What Do You Know? Nancy Pelosi Was A Historic Speaker!
This seems like the perfect punctuation mark to close out the reign of the hands-wodn worst Speaker of the House in our nation’s history.
With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party’s speaker nominee in nearly a century.
The resistance in the Democratic Party to back now-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the ceremonial first vote of the 112th Congress registered higher than at any point since 1913, according to data from the Congressional Research Service.
That year, which happens to be the last year for which records are available, featured 23 votes for Republicans other than that party’s speaker nominee. Of the 19 Democrats who didn’t support Pelosi on Wednesday, 18 voted for other Democrats and one voted “present.”
On one hand, ex-Speaker Pelosi hay have gotten the biggest diss to a siting Speaker in 98 years. On the other hand, it may be the biggest defection EVAH!
Now that’s historic.
UPDATE: Thank goodness we still have Harry Reid to kick around, huh? His latest ahistorical pronouncement that “The American people love government” will not get the press of Pelosi’s hand full of blather or Steny Hoyer’s attempt at Tea Party psychoanalysis, but it certainly is an early contender for the Quote of the Year.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Pelosi Confident She’ll Still be Speaker, Until She Isn’t
- Not So Fast Nancy, Says the Congressional Black Caucus. We Want to Help Wreck This Baby!
- Poor, Sad Nancy
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