Nancy Pelosi has suffered her first political setback since the election. Democrats Have voted Hoyer over Murtha by a 149-86 margin.
In other news, the rest of the Democratic Caucus seems to have retained a bit of their sanity.
The only real surprise is the margin was so lopsided, I expected Pelosi to fare better than that, especially on an anonymous vote.
It will be interesting to see if this result changes the Jane Harman/Alcee Hastings debate. I suspect that Pelosi will want her "pound of flesh" and will take it out against Harman. I also expect a lot more speaking out against this based on the vote tally.
Should be fun. . .
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Hastings/Harman is not voted on, I don't believe. It is decided on by the Speaker. Although she can (and should) take input.
I apologize, I finally had the opportunity to view the picture on a 20 inch monitor, and I was way over the line. I have dutifully shrunk the picture.
Interestingly I suspect that any image of Peosi without the suprised look is photoshopped.
Steny Hoyer won because of the favors he had done for many Democrats during the campaign. Murtha, on the other hand, had done very few favors for his Congressional colleagues. Pelosi backed Murtha because she admired his stance on Iraq. It is not a case of Pelosi unwisely spending her political capital, or evidence of the Democratic majority imploding. Those ideas are simply snarky, bitter GOP talking points.
If there were any mistrust of Murtha, he would not be slated to chair Defense Appropriations.
That Murtha was defeated is good for Democrats may be true, but Pelosi wanted Murtha and twisted arms to get him in.
According to the New York Times. Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post anyway.
If it was a ploy, Pelosi and Murtha were not in on it.
Framer,
I find your choice of a picture for Nancy Pelosi very interesting. I've noticed that the same thing has been done repeatedly to Hillary Clinton by her detractors. Its very easy to find an image of either Ms. Pelosi or Ms. Clinton that is flattering or at least neutral, but people who do not like them go out of their way to find images that are extremely unflattering. I do not notice the same thing being done to men, or at least not nearly so much. There are so many ugly white men in politics that it should be no problem at all finding repulsive images of them, so why don't people use them? Just wondering......
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