Open Thread: Pelosi Daughter Says Mom Wants to Leave Congress
Despite the left's newfound embrace of class-warfare and the politics of envy, in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats are being led by one of the richest people in America, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. That may not be a long-term trend, though, if you consider what her daughter, a journalist and documentary film-maker, said recently--that her mother wants to leave Congress:
She would retire right now, if the donors she has didn’t want her to stay so badly. They know she wants to leave, though. They think she’s destined for the wilderness. She has very few days left. She’s 71, she wants to have a life, she’s done. It’s obligation, that’s all I’m saying.
That's quite a stunning thing for a member of Congress's daughter to say about her, particularly to conservative journalist, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, writing at Big Government. It's starting to look as though Pelosi may retire should Democrats do poorly in the 2012 races. What are your thoughts?
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BHO's inheritance
Submitted by deadeyedan on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:13pm.
Our misanthropic president always claims to have inherited such a dismal economy.
Did he notice that it started to tank once Pelosi took over in early 2007? But he always blames Bush, doesn't he.
Good riddance, Nancy, you rich bitch.
LIBERALISM - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists
I really makes little difference
Submitted by iFight on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:15pm.
Californians will put another liberal in her seat. Previous Speakers have later run for president. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Nancy
Submitted by kinijane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:22pm.
She should have retired (or been retired) years ago. But now
shes made her money on the backs of the American taxpayer,
used the laws for her specific purposes and stuck the knife in
all of our backs, even her own liberal buddies. They just haven't
figured it out yet.
She'll have to pay for her
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:40pm.
She'll have to pay for her liquor on her own dime. She is not going to like that.
she owns a vineyard
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:47pm.
:-)
You can't make hard liquor
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:59pm.
You can't make hard liquor from grapes. Have to have corn. We are burning most of that in our cars.
She owns a vineyard?
Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 5:08pm.
And the grapes do not shrivel into raisins when she walks by?
All lies
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:22pm.
She will only quit if they carry her out or is granted immunity for her crimes. Without the grant she will spend the rest of her life behind bars for perjury, fraud and corruption. Even someone as incompetent as Holder could convict her.
The NY Slimes has gone too
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:37pm.
The NY Slimes has gone too far this time. They have insulted southern cooking, Paula Deen and Cracker Barrel. They have the nerve to call red beans and rice Hoppin' John. Real Hoppin' is made from black eyed peas and rice. Red beans and rice is Cajun. Hoppin' John is a creation of the folks that live in the low country of South Carolina. There is nothing cheap about fried chicken. I grew up on it. Real southern fried chicken is fried in hog lard not Crisco.
Grits and Shrimp? Grits are for mixing in with your over easy eggs and sausage gravy.
By the way, my New Year's day meal will remain like it always has. Blackeyed peas with a ham hock or fatback cooked in, some kind of greens like fried cabbage, mustard greens, or collards, all cooked in fat back grease and Jiffy cornbread mix. Some country ham that been salt and brown sugar cured.
Right on ricklail*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:41pm.
Those idiots need to read more than their own tripe.
And we are known for our southern cooking not just cajun
BTW: check out the countdown clock in upper left corner....LOL
ricklail
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 1:56am.
As a born and bred South Carolinian i grew up on Hop n Johns :).
I made a batch about three years ago for my wife and she claimed she did not like them.
Than i asked my mom to make some and my wife, who is a Hoosier, to try them again and now she loves them.
Can never out cook gramma and moms.
You said it...More NY/East Coast lib elitism...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 2:31am.
As a fellow and very proud born and bred Southerner, this really p#$%ed me off, pardon my language! Those fools don't know nor will they ever understand or appreciate how fabulous freshly baked cornbread smells, or how sinfully delicious a plateful of fried catfish or creamy grits taste, or how yummy hushpuppies are, or how beautiful a warm, sultry Southern summer evening is. Makes me so homesick I could cry...
The he!! with the NYT and their pompous, snotty elitism.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
good morning Prairie
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 4:17am.
You went and made me hungry. In a little while i'm gonna make some cornbread, potatoe salad, and gumbo. I'm not homesick cause I never left, couldn't get my nourishment anywhere but in God's country. I spelled potatoe with an "e" in honor of a great american. Them yankees ain't got a lick of sense.
Have a blessed year
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Just more of the
Submitted by texasborngranny on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 12:47pm.
same ole dem/lib/prog/socialist tripe... they attack those who they fear.
What does it say about the Slimes that they are afraid of Paula Dean and Cracker Barrell?
I'm hopeful it's is a sign of desperation.
3 in a row*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 12:04pm.
Wow, 3 greats posts in a row. Love all of them.
NB needs a "like" button.
Oh man, Cracker Barrell
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 12:19pm.
After spending six months in Latin America, Cracker Barrell was one of the first places we hit "on the road" home. I don't remember what we ordered, but oh my, it tasted like home.
I think the problem with the elitists at the NYT is that they are fat-deprived, seeing how Bloomie has prohibited restaurants from serving much of that wonderful stuff. Idiots.
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Good morning Blonde
Submitted by cocodrie on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 1:05pm.
These elites can't get proper nourishment in Yankeeland and have a severe eloctrolite shortage. This upsets their equiblibrium and creats an inability to produce rational thinking.
Have a blessed year
Alton
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Good morning to you, too!
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 1:15pm.
Well, Good Afternoon.
Your namesake, Alton Brown, is one of my favorites of all time (try his cheesecake recipe sometime).
If you ever want to see a moment of total confusion, watch as a Yankee is asked by his waitress whether he/she wants sweet tea. It always makes me laugh. As you said, an electrolyte shortage, LOL....not enough sweet tea.
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Peelosi
Submitted by kilrod on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:28pm.
I would like to see her investigated, prosecuted, kicked out of office and kicked into prison. Other than that i wish you well Nan.~!~
(grins) kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Foregone
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:32pm.
conclusion.
Poor Barry
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:33pm.
he misses Reggie.
I know that somewhere in the
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:57pm.
I know that somewhere in the back your mind there is a photo coming.
That's an interesting
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:58pm.
That's an interesting article, BK...........and Boy Barry's new best friend is a BANKER??? Wasn't he just throwing his support behind the OWS bowel movement??? Doesn't he 'hate' banks and bankers???? Oh, wait, he wants another 1.2 trillion - maybe he can get it somewhere else besides a bank???
He golfs with lower level staffers........well, at least they won't tell him how crappy he is, and they won't bring up anything of consequense to talk about either.
He doesn't really like other politicians - regardless of their party - unless they're doing something that makes him look good. Well, he's always complaining about the way things get done (or don't get done) in Washington DC, and how he was going to be the 'new breed' of politician............but I think it has more to do with the fact that he wants what he wants, and he doesn't think that anyone should challenge him.............it's no surprise that he has little use for Congress or the Supreme Court, unless they are 'getting his back'
And when you have a heavyweight like Jimmah Cahtah's communications director (now THERE'S a resume enhancer!!!) getting on your case about being aloof or distant, you KNOW you're busted!!!
He'd rather watch sports than keep up on current events??? Hell, we knew that!!! This guy wanted to be President - he just didn't want to have to work, once he got there. It's easy to figure out why he doesn't use Camp David - it's too close and too convenient - and you KNOW that Moooooooooooochelle doesn't like it there. And they've turned the White House into party central, from what I can tell.
I'm sure he misses Reggie..........he probably gave Boy Barry some good and relaxing massages after their basketball games, and I'm sure that Reggie let Barry score a few points with his legendary left-handed hook shot.
Oh, yeah..........I just read that Barry had bacon wrapped pork loin the other night over in Honolulu - at $75 a pop. Not a bad snack for the 'middle class warrior' - which I always interpretted as making war on the middle class. And, hey..........I thought that moooooooooooooooslems weren't allowed to eat swine!!! Ahhh.........Barry is only a moooooooooooooslem when he needs to be, just like everything else in his life.
Nancy Pooposi
Submitted by NewLife56 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:37pm.
BYE NANCY..This would be the BEST NEW YEARS EVER YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Not to mention she knows they don't have a chance to win back the House, and she kniws they are going to lose the Senate as well...
Note
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:42pm.
The absence of the words; constituents, honor, duty, country. . . instead just follow the money.
She can't quit
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:44pm.
She has donors that need to get their money's worth, screw it that everyone else has to pay for it.
Why I'd back Obama over Ron Paul
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:46pm.
by: Philip Klein
[Note: linking this does not constitute endorsement. To be clear, I would never cast a vote for Barack Obama. I'm equally sure I would never cast a vote for Ron Paul. It is, however, an interesting exposé on just how poor a candidate RP really is.]
That story makes me want to
Submitted by redmike on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:57pm.
That story makes me want to vote for Ron Paul even more.
I assume you're either being sarcastic,
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:38pm.
or you've got some fetish in seeing your god destroyed on a national stage. But, that's the nature of democracy; you get one vote just like the rest of us in the GOP.
I see
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 9:58pm.
So you're a Shahinshah supporter then?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
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How will she get around
Submitted by Gat New York on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:01pm.
How will she get around without a government issued 747? Retirement will be tough on the old girl.
I'm sure she's escaping before the probes on her finances start.
Who needs a 747 in prison?
Submitted by ant on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 2:04pm.
Who needs a 747 in prison? I'm completely serious on this point. The woman deserves time in an orange jumpsuit, if for violation of oath of office alone. We the People really need to start holding our reps accountable for their misdeeds and malfeasance and establishing due punishment for such offenses. They would punish the average citizen for crimes 1/10th as destructive as those they, themselves, commit. Hell, as just one example, DHS is scanning twitter, and other public media for keywords which would afford them the privilege of then searching identity and info of any American citizen. The entire population should be outraged by this kind of thing. Insider trading, Pelosi's guilty on numerous counts of IPO bribery before a Bill comes to the floor....instead we have a media trying to outrage people with stones that used to read 'Niggerhead', and Tim Tebow's faith. Enough already,...before the guilty all retire into luxury on our stolen dime... I'll pull the lever on the gallows myself.
Californian
Submitted by Upland_Patriot on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:02pm.
If the rest of the country would like to see their future, look no further than California. The idiots in Cali actually voted for Nasty Pelosi, Barbara Boxerface, Grandma Fienstein and a majority filled legislature of liberals bent on fully destroying this once great state.
High taxes, Illegal Aliens, high crime, poor schools, crumbling infrastructure, debt etc. etc. etc. Hey, but the weather is nice.
slow down there, patriot.
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:29pm.
slow down there, patriot. i've lived in California most of my life. i never voted for pelosi or boxer or brown or frankenfeinstein and i regret the terminator. i, along with a great many others, tend to feel we get lumped in with the sanctuary city//san francisco liberal, an absolutely horrible assumption. =) but i get your meaning. how bella-pelosi gets re-elected is beyond me.
In the words
Submitted by bobsmom on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:02pm.
of my dear, departed Grandma, "Nancy, here's your hat, what's your hurry?"
Don't let the door knob catch
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:28pm.
Don't let the door knob catch in the a$$ on the way out.
The liaisons to the west
Submitted by humanzee on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:03pm.
The liaisons to the west coast money are getting very, very, very old.
Hey, when you're staying in a
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:05pm.
Hey, when you're staying in a $10,000 a night suite in Hawaii, and you've raked and raped everybody and everything for all they're worth, and you've saddled the American people with a future of debt, rules, regulations, and misery..........while expanding your own self worth.........and even though you're a delusional and pathalogical liar, you know that you're NOT going to get your dream job back............then maybe you start thinking about 'retiring'............hell, Ms. Botox allready has to pay for her own planefare and all of the other perks that she took for granted when she was Queen of the House.
I will Drive my Truck to DC
Submitted by Airforce_5_O on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:05pm.
Does she need help packing? I will come and pack the whole damn house up myself! I'll let them use my truck if they need it.
ding dong the bitch is dead, the wicked bitch is dead...
Submitted by wizardjr on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:08pm.
with any luck ....
wicked bitch of the West, Pelosi
tornado
house
Some assembly required
On Pelosi's potential retirement
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:12pm.
Ah, to wake up and see this right off. What a refreshing ray of light and breath of fresh air.
May the new year bring us a bit of hope for change that we can believe in.
(;~/ gary
Crony Capitalism
Submitted by djaymick on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:23pm.
Why do you think the donors don't want her to retire? Because their golden goose would be cooked. With Solyndra and LightSquared officials pouring huge money into Pelosi's coffers, they wouldn't be able to get a $100 loan without her. I wonder how much they pay her or her husband to keep her in the game?
Pelosi
Submitted by NVRAT on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:30pm.
Good Bye Darlin. Hope to never see you again, those eyes are really spooky.
for this witch to degrade the
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:32pm.
for this witch to degrade the Tea party and, in the same sentence, give the OWS crowd her blessing while raking in millions on politically legal insider trading is insanity to me. good riddance to bad rubbish i say!!
When? WHEN?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 2:08pm.
I'll help her pack-I'll go to Washington and load up for her!
Barriers to Entry
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 2:33pm.
Of course she wants to leave. Her work is done: she has fought ceaselessly to raise barriers to entry for others so she can continue to live the life of an entrenched aristocrat. SHE can afford to pay for her Socialist policies; the rest of you proletariat cannot. And THAT is indeed the point.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hate to say this...
Submitted by dydx on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 2:53pm.
...but it seems kinda staged.
Nikki Haley and the Commucrats
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 3:32pm.
Gov Nikki Haley is trying to promote the state of SC. She has state employees answer the phone by saying "It is a great day in South Carolina how may I help you." Seems harmless. Along comes 2 Commucrat legislators that don't seem to want to point out any good thing about SC. They will be introducing a bill to forbid state employees to use the greeting because of over 5% unemployment and all state residents don't have health insurance. I don't figure it will go anywhere. This is grandstanding by the Commucrats. The only thing they know to do.
Crazy has no holiday
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 3:48pm.
Ron Paul: Sanctions against Iran are 'acts of war'
Got that right BK! Hay Paul what did iran do in 1979?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 4:05pm.
The Islamic Republic of Iran declared war on the United States and Israel in 1979. They have since taken Americans hostage. They have murdered Americans in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have funded Hezbollah, Hamas, the PLO and other terrorist organizations that have murdered Israelis. They are developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Now, it appears the Iranian government has tried to launch a deadly terrorist operation on American soil — in our nation’s capital. Yet Iran has never paid a real price for any of these acts of war.
They do not simply seek to repudiate or humiliate; they seek to annihilate.
You Didn't Build That.
Paul
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 4:27pm.
If Paul had his way, we wouldn't have embassies or a diplomatic corps, period. So I suspect.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
There would be no troops
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 4:30pm.
There would be no troops outside the US.
Correction
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:27pm.
There would be no troops.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hogwash
Submitted by redmike on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:02pm.
Hogwash
What a detailed rebuttal
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 8:04pm.
Sorry, it is very much true. In his view, if we hermetically seal off the United States in every possible way from the Outside World, virtually all problems will be solved. And in everything he has said, he has shown me that he views this country as the world's biggest problem. Once it withdraws from the world, in Paul's view, world peace will break out everywhere.
Well, except for one thing: in Paul's view, all of the world's problems can be traced to TWO countries: the United States and Israel. \
Whine "hogwash" ALL YOU WANT: what else am I supposed to conclude?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hogwash
Submitted by redmike on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:03pm.
Hogwash
Nice, reasoned rebuttal, redmike.
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:55pm.
.
I wonder sometimes if Paul is gutless or just nuts...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 10:45pm.
Maybe both...who knows. Whatever is at the heart of his craziness, I can't wait until he's finally relegated to the list of "also rans" and we never hear from him again.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Her flying monkeys want her back at her castle.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 4:08pm.
Or more likely, her minions miss her spoiled ways now that she no longer has access to a private government jet anytime she wanted. I wonder if the Air Force referred to her jet as "Termagant One"?
Dunno, Sam
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:42pm.
But I hear that once upon a time, when SecState Hillary was a mere Senator, she was doing a photo-op in Iraq.
And the crew who flew her around in a chopper used the call sign Broomstick-11. True story.
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Here you go, Bella Pelosi.
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 4:20pm.
Dear Congress, and the peons in California,
I quit!!!
Signed,
_________________
Nancy Bella Pelosi
Just fill in the blank, and send it in. See ya, as someone said, don't let the door hit ya on the way out.
ah the democrats are seeing
Submitted by jkwtrading on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:22pm.
ah the democrats are seeing the light..it is time to flee. Sorry Nancy but if and when it all goes down, we will remember you.
You can run, you can hide, but we will find you when the judgement comes. by my calculations judgement begins about November of 2012.
ICE launches hotline for busted immigrants...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:29pm.
Yawn o'bama skips this call
You Didn't Build That.
ucw,
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:34pm.
I posted elsewhere that a lot of the information collected will probably be forwarded to Eric Holder so he can use it to intimidate and harass law enforcement agencies that arrest the illegal invaders.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Not to mention
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 6:48pm.
Get then in touch with "acorn" like outfits, so they can vote with out ID as some dead former voter
More superfantastic foreign policy
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:40pm.
consequences taking place in Egypt.
Maybe this explains the indecision with Syria.
Nah.
Nevermind.
donars don't want her to quit?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 9:10pm.
Are they saying the people who have bought Pelosi's votes are wanting their money's worth ?
Or is Her Majesty playing a game here by manipulating donors who are hoping to change her mind by giving her more money but Pelosi' quits anyway and then converts the campaign donations to personal use.
Besides if Pelosi is in a safe district and no serious challenge is possible then the only reason for large campaign donations is not for campaign needs but simply the buying of influence.
Well said MidAmerica*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 9:14pm.
Totally agree with your assessment. In fact, let me introduce you to Mary Landrieu(D) from La
laughing all the way to the bank
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 9:56pm.
If you give a politician a chunk of money to influence their voting and they spend it for personal use or put it in their personal bank account then the politician is guilty of bribery. But if the donation goes to the campaign account and is unspent when the politician retires then it's perfectly legal to buy their vote.
Pelosi's office denies that she wants to retire...I wonder if...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 10:37pm.
Alexandra is still in the will??? Funny.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Funny. No, wait... sad. Nah, it's funny.
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 1:30am.
An Election Year Dawns Without Keith Olbermann