>>>The work week is winding down, time for a Friday afternoon rhubarb ;-)
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>>>Waiting for the network guy to fix something for me, I just took a look at today's news and came across this ---
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>>>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/05/boren-the-latest-dem-to-urge-pelosi-to-step-down/?hpt=T2
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>>>Here is one reader comment at the bottom that I liked.
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>>>The sheer, unvarnished gall of that woman! She drove her party off a cliff, and now she's clawing her way through the corpses. She should resign, not just from her leadership post, but from the House of Representatives.
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>>>I forget who wrote it but there was something from very early in the Obama administration that hit the nail on the head IMO. "When President Obama is sitting around a table with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi," the columnist wrote, "he needs to realize he's not among friends."
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>>>If somehow she does wind up leaving the House completely, the floor is now open to suggestions for her post-political career (evil smile).
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>>You may remember my prediction after the election that President Obama had more to fear from Pelosi and Reid than McConnell and Boehner.
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>why the big thing about Pelosi.I often see her referred to in less than glowing terms.

She was extremely polarizing. IMO she has an old style liberal vision of big government which has fallen out of fashion and is especially out of fashion in these economic times. There was also a lot of talk about her high handedness and freezing out the opposing party. That's just not smart. I guess she felt she had a large enough majority to get away with it. As we saw on Tuesday, large majorities are not guaranteed to last. In fact they generally do not.

Exit polls on Tuesday showed voters nearly as upset with the Republican Party as they are with the Democrats. It's also true that they hold only a slim margin in the House and still operate alongside a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Democratic President. If they are wise they will let the giddiness over the election results go and not take it as a mandate.

Just as an average citizen (part of "the American people" politicians like to speak for and explain to us) my biggest fear is both parties will continue focusing on each other rather than the serious problems we face. There are things that need to be addressed and it is possible to compromise without selling your soul. It doesn't have to be a jihad. It's certainly not getting us anywhere.