MSNBC is waiting for Nancy Pelosi to arrive for an announcement about her future plans. Here is a story about it from Tara Palmeri:
So what should we expect regarding a timeline, do you think? What will this mean for the Democrats?
Is there a protocol for what order Speaker and minority leaders are elected? Is one ever tailored to specifically counter the other?
Minority leaders, and majority leader & whip would be voted on by caucus before the first day I believe. Speaker of the House is voted on as the first motion of the Session. Assuming there is a fight for the Speaker position I presume majority leader and whip would be elected after that.
she is staying in congress, not seeking reelection to leadership.
This seems like a wise decision. It is time for a new generation to step up.
Agreed. This feels actually feels a bit overdue.
Current Majority leader Steny Hoyer is also stepping down from leadership.
I’m glad they’re bringing in newer faces. It’s the right time.
Current Majority Whip Jim Clyburn also announced he wouldn’t seek a leadership position. It looks like a complete changing of the guard for Democrats next session.
wowsers. a new day on the d side of the house. the 3 in leadership are all in the same age group, the silent generation. it will be interesting to see if they skip boomers and go straight to gen x or later.
It seems that Hakeem Jeffries — age 52 —is widely expected to become Minority Leader. Katherine Clark (59) and Pete Aguilar (43) are expected to run for the No. 2 and 3 spots.
And McCarthy was sooo looking forward to yanking that gavel out of her hands! I wonder if that factored even a tiny bit into her decision. Mic drop.
Pelosi is the best speaker in my lifetime. Maybe in American history. She will be missed.
he mentioned hitting her with the gavel.
looks like gen x is next up.
Heaven help us all.
-Tamerlane, Gen X
Time to adjust the settings on the right wing hate machine, from misogyny, to racism with a dose of Anti-Islamist fearmongering (yes he’s actually christian, but so was Barack HUSSEIN Obama).
Indeed. It will take them a while to hone the messaging. Although I do predict that, since Pelosi is remaining in office, they will now accuse her of being “the power behind the throne”. As long as she is around, she will remain in their eyes an all powerful evil incarnate boogie-woman lightning rod punching bag.
I never understood why some people had such a hate thing going on for Pelosi. I mean, most of the recent wave of negative campaign ads from Republicans tried to tie candidates to Pelosi, and to a lesser extent, Biden. She appears to be more feared than the President, a top-billed villain, and it has been that way for a while. What is is about Ms Pelosi that so terrifies the right? I see the same irrationality for AOC. Was there something there, was it sexism, or was it just PDS (Pelosi Derangement Syndrome)?
TFG’s behavior and purposely agitating people somewhat justifies negative opinions about him, especially in these parts. What did Pelosi do to deserve the hate and fear, besides be born with XX chromosomes?
That is exactly the problem - she’s a powerful woman. This scares the hell out of some people.
Here’s a very thorough story about her today.
I didn’t know anything about her background, but she has the credentials.
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She has spent her congressional career representing San Francisco, fueling caricatures of her as a wild-eyed, bomb-throwing lefty extremist. But she is a political creature not of San Francisco so much as of Baltimore, where she was raised in a local Democratic dynasty. Her father, “Big Tommy” D’Alesandro, went from Maryland’s House of Delegates to five terms in Congress to three as mayor of Baltimore. She and her brothers learned to count votes and knock on doors practically from birth. Constituent service was a quasi-religion, and starting at age 13, the D’Alesandro children spent several hours a week fielding constituent requests and helping maintain a “favor file” on everyone they assisted. “We dealt with human nature in the raw,” Ms. Pelosi’s brother Thomas D’Alesandro III (who also served as Baltimore’s mayor) once told me.The transactional, pragmatic politics of her youth have served Ms. Pelosi well as leader. When it comes time to whip votes or cut a deal, she has her own version of a favor file to consult: She knows precisely what the members need — not to be confused with what they want — and how much they can reasonably risk to take one for the team.
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