teddy Roosevelt.

I, for one, am very proud of her courage and leadership.