Ok, you’ve done your symbolic gesture, now hopefully you can get with the program of draining the GOP swamp…
The Democrats are actually stronger when the are not monolithic. Pelosi knows full well how to handle situations like this, and tolerating dissenting views benefits her enormously. Seth Moulton actually did her and the party a huge favor by having open discussion on leadership. Republicans have talked about how big their tent is. Now the Democrats are proving how big theirs is.
The reason why Pelosi worked so hard to turn her old detractors (such as seth molton and Ryan) was to allow some of these freshman to vote no on her. She got 220, only needed 218. Everyone of these folks would have voted for her if need be, she let them vote no.
Pelosi is playing the long game, its why she has been so successful for so long. She can count the votes.
And props for Ryan, Molton, etc for changing their votes to clear off space for more vulnerable people to vote no.
I don’t know about anybody else but watching Pelosi speak and being sworn in by Young of AK made me a little weepy with happy prevailing. She’s represented my district for as long as I can remember (and how she got to the point of running for the seat is an interesting story involving a SF political dynasty), and this woman who knows strategy better than any other pol will be the face of resistance to the very ignorant misogynist in the WH. 
@misha Here’s how. Happiness to spare with the better half as delighted as I was.
I thought about you as she entered the chamber as Speaker.
I hope all the Californians here enjoyed it in the same way.
Now let’s discuss those Republicans who didn’t vote for McCarthy!
I grew up in Philly, then have lived just outside B’More for decades so her roots in Maryland resound to me–I think she gets her tough and smart wits from her Italian-American family in B’More and her “liberal” wisdom and compassion from her time in SF. To see her joined by Hoyer (another old school Dem from MD) and Cummings (my Rep) brought me to tears. The entire event today reminded me of who we are as a nation. We have been so shitted on for 2 years. That’s behind us now.
I didn’t know until recently that her father, and you probably know all about him, was a confidante of FDR’s to whom he was Tommy. It appears today’s Democratic Party is alive and well on the Eastern Seaboard. Yes!!
I want to know why the House Repubs voted “no” on the incoming House Chaplain whose name I think is Patrick Conroy. Dems voted yes, so Madame Speaker said the vote carried.
Don’t worry. Nancy keeps a list. These traitors will be appropriatrrly dealt with.
OT mas/menos
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room to announce his latest distraction.
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whom are currently working without pay due to the partial government shutdown,
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as he backed away from the lectern, sweeping his hand across the stage.
Trump won…Torres Small’s district by just over 10 points.
She’s my Congress Critter.
Yes, but the state of NM voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. And this district is overrepresented by Republicans who always vote vs. a lot of non-voting Dems, due to how it’s drawn. This time around, more of them voted and if they did every election we’d be a Democratic district.
It’s literally the entire southern third of the state, border to border and includes the largest range of heavily Republican oil and gas and ranching regions in the state Its central and metro areas are hard Democrat, including Las Cruces where she is from. We’re starting to outnumber the more conservative areas, and Torres Small is trying to bridge the divide as much as possible. But she’s a solid Democrat, not a trouble maker.
Don’t call Lauren Underwood’s IL14 district a “Trump Dist” anymore. We ousted Randy Hultgren and brought in one of the most promising new congresswomen of 2019. The support for her in this largely white suburban/rural district was fantastic. She is now the youngest African-American woman ever elected to Congress. A nurse, she had worked for the Obama admin on the ACA, and will help lead the charge on healthcare. There has been strong support for her from the start. She blew away the other 6 Dems in the primary with over 50% of the vote. For many years, we never even had a Dem run for this seat that Denny Hastert (former Speaker and now prisoner) held for years. The resistance movement hounding Hultgren the last 2 years has been powerful. We’ve found each other and we aren’t stopping to speak out and organize.
Glad to see that apparently Bill Foster in the dist. next door (who used to be in our dist., but moved to a bluer area) did vote for her. He was part of the group against her, until mid-December. If he hadn’t supported Pelosi, I can guarantee he would have been primaried next time.
The National Republican Congressional Committee was quick to jump on the vote, sending out text messages targeting the Democrats’ new constituents in 15 districts across the country in their first paid attacks of the 2020 election cycle.
Color me surprised. Thankfully, the Guardians Of Predators’ politics of division has now met ETTD. So long, Boys.
She counted her votes and freed these folks to vote however they needed to.
I cried the night Nancy got the ACA passed, and I was teary today!
Not sure if you heard it by KQED’s interview with Pelosi was very interesting, well worth listening to:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown
It really humanized “our” congressperson 
(Nov 22 2018 pod-cast).
It’s interesting to read comments here about how Democrats admire Pelosi. That’s good; she deserves it. But I remember the days when Pelosi couldn’t please anyone. Glad she’s getting the respect she deserves.