Pelosi downplays divisions with Ocasio-Cortez after meeting

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday downplayed any divisions between the party brass and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) following a meeting with the progressive freshman, who has ruffled feathers within the caucus for her aggressive brand of liberal activism.

Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez huddled in the Speaker's office in the Capitol Friday morning for approximately 30 minutes amid lingering tensions between liberals and moderates over the party's approach to immigration, Israel and other hot-button issues — a feud that's found Democratic leaders scrambling for unity.

Pelosi emerged from that meeting largely dismissing the idea that there are tensions between the two.

"I don't think we have that many differences," she said. "We had a nice meeting. We had a nice meeting."



Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/454879-pelosi-downplays-divisions-with-ocasio-cortez-after-meeting

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!

[mcar]

2. Whole thing was way overblown

Media has to have their "Dems in disarray" narrative.

[gtar100]

3. Another republican attempting to write an objective article.

They just can't help themselves.

[NBachers]

4. I don't see differences of opinion as a "feud."

They just can't leave it alone, can't they?

[usaf-vet]

5. I wonder who brought the boxing glove to the meeting. To the right of the phone on the cabinet.

No apparent injuries. Good for the team.

[lagomorph777]

7. Gift from Senator Harry Reid?

I think he and Nancy are friends.

[Dave Starsky]

6. What a completely bullshit headline that is.

It presumes tensions during the meeting that we obviously don't have direct evidence of, and it states it as fact. The Hill can kiss my ass.

I am so sick and tired of this "Dems in disarray" meme that the media is so desperately trying to push. As if the shambling truck stop restroom explosion in The White House isn't the physical embodiment of Chaos itself.

[FredSanderson]

8. Absolutely. Harping about divisions in the party; apparently unable to distinguish between

divisions, meaning a rift, and normal differences on policy.

The media seems incapacitated by the notion of a Democratic party being able to hold healthy debates over policies as opposed to being a certain other party of lemmings with no differences and zero debate...just follow the Pied Piper of Stupid.

Meanwhile the chronic and epidemic chaos and disfunction of the WH gets nary a mention.