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![]() It is.
Let's all welcome our new speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi. |
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LOL....YAHOOO!!!!!!!!! |
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how is speaker decided anyway?
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln |
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there is a vote amongst democrats to decide speaker. in this case since she is the current minority leader she'll probably have no trouble at all getting the necessary support. it's probably a foregone conclusion. if there was some controversy surrounding her or discension in the ranks there could be serious challenges, but that doesn't seem to be the case |
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![]() There's an outside chance that Repent knocks her off,and then somebody else will get it.
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![]() what a night!
i suppose you can only skate by for so many years by making people scared that if you let gays marry, then people will marry their dogs -- that if we don't bomb every country we don't like, that they will bomb us -- and that abortion is the plague of this society. people woke up and realized that other things matter, like wages and getting by day to day, and being uncorrupt. hm. what. a. freaking. night. couldn't have enjoyed it any more! |
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![]() Regardless of the national races, here's what heartened me most:
South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research. Since the religious fundamentalists in this nation seem to be losing their touch at the ballot box maybe we can actually start focusing on, oh, Iraq, the economy, our energy policy, health care... stuff like that... Good on ya, SD, AZ and MO! (Okay, Arizona is still pending, but I'm hopeful. And poop on WI, for approving it!) And a special shout out to Texas Congressional District number 22, for putting a Democrat in the seat formerly held be Tom DeLay, that bastion of Congressional ethics. Sorry about Kinky. Though I'm pretty okay with the elephants hanging onto the New York State legislature. As I've said, I am a fan of divided government. Pelosi annoys me, too. I think she's a wimp. But I'll take her over Hastert! ![]() |
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i was telling a friend earlier today, that i cannot speak for the western portion of middle america -- the dakotas, iowa, colorado, kansas etc -- but i've lived on both coasts and in the midwest. in those places, by and large, we just want you to keep your nose out of our business. i have no problem with people who are disgusted by abortion and who are anti-abortion, but i DO have a problem when they tell other people how they have to approach the biggest decision of their life. but the religious right is clinging to what they have in SD -- on another message board I was informed that they approved a marriage ban, they increased cigarette taxes and voted to outlaw marijauna (which if i am not mistaken is not "news" at all!). i guess the religious right now is learning what "little victories" mean ![]() i'm religious, but i'm not conservative. i consider myself a very serious Christian, but not a fearmongerer -- and i fancy myself very in touch with reality. arizona is huge news. one state gets the ball rolling. essentially, this was the iraq/mind your own business election. ****ing great. |
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As I watch my stocks fall. Yep what a night!
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"I don't feel like that I am any better than anybody else" - Paul Newman |
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![]() http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/21/mark...ion_demsvreps/ |
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