Posted on 07/13/2019 7:47:00 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) sought to energize progressive activists on Saturday, telling a crowd that lawmakers shouldn’t “ask for permission or wait for an invitation to lead.”
Omar, addressing the Netroots Nation conference, an annual meeting of progressive activists, appeared to take jabs at Democratic House leadership after a week of tension between her fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
“We recognize every single person has a role. Our role is to take our votes. Leadership’s role is to wrangle votes. And so if everybody understands what their role is, then everybody succeeds,” Omar said.
Omar made the comments on a panel alongside Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), two of her fellow freshman congresswomen. Along with Ocasio-Cortez, the lawmakers are known in Washington as “the squad.”
Omar appeared to double down on House progressives' feud with their party's leadership, suggesting that tensions within the party remain.
She said during the “Making Herstory: The Women Who Are Shifting the Balance of Power in Washington” keynote address that there's a "struggle, often times, with people who have power about sharing that power.”
“We are not really in the business of asking for the share of that power. We are in the business of trying to grab that power and return it to the people,” Omar added.
Omar's remarks came days after the four freshman congresswomen got into a heated public tangle with Pelosi, prompting the Speaker to admonish lawmakers during a closed-door caucus meeting this week.
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Trump will remember that when he makes border policy, invades Iran or do any of the duties he needs to do without the support of our deep state commie Congress.
Like spoiled children they think they’re in charge until the run into the people that control the checkbooks.
I heard that Nancy Pelosi called them a bunch of dirty little snots.
We are in the business of trying to grab that power..............
.................for Allah.
All Pelosi has to do is remove them from all committees ... but she won’t.
Revolution in progress
Well you go girl. Make it your mission to tell all your Democrat colleagues to ignore Missy Pelosi and do what they think is best.
“Vanity is my favorite sin.”
She wont do anything publicly thats linked to her. She will have a “natural occurence” happen.Its bad optics within the party. She has to maintain “encouraging the youth”.
Was she wrong? Should she not have said that? (smirking)
“Dirty little snots,” indeed.
I never would have thought I would be supporting San Fran Nan on any issue whatsoever.
I have to wonder if one or more of this socialist fearsome foursome might not soon meet with a “terrible accident.”
We on the Right will know we’re winning once the DemonRATs start offing each other — either politically or physically.
I would settle for reputations and political careers destroyed.
But did’t the Bolsheviks turn on the Mensheviks. And didn’t Stalin pretty much eliminate the old Bolshies in his purges.
Leftism and violence go together like ... check that, Leftism IS violence.
The Four Horse’s Asses of the Apocalypse.
However, if no one follows you....
No, just the four most photogenic and drama talented of the seven congresspeople sponsored by the so-called Justice Democrats.
Twenty-six of the seventy-nine they sponsored won their primaries but didn’t make it through the general. Seven made it all the way through. They are surely hoping for better results in 2020.
Generally speaking, those who cannot follow, cannot lead. Splinter groups and terrorists included.
“Humility is the virtue of which I am most proud”
Allahole?
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