Pelosi: "I Will Step In" To End Race Before Convention

Hillary Clinton has hinted that she is prepared to take her fight to fully seat Florida and Michigan all the way to the party's convention in late August, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that's not going to happen.

In an interview with her hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Democrat said she is prepared to "step in" if the presidential race does not resolve itself by the end of next month.

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Comments

[ikology]

If only Nancy Pelosi went after the Republicans the way she goes after one of her own, we might've actually accomplished something since the Dems took the House.

This hack has been sitting around on her ass, caving to everything the Bush administration wants, and yet it's an attempt to disenfranchise Seantor Clinton and the millions of Democrats who've voted for her accross this country that finally springs her into action.

She ought to be removed from Democratic office since she only serves the interests of roughly half of the millions of Democrats in this country, the Obama-variety that agree with her.

[heywhat]

I'm a Hil supporter and I know the race is over (congrats to Senator Obama and his supporters); however, I do not remember voting for Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid for anything. Comments like these only push me closer toward sitting on my hands come November.

http://strictlyanecdotal.com/2008/05/28/being-somewhat-of-a-woman-without-a-party-these-days--and-having-no-plans-last.aspx

[patmancando]

Who the h*ll does she think she is? She doesn't have that authority nor does Harry Reid.............Nancy has been a total bust as Speaker of the House, and I doubt if she has the popularity around the country to interfere with a presidential election. In fact people, esp women because she is the first woman speaker, are really disappointed in her performance. Sometimes, I think Nancy doesn't want Hillary to steal her thunder.

Harry Reid certainly hasn't shone in the Senate, in fact he is so lack luster...

[marymansour]

Good for Nancy. I hope she means it. The Clintons are a powerful machine and have torpedoed many a career if you stepped on their tails. They think they own the DNC and party in general and hell hath no fury like a woman missing her chance for the White House. I notice that Nancy's native state of California has already soured on Hillary.

[RichLiberal]

Somebody should give Nancy the "Newt Gingrich Handbook" on what happens to the Speaker of the House when taking on the Clintons.

I will be very interested to see in what manner Pelosi "steps in". Short of writing a bunch of new rules, I don't think there is much that she can do. We'll see.

[DCtrain]

Bravo Nancy,

Please step in. Left to themselves, the Clinton's would follow a scorched earth policy to win... the only problem is that they would torch the entire planet to win. They have no regard for ethics or the people.
All they care about is power and it doesn't matter who the run over in the process.

[JonStewart4President]

Well it's nice to see Pelosi show some spine. Wish she would have shown more against Dubya, but I'll take what I can get from the Democratic Party at this point.

[PatrickforO]

We can be thankful for this. Both Reid and Pelosi are now on the same page on this, and there is much concern in the Party rank and file in Congress about what this extended and bitter primary battle is doing, and has already done to the Democratic party. It's way past time for some damage control.

[hugs4u]

I am from Iowa and when hillary says she won the popular vote, she is lying because like the other caucus states, a total vote count isnt taken. Just a delegate count. Soooooooo when you ad the caucus states. hillary never really won on the total vote either. Send her home to crawl back under her rock.

[RichLiberal]

Well, that's the caucus states problem if they don't count their votes. Without the caucus states whose votes were counted, which is unrepresentative anyway, as demonstrated in Texas, Hillary is ahead in the popular vote by over 350,000:

http://www.diversityj.com/ElectionResults2008Primary.html

Even with the caucus states she's ahead by 200,000 unless you start taking away the votes of people from Florida and Michigan who voted for her.

Obama's only claim to the nomination is based on a very shaky base of 293 caucus delegates to Hillary's 149. These delegates were "elected" with less than one tenth the number of voters than those from the primary states. They should only count 1/10th as much. Or, if the states didn't even bother to count the votes, then they should count for zero.

The caucuses were a farce and all the delegates should be denied access to the convention. And who cares if the states complain. They are all red states anyway that won't vote for the Dems in Nov.

[ndnndpendent]

I am so glad there truly is a competent woman to bring some sense to this chaos. Thank you Lady Speaker.

Pelosi 2016

[Bisharama]

Gallup Poll: Clinton Stronger in Swing States
Gallup Poll: "In the 20 states where Hillary Clinton has claimed victory in the 2008 Democratic primary and caucus elections (winning the popular vote), she has led John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily trial heats for the general election over the past two weeks of Gallup Poll Daily tracking by 50% to 43%. In those same states, Barack Obama is about tied with McCain among national registered voters, 45% to 46%."

[SouthFloridaDem]

If you keep repeating this, you just might start to believe that it means something. But it doesn't!

[Daly]

I bet you are right when you consider that polls are still being done only to house phones when many of the people here that have embraced technology have and use Cells.

I have a house phone but never answer it.

if you look at the registration #'s you'd have to agree that far more Dems are signing up and as much as HRC likes to cry her team is NOT the driving force for these newly reged persons.

[marymansour]

"I have a house phone but never answer it."


Same here, especially when I think it's a telemarketer. I never pick up on those suspicious numbers that tend to be the marketers.

[Trinidad707]

Pelosi will give away the nomination to Obam who cannot beat MCCain...he didn't win the swing states,the big states, nor did he carry Reagan Dems or white blue collar voters...gee...Personally if he can't even beat Sen Clinton with Swing states and only seems to win tiny states and caucuses how the hell could he ever beat McCain in the fall

[ahsaki80]

Obviously, you don't know what you're talking about.

[dem2win]

Obviously...you don't know what you are talking about. For those of you who don't know your history. other than Bill Clinton, no dem has won two terms since FDR. Clinton won by carrying the appalacian area that passes through W. Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvannia etc. This is the area that Obama looses by double digits. Once again, the liberals are shoving a looser down our throughts and now Pelosi is threatening that she will end it before the convention-- even though the rules allow a vote on the floor. What ever happened to the party of the people. This is becoming the party of the liberal elites where party leaders think they can decide who the nominee should be.

[whitegoldwielder]

Obama is another McGovern. He hasn't been vetted yet but he will be. He is one of the most liberal senators in Congress and while he has charisma, middle of the roaders win, not extremists.

[kinnycut]

I can't believe morons are still pushing Clinton's big state bull----. If you took a look at some of the polls, you would see Obama leading McCain in some of those "big" states. In a few polls Obama was ahead of McCain by 2 to 8 points in Pennsylvania.

[orianna]

Try to remember he competed against another Democrat... not a Republican. Different vote pattern coming in the general.... time to get to know him.... who can stand McCain.. and the polls have been significantly wrong in naming the leaders.... you have to go with who was actually chosen... which by all measures used by the DNC equates to Obama...... Sure Hillary can claim all sorts of other standards... even she could try some Calvin-ball... but it is what it is and some women aren't meant to play by the big kids rules... which, she has clearly shown to us all... thus, for this final reason, she is unfit to lead.

[champislove]

Thank you Nancy for stoping this. You should move to stop it now. Hillary is kill us. Please stop her from hurting the Democracts. She don't care about anyone for herself.

[fair1234]

PLEASE STEP IN PLEASE!!! YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE STEPPED IN A LONG TIME AGO BEFORE HILLARY COMPLETELY WENT MAD!!! SHE IS GOING TO DESTROY THE DEMOCRATS THIS SUMMER AND SHE COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED EARLIER!!! I now see why so many people regardless if they like Obama or not hate her. She is losing so many female voters here in Florida and we wish she would stop saying she is speaking for us when she knows she is speaking for herself!!

[kellygrrrl]

I think it's pretty clear that it is NOT going to "resolve itself"

the job of the SuperDelegate is to avoid disaster within the party.
I think we've reached Disaster!

SuperDelegates: Do Your Job!