Pelosi: GOP targeting me because I'm effective

[mcar]

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/386476-pelosi-gop-targeting-me-because-im-effective

Pelosi: GOP targeting me because I’m effective

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent interview that Republicans target her because she is “effective.”

“I take it as I’m effective,” Pelosi told The Associated Press. “I also happen to be, apart from anyone who’s running for president or been the presidential nominee, the biggest fundraiser in the country."

Pelosi also said House Democrats have both the political climate and fundraising to help them win the lower chamber in the upcoming midterm elections.

“This is not going to be big margins,” Pelosi told the news outlet. “It is going to be small margins in many places.”

[Me.]

1. Raising Expectations

but not over promising...so let's hope the Dems over deliver

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. OH so that is the other reason the right and far left dont like her, fundraising

[mcar]

3. Oh yeah!

Sad to see some on the left supporting the right on this.

[Me.]

4. But Not Surprising

OR do you see it differently...

[mcar]

6. Not me

I do think it's sad, though.

[helmedon1974]

5. Same reason so many fall for the Hillary stories.

I think the media is as much to blame for Trump as anything else.

[progressoid]

12. Who on the left is supporting the right on this?

[mcar]

13. Many on the left are saying Pelosi should step down*

Because she's "divisive" (there's that word again). There have been many posts here on DU about it.

*Not all on the left.

[progressoid]

17. But that's not what the article addresses.

It talks about her effectiveness and fund raising abilities.

Who on the left supports the right's attacks because of her effectiveness and fund raising abilities?

[mcar]

18. I've read posts here that denigrate her because she's a good fundraiser

and insist she's not been effective, because of the aforementioned "divisiveness." Some want her replace by a white male Dem congressman because...

[Hekate]

25. Our experience here at DU is a steady trickle of alleged Dems insisting we need all new faces...

...in the House, and that Nancy is old, tired, close to death (if you look at actuarial tables), out of new ideas, out of touch, needs to be primaried by a real progressive, not inspirational to young progressives, a millstone around our necks, and a lightning rod for GOP hatred. The latest one said we needed "a housecleaning from top to bottom" -- which at least had the virtue of targeting every Dem with experience and not just the women.

Friends, did I leave anything out?

Progressoid, these things have been posted often enough at DU that I have memorized them without even trying. "Who on the left?" you ask. Look around you.

[EffieBlack]

26. Good compilation

I’ve asked several people which “new faces” they’d replace her with and what qualities make them suited to be Speaker.

Nothing but crickets ...

[progressoid]

30. Hypothetically, if someone on the left,

let's say a life-long Democrat and supporter of liberal causes, should have legitimate criticisms of another Democrat (Pelosi or otherwise). How does that life-long Democrat voice those criticisms on DU without being labeled as someone 'siding with the right', a Russian troll/bot or some other lame accusation?

[Hekate]

31. Try to be very specific and not use the string of unthinking buzz-words I listed.That should suffice

Don't you think so?

[progressoid]

32. So don't call the leadership of the party "old and creaky" then.

[Hekate]

33. I think you can work this out for yourself

Don't you?

[ehrnst]

10. Duh...

[Cha]

7. Good on Nancy.. speaking

out for herself!

Mahalo, mcar

[BigmanPigman]

8. She is a good leader.

I think the RW trolls are doing what they do best...sow misinformation and foster divisions (divide and conquer).

[ehrnst]

9. Well, yes. (nt)

[Gothmog]

11. The GOP hates Nancy Pelosi because she is effective

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[mcar]

14. Right!

Isn't it sad that some on the left seem to agree?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Contents of this tweet, that you neglected to include

A number of DU members are not able to see tweets. Besides, it saves many DU members some time clicking through.

Ian Millhiser
‏Verified account @imillhiser

Ian Millhiser Retweeted Paul Kane

I never thought GOP attacks on Pelosi were about winning elections. They are about tricking Dems into removing their most effective leader.

Ian Millhiser added,

Paul Kane
Verified account @pkcapitol
Republicans see diminished value in anti-Pelosi campaign. They need more than that to save majority. My guest hosting of #daily202
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/04/daily-202-hey-republicans-pelosi-attack-ads-may-not-be-enough-to-keep-the-house/5aeb6b3b30fb042db57972e3/ …

[MarinCoUSA]

16. "Because I'm effective" The Lady doth persist.

Hell Yeah! Go Nancy! Tell it like it is and givin' 'em hell at the same time.

[RandomAccess]

19. She's right, she IS effecive, BUT --

they'd demonize and then target whoever was our leader. It's not like Schumer gets off the hook.

The latent national misogyny, of course, makes it all the more effective (and appalling)

[Wounded Bear]

20. She's not wrong...

[rockfordfile]

21. The problem with Pelosi is she should have done what she said, " drain the swamp."

Republicans were there then with us on draining the swamp. She didn't do it and lost credibility. Even got a Democratic President.

[mcar]

22. When did Pelosi say "drain the swamp?"

I don't understand this post.

[rockfordfile]

23. Pelosi mentioned that in 2006

You don't remember that?

[mcar]

29. Something she said 12 years ago?

No, I don't remember.

[Hekate]

24. Believe it!

[Gothmog]

27. K&R

[Garrett78]

28. A lot of it has to do with exploiting hatred for women and "San Francisco values"/liberalism.

But, by no means, should the Democratic Party give in to such hatred. They should loudly decry sexism and misogyny, along with white supremacy and xenophobia.