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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
Wed Nov 21, 2018, 09:05 PM Nov 2018

about Nancy Pelosi

let me be honest, Nancy Pelosi has caused me equal measures of inspiration and frustration throughout the years. On the one hand, she seems very ready to take things off the table, and part of me keeps asking myself "Nancy, don't you realize of Republicans are just going to take the half loaf you brought home and will lead into crumbs before any of your starving constituents get so much as a nibble?" On the other hand, anyone who says that she did not pull off a minor miracle this year is a liar and a fool. No we did not get the Senate, but no one is calling for Chuck Schumer to lose his job. Just prying one of the houses of government out of Republican hands, despite latent shading, and directly trying to appeal to the worst of people, is a miracle. Therefore, despite fear that Nancy will once again give Republicans half the loaf from the onset, I think would be foolish not to let her the speaker.

He really does not help that the people calling for Nancy Pelosi's head are people who are out right blue dogs. AOC, the bane of middle-aged centrist everywhere, is not trying to take Nancy Pelosi's head. However, the people who did go ahead and try to get Nancy Pelosi fired our people who have waste that they can "work across the aisle."

Now let me be blunt, considering that the only people who want to get rid of Nancy Pelosi are the people who thought that she was to centrist, the sheer gall of the blue dogs trying to get rid of her is insane. We know that Trump is desperately seeking friends across the aisle because frankly he has betrayed too many of them on his own side. You know that many of the blue dogs going after Pelosi are the same people who will gladly chirp

Oh yes we have to go ahead and give Trump a wall, but look at all the people we're going to feed based on his breadcrumbs." If there is one thing people can agree on on, both millennial's and baby boomers, is that we know that these Benedict Arnold's have already rehearsed their lines, with all the greatest hits of the parade: "we have to do this for greater good," or "we have to get something done." And let's not forget the ever popular "keep us in office and maybe we will do something slightly leftward, maybe."

Sorry, but the people calling for Nancy Pelosi to go are not noble revolutionaries, they want power, and they see that even Nancy Pelosi is getting really tired of being nice. Thus the powers that be are going to do their best to make sure that some blue dog gets in position to ensure that things cannot get done, unless they are things that what used to be called centrist Republicans would approve of. No sale blue dogs, no sale fake revolutionaries.

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about Nancy Pelosi (Original Post) DonCoquixote Nov 2018 OP
Fuch having to give trump a wall. We do not have to do any such thing. brush Nov 2018 #1
Pelosi is one of the few that does not frustrate me. She clearly recognizes the battles and steps Wintryjade Nov 2018 #2
K&R (nt) MarvinGardens Nov 2018 #3

brush

(53,776 posts)
1. Fuch having to give trump a wall. We do not have to do any such thing.
Wed Nov 21, 2018, 09:14 PM
Nov 2018

Spending bills originate in the House. Dems are in charge now.

Now wall for trump.

 

Wintryjade

(814 posts)
2. Pelosi is one of the few that does not frustrate me. She clearly recognizes the battles and steps
Wed Nov 21, 2018, 09:14 PM
Nov 2018

to take. Did I want things done in the past? You bet. I also am honest enough to recognize what I wanted addressed, the confrontations, the challenging criminal behaviors and immoral policy, could not be won and over time have seen why they were not addressed, not winnable. Over time, paying attention to what is up, I have confidence in Pelosi and her leadership.

So no. She is one of the few that does not frustrate me that I know pretty much has it handled. And that is recognizing when I do not get all I want.

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