A news by 4usnews:Voters ousted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of power on Tuesday, four years after she became the first woman Speaker in history, passing the majority of the House of Representatives Republican landslide surpassing the historic election of 1994.
By the time the polls closed in the East and Midwest, the Republicans won 220 seats for the Democrats 146. Republicans won 56 of a functioning democracy, winning well over 39 seats they need to take control of the House, Democrats from Florida, a major in Michigan as voters frustrated with the anemic economy, close to double digit unemployment and a ballooning federal debt flared up at the polling booth.
The Democrats lost not only their marginal seats in the South, but also took a beating Ohio industrial center, swing-state Virginia, and West regions, a key role in presidential elections.
Early returns showed the Republican, David Harmer leading Democratic incumbent Jerry McNerney in the East Bay.
Democrats hold the Senate
While the Democratic majority in the Senate has decreased, the Democrats held the upper chamber, easily winning sharply contested seat in West Virginia, to provide them with the Senate firewall. Republicans have won at least six seats, not counting 10 seats they needed for a majority. Republicans ousted the veteran Wisconsin Democratic liberal Russ Feingold and captured the trophy Illinois Senate seat vacated by President Obama.
Amorphous, but potent Tea Party, whose origins trace some political experts in February 2009 recitation Rick Santelli CNBC, was rejected by veteran heavyweights on both sides, but soon turns into the political landscape. The first sign of its potency in the election was a shocking upset ofRepublican Scott Brown for the victory of Senator Ted Kennedy in late February last year.
Even when a wave of democratic retirement opened the door to the Republican Party, Tea Party supported candidates from Utah to Kentucky to South Carolina to Alaska continued to knock the establishment Republicans in the primaries. In Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – who maneuvered to make sure the tea party supported Sharron Angle will be his opponent – backed away from a very tight victory.
California proved ejection, bucking national trends by re-electing the current Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, but not without a strong challenge fromRepublican Carly Fiorina, who kept the race in California in the margin of error for most of the campaign and its high growth in the Republican Party.
Pelosi, who was elected in San Francisco in 1987, became a national symbol of voter anger, especially in swing-district Democrats she had some work to build its democratic majority in 2006.
Very achievements for which she was proclaimed as one of the most effective speakers in modern times – a huge health care overhaul, $ 800 billion stimulus, climate change, legislation, and to re-regulate Wall Street – came to represent voltage, that independent voters rejected Tuesday.
More than anyone else in Washington, Pelosi was speaking on the agenda of President Obama. His falling popularity helped sink it, and its absence in most deeply damage Obama’s presidency and will make White House to reconsider its legislative strategy. HouseRepublicans, however, face a Democratic Senate and a presidential veto, which severely limits their ability to adopt its agenda.
Extension of the Bush era tax cuts
Republican Leader John Boehner, the 18-year veteran of Washington, Ohio, will hammer in January, promising “new way forward” that will focus on reducing costs and upgrade the Bush era tax cuts. Those tax cuts, which expires Dec. 31, forcing congressional action in the lame-duck session, which begins on November 15.
It was the third election in a row, in which voters rejected a large number of incumbents, the level of political instability not seen since 1950.Republicans said they know the ugly mood holds danger for them, despite their back-from-dead revival with their trouncing in 2008 and 2006.
Boehner has promised not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors, the Republican Party, including low cost, but the Republican campaign in general and have not yet made specific and potentially unpopular decisions that deficit reduction is needed.
Pelosi has not said whether it will work again lead the Democrats in the minority. It will almost certainly be challenged. Until the GOP speaker Newt Gingrich and Denny Hastert resigned shortly after the elections, similar lesions.
Democrats have told themselves that they would never grow complacent or be caught by surprise as it was in 1994 when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
However, signs of voter concern arose at the beginning of an Obama presidency, with polls consistently show a weakness of Obama was worried about a sharp increase in deficit spending, even when he was on horseback in overall popularity.
After a contentious stimulus passed without Republican votes in the House, Pelosi moved quickly to pass cap and trade climate change legislation despite the opposition of swing Democrats who feared that they would suffer in the election.
Obama then made health care reform in the spotlight of his presidency, asserting that the taming of the costs of insurance would stimulate the economy and help workers affected by the recession. Pelosi dismissed the grass-roots resistance to the Bill of health care in August 2009, insisting that when he passed, it will be popular. It does not matter.....
