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Today America’s Mother-In-Law Puts Down the Gavel

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 5th, 2011 at 05:00 AM  | 

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Good morning.

Congress convenes at noon today. The new congresscritters are getting sworn in.

Look for the Senate Democrats to fail in their effort to gut the filibuster, but they’ll try nonetheless. I suspect the adults in the room, i.e. the Democrats who remember having a Republican President and Senate, will outwit and overrule Senator Udall (D-NM) and the howling gang of leftists from MSNBC and the lefty blogosphere.

And through it all we will witness a historic moment. America’s Mother-in-Law will surrender the gavel to John Boehner, ridding us of our four year long national nightmare. Of course, we’ll still have her to kick around as Minority Leader.

Also, our sixty-three year long national nightmare that is the Kennedy Dynasty finally concludes. Starting today, my friends, there will be no more Kennedy’s in Congress.

Today is a beautiful day.

And if that isn’t enough, come back here at noon for a really big announcement from me — one that will surely make heads explode.

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  • JadedByPolitics

    will get her every word for everything he does. We will Pelosi on tv as much as we did in the last two years except this time instead of the head dog she is going to be the pitbull. I don’t care though, having that witch out of the Speakers Chair is satisfying beyond words!

  • mirac777

    The SanFran Queen of Socialism is still a deranged Tyrant with no respect for the Americans she is supposed to serve.

    Here’s hoping that the big announcement is that Impeachment proceedings will commence.

  • http://www.sunshinestatesarah.com sunshinestatesarah

    “America’s Mother-in-Law.” Love it. Thank you for that. I’ve been calling her “Fancy Nancy” for awhile but I like that soooo much better.

    The Democrats are going to regret that most of their lost comrades were the more moderate Blue Dogs (with the exception of my district’s national embarrassment, Alan Grayson…ugh…so glad we fired him!). The American voters just sent a clear message they don’t want the country to be that far left, but there’s no one left to talk any sense into them.

    Clinton survived (and thrived) by steering to the middle. The Democrats’ best chance of surviving 2012 is for the economy to recover and for them to stop scaring the crap out of the American people, but they are going to find it verrrrrrry difficult to temper their more radical impulses and appeal to the American voters, especially with Miss Nancy remaining as their troop leader.

    Looking forward to watching what comes next (both from Nancy and the upcoming announcement at noon!).

    What a frackin’ great day :)

  • smitch61

    Priceless. Quite a good analogy there :) Too bad I finally got a job, I have to work today and will have to catch up on the festivities tonight.. Please provide a link later….. I have a job finally after almost two years of temp jobs and stressful times, so exited I cannot stand it.

  • edwyrd

    beginning of the end? it will take all of our wit, spit and grit to completely ruin the worst enenmy this country has ever faced, the dems will use all tools at their disposal, ALL OF THEM, to fight back. we must be as ruthless as they are. this is the sequel to the battle of hastings 2010; don’t lose your nerve friend, lets choke’em out!

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    America’s wicked step mother.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    America’s wicked step mother.

  • itdiehard

    Land OZ… has not so happy ending for the bad witch. California is much like land of OZ.. Just follow that yellow brick road.

  • GreyCloak

    To paraphrase, “work is the curse of the blogging man.” Glad you’re going full-time, and cudos for finding temp work while you were waiting.

  • kdoc

    …Erick has accepted the job as Head Football Coach at UGA.

  • Mike

    …he’s running for some office? It’s too early in the cycle for it to be a Congressional announcement, what elections are going down in GA state politics this fall?

    Or maybe it’s that he just bought an awesome Pradab handbag.

    HMMMMMMM.

  • Mike

    Grats on the job, smitch!

  • sharonmcp

    From Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address…

    “The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.

    And, after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.”

  • Donald Ayotte

    You nailed this one right on the head Eric. That’s putting it kindly.

  • Brian Hibbert

    He was the great communicator after all.

  • txgho1911

    That or he got an exclusive announcement from Mike Pence.

  • mriggio

    or, (gasp) finally taking hold of the Golden EIB microphone? The world waits…

  • cari

    call her, after the Bond villain, “Pelosi Galore”.

  • carolina

    I’ll be dying of curiosity all day – this BEAUTIFUL wonderful day when pelosi gives up the gavel to Boeher. Hoo ray for America!

  • johnt

    spying on Americans as I recall. The program still in place, just not on the front pages or covers.
    Sixty MC’S and staffers knew, but not the House Minority Leader.
    I’ll still wonder at the nut as she babbles, her hands moving incessantly up & down, up & down. She won’t be able to get as big subsidies for her husband’s business as before, that’s life.

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  • bcochran1981

    …will do that. ;-)

  • davidleigh

    How very appropriate! As usual, it speaks volumes that democrats would vote to keep Nancy as House Minority Leader. These are gutless, wimpish “men” who are the democrats. Not one of these “men”–NONE–should be allowed to have any business governing America. They should be thrown out. Everytime I see the woman with the blinkett eyes it is quite apparent her god IS government and her own pathetic ego. I hope the new Speaker doesn’t tolerate anything from her. I would prefer him to tell her to “SHUT YOUR MOUTH” in a closed door session and have it leaked to the press. I’m serious: SHUT. YOUR. MOUTH!!!” BEING an American requires basic boy scout qualities, none of which the little woman from San Francisco possesses. She is a true narcissist.

  • chbroussard
  • Brian Hibbert

    For some reason that song just keeps running through my mind today.

  • cwilson

    Here’s the top photo from Drudge:

  • runner12

    Every time I see that woman I envision the Wicked Witch of the West flying by Dorothy on her broomstick. It is a great day for America now that she is out of power.

  • The_Rebel

    when she is interviewed by the MSM. She has already put out press releases requesting that, like former Presidents, she be accorded the title of her former office when people address her. Sick! She will be in front of the cameras far more than Boehner.

  • edwyrd

    !!! bravo!!!

  • williamjameson

    Nasty Pelosi was the mother in law from hades.

  • olsmithie

    It is a good day….

    Regards

  • Superheater

    Is terrible, just terrible.

  • fpete13527

    I am pretty sure this video will go viral.
    http://bit.ly/eLsnZc

  • fpete13527

    …..to be a little more nostalgic, here is an oldie but goodie.
    http://bit.ly/hkoUOB

  • kweinkauf

    No one gives me chills like the words from Ronaldus Magnus. Why can’t we have people who talk like that nowadays? Instead we have the “Great Apologizer.”

  • Brian Hibbert

    I think I liked the “Thanks for the Memories” even better. Especially the guy on the ladder!

  • southernpatriots

    Now that the Wicked Queen of the West is demoted, will all the regal trappings of her reign (Airforce jets at her beckoning, huge over-bloated bureaucratic staff, and all the other excesses of her hubris) now go back into the drained coffers of the government? Even if Boehner flies Airforce jets home (we doubt he will) it will cost much less since he lives so much closer to D.C. It is a good day! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ We chortled in our joy. The Jabberwock is not gone, my son, only weaked, that is for another day. But this day we chortle in our joy because we see that day now, there is hope. We rest in our joy but for a moment, for the battle still wages with those who remain. “All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.”

  • edintexas

    No Way. Hint – his name is Eric, not Mark (with an exception for Dr. Williams from the Mark rule). :-)

  • gunsrus

    for the poor TSA people who have to look at the body scan or worse, pat her down, now that shes back to flying commercial!

  • scottb

    if Pelosi is America Mother-in-law it’s time to leave. Lets hope Boehner can stop sniffling lone enough to get something done. He really needs to get some help with that. I really like the guy, but he needs to be able to control his emotions better’

  • mspector

    Just a yappy, snappish little chihuahua.

  • rightwingmom52

    from her cold dead hands.

  • steve010

    The story goes: What exactly is a mixed feeling?

    A mixed feeling is when you just purchased a brand new 100K Mercedes and later that day the police called you to tell you that the car went over a cliff and was completely totaled, but your mother-in-law was driving.

  • mudhead

    and should stick.
    PJ O’Rourke called Hillary Clinton “America’s Ex-Wife” a while ago, which has stuck in my mind since, as well.
    “Michelle Antoinette Obama” was good, citing her $242,000 (plus a few hundred thou in additional expenses) vacation in Spain.

    There’s a giggle factor that must be used more often when referencing power-crazy people.