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Will Nancy Pelosi remain Speaker of the United States House of Representatives through 2009?

Background: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
On November 16, 2006, Pelosi was unanimously chosen as the Democratic candidate for Speaker, effectively making her Speaker-elect. Pelosi was re-elected Speaker in 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

Settles as YES if she remains Speaker of the House for all of 2009.
Settles as NO if she does not, for any reasons, remain Speaker of the House for all of 2009.

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

 
Forecast history %
Yes
97%
No
3%
Question suspends in 5 weeks

Suspend date: Mon 28th Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 85%

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Created Fri 16th Jan 7:16pm PST by fingers_of_fury

Suspend date: Mon 28th Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go) details

 

Predictions (159)

2 weeks ago
reverend_right predicted Yes (H$4,000 at 95%)
13 weeks ago
dnicolo1 predicted No (H$20 at 14%)
24 weeks ago
cheesenips predicted No (H$500 at 14%)
24 weeks ago
valornhonor predicted No (H$100 at 13%)
25 weeks ago
bigken1 predicted No (H$50 at 12%)

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PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm
posted 42 weeks ago
"contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Firing Pelosi would save us even more.
posted 42 weeks ago
PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm

Did somebody spike her punch?!?!
posted 42 weeks ago
MORRIS: It's not the British you have to worry about. It's a horse, a Trojan Horse. Obama's stimulus package is really a Trojan Horse, where he's bringing it up to the gates of our Congress, he's going to get it passed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482187,00.html

Wow! That prediction was SPOT ON!!!
posted 42 weeks ago
  5 dieseldog
fof - don't fire her or harry reid. there the best thing to happen to republicans in a long time. them 2 will give obama a bigger headache than rush does. :O)
posted 42 weeks ago
  6 rassi
Speaker of the House implicated in Bribery Scandal....
http://indigentahole.blogspot.com/2009/02/speaker-of-house-implicated-in-bribery.html
posted 39 weeks ago
  7 dieseldog
Golf Analyst Feherty Sorry for Pelosi Joke in Dallas Magazine

"Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/10/golf-analyst-feherty-sorry-pelosi-joke-dallas-magazine/
posted 27 weeks ago
  8 Erik
CIA Offers to Determine When Pelosi Knew

(2009-05-12) — In an effort to clarify exactly when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew that the U.S. employed enhanced interrogation techniques, like waterboarding, on terrorists, the CIA today offered to question the California Democrat.

“With the passage of time, memory gets clouded,” said a CIA source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But we have learned how to clear away the clouds, and bring into sharp focus the relevant details.”

Rep. Pelosi initially said she had not been briefed on the harsh interrogation methods, then said she thought the briefings she did receive were theoretical in nature, and now her associates say the Speaker knew in early 2003, but didn’t protest out of respect for ‘appropriate’ legislative channels.

“A woman in Nancy Pelosi’s high-stress position, can get overwhelmed by the constant drip, drip, drip of information,” the CIA source said. “It’s easy to lose isolated details among the battery of facts that assault her daily. But a little time alone with one of our seasoned counselors should remedy that.”

http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=3659
posted 27 weeks ago
  9 Erik
Pelosi First Heard of 9/11 Attacks in Late 2003

(2009-05-15) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, under scrutiny for her changing accounts of when she knew about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, said today that she was not informed until late 2003 that Muslim terrorists had used passenger jets to kill thousands of people in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

“One of my aides mentioned in passing that she had been to a CIA briefing months earlier about these techniques,” said Rep. Pelosi. “At the time, I thought the discussion was theoretical…that this was something that could happen. It wasn’t until October 2003 that I learned that these methods had actually been used on American soil.”

Crashing hijacked planes into buildings full of non-combatant civilians is one of several “enhanced immolation techniques” forbidden under U.S. and international law.

Rep. Pelosi, clearly rattled by reporters’ questions on the subject, first said she knew nothing about the 9/11 attacks, but later acknowledged that she was “too busy helping Democrats win a majority in Congress to get involved in the details of a matter that was being handled through appropriate channels.”

http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=3680
posted 26 weeks ago
her hair cut sucks
posted 25 weeks ago
  11 dnicolo1
Just a protest vote against Speaker Pelosi. She really needs to go away.
posted 13 weeks ago
  12 coolkraft
she is like an energizer battery...she just keeps on going...sure wish she would just go away...
posted 13 weeks ago
  13 dieseldog
coolkraft - i agree with you. we must have caught the swine flu. :O)
posted 13 weeks ago
  14 coolkraft
@dieseldog...we are agreeing way too much lately...3 times ( a record) :O)
posted 13 weeks ago

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