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Did Nancy Pelosi Speak Too Long During Boehner’s Ceremony? Brit Hume Thinks So

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Fox host Megyn Kelly and her viewers were wondering whether it was customary for the outgoing Speaker of the House to give a speech during the swearing in ceremony for the new Speaker? Fox’s senior analyst Brit Hume was on hand to provide his historical perspective that he remembered past Speakers only provided very brief comments, if they spoke at all. However, the trailblazing first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi had other plans.

Pelosi gave a lengthy speech where she thanked many supporters and wished the new Republican majority and Speaker John Boehner success. Hume told Kelly, “I think she spoke longer than Boehner did, and if there was a theme to Boehner it seemed to be that less is more.” From there Hume contrasted Boehner, describing him as not an excessively partisan person and as someone who might be successful in changing the tone with the minority opposition.

Some may view Pelosi’s eagerness to speak and hold the gavel a few extra minutes as an attempt to steal the spotlight. However, putting aside historical precedent, what’s wrong with a vanquished opponent having one last chance to speak, reminisce and offer as many kinds words as they like about the man who dethroned her?

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  • Socialist

    oh come on its her last day.. she is going out today anyways..

  • berserk

    “what’s wrong with a vanquished opponent having one last chance to speak”

    A brief thanks to her supporters and a wish of luck to her successor would have been the classy thing to do. But this is Nancy Pelosi… no class through to her last day as Speaker. Then again, this is consistent with her lack of class in not stepping aside for the job of minority leader. She not only should have NOT run for the minority leader job, but also should have resigned from the House entirely given the shellacking that her party suffered in the congressional body that SHE led. If today’s speech was indeed her LAST chance to speak, I would have yielded the whole day’s session just so we the suffering people don’t ever have to hear from her again.

  • The Real Royal King

    Hume is such a bag of gas.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    If she says three words, it is too long

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    She was an embarrassment to the last minute. Because of HER the House is now Republican. Everything that she claims credit for was opposed by the American people and she thinks that is a success. LOL. Almost everything she “accomplished” will be overturned. She will be a joke for life.

  • Harry Flashman

    Not that big a deal. In fact, aside from being somewhat verbose I thought she was rather gracious.

    After all, she singlehandedly brought what the dems thought was their thousand year reich crashing down in flames. So…a few parting words from an abject failure is no big deal.

    Oh – and, good riddance.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    When Nancy started talking about how she loved the constitution and it being their solemn duty to uphold it, I become physically ill. I’m assuming Joy Behar did to since she’s sick of all this Constituion loving. Good riddance Nancy. Now get out of the way and let the adults clean up your mess.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Now get out of the way and let the adults clean up your mess.

    HAHAHAHHAHA Yea right thats a good one.Lets just see how much destruction the cry baby does.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    The Real Royal King said:
    Hume is such a bag of gas.

    KING all bloated up . As a putrid bag of gas myself , I can empathize . Harrumph ! See here , my good man !

  • The Real Royal King

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Now get out of the way and let the adults clean up your mess.

    HAHAHAHHAHA Yea right thats a good one.Lets just see how much destruction the cry baby does.

    I wish you’d try to be more understanding about Michelle in Utah. She’s just mean and unpleasant.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Brit Hume, formerly of the “news” side, like the “A” section of the paper whereas the rest of Fox is like the “editorial” section. And FoxNation.com is a place for fair and reasonable debate. And Michigan made the right choice in firing their coach in the middle of January with no replacement in sight. Right.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Royal Pain in the Butt says;

    I wish you’d try to be more understanding about Michelle in Utah. She’s just mean and unpleasant.

    Only to libs.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    Seriously? So this is what we can expect? More pointless sniping from both sides? About the length of a speech? Grow up folks. This country has some serious problems and all you can go on about is the length of a farewell speech?

    I suppose the other side will now start micro-bashing Speaker Boehner for everything from his clothing to the length of his speeches and so on.

    Here is a novel idea – let’s see what they actually do BEFORE hurling insults and such.

  • timzank

    The woman is delusional, her followers (as evidenced here) even more so.

    It was a tacky, self serving diatribe I fully expected.

  • Just4thefax

    Socialist said:
    oh come on its her last day.. she is going out today anyways..

    Fact: Daily savings of $1000.00 dollars or more a day just because she not the speaker no more in alcohol alone! It all adds up against the debt ceiling!

  • gar

    I hope she enjoys her position as manurity leader or the house. She’s earned it.

  • Powerslave

    I thought I was watching “The Nancy Pelosi Show”.

  • SarahP

    gordonbloyershow said:
    She was an embarrassment to the last minute. Because of HER the House is now Republican. Everything that she claims credit for was opposed by the American people and she thinks that is a success. LOL. Almost everything she “accomplished” will be overturned. She will be a joke for life.

    You are an embarrassment, a draft dodging embarrassment. Not to mention a complete asshole.

  • lazzzlo

    SarahP said:
    You are an embarrassment, a draft dodging embarrassment. Not to mention a complete asshole.

    If you breathe you have to be better than that

  • lazzzlo

    I would assume you would help her

  • lazzzlo

    C’mere baby!

  • lazzzlo

    berserk said:
    18  6
    “what’s wrong with a vanquished opponent having one last chance to speak”

    Sometimes it is just easier to say enough is enough.

  • lazzzlo

    I am sticking around just in case.

  • lazzzlo

    Breathe deep

  • michiganruth

    Publius219 said:
    Brit Hume, formerly of the “news” side, like the “A” section of the paper whereas the rest of Fox is like the “editorial” section. And FoxNation.com is a place for fair and reasonable debate. And Michigan made the right choice in firing their coach in the middle of January with no replacement in sight. Right.

    1. Brit Hume IS actually op/ed, not straight news. he was on Bret Baier’s excellent news show, tho, so (giving you the benefit of the doubt) maybe that’s why you’re confused about that. or it could just be that you enjoy dissing Fox.

    2. I don’t know what FoxNation.com is, but since it has the word “Fox” in it I assume it’s evil.

    3. as a matter of fact, now that you bring it up…Michigan DID make the right choice firing its coach now. if you knew anything about Michigan football and/or Rich Rodriguez you’d understand that.

  • screwauger

    SarahP said:
    You are an embarrassment, a draft dodging embarrassment. Not to mention a complete asshole.

    The truth hurts something terrible doesn’t it? HAHAHA when they resort to vulgarities you know they are really at a loss for a comeback. Oh wait, that would mean SarahP is always at a loss. Yeppers. Fun stuff to watch and glad to be alive to witness it.

  • http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/ jamesalfred

    Socialist said:
    oh come on its her last day.. she is going out today anyways..

    If she talked then she talked too long. Even in small doses Marxism and insults are not good to listen to.

  • http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/ jamesalfred

    timzank said:
    The woman is delusional, her followers (as evidenced here) even more so. It was a tacky, self serving diatribe I fully expected.

    Exactly. People claimed how Lisa Murkowski was a sore loser when she refused to give up and admit she lost. I said back then it would be nothing like trying to pry the gavel out of Nacy’s cold, dead hand. This was a shameful display that only played well to P-Lousey’s zombie followers.

    The only good news here is Nasty P is gone, unlike Murkowski.

    http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

  • screwauger

    she never realized that actions speak louder than words. She can talk for a year and we all still know she is a leftist radical. Hey Nan…”Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.” Just stfu and sit down

  • Davo

    I only saw bits and pieces from TV in the background at work. The station was CNN, and they only were interviewing Democrats……….none of the majority Republicans. If you just dropped in from Mars and didn’t know better, you’d have thought the Democrats won the election by a landslide.

    The Democrats were taking their parting shots, assuring us that the Republicans will never be able to de-fuse the Communist time-bombs they left behind. Of course, Wolf Blitzed and the string of wrinkled old hippie women posing as journalists were ecstatic with what they were hearing. Nothing partisan ’bout CNN. (LOL)

    Nancy? I just wish I could have seen the “prying the gavel” and the “kicking and screaming.”

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    SarahP said:
    You are an embarrassment, a draft dodging embarrassment. Not to mention a complete asshole.

    You are a liar hiding behind the Palin photo and name. A TRUE Coward. You need help.

  • michiganruth

    gordonbloyershow said:
    You are a liar hiding behind the Palin photo and name. A TRUE Coward. You need help.

    I always wonder about someone who’d call themselves “SarahP” and use Palin’s photo, and then write such hideous stuff. clearly “SarahP” has some single-white-female issues, if ya get where I’m going with that.

  • Patrick Henry

    SarahP said:
    You are an embarrassment, a draft dodging embarrassment. Not to mention a complete asshole.

    Ted, you are an embarrassment to aholes.

  • digitaln3rd

    The startling numbers of moronic, right-wing comments on this site is pretty sad.

    Personally, I could care less about what Brit Hume has to say because he’s a hack who isn’t even fit to report for the Weekly World News.

  • Patrick Henry

    digitaln3rd said:
    Personally, I could care less about what Brit Hume has to say because he’s a hack who isn’t even fit to report for the Weekly World News.

    I guess if you could care less, he must not be so bad. This stupid, left-wing comment by you is pretty sad.

  • Tedderman

    Boehner would have talked longer but he would have started crying again. Oh, and Brit Hume is a windbag who talks just to hear himself.

  • Bronco46

    Brett’s right, she spoke way to long! She just couldn’t believe she had to give up her role as speaker.
    Thank God we don’t have to listen, or look at this woman anymore.

  • J Baustian

    Bronco46 said:
    Brett’s right, she spoke way to long! She just couldn’t believe she had to give up her role as speaker.
    Thank God we don’t have to listen, or look at this woman anymore.

    No harm, no foul, it was her concession speech, the one she’d never given before.

    I remember back in the summer of ’09, right before the vote on cap and trade, when Boehner was given almost 90 minutes of nearly uninterrupted floor time to demolish the substance of that bill. All he did was quote from the text of the proposed legislation, the text which the majority rolled out at 4 am that same day, all 2000+ pages of it. In so doing he showed the American people exactly who the Democrats are, and they suffered the consequences 16 months later in November 2010.

    Perhaps Pelosi regrets not cutting John Boehner off after five minutes. It might have made a difference in how the American voters viewed the Democrat Party.

  • Nahu Tuk

    Did Nancy Pelosi Speak Too Long During Boehner’s Ceremony? Brit Hume Thinks So

    While I thought Ms. Pelosi behaved graciously in her surrendering of the gavel, I was inclined to think there was too much of her. This moment was not about her but she tried desperately to make it so. Still, I’m waiting GBR (a.k.a. “Bombshell”) to render his opinion. I’m certain he will chime in with a pearl of stupidity and some comment about how Glenn Beck caused all that is wrong with the world.

  • Snidely

    Let her talk. Reinforces the reasons we are so glad to see her go.

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