House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the selection of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nominee was a turning point in helping her party gain the 25 seats it needs in November to re-take the lower chamber.
“August 11th, mark that date on your calendar, when Ryan was chosen, that made a very big difference, because Medicare, Medicare, Medicare, the three most important issues in the campaign, in alphabetical order, that issue was clarified, focus was on it, and we could not lose the debate about Medicare, because if we do, forget Democrats, forget Republicans, Medicare is gone,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night. “We’ll be back to a time before Lyndon Johnson. We will be putting seniors at the mercy of the insurance companies by giving them a voucher, but not a guarantee.”
“We’re very excited about it. But I wish that it were not a race about Medicare, because the fact is, Medicare is on the ballot,” she continued. “My name is on the ballot, the president’s name is on the ballot, many people’s names are on the ballot. And if we do not win the House, and of course if the president doesn’t win, but we feel pretty good about the president’s winning, that would be very much at risk.”
Pelosi expressed confidence that President Obama will draw more people to the polls to help Democrats rebound from their midterm losses.
She predicted picking up “about 20 seats” in Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Maryland, Washington state, and Arizona.
“Then we go where the president is, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, states like that, to take us, oh, I want to go beyond 25,” Pelosi said. “I’d like to have 35.”
“Some states have blue patches that we want to win back. There are 66 districts that are held by Republicans that were won by President Obama and about a third of those were also won by John Kerry,” she said. “And so, we think there’s real opportunity.”
“Onward to victory, don’t agonize, organize,” Pelosi said. “Drive for 25.”
Sure Nancy. Or, in your world, are you still the Speaker? Even the sane Progressives (those few) admit your tenure as Speaker was a failure – so let’s do it again?
But the real funny part is that her own party knows who and what she is and yet they’ll still vote for her to be Speaker.
Sane Progs? Really????
There are more unicorns and mermaids than sane progs….
How long will Romney/Ryan allow the Dims to misrepresent their Medicare plan?
The more a lie is repeated, etc. Fight back against this dizinformation!
– bet your billion on it, Bitch?
Sorry Nancy, but November 7 will be a big disapointment for you.
Obama will win, California, New York, Illinois, Vermont and the District of Columbia.
Obama May win Washington, Oregon, Maine, and Hawaii.
All other states will vote Romney.
The republicans will gain 12 in the Senate and hold the House with 7 to 11 seats gained.
Which polling organization is hiring Pelosi again? Would that be Gallup or maybe Quinnipiac?
jd, I hope you’re right, but even if it doesn’t go exactly that way, Pelosi remains delusional, and she’s the House minority leader, Reid is the Sen Majority leader and Biden is VP. To quote Charlton Heston, “It’s a madhouse!”
I see that the Botox has migrated from Nancy’s face to that tiny speck of grey matter masquerading as her brain.
How nice it would be to return — politically — to “a time before Lyndon Johnson.”
Tiny welfare state.
Budgets of $100 billion…or less!
Immigrants that actually want to become Americans.
No multiculturalism, no moral relativism, PSAs to “Go to the church of your choice,” because, after all, “The family that prays together stays together.”
No Black Panthers, no Nation of Islam, no Jesse Jackson, no Al Sharpton, no Louis Farrakhan.
I think I’m getting a “buzz.”
Hmm…how to explain her delusions?
Well, The Peeples Republik of Kalifornia (or at least some areas thereof) DID legalize pot, right?
Ol’ Nancy must be partaking of some really good herb!