Pelosi Defeated

Will you look at this. How foolish. 'Let the healing begin" said Pelosi! For Christ's sake 8 days since the election and they can't get along and need healing? Oh this is choice. Is this the leadership the voters expected? Probably not, but we are going to get what we deserve. Healing...sad sad sad...shame shame shame...

Pelosi handed first defeat as Dems pick Hoyer:

"First, House Democrats unanimously picked San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi to be speaker in the next Congress. But then just moments later they handed her an embarrassing defeat by voting against her choice for majority leader, her top deputy.

The victory by Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland over Pelosi's old friend and fellow Iraq war foe Rep. Jon Murtha of Pennsylvania wasn't even close, despite the speaker-to-be's strenuous efforts for her candidate over the past five days.

The Democratic caucus voted 149-86 for Hoyer.

'Let the healing begin,'' Pelosi told reporters after she and the House Democrats new leadership lineup emerged from a 2 1/2 hour closed-door caucus meeting. "