Pelosi's staying

[Brittain33]

Lief, you're right, but I don't think people are going to see eye-to-eye on this issue at this moment in time.

[Brittain33]

I'll ask the same question I alluded to on the other thread... now Obama isn't responsible for the Dems losing the House? If it's Pelosi's fault, does that mean he's a lock for 2012? Do you think the 2012 election will be a referendum on Nancy Pelosi?

What people are missing is that:
1. Congressional approval ratings are in the toilet for both parties: worse for Republicans than Dems, although they may perk up with the wins this week. People in Congress who get the attention of the public are unpopular, full stop. If they aren't unpopular, it's because they aren't known.
2. Nancy Pelosi is very good at her job, which is corraling votes among the Democrats. That is doubly crucial as Minority Leader because she won't share the job with Hoyer. Gingrich was not as good at this as she was.
3. Republicans tried to run anti-Pelosi campaigns in 2008 and in PA-12 in 2010. It failed.  

If you're a Republican and you don't like Nancy Pelosi, think twice about projecting your own views onto that of the country as a whole, consider whether you are believing your own propaganda, and most of all, don't confuse causation with correlation.

[Brittain33]

LOL!  yeah, it takes a certain kind of person to deny the obvious when "enemy" tanks are rolling through the streets

Said the guy who thought Chris Coons' call for more voter turnout on Election Day meant that his internals had C O'D closing to within five points...

[Brittain33]

Does your bitterness always manifest itself in misquoting others?

What am I bitter about? I was bitter after Scott Brown won. I was bitter when people I respected couldn't see my argument about Charles Djou, which I've been a little petty about since the election. But that's it.

Your predictions can be judged on their own merits, whether with a "may" or without.

[Brittain33]

What was the approval rating for Congressional Republicans among Independents?

[Brittain33]

I don't know about that. I remember plenty of ads attacking him for being a "Vermont liberal" before the scream happened.

No there weren't.  Nobody outside of VT heard of him, and he wasn't chairman until later.

Yes, there was. Famously, there was an ad running in Iowa where some old couple said they wanted Howard Dean to keep his liberal loving, "latte drinking", [insert five stereotypes here] leftist agenda out of Iowa.

[Brittain33]

Who is moving the goalposts?  Dean ran for President first.

The ads ran before the scream. That was the original challenge. No, they didn't run ads against him as chairman, but there was plenty of guffawing about his appointment.

Nothing is exactly the same as something else, but that's not the point.