House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “kept it 100 real” on Monday’s “Nightly Show” when host Larry Wilmore asked her which of her Republican colleagues she would toss out of a theoretical hot air balloon.
In a new segment called “Larry Wilmore’s Big Gay Ice Cream Sit-Down Featuring House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,” Wilmore asked the California Representative who she would toss overboard: celebrity tycoon Donald Trump, House Speaker John Boehner or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“All of the above,” Pelosi said while at Big Gay Ice Cream in New York to dish about her Republican colleagues over ice cream.
Pelosi and Wilmore also talked the unlikeliness of a Trump presidency and why she’ll miss Boehner.
Watch the ice cream clip, from Comedy Central, below:
I offer my help any time you might need it! Love Nancy Pelosi! It’s amazing to see what the Speakers position has devolved into under Sphincter of the House Boehner. We went from one of the most effective and accomplished Speakers in half a century under Pelosi to perhaps the most useless and ineffective messes in the history of this republic under Boehner…and it only promises to get worse under the Bagger and Con controlled Republican House.
What are the rules for voting for Speaker? Is it highest vote tally or do you have to have more than 50% of the vote? Is there a specific number they have to get to? If the Crazies split the vote would it be theoretically possible to have Pelosi win?
I’ve head many GOP zombies in the media say how the GOP and Dems are BOTH hurt by the GOP committing suicide. I know it’s nonsense but not sure what the ulterior motive is. I know they are trolling for Dem votes for the least reptilian GOP Speaker nominee but will it be possible to embarrass them further by gaming the system? You would think that even the slightest possibility that Pelosi could sneak in would make the GOP pose a united front but shiny ideological trinkets keep confusing them.
I love that Nancy Pelosi, even on her politest day has zero fucks left to give anyone. Go Nancy!
Everybody votes, and someone needs to get to 218 votes, as there are 435 members of the House in total. You need a majority.
One of my favorite remarks during the ACA fight in 2010 came when a reporter asked then Speaker Pelosi how she dealt with the withering and relentless attacks coming from the Republicans and the Right. With a pause, Pelosi chuckled and said: “I wear their scorn like a badge of honor.”
And she continued to show them nothing but the soles of her Manolos for the remainder of her very successful term as Speaker.