Dissing The Foreigner
by digby
Ezra Klein wonders why everyone in the DC establishment is so much more overwrought about Pelosi keeping her leadership post than Harry Reid, pointing out that his hold on office is even less secure than hers and that if all the seats in the Senate had been up for reelection the Dems would have lost the majority there as well.
The answer is simple: Reid is a nice pro-life centrist man while the uppity beyotch from San Francisco needs to be taken down a peg. The gasbag chatter for the past two weeks has been quite clear in this regard — the reason the Democrats lost is because they made the ridiculous decision to put a foreigner in charge and Real America is not having it. It’s one thing to be a woman in a man’s rightful job, but being a liberal and a woman (and successful at passing liberal legislation!) is a bridge too far. This whole thing could get out of hand if they don’t watch themselves.
In fact, I have to say that Democrats defying that CW and keeping her as leader is one of the few bright moments of the past few months and it gave me hope that they aren’t completely brain dead yet. It’s a real act of defiance against the Republicans and the Villagers and I’m shocked they did it. I fully expected to see leader Hoyer (or worse.)
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