That kind of voting behavior could signal trouble within the caucus.

Meanwhile, congratulations to Speaker Pelosi! May the next two years be awesome for America and catastrophic for Trump.

What's up with her voting "present" anyway?

At least she didn't vote against her. Not looking for good regarding committee assignments, though.

This is in clear contrast to the GOP.

But that needs to change if we are to get rid of repubs, otherwise we will be in two eternal fights, one with the repubs and the other within the party, and the latter we don't and should not have. In this times unity is of extreme importance.

but when you have a voter population who votes for trump then you better be united and fight the battle together, show unity, show consistency.

It can be done very easily, all they have to do is have their close quarters meetings to find commonality and compromise, then deliver a united message and not confuse the electorate.

Not sure if you have noticed, but that is exactly what repubs do, they show unity, whether some of them understand what their leaders are talking about, but nonetheless, what their voters see is consistency of thought, and that to people who are politically ignorant is very important, they hear a unified message, only one. That uniqueness you talk about confuses voters who only care about sound bites, and no wonder they think the democratic party is divided.

You thoughts on this are very pure, but when you are going against ignorance you better don't confuse them or you will be rejected.

How does it help when 15 democrats reject Nancy Pelosi? It confuses people...Imagine if Nancy Pelosi became the next candidate, how would that work out when people in her party do not support her?

Your purity on that uniqueness would work well if people sat down to analyze the discussion, but they don't, that uniqueness has not worked well, and on the other hand the repubs unity has, so its time to unite, find compromise and deliver one message that the ignorant voter population can understand.

Stop buying into RW talking points. We don't win by copying the Repubs.

PS. Purity isn't allowing our members to have varying opinions, purity is having everyone in lockstep.

Instead of 218 she needed 215.

She needed an absolute majority of those who voted. There were 433 votes, including the 3 "present", so she needed to get 217.

Had those three not voted at all, there would have been 430 votes - she would have needed to get 216.

She got 220.

By the way, one clown (I'm guessing republican) voted "no", which was not included in the final total. The other missing vote was the disputed district in NC.

They always do fucked up shit

because they make people forget what being a Democrat is about and worth fighting for.

The irony is that some of the non-Pelosi pols voted for are at least as liberal as she is.

It's not like in 2 years, Republicans won't bring up his vote for Kennedy III! Who's even better to bash than a Pelosi, an Obama or a Clinton? A Kennedy!

ordered re-districting. In fact, Gov Wolf, who ran with unabashed socialist John Fetterman, actually won my county (Beaver which is entirely encompassed within the new 17th) with 53+%, Sen Casey won with a little under 51% and Lamb lost with 48%.

there will be some democrats who would vote for someone else.

Their and any Democrat's actions will be an everyday, ongoing evaluation. This is neither a deal-killer nor an essential vote to succeed at taking back government from traitors.

Everything they do every day will determine how they fit on the "take back America" team. Everyone has a place and nobody is indispensable.

Nancy knows how the game is played and knows we just won in a lot of districts that used to be republican. And by running moderate democrats, rather than to the left.

She had no problem giving them cover.

They have started off their Congressional career by keeping a promise(the new ones) and putting the mask of independence for the other moderates.

It was a calculated move. Had she really needed a vote they would have learned the power she has over them. But it is not Speaker Pelosi’s style to go to the mat when there is a more productive way forward.

Tempest in a teapot.

At the risk of being alerted on by one of the "faithful", the last time I looked the Democrats are the party of all the American people. Which means there will be genuine and serious differences of opinion on substantial issues, and they will take place in public view rather than behind closed doors among the party elites. That's how participatory democracy is intended to work.

It's all a learning experience...

Immediately after the elections he said that he might not and I reacted with an angry email. He replied that as he was going over the district he heard the need for "change."

And... too bad about Lamb. I was actually thinking of him as a future Presidential candidate.