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kpete

(72,060 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 01:59 PM Jun 2012

Pelosi to Kennedy Widow: 'Now Teddy Can Rest'

Source: National Journal


For Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the Supreme Court's decision provided a vindication and victory for having helped push the health law through - perhaps at the expense of her losing her Speaker's gavel.

Maybe it was the lucky purple pumps she was wearing - the very same shoes she wore on the day the health care law was passed, March 21, 2010.

Pelosi was attending Democratic Whip Meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center when she found out about the decision, according to a narrative obtained from her office. She returned to her office to make phone calls, and left messages for the president and vice president.

Pelosi then called Vicki Kennedy, and was described as telling Mrs. Kennedy: "Now, Teddy can rest."




Read more: http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/pelosi-to-kennedy-widow-now-te.php

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Pelosi to Kennedy Widow: 'Now Teddy Can Rest' (Original Post) kpete Jun 2012 OP
You bet your ass!! ..... I did!!! MADem Jun 2012 #1
K & R. n/t pnwmom Jun 2012 #2
RIP Teddy! Auntie Bush Jun 2012 #3
Yeap!! RIP Senator Kennedy.... LovingA2andMI Jun 2012 #4
Kick politicasista Jun 2012 #5
kick Pool Hall Ace Jun 2012 #6
Gone but never forgotten. Rest in peace. Fearless Jun 2012 #7
Love that picture brightertomorrow Jun 2012 #8
Undead Teddy walks no more? AngryAmish Jun 2012 #9

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. You bet your ass!! ..... I did!!!
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 02:11 PM
Jun 2012

This exchange is amusing:

Pelosi then went to a hastily-called Democratic Caucus meeting to go over the decision with rank-and-file members. On the way she ran into Rep. George Miller, a fellow California Democrat. The two hugged and Pelosi told him, "What a great victory!'

"You bet your ass [it is]," Miller is quoted a responding.

"I did," she said, both laughing.


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