{"id":8998,"date":"2006-11-07T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8998.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T23:23:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T04:23:34","slug":"speaker-of-the-house-nancy-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/speaker-of-the-house-nancy-pelosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of now, Dems have a net gain of 15 House seats, including some key races many of us have been watching for months (in addition to other House contests mentioned earlier):<\/p>\n<p>Florida 16 &#8212; Mahoney (D) beats Negron (R)<\/p>\n<p>Florida 22 &#8212; Klein (D) beats Shaw (R)<\/p>\n<p>New York 20 &#8212; Gillibrand (D) beats Sweeney (R)<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina 11 &#8212; Shuler (D) beats Taylor (R)<\/p>\n<p>Ohio 18 &#8212; Space (D) beats Padgett (R)<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania 10 &#8212; Carney (D) beats Sherwood (R)<\/p>\n<p>Given these and other results from tonight &#8212; not a single House Dem incumbent has lost so far &#8212; MSNBC and CNN both show Dems taking back the House tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi recently did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/12055360\/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_congress_ever\">a piece<\/a> on the House, explaing that Republicans have managed the chamber &#8220;with some of the most mind-blowingly juvenile behavior seen in any parliament west of the Russian Duma after happy hour.&#8221; Jonathan Turley suggested the GOP House majority has been so reckless and negligent, &#8220;it makes you wonder if democracy is a failed experiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long 12 years, but it&#8217;s time for some sanity in the House again. Republicans surely won&#8217;t appreciate the adult supervision, but I&#8217;m confident the nation will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of now, Dems have a net gain of 15 House seats, including some key races many of us have been watching for months (in addition to other House contests mentioned earlier): Florida 16 &#8212; Mahoney (D) beats Negron (R) Florida 22 &#8212; Klein (D) beats Shaw (R) New York 20 &#8212; Gillibrand (D) beats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}