Pelosi: Cantor Loss Means 2014 Is ‘Whole New Ballgame’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The top Democrat in the Republican-controlled House said she would prefer if Congress stayed i... House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The top Democrat in the Republican-controlled House said she would prefer if Congress stayed in Washington rather than leave for the rest of the week following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) argued that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) loss to a little-known primary challenger showed that it’s a “whole new ballgame” in the 2014 midterm elections.

Here’s Pelosi’s statement below:

The American people should take notice. Tonight, the Tea Party defeated Republican Leader Eric Cantor who is one of the most extreme Members of Congress.

Eric Cantor has long been the face of House Republicans’ extreme policies, debilitating dysfunction and manufactured crises. Tonight, is a major victory for the Tea Party as they yet again pull the Republican Party further to the radical right.

As far as the midterms elections are concerned, it’s a whole new ballgame.

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  1. Time to give Nancy Smash her gavel back!!!

  2. Yes Speaker Pelosi there are consequences to the do nothing Congress.

  3. Avatar for buzz buzz says:

    You really want to see Boehner cry again - That’s an ugly scene, as much as we want Nancy to take back that gavel…

  4. Avatar for meta meta says:

    Set Laura ‘benghazi’ Ingrahm loose.

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