Republicans Jubilant Over Pelosi Decision

[Purveyor]

House Republicans expressed jubilation on Friday over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) decision to stay in Congress and seek the job of minority leader.

GOP figures, who had spent the better part of the 2010 campaign looking to tie Democratic incumbents to the Speaker, welcomed Pelosi's announcement this afternoon that she would run for Democratic leader rather than resign her position and possibly resign from Congress.

"The Democrats' gift to Speaker Boehner: Pelosi as Minority Leader," said Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a deputy whip, on Twitter. "I endorse Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader."

Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.), a member of the GOP leadership who's heading the party's transition to the majority, said he thought the focus on Pelosi would overshadow an emerging race between Reps. Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Michele Bachmann (Minn.) for the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference.

"I'm intrigued by that, I think that will now eclipse the story you'd been focusing on, between Jeb and Michele, in terms of political intrigue in Washington," he said on MSNBC, hearing the breaking news live on-air. He said he was a bit "surprised" by Pelosi's decision.

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[KingFlorez]

1. She'll be a real contrast to the drunk crier

When Nancy was Speaker, she never showed up drunk for a debate and didn't go around crying.

[Fire1]

11. You mean the grim weeper! LOL!!! n/t

[SunsetDreams]

13. Duzy!

:rofl:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Or the Orange Saab?

[ProSense]

2. The article qualifies as

GOP psyops

[thunder rising]

3. Again the Dems let the Reps get out and frame the story. Where is Nancy asking "Where are the jobs"

[ProSense]

4. What?

So you're giving this round of messaging on jobs to the Republicans based on their claimed joy that Pelosi wants to keep the Speaker's job?

[thunder rising]

6. "Pelosi wants to keep the Speaker's job?" Did you want to rephrase that?

[ProSense]

7. Yes, the minority leader's job.

Same point.

[thunder rising]

8. No, that Pelosi (and the rest) is not out there giving them as much shit as they give us.

[ProSense]

10. Pelosi is Speaker until January. n/t

[crazylikafox]

5. And they'd be jubilant if she quit.

Same thing. They'd fundraise on her either way.

Go Nancy!

[ellie]

9. Spin, spin, spin you assholes

I hope that she gives the repukes permanent heartburn.

[Phx_Dem]

12. Good. Then we're all happy for a change.

Do those morons really think we'll get nervous about having Pelosi in a leadership position because they're "jubliant" about it. Pelosi was the best speaker we've had in decades . . . maybe ever. Fuck them.

[Writer]

14. Take this nonsense and put it out of your minds. n/t

[bemildred]

15. Right, they love it.

:rofl:

[Little Star]

17. Well, they can just join me because I'm jubilant about Pelosi's

decision myself!

[babylonsister]

18. I call bullshit. She'd be in their face every single day, reminding

everyone every single day how successful she was as Speaker, while boner withers (no puns no puns no puns!) on the vine. Comparisons will be made, and they won't be pretty.

[Imajika]

19. Well, at minimum, it saves them money...

They just spent 2 years and gobs of money tying Democrats to Nancy Pelosi. They won't have to change targets now.

Republicans think the majority of the country is center right and don't like a liberal from the San Francisco area, so they will just keeping pounding the same theme uninterrupted.