Pelosi suggests she'll announce future intentions on Weds.

 

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested she would make her future plans known on Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.

Pelosi, the first woman to ever serve as speaker of the House, answered a question about her intention to remain as House minority leader by inviting reporters to gather for a press conference tomorrow morning.

"I'll see you right here, 10 o'clock, tomorrow morning," she said. That would allow her to first confer with fellow Democrats.

The 72-year-old California Democrat served as speaker for two full terms, but remained as Democrats' leader in the House following Republicans' takeover of the chamber during the 2010 midterm elections.

Pelosi had scheduled leadership elections for a date slightly later than usual, prompting speculation that she might relinquish her role as the top Democrat in the House -- a position she has held for a decade. Wednesday marks the 10 year anniversary of her ascension to that position.

 Her tenure was most memorably defined by her tenure as speaker during the first two years of President Barack Obama's first term, during which time Pelosi helped shepherd Obama's landmark health care reform law to passage.

Pelosi's departure could set off a tough battle between House Democrats to replace her. Among the candidates could be her No. 2, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) or Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) -- among others.

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I hope she will keep her position. She has always been so offensive it always helps the Republicans. She is absolutely the worst.

  • 3 votes
Reply#192 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:04 AM EST

That's why we won and you lost big

    #192.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:25 AM EST
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    Here's to hoping she steps down. She resembles a clown in every way. Did she really think that face-lift went well?

    • 2 votes
    Reply#193 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:06 AM EST

    Any person with this much political power who abuses it should be lynched. She put down a bill to keep American Samoans from getting a minimum wage hike( you unions slugs see this ) because it would cost her billionaire husband money from paying his plantation workers a living wage. all you libertards kept ranting about Romneys money. Reid and pelosi have 4 times as much. 7 of the 10 top politicans are democrats, not republicans. So much for your rantings that republicans only care for the rich. Why isnt congress or the senate or obumbo using obamacare? they dont want the @!$%#. this country is going to hell because of the dems giveaway programs. they have broken the back of the working American. a disabled USMC vietnam combat vet

    • 2 votes
    Reply#194 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:07 AM EST

    She and her husband have raped American tax payers for billions of dollars and she was able to squash any and all investigations into her activities.

    • 3 votes
    #194.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:11 AM EST

    My Brother Gunny:

    Both Pelosi and people like Sen. Kerry, don't want minimum wages or deportation of illegal aliens, because it would reduce the profit margin. Pelosi is DelMonte and Kerry married into the Heinz corporation.

    They demonized Romney for being a millionaire--when he worked for it. Yet, Pelosi inherited it and Kerry married it.

    Barney Franke is worth millions and look how he and Chris Dodd(another crooked millionaire) screwed us. And, Chris Dodd was one step ahead of federal indictments. His father was indicted. The nut didn't fall far from the tree.

    And, you are so right about the ratio of millionaires on the hill being heavily on the democrats' side. Further, when it looked like Obama might be elected in 2008, the dems moved very quickly to diversify their asssets offshore. The Republicans commented on this and any investigations that were requested, were squashed when Obama took office.

    I don't care whether people are democrats or republicans, our government is sick and we need to take it back.

    Semper Fi, Da Gunny

    • 1 vote
    #194.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:34 AM EST
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    I'm just hoping the old sow retires and spends her days with her grandchildren.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#195 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:08 AM EST

    Nancy is magic - kind of like Disney or Harry Potter. Nancy and her Husband have made hundreds of millions of dollars bilking her constituents. She represents the evil side of the 1%

    • 3 votes
    Reply#196 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:09 AM EST

    oh, dont forget the bitch turned her nose up at a 35 seat A/C to fly her ugly ass back and forth to calif. She had to have a 200 seat A/C at a cost of 5 million each way .what a joke the democratic party is , hell both parties are for themselves, they both screw the American worker. ASk why obama is buying millions of hollow point rounds for his huricane relief army equipped with bradley fighting vehicles. anarchy is comming , get ready

    • 2 votes
    Reply#197 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:12 AM EST

    Some posts compare Pelosi with Hilary Clinton. Hilary Clinton is a smart, good woman. Pelosi - look at your state - it ought to make you weep. Please go and on the way out - please pay for all of those trips across country on a private jet acoompanied by your spouse, children, and grandchildren eating expensive, catered food with expensive drinks. You have made a fortune off the backs of other people and ought to be ashamed of yourself and you owe the American taxpayer an apology and a large sum of money-you are truly leaving in disgrace and President Obama knows this - that is why you were nowhere on the campaign trail. On your way out - take the Obamacare package w/ you - you can find time to read it now. I compare you to Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#198 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:13 AM EST

    Try learning how to spell. You probably had trouble voting.

      #198.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:29 AM EST
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      With a little hope maybe the ugly cow will retire and volunteer a a scarecrow for some farmer.

      • 3 votes
      Reply#199 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:14 AM EST

      Nancy, if you do retire your post, my vote will be for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Republicans will have a fight on their hands with her running the minority.

        Reply#200 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:15 AM EST

        she is 1 worthless piece of work, how she got where she is is beyone me

        • 2 votes
        Reply#201 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:16 AM EST

        A democrat that is way way past her expiration date, every
        time she opened her mouth something terrible came out. Go democrats, glad to see
        her go.

          Reply#202 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:18 AM EST

          what happened? did she finally realize how bad she is for the country? or maybe how out of touch she is? or maybe she saw hereslef on TV and realized how stupid she sounds? either way or whatever it takes to get the wicked witch out of office

          • 2 votes
          Reply#203 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:19 AM EST

          Nancy -- pLEASE LEAVE very fast and take Obama with you - Perm vacation in Mexico...

          • 1 vote
          Reply#204 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:20 AM EST

          4 more years GO OBAMA

            #204.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:31 AM EST

            4 more years

              #204.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:32 AM EST
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              To: President Barack Obama -

              Treasonous Over Benghaz,

              OBAMA Beyond impeachment, Obama treasonous over Benghaz, When you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi.

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              Our Constitution defines it this way: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Aid and comfort to the enemy — what is that? Your Spineless,

              • 1 vote
              Reply#205 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:21 AM EST

              Re election is two words, Private

                #205.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:38 AM EST
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                Several
                Conservatives have been sounding the alarm about Mr. Obama’s creeping
                dictatorship. His latest attempts at “Trickle Down Tyranny,” because of
                the administration’s rampant corruption and numerous abuses of power.

                It has one
                overarching, central theme: Mr. Obama is a radical leftist carrying out a
                Venezuela-style revolution. The
                president is a “fiscal Marxist” and a “new Hugo Chavez” determined to dismantle
                American capitalism and constitutional democracy.

                Mr. Obama’s power
                grabs - Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank financial reform, the de facto
                nationalization of General Motors and Chrysler, the drive to create a “green
                economy” through administrative fiat, the numerous policy “czars” who have
                Cabinet-level powers but no accountability or congressional oversight, the
                National Defense Authorization Act, which enables the president to detain any
                U.S. citizen indefinitely under suspicion of being a “terrorist,” the push to
                censor the Internet, the illegal war in Libya, the massive expansion of
                government through out-of-control spending and record deficits, and the
                administration’s criminal involvement in gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.

                According to some
                experts; Mr. Obama’s aim in the U.S. is similar to Bolshevik leader Vladimir
                Lenin in Russia: to create the Union of Socialist States of America - the
                U.S.S.A. The president is a Leninist bent on forging a new world order based on
                economic collectivism, world government and an internationalist ruling class.
                The key to achieving his dream is to eradicate the American nation. Obama is destroying the US concepts of
                “language, borders and culture.” The ultra-left’s mission is not only an
                economic revolution, but a cultural one: transforming America into a bilingual,
                multicultural socialist empire. The Illegals
                are the underpinning destruction if the USA where the battering ram is massive,
                unlimited immigration, thereby smashing our historic and demographic core.

                Such profound
                social engineering requires state coercion and centralized rule. We must be
                compelled to abandon self-government in favor of soft tyranny. This is why our
                freedoms may vanish in a second Obama term: “We will very likely not survive as
                a free nation after four more years under Obama’s rule”

                Mr. Obama is a
                dangerous demagogue, who believes he is above the law. Like many leftists, he
                is obsessed with amassing power. His amnesty order marks a major step toward an
                arbitrary statist regime that willfully tramples on the Constitution. The
                U.S.S.A. is being born.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#206 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:22 AM EST

                Unfortunate if she steps down, I'll have to change the face on my dartboard.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#207 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:22 AM EST

                Good riddance! Can't happen soon enough.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#208 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                She has been OUTSTANDING in keeping those GOP and Tea Baggers in their respective places. Thank you so much Nancy for what you have accomplished in helping the Commander in Chief in getting his agenda through the House. Our hats are off to you for your fearless and tireless efforts to help our Commander in Chief to make this a better country. Job well done Nancy. Someday, a statue of you will be erected on Capoitol Hill in recognition as the most effective House Speaker since Tip Oneal.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#209 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                Well said

                  #209.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:43 AM EST

                  what a complete crock of @!$%#

                  • 1 vote
                  #209.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:09 PM EST
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                  Most bad government has grown out of too much
                  government.-Thomas Jefferson

                  Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so
                  sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates
                  so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any
                  political institution which is founded on it. John Adams

                  When
                  the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears
                  the people, there is liberty.Thomas Jefferson:

                  The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
                  keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
                  in government Thomas Jefferson

                  "We,
                  the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
                  overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
                  Constitution." Abraham Lincoln

                  We the People have a Constitutional duty to alter or abolish
                  a government which has become tyrannical. First we have to recognize that we
                  live under a tyranny. It is no doubt in my mind that we do as evidenced by the
                  amount of power that the federal government holds over the States and the
                  individual. When that government prevents the People from electing anyone
                  outside their sphere of influence or control, we do not have the freedom to
                  control our own destiny as a People. " Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
                  governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
                  causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more
                  disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
                  abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
                  abuses and usurpations. Pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design
                  to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty, to throw off such
                  government, and to provide new guards for their future security". Thomas
                  Jefferson (Annals of America,

                  2:447-48.)

                  "The
                  money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in
                  times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than
                  autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies,
                  all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great
                  enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the
                  two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned
                  and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of
                  the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices
                  of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the
                  Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#210 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                  The majority of the public spoke you lost accept it. Stop Whining, go in the corner and sit facing the wall till you come to your senses.

                    #210.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:46 AM EST
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                    Nancy Pelosi really inspires me with her energy and smile.

                      Reply#211 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:24 AM EST

                      Good ridance. Hopefully none of her replacements will come from her mold and maybe some fresh blood with an interest towards functioning government will replace her as opposed to a continuation of the political divide. Dream on Billy-boy.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#212 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:25 AM EST

                      I agree Bone. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#213 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:26 AM EST

                      You Republicans are still pissed about election day. Congress has to compromise, but the party members don't. Four more years of BITCHING. NAG, NAG, NAG you people sound like an unhappy house wife. HMMM!

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#214 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:26 AM EST

                      And Fiesty Redhead, I have read your inane posts' for some time now. I really hope you get the government you voted for, because you deserve it.

                      • 2 votes
                      Reply#215 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:27 AM EST

                      ATCS; Remember you will have the same government.

                        #215.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:39 AM EST

                        We all deserve it.

                          #215.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:48 AM EST

                          fasttime get back in your welfare line

                          • 1 vote
                          #215.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:11 PM EST
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                          Life long Democrat I am and it would seem like the Democratic Party should had learned after they squandered a golden oppertunity to get things done in this nation that what is wrong in the Party is Pelosi is definitely not the answer to our problems but rather a Huge problem for the party.

                          • 2 votes
                          Reply#216 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:28 AM EST
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