Posted on 09/15/2019 3:53:58 PM PDT by Libloather
A day before the House Judiciary Committee took its biggest step yet toward impeachment last week, moderate Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi voiced his frustrations directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The battleground freshman told Pelosi and other leaders at a closed-door meeting that he and other centrists feared that talk of impeaching President Donald Trump was threatening to swamp the Democratic agenda, according to multiple people in the room.
“It’s very frustrating for me - someone coming from a district that was one of the districts that helped get us into the majority - having so much focus on things like impeachment or other issues that are divisive,” Brindisi said in an interview, adding that he’s been talking to fellow swing-district freshmen who have similar concerns with the fall agenda. “We should be focusing on the kitchen table issues.”
In the same meeting, another moderate in the room, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), pointed to alarming polling from the Democrats’ campaign arm, which showed that voters think the party is “prioritizing impeachment over other issues,” according to an internal summary obtained by POLITICO.
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Democrats are committing treason.
So what’s new?
The agenda is to impeach President Donald Trump.
Tards all.
Antifa needs to go kick the moderate out of those recalcitrant DemonRats.
Brindisi is my congresscritter. The district bounces back between Rep and Dem. I think this article is to provide cover for Brindisi so he can say to folks back home he does not support impeachment and most of all he is not a toady for Pelosi. Fox news ran a story on him this past Friday about being against impeachment. My wife trusts him, I don’t.
Fixed it for you.
There’s no such thing as a moderate Democrat now. Only Democrats who are attempting to downplay their socialism.
Someone needs to ask him how he feels about Beto’s remarks.
Socialism is the vampire, sucking the life out of Democrat Party.
Yeah, I’m totally sick and tired of this impeachment nonsense, but if it keeps democrats from advancing their agendas then I say, keep it up.
The democrat party is chock full of immature brats.
Yeah, I think he should go on record about how he fills about Beto wanting to confiscate AR-15s and AK-47. Lots of hunters up here, and Remington Arms is in his district. Before he ran for this district he had max scores from the NRA. He backed away and started supporting calling for a ban on high-capacity magazines and expanding firearm background checks.
....”Socialism is the vampire, sucking the life out of Democrat Party”.....
But they are offering up their necks!
There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat. Somebody is blowing smoke.
Impeach EVERYONE \o/
But talking about essentials without cooperating with the other guy won't get anything done. A bill in Congress has to pass both houses and be signed by the President before it becomes an actual law. Does this new congressman understand that part?
Yup. Don’t stop them when they’re digging deeper.
Moderate Democrats?? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
I do know if they vote to impeach him now and it goes nowhere in the Senate (which will be the case), they will not be able to do it again in his second term and he will be able to run in 2020 saying he was exonerated (which will be true).
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