Democrats overwhelmingly nominate Pelosi as Speaker amid rebellion

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

House Democrats voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to nominate Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to the Speakership amid an entrenched rebellion from insurgent lawmakers who pose the starkest threat to her long reign atop the party.

The outcome was no surprise. Pelosi was running uncontested and enjoys widespread support within the liberal-heavy caucus she’s led since 2003.

The much higher bar will come in the first week of January, when the full House meets to choose the Speaker in a public vote requiring a majority of the entire voting chamber. It’s there that the insurgents feel they can block Pelosi’s ascension, even as Pelosi and her allies have projected nothing but confidence that she’ll retake the gavel she lost following the red wave elections of 2010.

Wednesday’s Speaker vote was conducted by private ballot in the Visitors Center of the Capitol. It was reflective of the unusual nature of this year’s leadership elections that there were written ballots at all.

Read more: https://itk.thehill.com/homenews/house/418653-democrats-overwhelmingly-nominate-pelosi-as-speaker

[vlyons]

1. Were the vote tallies reported?

nt

[Hortensis]

22. They were destroyed in the rebellion, but Pelosi's gang

seized and held the podium against several waves of attack.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Thank goodness!

[George II]

3. Congratulations to her!! I thought all party votes were on written ballots....

...In CT, all town committees have to conduct paper ballot votes and members have to sign their votes, unless the vote is unanimous. They're a matter of public record.

[Wintryjade]

4. Of course it was no surprise. As so many pretended it was a story until they tell us,

No surprise. We see you. We get it. It is tired and old. No, no surprise, at all.

[cstanleytech]

6. Oh, there was a surprise and it was that some members of our party were

willing to let the Repugnants hamstring us by proposing a rule that bills would need a larger majority to pass the House which the Repugnants have loved to use against us.
After all look at how they hamstrung Obama in his nominating people to the courts with the rule in the Senate but once they had the majority in the Senate and had one of their own in the Whitehouse they threw that rule out and are now packing the courts mostly with extremists.

[Wintryjade]

7. Rich white conservative men screwing the people. Ya, that really isn't a surprise, either.

[The Liberal Lion]

5. I look forward to Madame Speaker whipping this caucas into shape.

[Stuart G]

8. k and r nt.

[pecosbob]

9. Okay...time for The Hill to move on to a new Republican talking point...

[lagomorph777]

19. Yeah, "liberal-heavy caucus" - that's so cute.

I wish!

[riversedge]

10. Congratulations

[watoos]

11. Come January this will also be a non story, rebellion my ass, get in line.

[Maven]

12. "an entrenched rebellion..." LOLOLOL

The Hill is such a piece of shit right-wing rag. We should start treating it as such.

[beachbum bob]

13. the rebels will most likely pay a price with committee assignments

thats the risk you take

[brush]

18. Yep, if you come for the queen you better take her out or you ass is grass.

[lagomorph777]

20. Well-earned obscurity.

fuck 'em.

[Doitnow]

14. Not surprised at all. From the beginning the media was all about ginning up a "big contest"

Pelosi was going to have against her--probably for a story for ratings. When a few "rebels" saw that, they made a jump on it thinking to make a case. This country is so ready for things to get done for ordinary person and there is no one who can beat Nancy for her skill and experience. Let these newcomers see her in action and learn from her. From the outside, the job may look easy. It's not--- and they will be surprised at how well she performs. Enthusiasm is great, promises are only words, but a RECORD is what really counts.

Go Nancy.

[beachbum bob]

21. all about veiwership and why I don't watch any more

[DrToast]

15. Call their bluff

They have no leverage. They'll have a choice between Pelosi and McCarthy.

[iamthebandfanman]

16. 'rebellion'???

what a word to chose to use...
i guess 'opposition' wasnt a loaded enough word.

[Polybius]

17. Who are the 32 Democrats that did not vote for her?

I’d like to know.