Stating The Obvious

This is a classic example of a poorly-phrased question:

When Nancy Pelosi sat down for her keynote address at Women@NBCU’s annual Power of the Purse Breakfast this morning at Cipriani’s in New York, host Jeff Zucker wasted no time getting her take on the state of politics this year. Specifically, the outgoing NBC Universal CEO and president asked if Pelosi herself would still be in office in five weeks.

“I will still be Speaker in five weeks,” she said. “I have big confidence in my candidates. They’re excellent; they’re battle-tested. They know what they believe, and they’re doing just fine in their districts.”

See what I mean?  That question could have been interpreted as asking whether she'll win re-election to her House seat - the chances of which are still probably pretty good.  If it's applied to her Speakeretteship, it's still the wrong query:

In fact, I’ll go a step further and bet that she’ll be Speaker for several weeks after that too. And then the new Congress will be seated in January and she’ll hand the gavel to Boehner, and that’ll be that.

Lots of ways this question could have been obfuscated, but with her pride and brittle ego on the line, she reflexively turned on the delusional bravado.  Which simply illustrates the impossibility of getting a straight, rational, or coherent answer out of this hag.  'Course, maybe if she had any background in dealing with a press that wasn't a brigade of suck-ups, cheerleaders, and palm-frond-wavers, she'd learn not to lead with her botoxed chin like that.

And let the record show, once again, that when I use the term "delusional," I MEAN the term "delusional":

House and Senate Democrats are increasingly competing against one another over a small universe of deep-pocketed donors who could make a financial difference in the final stretch before the midterm elections.

In some cases, donors report that they are being urged to fund Senate campaigns at the expense of the House, where Democrats are in danger of losing their majority.

One House Democratic fundraiser said that some Senate operatives are telling big donors and union officials, “The House is lost; you have to save the Senate.”

It is only blind guide zealots like Crazy Nancy and Red Barry who'll never see the decimation coming, and thereafter will spin conspiracy theories that would make Van Jones exclaim, "Whoa, dude, breathe into this paper bag for a few hours".  Anything to avoid having to come to grips with the reality that they screwed up, they overreached, and their rancid, discredited ideology religion is a rejected failure.  AGAIN.

Will such an epic FAIL have consequences?  Perhaps:

According to Time, though, much depends on how bad this fall’s beating really is. Democrats on the Hill are reportedly whispering that if they lose the House by a dozen seats or more — i.e. a net pick-up of fifty-two for the GOP — then the caucus will throw Pelosi to the wolves in favor of Hoyer. If it’s much worse than that then even Hoyer may be out and they’ll start from scratch with new faces. So there’s a little extra motivation for you to vote in case you needed any: There’s a slim chance of bringing about a total Democratic meltdown.

My current House GOP pickup prediction?  DOWN to fifty-two.  It's been as high as sixty-seven, so split the difference at sixty seats, the biggest Republican House majority in sixty-four years.

Lone caveat?  What's left of the House Donkaucus will be even farther to the Left and ideologically simpatico with each other.  Without the tiresome tug of now-extinct Blue Dogs to pester them, the Waxmanian survivors may well remain behind San Fran Nan and seek common cause in a two year Long March they'll convince themselves is destined to return them to power along with a re-elected One.

Hey, when I say "delusional," I mean.....well, you get the point.