{"id":15348,"date":"2010-11-13T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15348"},"modified":"2010-11-13T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:24:38","slug":"poor-poor-nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15348","title":{"rendered":"Poor, poor Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the humanity&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnet.com\/blog\/ceo\/memo-to-nancy-pelosi-a-true-leader-knows-when-to-quit\/6028\">First, there was a plummeting \u201cfavorability\u201d rating of 29 percent<\/a>,  nearly half of her \u201cunfavorable\u201d score, according to a recent Gallup poll.  Then there was the staggering loss of 60 seats in the House of  Representatives, a resounding midterm election \u201cshellacking\u201d if there  ever was one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Nancy Pelosi can add \u201cembattled\u201d to her list of  woes. On Friday, the lame duck speaker of the house announced her plan  to fight to be house minority leader for the next session of Congress.  Frankly, that decision sort of left me scratching my head and wondering  how strong the Kool-Aid is in Pelosi\u2019s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out her new office might not have a Kool-Aid dispenser, among other amenities lost now that America has <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">thrown her out on her saggy ass<\/span> orderly asserted itself via the democratic process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/10_47\/b4204040360898.htm\">Gone will be the spacious office suite with its federalist decor<\/a>, the  rides home aboard a military plane, and a good chunk of her staff. &#8220;It&#8217;s  a profoundly humbling experience&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;ll lose the right to authorize overseas congressional trips and dole  out prime office space to lawmakers. She will also shed 10 percent of  her $5.1 million office budget and lose nearly half of what records show  is a staff of over 50.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sniff. Sniff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the humanity&#8230; First, there was a plummeting \u201cfavorability\u201d rating of 29 percent, nearly half of her \u201cunfavorable\u201d score, according to a recent Gallup poll. Then there was the staggering loss of 60 seats in the House of Representatives, a resounding midterm election \u201cshellacking\u201d if there ever was one. Now, Nancy Pelosi can add \u201cembattled\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15351,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions\/15351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}