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DEM MINORITY LEADER. Tim Ryan leave NANCY PELOSI ALONE!!! (Original Post) trueblue2007 Nov 2016 OP
I agree with this, actually. MADem Nov 2016 #1
How about some discussion, explanation elleng Nov 2016 #2
discussion? I LIKE NANCY !!!!! NANCY PELOSI is a bad ass, intelligent woman. GET OUT OF HER WAY!! trueblue2007 Nov 2016 #5
No need for 'whatever' snark. elleng Nov 2016 #6
Don't worry she's going to win...but a little competition is good. TrekLuver Nov 2016 #3
Now where have I heard that before? WhiteTara Nov 2016 #4
Tim Ryan LT TX Nov 2016 #7
Talk ABout Biting The Hand That Feeds you Me. Nov 2016 #9
Who are you quoting? LT TX Nov 2016 #12
I AGREE W/ YOUR TOTALLY. Nancy's STRONG WILL has made the GOP's come around to her way of thinking trueblue2007 Nov 2016 #13
I agree. kentuck Nov 2016 #14
1000 Me. Nov 2016 #8
Remember Harold Ford or as he is now known phallon Nov 2016 #10
I think Johnson MFM008 Nov 2016 #11

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. I agree with this, actually.
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:04 PM
Nov 2016

If we can flip the House, and impeach Trump AND Pence in one fell swoop, we've got ourselves a female POTUS.

Hmmmm!

trueblue2007

(17,203 posts)
5. discussion? I LIKE NANCY !!!!! NANCY PELOSI is a bad ass, intelligent woman. GET OUT OF HER WAY!!
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:48 PM
Nov 2016

I REALLY don't want to say more. I admire her and I want her as our minority leader. If you don't agree, well whatever.

elleng

(130,861 posts)
6. No need for 'whatever' snark.
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:54 PM
Nov 2016

I'd like to know why anyone would object to alternative options.

Tim Ryan is running.

'Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) talks to Rachel Maddow about challenge Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader. Ryan talked about the direction he thinks the Democrats should take going forward.

"We need to represent the entire party and these working class people rely on us," Ryan said Thursday night. We need a strong Democratic Party in the United States and right now, you know, we're reeling."

"We've got to talk about the future," he said. "And I think we are going to have to win 30 or 40 congressional districts in the southern part of the country, in red congressional districts, southern Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan. We've got to win seats that are Upstate New York."'

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/rep_tim_ryan_on_pelosi_challenge_we_need_a_leader_who_can_represent_entire_party_win_in_oh_wi_mi.html

Democrats surely must be able to open our minds.

WhiteTara

(29,699 posts)
4. Now where have I heard that before?
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:24 PM
Nov 2016
Seems it was right before the destruction of Hillary Clinton began. I say, Leave Nancy Alone!

LT TX

(104 posts)
7. Tim Ryan
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:56 PM
Nov 2016

I like both of them, but I think it is time for new blood. I saw him on Rachel Maddow and was very impressed. We need to start looking at the future of the party and who can lead it.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
9. Talk ABout Biting The Hand That Feeds you
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 12:52 AM
Nov 2016

“Ryan is a member of the "30 Something" Working Group,[7] which is a Congressional caucus that includes those members of the United States House of Representatives who are Democrats and have not yet reached the age of 40. It was organized by the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to energize and engage younger people in politics by focusing on issues that are important to them.[8]”

Also he is too conservative to me, does not signal new blood.

LT TX

(104 posts)
12. Who are you quoting?
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 11:16 AM
Nov 2016

& I meant new blood as in he has not stepped forward in a national leadership role before. Most average voters from outside his district have never heard of him.

trueblue2007

(17,203 posts)
13. I AGREE W/ YOUR TOTALLY. Nancy's STRONG WILL has made the GOP's come around to her way of thinking
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 05:28 PM
Nov 2016

She has even FORCED THEM to come to heal. She is STRONG and that is what we need now that the Dems are in the minority.

Tim Ryan is not a leader .... YET.

MFM008

(19,804 posts)
11. I think Johnson
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 02:24 AM
Nov 2016

Is as frustrated and angry as the rest of us. Trying to affect what he sees as change.
She will have the votes.

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