Posted on 07/13/2019 4:49:56 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, suggested Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hurt the progressive cause when she downplayed the influence of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other freshman lawmakers.
Pelosi told The New York Times last week that Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., "have their public whatever and their Twitter world, but they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
“I don’t think those comments were helpful to a broader picture of how we build progressive power in the House and what it looks like relative to overall Democratic power,” Jayapal said, according to HuffPost.
Jayapal made the remarks while appearing at Netroots Nation, an annual gathering that features panels and training for activists. The Wall Street Journal reported that Pelosi's name was booed when mentioned during the panel discussion that included Jayapal. But in spite of her knock on Pelosi, Jayapal also reportedly defended the Speaker as a "master strategist" even as some took issue with her decision to marshal a GOP-backed border funding package through the House.
That legislation appears to be at the root of the feud as Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley -- a group known as the "squad" -- all voted against the measure despite being vastly outnumbered by members of their own caucus.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. was among those on Friday's panel who pushed back on Pelosi's decision to take up border funding from his chamber. The House "failed" "to carry its weight to restore the values of America," Merkely reportedly said.
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what should we do while our opponents attack each other? watch.
Exactly, watch and enjoy. :^)
I for one, have had enough of “Sandy the Bartender”.
She is the typical pain in the ass broad that you dumped because you realized that she was not worth “life without parole” after you choked her to death.
They should hold a "progressive" protest rally in front of Nancy's District Office -- show her how much progressive/socialist support there is in San Francisco.
Pramila Jayapal = Seattle lunatic
This is more fun than the Iran-Iraq war.
If she means that Nancy put the kibosh on “progressive power”, I hope she is right.
There’s a strong analogy between what these “progressives” are doing to Pelosi and what Trump did to the mainstream Republicans.
LOL! Good one.
Let’s start addressing her by the name our President called her: Cortez. She does not deserve to have a celebrity-like abbreviated code name. It gives her far too much importance. No more AOC. It’s “Cortez”.
>>>what should we do while our opponents attack each other? watch.<<<
And let’s not forget the next mostest importantest thing . . . pop popcorn!
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The Progressive faction of the Democrat House Representatives are in the guilt shaming phase of their takeover of the Democrats. Pelosi won’t know what hit her when they throw her out as speaker.
I agree, that works for me!
[Nancy put the kibosh]
I remember when Joe Davola was gonna put the kibosh on - then he got a hair on his tongue
Who in the hell are these people to redefine “American values?”
And there you have--in a nutshell--the sum total of their interests through everything they do. That was clear recently in AOC's Chief of Staff Charkabarti talking about global warming and their Green New Deal, that it's a cover for controlling people (read: SOCIALISTs/COMMUNISTs/NAZIs) and increasing their power.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, C-Wash.
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progressive is another name for communist.
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