{"id":24245,"date":"2014-11-06T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:14:26","slug":"the-definition-of-insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-and-expecting-different-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24245","title":{"rendered":"The Definition Of Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing Over And Over And Expecting Different Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/5\/nancy-pelosi-vows-to-stay-on-as-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a> reported yesterday that after Tuesday&#8217;s election, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have both expressed a desire to stay on as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrat party<\/a> leaders in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a id=\"itxthook0\" class=\"itxtnewhook itxthook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/5\/nancy-pelosi-vows-to-stay-on-as-leader\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"itxthook0p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook0w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">House<\/span><\/span><\/a> Minority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/nancy-pelosi\/\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> asked her fellow Democrats to keep her on as their leader in the new Congress next year, saying she still has unfinished goals she wants to accomplish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>She said the chief message she took from Tuesday\u2019s election, which saw Democrats eviscerated at all levels, is that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter suppression\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_suppression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter suppression<\/a> was a problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would be more than willing to guarantee that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Electoral fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter fraud<\/a> on the part of Democrats was more of a problem than voter suppression.<\/p>\n<p>The article also states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Californian<\/a> is likely to get her colleagues\u2019 support to remain as their <a id=\"itxthook2\" class=\"itxtnewhook itxthook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/5\/nancy-pelosi-vows-to-stay-on-as-leader\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"itxthook2p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook2w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">leader<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and Senate Democrats\u2019 leader, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Harry Reid\" href=\"http:\/\/reid.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Sen. Harry Reid<\/a>, has indicated he will stay on as they shift to the minority, meaning that despite devastating losses in both chambers, Democrats will keep their leadership team intact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama<\/a> is the major part of the reason the Democrats took a beating on Tuesday, but Representative Pelosi and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Senate)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Senator<\/a> Reid were also part of the problem. When a football team continually loses games, you change the coaching team. If the Democrats want to regain control of the House and the Senate, they need to retool their leadership team&#8211;it is not an attractive team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reported yesterday that after Tuesday&#8217;s election, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have both expressed a desire to stay on as the Democrat party leaders in Congress. The article reports: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked her fellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,8345,8346],"class_list":["post-24245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrat-party","tag-representative-nancy-pelosi","tag-senator-harry-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24246,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions\/24246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}