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stanley mug losi will face her first test in her bid to become House Speaker once again when Democrats hold an internal vote to pick their candidate for the job this week.The Democratic leader came out of the Thanksgiving holiday with the wind at her back: In a matter of days, she was able to secure the support of two vocal detractors: Reps. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, the only Democrat who had publicly considered a challenge to Pelosi
stanley website , and Rep. Brian Higgins, D-New York, who was among the 16 Democrats whoreleased a letterlast week vowing not to support Pelosi for speaker during the vote of the full House on January 3.And on Monday, another member who had signed the letter, Massachusetts Rep. Stephen Lynch, told a local TV station that he would vote for Pelosi on the House floor if the only other option was a Republican. But he also warned that Dem
stanley thermos mug ocrats would risk losing their majority, and possibly be responsible for helping President Trump get re-elected, if they did not pick new leadership. At the same time, however, another newly-elected member added his name to the anti-Pelosi letter. Newly-elected Californian Gil Cisneros credited Pelosi with some of the Democratic Party s greatest accomplishments and called her a fearless advocate in a statement Monday, but said he would not vote for her for speaker. The people of the 39th District made it clear, however, that they want to see real change in Washington, and I intend to follow through on Iamn Rep. Bachmann Refuses To Fill Out 2010 Census
IRAQ UPDATE....Non-insane conservative James Joyner has read
stanley botella the White House s latest assessment of the war in Iraq and is distinctly unimpressed:So, essentially, despite [Al-Qaida in Iraq] comprising something like five percent of the insurgency, we have diverted most of our resources to combating it. And we re failing. Not only is AQI stronger but, as another report being released today suggests, al Qaeda in general is
stanley water bottle enjoying a resurgence.Meanwhile, the [Iraqi Security Forces] continues to be an undependable, lackluster fighting force four years into the game. That, despite their training having been headed up by the counterinsurgency guru who s now in charge of the whole shebang.To be fair....Click the link if you, too, want to be fair. I m not in the mood.Actually, I think things are considerably worse than James suggests. Despite what the White House says, we re fighting AQI not because they re high profile or because they re actually a genuine branch of al-Qaeda, we re fig
garrafinhas stanley hting them because we don t have any choice. Who else are we going to fight The Badr Organization The Mahdi Army The Sunni insurgents The Iraqi Security Forces themselves Hell, we re allied with the Sunni tribes these days. We re training the Iraqi Security Forces, making them into an ever more efficient sectarian killing machine. We re supporting a government that supports the Badr Organization and we ve apparently got back channel negotiations taking place with Muqtada al-Sadr and
