You would think that after last Tuesday's Democrat House election debacle that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA8) would take a back seat as her party tries to figure out how to regroup (I know what they need to do, but that's a different discussion for another day).
Instead, Nancy has decided that she wants to stay on as the leader of the House Democrats, leading to infighting amongst her fellow Democrats whose plan for if and when they became the minority party now has a major monkey wrench thrown in.
While everyone knows I'm no fan of these left-wing loons in DC, you kinda have feel sorry for this three-ring circus gone wild within the Democratic caucus. The most prominent of all the challenges within the House Democrat leadership is who will be the minority whip (assistant minority leader to Pelosi). The current minority whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC6) is in a heated battle with current majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD5) to keep his position.
In any case, regardless of who gets the number 2 spot, it leaves other "rising stars" in the Democratic caucus, such as Chris Van Hollen (D-8) and Joseph Crowley (D-NY7), seem more like falling stars shot down by the same, dried-out leadership of the party of "hope and change".
(Come to think of it, it's not really that sad)
The point is, Nancy still doesn't get that the message (as other Democrats likewise don't get) that it was her policies as a firm stalwart of liberal-socialist causes that cost her party's majority in the House and turned the Senate into a near-disaster, though the Democrats still hold a weakened majority. While she states that she has no regrets, needless to say there are more than 60 people going home in January that certainly feel a degree of remorse for supporting the ObaPelReid agenda that leaves the Nation in worse shape than it was two years ago.
And now that the damage has been done to the House Democrats, and the cracks and dents have turned into a full collapse, Nancy doesn't seem to be satisfied with the damage she has done to her party. She is either clueless or in denial over the fact that she has failed as a leader in her party and now must go back to simply representing the people of California's eighth congressional district who are radical enough to keep her in Washington.
The reality is that the longer Nancy Pelosi remains in power, Democrats will not be able to get rid of the scar left by the Speaker's radical, yet ineffective, tenure, culminating to the point where desperate Democrats fighting for their political lives stopped campaigning against their Republican opponents and began campaigning against her, many of them losing their seats thanks to the impression left upon them by their leaders, whether they agreed with them or not. A few members understand this point, which is why accoring to Politico Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH9) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR4) have asked for a delay on the vote on Pelosi, opening the gates for other challengers to throw their hats into the ring.
While she may remain the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, if they ever plan on regaining the House, Nancy has to step back and humble herself. Fortunately for Republicans, it doesn't seem that that would be an option.
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