2 more years for Pelosi

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/18/politics/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-leave-position/index.html

But hasn't ruled out 2022

[walkingman]

1. A true American Icon and Hero - thanks NANCY!!!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Ah,

believe Ms.Pelosi has her Heir Apparent in Training as we speak. Did she not appoint a Lady Congress Person yesterday as Deputy Leader or Second in Command?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Congressman Xavier Becerra of California as Assistant to the Speaker

[StarfishSaver]

14. Xavier Becerra is no longer in Congress

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Yup

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Bio..btw it's a guy

Xavier Becerra is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 33rd and current Attorney General of California since 2017. He previously was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Downtown Los Angeles in Congress from 1993 to 2017. Wikipedia
Born: January 26, 1958 (age 62 years), Sacramento, CA

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Sorry about the Gender.

Great choice.

[trackfan]

6. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts was appointed.

Xavier Becerra previously held the job, but is currently the Attorney General of California (and a possible choice for appointment to fill Kamala Harris's seat).

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Okay,we stand corrected.

Clark will be a Political force to deal with.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Definitely more excited now. Member of progressive caucus.

And like the way she thinks! Might be out of the box thinker.

In January 2017, Clark announced a boycott of the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was part of a small group of House and Senate members who chose to boycott Trump's swearing-in ceremony. Her reasons, according to The Boston Globe, for not attending were due to her desire not to "normalize" Trump's promotion of "bigoted, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and racist claims."[51]

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Do remember this.

Wonderful to see some one from a out spoken progressive group being selected as the number two in the Organization Chart.

[Wounded Bear]

9. I'm OK with that...

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we need to eventually get younger, but Ms Pelosi is still on top of her game.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Hmmmm:)

[PufPuf23]

12. What I would like to see, with close to zero probability of happening,

is for Pelosi to take AOC under her arm now and groom AOC for a future speakership.

With that training and being that much the insider, AOC matures and makes her positions more practical in a political sense.

AOC would have gravitas should Pelosi be her direct mentor and pass on what she knows. An AOC benfiting that directly from the experience of Pelosi would be awesome for the Democratic party.

I am not saying this would be easy for either, surely conflict in personalites and philosophies. But if Pelosi and AOC could manage to meld Wow. May require Pelosi to stay for 2 more years. If Pelosi and AOC could work together to attain this meld before Pelosi retires, what a gift to us all, the USA, and World as we have effect.

Hope they read this and a thought is planted.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Yes, would be great but it would be a sea change for sure

Strikes me that the role now is non-ideological. More administrative. More traffic cop like. Attempting to please all parties - or at least keep them in line. Why it didn't seem right to me that a person in this position, as it was for 4 years, should be making strategic and policy decisions about impeachment. But to be fair, we didn't really have a strategy/policy leader since we were out of power. And it didn't appear that schumer was the one. Without a leader, and given the most unusual phenomenon of the trump horror, perhaps the former living Dem presidents should have gotten integrally involved. We will never know.

Now that we will have the policy leader, hard to know how things will change. Can't see Biden promoting anything way out there. Perhaps we need someone more progressive before AOC? to groom her for future??

[StarfishSaver]

17. Agree

This is the wrong job for AOC, she'd be wrong for the job, and she likely has no interest in it.

[StarfishSaver]

16. I doubt AOC has any interest in being Speaker

It requires a particular skill set she doesn't have and is not the kind of job someone with her skills and talents would be interested in. She's an activist, not an administrator.