Posted on 11/26/2022 8:12:50 AM PST by Libloather
Hakeem Jeffries seems poised to replace Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats. A Black political moderate, the Brooklyn congressman is often likened to Barack Obama. Even-tempered, he is known to “play” with most of the children in Washington. And at 52, he represents generational change from the 82-year-old Pelosi.
Who among Democrats would have a problem with him? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have a problem. She also has problems with President Joe Biden and, frankly, the mainstream Democratic Party off which she feeds. A preening socialist princess, she has done much to entertain Fox News and cost the Democrats their House majority.
“The last time I ran into AOC,” said Sean Patrick Maloney, one of four Democrats to lose his suburban New York district to a Republican, “we were beating her endorsed candidate two to one in a primary, and I didn’t see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority.”
Ocasio-Cortez has a long record of pushing primary challenges to Democrats deemed insufficiently radical. These attempts are almost always unsuccessful though draining to the incumbent. Shortly after she was first elected to Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez reportedly put Jeffries on her list of Democrats to get rid of.
She didn’t follow through, but the threat prompted Jeffries to help start a group called Team Blue, which raised money for Democrats being challenged from the left. The time has come for Team Blue to turn the threats around and support good progressives willing to primary the homewreckers of the left fringe.
They might also consider Pramila Jayapal, another pain in the Democrats’ butt.
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Doncha want to “date” her first? Lol 😂….
Jeffries is a moderate?
Since she was just re-elected Demx have 2 years to find domeone to primary her
Pointless. Every Democrat Communist is a rubber stamp vote.
Like a visiting team baseball pitcher giving up home runs I say, “Leave her in!”
She is way worse than Crowley was and her brand of idiocy is appealing to the growing generation.
No. He’s not. He’s everything that AOC is for but he knows how to play the leadership ladder climbing game better and is a loyal political progeny of former Rep. Joe Crowley, the guy AOC beat in 2018.
Hey Froma, ALL demonrats are cancer. Every. Single. One.
They need to get rid of AOC as soon as possible.
That train left the station with he winning that last primary. Stuck with that slag hag for another term.
It was time for the Democrats to primary AOC two years ago, after her first term. Now she is too entrenched and gets money from far left socialists from all around the country. It would be like trying to primary Nancy Pelosi.
They did and she won..easily
Yeah...I was thinking he’d shift the Overton Window further left than Pelosi, once entrenched in leadership.
That was my first question, too. Perhaps "moderate" for a chameleon. Go along to get along, no firm convictions of his own.
Ever.
Jefferies and MODERATE is an oxymoron! But then, given the Dems he might be...
There are much more compelling targets to take out than idiot eyecandy.
Using the logic of the author, Martin Luther King would be a white supremist and head of the KKK.
One year, really. Find a decent candidate, and hope that a presidential election fuels turn-out. I think most of them are quite happy with The Squad, though.
Time to send Sandy the Squawd Leader back to the Tequila and Taco Shack.
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