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If you missed C-SPAN the past half hour, you missed some high drama and comedy.
As expected, of course, GOP House Leader John Boehner is now Speaker Boehner with 241 votes.
Outgoing Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now Weaker Pelosi, with 173 votes in her favor and 19 notable protest votes against her by fellow Democrats.
There were so many different alternatives, the race started looking like an Alaska Senate primary.
Democrat Heath Shuler took 11 votes.
Democrat John Lewis scored 2.
Most creative smack in Pelosi"s face: Dem. Jim Costa of CA voted for Dem. Dennis Cardoza of CA and vice versa.
Most devastating: Dem. Rep. Kurt Schrader voted for Steny Hoyer, who was seated next to a stunned Pelosi as the vote was announced.
Democrat Jim Cooper earned 1 vote.
Democrat Marcy Kaptur earned 1 vote.
And one Democrat voted present.
Pelosi did her best to keep her mask from slipping, but the public rebuke from Democrat who ranged from far Left to centrist no doubt stings.
Pelosi to-do list today: Bounce the grandkids on the lap for the cameras.
Tomorrow: Retribution.
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Update 1:50pm Eastern. Boehner takes the podium to speak after shaking hands and.sighshedding some tears. Weaker Pelosi welcomes the crowd, families, new members first. She"s not crying.
Boehner cries, Pelosi lies: Singing praises of the Constitution and paying lip service to American exceptionalism.
Emetics of the day.
Pelosi won"t shut up: She"s breaking her arm patting herself on the back as 1st woman speaker, 1st Italian American speaker. Waves around kiddie human shields and cites litany of Nanny State Sachievements to spite GOP. Blathers about Sfair prosperity.
Update 2:00pm Eastern. She"s still going. Bitter clinger, clinging bitterly.
This is why we need someone with steel spine and no mercy.
NO MORE TEARS.
I am not kidding: As she handed it over, Weaker Pelosi just snarked about the size of Speaker Boehner"s gavel.
Meow.
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Boehner responds to Pelosi"s self-aggrandizing snark by reminding audience that Swe are dust and to dust we shall return.
Speech excerpts:
SWe gather here today at a time of great challenges. Nearly one in ten of our neighbors are looking for work. Health care costs are still rising for families and small businesses. Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt will soon eclipse the size of our entire economy. Hard work and tough decisions will be required of the 112th Congress. No longer can we fall short. No longer can we kick the can down the road. The people voted to end business as usual, and today we begin carrying out their instructions.
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SThe American people have humbled us. They have refreshed our memories as to just how temporary the privilege to serve is. They have reminded us that everything here is on loan from them. That includes this gavel, which I accept cheerfully and gratefully, knowing I am but its caretaker. After all, this is the people"s House. This is their Congress. It"s about them, not us. What they want is a government that is honest, accountable and responsive to their needs. A government that respects individual liberty, honors our heritage, and bows before the public it serves.
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SOur aim will be to give government back to the people. In seeking this goal, we will part with some of the rituals that have come to characterize this institution under majorities Republican and Democratic alike. We will dispense with the conventional wisdom that bigger bills are always better; that fast legislating is good legislating; that allowing additional amendments and open debate makes the legislative process less efficient" than our forefathers intended. These misconceptions have been the basis for the rituals of modern Washington. The American people have not been well served by them.
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SWe will not always get it right. We will not always agree on what is right. A great deal of scar tissue has built up on both sides of the aisle. We cannot ignore that, nor should we. My belief has always been, we can disagree without being disagreeable to each other. That"s why it is critical this institution operate in a manner that permits a free exchange of ideas, and resolves our honest differences through a fair debate and a fair vote. We may have different sometimes, very different ideas for how to go about achieving the common good, but it is our shared goal. It is why we serve.
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GREAT news this old bat is no longer SOTH! I didn"t see this, did she smile and eyes going a million miles per hour when Boehner got the gavel?
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Stings? I doubt the Botox Queen has any sensation of feeling.and as minority leader, she"ll still be one of the Sgo to persons for the LSM and the Sunday shows, continually harping on all the Sevil being perpatrated by the GOP majority.
Is there a photo of this look", or could we peons tell the difference?
lol letget; but she"d make a good candidate for a SITH!
How can her face sting when it is synthetic skin streatched over a metallic skull?
Well, sorry that one didn"t work out for ya Nancy, ole girl. Sounds like maybe GOD is talking to you. Are you listening??
Let the games begin.
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Warm up SanFranNan"s broom for her new mode of transportation to / from her beloved City by the Bay.
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Fly the friendly skies, Nan. Watch out for falling Blackbird flocks. Or fly commercial and enjoy the TSA gropings.
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John Bibb
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No question in my former military mind. She wants political blood. And she doesn"t care whose party bleeds the most. As long as others bleed, she"ll be happy-er.
Sure.
Queen Of Black Hearts: SOff with their heads!
I am watching this and from me to the Pelosi STFU, sit down and fade away.
I thought he was POTUS? Or maybe the SPresent is prepping for a Dem run for Potus sometime in the future. What kind of Speoples representative not take a stand? Do his constituents really want their rep to vote Snot willing to make a decision?
How about future votes? will he/she vote Spresent to repealing obamacare? or eliminating the EPA?
Wouldn"t that be Pelosi herself?
Ripley: They grab the colonists, they move them over there and they immobilize them to be hosts for more of these. Which would mean that there would have to be a lot of these parasites, right? One for each colonist. That"s over a hundred at least.
Bishop: Yes, that follows.
Ripley: But each one of these things comes from an egg, right? So who"s laying these eggs?
Bishop: I"m not sure. It must be something we haven"t seen yet.
(cue Pelosi)
Rogue Cheddar said:
More like a Borg Queen Meduse/Hydra mutation. She just cannot shut up and preen one last time.
She is, quite simply, delusional
This.speech.should be required watching, with full debunking in a split screen, for every CA voter that continues to send this pathetic, power monging hag, to DC
First mafia princess speaker. First anti-american speaker. First wicked witch of the East speaker. First Marxist speaker. At least she is no longer 2 heart beats from the Presidency. It will take a decade or two to remove the stink from the chamber.
The Borg Queen: Small words from a small being, trying to attack what it doesn"t understand.
Borg Queen: I am the beginning. The end. The one who is many. I am the Borg.
Borg Queen: You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being. Finding your weakness is only a matter of time.
Borg Queen: Human! We used to be exactly like them. Flawed. Weak. Organic. But we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection. Your goal should be the same as ours.
Lieutenant Commander Data: Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind.
Did Pelosi vomit green pea soup and spin her head around? Levitate off the podium?
As happy a moment as this is for us, don"t forget this woman is the epitome of evil and still has power. The MSM won"t hesitate to give her the space she wants, and with their collaboration they will do their best to destroy conservatives in the next election. Am I cynical? SYou betchum Red Ryder. I am a proud California Conservative and have seen this evil woman in her climb. We can"t overlook her.
After all of thatHappy New Year to you all. God Bless Our Troop and NEVER FORGET..
Demon: That"s much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.
Hey lady!* (..*..)
Don"t forget we still have Gollum over in the Senate! SWe musts have the precious! We musts, we musts, we musts!
I"m finally,once again, a little proud of my country for the 66th year.
This one"s just asking for a Mae West quote, but I"m too much of a lady to go there.
God Bless ya, and stay away from the Death Panels.
mytake#26,
Same age as you are and I also hope the new dc bunch makes me proud of our Republic getting it back to our Founders intent.
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There is no wrath like a witch scorned. A Pelosi voodoo doll would be a hot seller.
And Boehner"s next words were Sgt at Arms, arrest Rep Pelosi. Yeah, jus" dreamin.
+1
Why do I have this urge to sing Ding Dong The Witch is Dead?
perfect response: even a 747 looks small when landing in the Grand Canyon.
Then I am sure he will be totally against the so called Sdeem and pass tactic that the Dems tried to pull last year.
Oh wait
I"m not!
SIf you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don"t you? Just put your lips together and blow.
Mae West
SI"ve no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who"d do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
Mae West
RogueI thought the zipper" quote was Joan Crawford?
Oh wellit"s still awesome.
Marlowe: Well, I can"t tell till I"ve seen you over a distance of ground. You"ve got a touch of class, but I don"t know how, how far you can go.
Vivian: A lot depends on who"s in the saddle.
I can understand if people cry from being overjoyed that Nancy Pelosi is gone and I can understand that members of AFSCME would cry out of hurt over Nancy"s demise, but what the heck is John Boehner crying about? Crying is over the loss of a loved one or over learning that a loved one has a terminal disease. But John Boehner cries over some routine Washington D.C. business. Maybe he cries over his salary increase, maybe he cries about his new clout and fame. That is just plain stupid. Newt didn"t go bawling like a baby over every political slight.
Chap, please.
I"m sure you are well aware that the Sdeem and pass procedure had been in place for years exclusively for budgetary matters. The Dem(ons) last year tried to use the tactic to get around having a vote on Health Care Reform legislation. There"s a huge difference.
Thank the Lord Piglousi is out! Now it will take a good many sessions of Congress to undo her damage to the Constitution and our wounded country.
Rogue, the whistle quote was from Casa Blanca. Both Bogie and Lauren Bacall said it.
Sorry, not Casablanca.
To Have and Have Not.
I"ll take cries over lies any day.
Commenting on Fox News, Brit Hume said that he"d never seen an outgoing speaker yack as long as Pelosi.
And what in the hell fair prosperity?
I don"t have much faith in Boehner. He lacks communication skills to effectively tweak media reporting. Too often he leaves out damaging Democrat actions while being interviewed about SRepublican neglect of the poor, women and childrenS. Deer in headlights. Promoting people like Michele Bachmann as the Speaker"s speaker could easily embarrass the opposition and liberal journalists with her intelligent and fiery talking points. She could bring a lot of dialogue to the network gossip and news shows.
Apparently 19 House seats on the Democrat side are up for Republican grab in 2012?
On January 5th, 2011 at 3:27 pm, spaceycakes said:
RogueI thought the zipper" quote was Joan Crawford?
Oh wellit"s still awesome.
Dexter, I knew the whistle quote was To Have and Have Not", but I didn"t want to question Rogue twice in a rowso, I settled for another great quote from Key Largo".
That is not true at all. It has been used a ton of times for all sorts of things.
And in any case, the complaining coming from the commenters here during the health care debate was not that this was an inappropriate use of a valid power, it was that the tactic itself was unconstitutional. I don"t think that changes depending on the type of bill, does it?
Does it only get used on bills that are overwhelminingly opposed by Americans?
Johnny: Say kid, what do they call you?
Lil: Impressive.
I"m sorry but I am sick and tired of politicians of any stripe talking about how they Sserve. $3,000 suits and $10,000 a night hotel rooms, European junkets and gold plated health and retirement packages not to mention the sweetheart jobs with lobbyists afterwards. Government employment over the past 50 years has been a cash bonanza for all of them, a headlong rush to the hog trough. Talk to me of all the dead soldiers, marines and airmen, then we can talk about service.
I got both quotes from a Mae West site, so if it"s on the interwebs it"s got to be true, or not. Mae West precedes Bogie and Baby, so I wouldn"t be surprised if a line was used again.
At least we have one seemingly sane person in the line of succession to the President now.
RE: Deem and Pass
Original bill Presented by a Democrat who explicitly condemned its use for anything other than BUDGETARY adjustments. The same Democrat was asked by Clinton to use this method (illegally) to pass the prior Health Care Takeover, but said Democrat REFUSED. Unfortunately I can"t remember the Democrat"s name and must get back to work.
She never said Sthe Borg. It was always just Borg. SI am Borg. Much creepier. Too bad for Pelosi that she does not look like the alien leader on V. She might have gotten more votes. Me likey.
Must go take a cold shower now.
I liked Marina better on Firefly. Still hot either way.
Anyone else notice Boehner tapping his fingers whilst EX-Speaker was speaking?
Thought bubble S.
Put your imagination to work!
Interesting that you knew the woman yet spelled her name phonetically. I suspect you think of her often. Does Gromit know about this?
Coincidentally, I have law school friend who hung out with Summer Glau/River Tam (and Mena Suvari) just last night.
Rev. Sharpton says it"s when everyone"s house has the same stuff in it (whether they worked for it or not)
I don"t mind Boehner"s tears as this day means a lot to us all. Now, if he chokes up on a regular basis when dealing with rogue Dems, that is another ball game. This is an important day in restoring the USA.
I am surprised Boehner did not have to pry the gavel out of her claws.
Pelosi had better be lobbying for the FDA not to make Botox illegal in this country. Her forehead may collapse into Shar-Pei folds that require a headband if she cannot get her monthly jabs. Botox toxicity may explain the hummingbird blinky Morse Code of hers as well.
Uhhhthat ship has sailed.
Is it true that Boehner announced this afternoon that the new ladies" loo being built just off the floor of the House will be designated as The Pelosi Room?
I"ll take someone who shows emotion anyday over a socialist(s) who don"t care for their country and want to share the wealth. You"re welcome.
She reminds me of a little kid that goes to another kid"s birthday party and just can"t stand the fact it"s not their party. She"s going to cause chaos and mayhem until someone tells her to shut-up and sit-down.
PRAISE GOD!!!
What a difference a day makes
Visit http://speaker.gov/
You"ll be glad you did.
A very wise and very successful man taught me this:
I will no longer feel nervous if Obama and Biden decide to fly on the same plane. There is now a new person third in line for the Presidency!!
Yeah I screwed up Morena"s name which I shouldn"t have seeing how I have the complete Firefly series on DVD and the Serenity movie. And yes I do think of her often, please don"t tell Gromit, he"ll just get mad and hide the Wensleydale on me.
My earlier comment incorrectly attributed information regarding Reconciliation to Deem and Pass. (thanks to ITookTheRedPill who mentions this in the other topic: Harry Reid ).
Deem And Pass is a violation of the principles this country was founded on. More on the level of SWe can"t get enough votes from the representatives of the people, so we will just pretend we did and make it law.
That is spitting on the constitution and in the face of every law abiding citizen.
Thanks for the hat tip, JamieD!
No idea. He seems to cry at the thought of his earlier tough days, or his accomplishing something. But I wish he would stop for heaven"s sake. Gonna start calling him Weeper of the House Boehner. Way too self indulgent IMHO. Buck up man and kick some dem azz.
A Stolen MN election (Franken),
A change to MA law for purely partisan purposes (Kirk),
Several notorious bribes (Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, etc.),
A betrayal of pro-life voters by Sblue dog Demonrats (Bart Stupak, etc.),
Egregious misuse of the Sreconciliation process(*).
That"s all it took to pass Obamcare.
And that is why Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House,
and why Reid will no longer be Senate Majority leader in 2 years,
and why Obama and Biden will be replaced in 2 years.
(*) Sen. Byrd Single-Handedly Stopped Clinton From Using Reconciliation to pass Hillarycare, but Byrd was too senile to do so to stop Obamacare.