Comments on: Pelosi’s Last Term as Speaker

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:09:22 +0000

A Republican victory won't be worth having, if the Republicans don't stand on sound principles. Like they did in 1994. Schiff for Senate. I don’t agree with him on everything, but he is the only guy in the political arena today who seriously tries to tell people the inconvenient truth about the American economy and educate people in fundamental, common-sense principles of economics that have been forgotten.

By: kb

kb — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:18:52 +0000

Have you noticed how politics can be just like any sport you follow!
Teams, rivalry, banter, bitterness, slogans etc etc. It just makes me chuckle when you look at the fragility of human life and what is important to one individual may not be as important to another.
Good article though, thanks for sharing and cheering me up!

By: Mitchell Blatt

Mitchell Blatt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:37:07 +0000

I would question the “and beyond” part of the quote.

Rove’s permanent majority only lasted about 8 years, and Obama’s permanent majority is about to end in 010.

To start with complacency before we even establish are next permanent majority is not a good sign for the long-term stabability of our permanent majority.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:24:51 +0000

I agree with Gene in Penn. Here in House district AL-5, there’s been a democrat in for the past 17 years. This coming election, I’d be willing to bet a republican will take the district handily. If I remember the HSV Times correctly, it went for McCain 65%.

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:06:58 +0000

I think the Democrats have 40 or 50 House seats in districts won by the old man McCain in 2008 right? So right off the bat they are going to have trouble holding those even if the House ran smooth as glass instead of like a High School faux govenment. #1 issue for 2010 and 2012 will be the economy and spending. And the Barack gang can’t lie shoot straight on those. The numbers will be black and white. Now if there is some national security disaster or challenge for these passifist Democrats, it could become a rout in the House and Senate.

By: GayExPatNorth(Toronto)

GayExPatNorth(Toronto) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:51:35 +0000

Andrew Gelman (excellent Statistican from Columbia) just posted this today

“It’s still early–and there’s a lot of scatter in those scatterplots–but if the generic polls remain this close, the Republican Party looks to be in good shape in the 2010.”

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/09/generic_house_p.html

By: Bessie

Bessie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:46:28 +0000

First have voted Democrat for 65 YRS.
The only way a Democrat would get my vote in next election is if Sen Diane Feinstein were on the ballot

I would even go so far as to say I would vote for Ralph Nader (and this is bad bad bad ) before I would vote for a Democrat

Rep Pelosi had such a wonderful chance being the first woman to be Speaker of the House and the fact that the Democrats were back in the lead, but no she had to swing so far to the left she ruined all chances of making a mark on this counrtry.
If possible she should be recalled , but she was elected to her seat by people of S.F. and they like her , but can they recall her spot as Speaker.
Our country is going to hell in a hand basket

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:27:12 +0000

I’m not completely convinced she even survives as Speaker until the next election. If these numbers hold and even get worse for Dems, I have to wonder whether part of the game plan to get independents back would be to jettison San Fran Nan as early as next spring.