Pelosi Turns Down Cantor’s SOTU Invite…via Twitter
- Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:30pm by
Meredith Jessup
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It’s high school all over again on Capitol Hill — the four-eyed wallflower can’t get a date with the most popular girl in school.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has turned down Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s invitation to sit side-by-side during Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Pelosi informed the Republican lawmaker — via Twitter — that she had already invited another colleague, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., to sit with her.
“I thank @GOPLeader for his #SOTU offer, but I invited my friend Rep. Bartlett from MD yesterday & am pleased he accepted,” Pelosi tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
Don’t worry — Cantor rebounded quickly, announcing Tuesday morning — also via Twitter — that he would be sitting with Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.
From a media outlet that cares about gossip like this, the Washington Post reported:
Cantor told reporters Tuesday morning that his office had extended an invitation to Pelosi and that he was waiting to hear back. The invitation came a day after he made an unprompted jab at Pelosi during a pen-and-pad briefing with reporters at which he charged that “it seems that [Pelosi] is continuing to drive an ideological agenda, just the same as she did over the last four years.”
Let‘s hope President Obama doesn’t have anything substantive to say in his annual address since the bi-partisan seating chart seems to be all the media cares out lately.
Coming up next: Capitol Fashion Report — who was a hit and who was a miss on the SOTU red carpet?
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Comments (215)
suran
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:53pmIt IS just like high school!
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:52pmGrade School.
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:52pmWhat the hell is going on in this country??? Isn’t this just chummy. F-THIS!!! This sitting together is the biggest load of crap… Repubs letting Dems control them once again. I like it best when the government isn’t getting along and working together to spend our money endlessly.
WARNING: We are watching you CONGRESSIONAL REPLUBLICANS. You had better live up to your collective word or we’ll deal with you in 2012.
Report Post »Ghostflames
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:23pmSadly, the Republicans still don’t seem to get it.
I am afraid that a 3rd party is in the offing…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:51pmDon’t forget the corsage, and take pictures!! They already have limo’s and the entertainment is a comedy speaker. It’s BYO though.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:51pmIt’s Bushes Fault
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:51pmJust one more thing that good old Thos Jefferson was right about. Just mail the speech in to Congress, who cares? Anybody with half of a working brain already knows what is going to be said. And every stinkin’ bit of it is going to be crap, including who sits with who!
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:50pmI thought we were the party of “no”..
Report Post »andync77
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:50pmRepublicans are so stupid. Please, God, give them a backbone one day.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:54pmandync77;
Do they need wisdom or courage? I suggest both.
Report Post »OnfireNY
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:49pmNext you’ll see them shooting spit balls at each other. (I know, you’ll have to review this post before it can be displayed.) Another thing will there be detention if they act out during the speech?
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:48pmThere is definitely some foreign substance in the capital water supply. They’re all under the influence of some mind altering drug. Is MK Ultra alive and well?
Report Post »Firelight
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:58pmIt’s called the MSM. Libs lie — nothing new —
Report Post »DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:48pmI wonder what it was like to be a citizen of Rome at the end. Maybe Obama will brings us more games.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:48pmPathetic and embarrassing on so many levels.
Sitting together? What a meaningless charade.
Report Post »BlazingInSC
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:47pmWe in 5th grade here? Hey Cantor – how about just passing her a note in private with the “If you like me, check the yes box” crap written in it. Eff the likes of Pelosi. There is a reason they didn’t extend the olive branch during their reign of terror – so it’s perfectly reasonable for you to reciprocate the same lack of kindness to them. They don’t care – get it? Or do you just like being played?
I know, Cantor doesn’t read these posts. I sometimes just have to do the 1st person rant to get my feelings off of my chest. :) Blaze On!
Report Post »RichMan
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:47pmAnd Rep. Kantor would gain “what” from his proximity to Ms. Pelosi. Frustration abounds.
Report Post »poofster
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:47pmvomit
Report Post »Slobaphobe
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:46pmClearly the “un”vite. He already knew she was going with someone else.
Report Post »Penn
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:46pmSome dems have called conservatives racists, terrorists, sexually repressed, sexually deviant, zombies, nazis, rednecks, bible bangers, morons, fascists among others…and now they want us to cross the aisle and sit with them. There‘s only one reason I’d cross the aisle, to throw them out.
Report Post »MMR
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:43pmI’m surprised that the **** can twit. LOL
Report Post »Dale
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:41pmRelax, it’s just High School (or Jr. High), with much higher stakes.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:41pmOh LOOK…a distraction!
Report Post »mgibs363
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:39pmAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! My worst nightmare, politics and highschool mixed together!!!!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:06pmThe only thing that would make it worse is if they all still had pimples.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:37pm***SCREAMS**** I have had enough of this sit together BS.
On another note…..Obama will ask for $$ for more green jobs. Isn’t that spending? Or more to the point…throwing $$ away.
Report Post »stargazer qmc
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:48pmI’m all for green jobs– you know, the ones that come from private enterprise and put some real “green” in people’s pockets.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:59pmRemember, tonight wild spending is “investment”.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:36pmHa ha, Pelosi thought it was a Sadie Hawkins dance.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:47pmprehaps, Pelosi will give Mr. Bartlett a ride on Broomstick1. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:20pmI hope Dorothy shows up with a bucket of water and melts the old witch!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:56pm(still laughing) you guys kill me…….oops violent rhetoric.
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:36pmAdd your comments
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:44pmpenny for your thought ?
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:52pmyou’re on a roll tower
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:35pmI am totally sicken by these Left vs Right NWO CFR Bilderburg scum
Report Post »Laughing at us and thinking we are to dumb to see them for what they are.
tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:40pmFunny they both did support TARP
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:43pmMeet the old boss Same as the New.
Report Post »ablisterin
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:47pmWould like to put them all across my knee and give them a good blisterin’.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:53pmNEW WORLD ORDER?
aaaaaaahaahhhahahahahaaa
what a freak
Hey TOWER SEVEN WEENIE CAMP
there has been a new world order every since Christopher Columbus discovered the New World
check into it
idiot
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:19pmSo the Pope is the devil now
WOW
Want a TIN FOIL hat with your Conspiracy Fantasy?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:09pmFloridacracker I see no problem with the Pope also being involved
Report Post »this guy makes some interesting points
http://troyspace2.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/rothschilds-papal-royal-knights/
there are many possibilities and they have unlimited resources to hide the Truth
from the sheep.
tower7femacamp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:13pmI feel this beast has 3 legs
Report Post »1 – religion = Rome
2 – Banking = Rothschilds
3 – ruling = British royal family
I am open to other possibilities
except DRIP ROT
this debate is for adults only.
Oldphoto678
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:43pmYes we are laughing at you. We will never stop laughing at you.
Report Post »GEETAR
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:43pmPelosi,s afraid Cantor will clash with the plastic in her face
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:27pmCantor is much better off he’d never get prom king sitting next to her, because she’d NEVER be prom queen.
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:32pm@ tower7femacamp…..
SHUT UP STUPID ! ! ! You are soooo far off base. WOW, you say “ this debate is for adults only”, and YOU TALK LIKE A MONGREL…..Just like your username points out, YOU believed the entire FEMA PRISON CAMPS B.S ……. You need to stop watching the Twilght Zone so much, and learn about what you speak of… !! !! !! VICTORY or DEATH !! !! !!
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:42pm@ Floridacracker
YOU HAVE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, tower7femacamp is WAY OFF BASE, caught up in all the secular trype, not knowing at all what the SCAREY truth is. Keep up the research and keep spreading the word. God Bless! . !! !! !! VICTORY or DEATH !! !! !!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:32pmI’m disgusted with this whole thing.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:36pmSo am I Kate. I’m sure Eric Cantor is heartbroken over that. How shocking that Nancy wouldn’t want to sit next to a true conservative. Lol. This whole seating thing is such a joke. I bet Cantor asked Pelosi only because he was sure she wouldn’t do it.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Ed Schultz lesson in civility video
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:36pmIt’s a trap!!!!
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:39pmAnd things are going to change, just how is that?
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:40pmNow, thats clASS.
See Nancy Poles-I-dont-see crushed to death by Sarah Palin’s corpulent Joy Behar avatar body while the grizzly clan sends the criminals to jail in this animated web satire “A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale”. Ridicule is the weapon of mass destruction of tyrants and totalitarians.
http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »Avidmonkey
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:41pmRepublicans get the power and NOW the Dems want to talk about “bi-partisanship.”
Report Post »And, once again, they fall for it.
P C BE DAMNED
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:42pmWe are tired of the representatives we send to DC of becoming brainless and selling out. We want you to set separate from the Communists and the Traitors to America. So you are easily spotted when you stand up or sit out the silly applom to a tyrant radical president. We will remember your downfall and help you to it as you help America to her downfall. We are not playing games as you are. There are lives at stake and a possibility the entire Earth may go into darkness for a Thousand Years. Stop It.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:44pmWhats wrong with you Cantor ?
Report Post »Are you always looking for ways to make us puke ?
richauthor
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:54pmI have to agree with Rush on this one. This is NOT what we were saying when we voted last November. We did not want our candidates to make nice with the opposition, we wanted our candidates to stand up for themselves and hold the line against this liberal onslaught we’ve been enduring since Pelosi was first elected Speaker.
Report Post »Firelight
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:55pmI’m with you —- Still flying my “Culpepper Minute Men” flag with pride. Don’t forget to smile and wave —- see you at the voting booth in 2012. We the People have our eyes open.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:58pmThe Congress puts more effort into this seating arrangement than they did the Patriot Act. Doesn’t THAT speak VOLUMNS? Ignoramouses.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:00pmCantor made the gester and the memo sent out by Obama must have missed Nancy. All bets should be off, the GOP needs to sit on their side of the aisle and if the dems want civility, let them fill in the empty seats. At least Pelosi is making it clear how the dems really feel.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:00pmI think the two persons that she might want sit next to are Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro…
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:02pmAny chance Joan Rivers will be on the Red Carpet?
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:02pmTheir doing this to get close to the Progressives
Report Post »so they can shoot them in the ……. no no no
i mean stomp them on their toes
BMartin1776
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:03pmI agree this whole sitting together thing is a disgrace what are they in 4th grade? Everyone right now get on the phone slam DC and DEMAND your rep sit where they want. Tell them to hell with political correctness!
Rome is burning and the children are wasting time where to sit to watch it! Liberties Lost, Death of the Republic? How Much Is Enough? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zkGZRfj24
http://www.savingtherepublic,con
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:08pmThe Republicans will never get it. No matter what they do the MEDIA will always hate them.
Everyone of the Republicans could dontae both kidneys to some poor liberal and the MEDIA will say that its just a ploy to cut spending and starve children.
It wouldnt matter if every Republican in the house all single file walked by Obama and bent over and kissed his ass. THE MEDIA WILL ALWAYS HATE THEM
Report Post »101
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:20pmDog & Pony Show…puke!
Now for the next year we will hear nothing from the speech, just the he/she was sitting next to me & the BS begins!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:27pmThey are all twits. Let’s get some farmers, craftsmen, small businessmen, and maybe a token lawyer to fill the seats in Congress, just sorta like Jefferson envisioned.
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:29pmOh yea the democrats want to work with the republicans, RIGHT ! the republicans had better wise up and “know thine enemy”
Report Post »Snowleopard the artist {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:31pmI guess Pelosi must be awaiting the arrival of Lord Soros a.k.a “Spooky Dude” and his puppet of the puppets – Obama.
Report Post »HITLER-HIDING-IN-SF
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:42pmNancy, can not sit side by side with anyone,she needs space to jump up and down during the SOTU
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:53pmI agree … SIT IN YOUR OWN SEATS ON YOUR OWN SIDE OF THE AISLE .. RNC if not … no support of any kind from me …. they need to pay if they fall for this cr*p!
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:54pmditto
Report Post »how childish, grow up
SlippedThroughAWormHole
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:56pmThey should wear T-shirts -” I’m With Stupid ->”. Talk about confusion.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:01pmReport Cards Are Out…
Democrats[FAIL] Republicans[FAIL] President[FAIL]
Report Post »ltb
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:04pmI think it’s time for the 50% of us who pay income taxes to say, “screw you,” to Uncle Sam. Let them play their stupid games, I couldn‘t care less as long as it doesn’t cost me anything.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:16pmI hope they are all wearing their ‘mood rings’ so we can tell what’s really going on inside.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:30pmCantor must feel like he just won the lottery!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:52pmWhat a bunch of idiots. I am embarassed for the lot of them.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:59pmSo true Kate. The whole SOTU is a big joke, just a big bag of lies. I wouldn’t believe Obama no matter what he says so why even listen. I’ll probably listen to the responses just to see who actually takes this guy seriously.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:00pmWill Frank be sitting next to Kagan? They are both gay men, aren’t they?
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:11pmHey Republicans…quit with all the nice guy stuff with the DAMN Democrats. We sent you to Washington to get things done. Not make friends with the enemy. Hey…told you so folks. Typical politicians….don’t expect anything out of these guys. Sorry but at this point show me something or you are just like the rest.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:19pmHow did this guy get to be majority leader, Where in the Hell are our tea party people????? We need to put a stop to this crap now!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:29pmas I am Kate!!!!
Report Post »beckNcall
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:07pmDittos. If the weasels in Washington think this is a plus with the American people, well boys (& girls) think again. This is the most childish, stupid waste of time to date.
Report Post »Well, it’s time to stop drinking the kool aid and have a glass of TEA. Gotta get more tea party people in office 2012 and HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE!
How sickening to see Boehner stop referring to the Health care bill as a ‘job killer’ because the LIBBIES in the media forced him into submission. Good to see Congressmen Bobby Schilling and Mike Lee didn’t bend on that little point. They are still saying ‘job killing or job crushing’ health care bill and didn’t let the murdering whack job and the media have their way…….
God have mercy on the United States of America please!
glorious
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:19pmagreed
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:42pmYAY !!! Isn’t this just fun ?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:01am@cnsrvtvj…No Cantor lost a bet.. or he picked the short straw..
Report Post »panz
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:23amThe entire “who ya going to sit by” was juvenile. I was embarassed for the entire lot of them because they appear to be too stupid to be embarassed for themselves. I guess the adults are out here and the children are running washington. pathetic.
Report Post »panz
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:27amThis was done to scatter the applause to make it harder to tell who was actually applauding.
Report Post »mairfromkalifornia
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:23amIt offends me greatly…………..stupid high school bahaviour…..we voted in november….to STOP them, not date them….grow up and stop Obama, we do not want to meet socialism in the middle….we do not want half@#$ healthcare, please do your job GOP
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:23pmI would not sit beside her in fear of catching something – like Stupidity
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