Trump: ‘I Like Nancy Pelosi’ and Will Help Her Win Race for Speaker

[Anti Federalist]

Scary as $#@!.



As least she's honest about wanting the power.

I was just coming in here to post that.

And the converse is true as well.

Nobody will give you freedom unless you take it, usually from people just like her.

Sadly, nobody seems to have the stomach for what that entails, so here we sit, losing freedom daily while people like this gain power daily.

[oyarde]

Scary as $#@!.




As least she's honest about wanting the power.

And passing bills to see what is in them .

[Swordsmyth]

Sixteen House Democrats vowed on Monday to oppose Nancy Pelosi's bid to become speaker, calling the California Democrat's confident prediction of her speakership into question, reports Politico.

In a controversial letter released on Monday, the Democrats opposing Pelosi called her a "historic figure," but noted that Democratic voters asked for "real change in Washington."
"Our majority came on the backs of candidates who said that they would support new leadership because voters in hard-won districts, and across the country, want to see real change in Washington. We promised to change the status quo, and we intend to deliver on that promise," the letter reads.

The show-of-force underscores the depth of the challenge facing Pelosi, who has led the caucus for 16 years.
Pelosi needs 218 votes among lawmakers present and voting to be elected speaker on Jan. 3. House Democrats have won 233 seats, meaning Pelosi can currently only afford to lose 15 votes.
The letter includes 12 incumbents, three incoming freshman and one candidate, Ben McAdams of Utah, whose race has not been called. -Politico

The letter does not include at least three additional Democratic lawmakers or incoming House members who have confirmed their intention to oppose Pelosi to Politico: Rep. Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Jason Crow of Colorado.
The additional three would bring Pelosi's opposition to 19 members or members-elect - enough to keep her from becoming speaker should nothing change.
Pelosi has insisted for weeks that she will win the speaker vote and has no intention of withdrawing. That said, Monday's letter suggest Pelosi's "pressure campaign" (as Politico puts it) to gain the needed votes has fallen short so far, however her allies note that they still have over a month to persuade the "no" votes.
That said, it might not be as easy as she thinks:

Many of the letter’s signers have told POLITICO that nothing can buy them off — no plum committee posts or chairmanships, as have been used as a carrot for Pelosi critics in the past.
But Rep. Marcia Fudge, a Pelosi critic who is considering a bid for speaker as well, suggested to POLITICO in a Friday interview that Pelosi could possibly win her support should the Californian declare that she will only serve for one more term. Fudge had signed an earlier version of the letter but was not on the letter released Monday. -Politico

Pelosi's critics have been referred to as the "rebels" or "revolutionaries," and have the potential to "throw the entire party into chaos just as Democrats are trying to turn their fire on Donald Trump and pivot toward ousting the president in 2020."
Her opponents say she has hindered the party, however, and that she has put newly elected Democratic members in red or purple districts in political jeopardy if she forces incoming freshmen to vote for her.


More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-house-speaker

It looks like she will need those GOP votes........................

[fedupinmo]

You have to wonder who they would all vote for... if not Pelosi.

[Swordsmyth]

You have to wonder who they would all vote for... if not Pelosi.

Occasio-Cortez?

[AZJoe]

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Dems ( except for new anti-Pelosi crazies, young rebels ) can't speak out against debt/military expansion, Syria/Iran/Yemen violence etc. To be fair, many tops Dems are funded by globally respected billionaire Soros just as MAGA's top funder is respected global minded billionaire Adelson.

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Sixteen Democrats sign letter opposing Pelosi as speaker

“We believe more strongly than ever that the time has come for new leadership in our caucus,” the Democrats wrote.
Updated Nov. 19, 2018 / 4:13 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Sixteen Democrats on Monday released a letter announcing their opposition to electing Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaker of the House, presenting her a narrow path to reclaiming the speaker’s gavel in the next Congress.
The letter is the first concrete expression of opposition from current Democratic lawmakers and incoming members of Congress since the party won control of the House in the midterm elections.
Pelosi, who served as the first female speaker of the House from 2007 through 2011, and has been the top Democrat in the lower chamber since 2002 — has been aggressively campaigning for the speakership amid opposition from a small but vocal group of incumbents within her own party who have long advocated for new leadership and several incoming members who won election pledging they would oppose her as speaker.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...peaker-n938066

[Swordsmyth]

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the Democratic caucus opposing Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s bid for House Speaker by pointing out the demographic makeup of its members.
The incoming New York lawmaker’s comments came during a Monday evening conversation with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.


“Well, for me when I was reading this letter that was kind of released today, my main concern was that there is no vision, there is no common value, there is no goal that is really articulated in this letter aside from we need to change,” Ocasio-Cortez told Hayes when asked about Monday’s letter — signed by 16 Democrats — who oppose Pelosi’s leadership.
After criticizing the concept of “changing our party leadership just for the sake of it,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented the immutable characteristics shared by many in the group and the idea that the leadership could end up “more conservative.”
“I mean, if anything, I think that what it does is that it creates a window where we could potentially get more conservative leadership,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “And when you actually look at the signatories, it is not necessarily reflective of the diversity of the party. We have about 16 signatories, 14 of them are male. There are very few people of color in the caucus. There’s very few ideological diversity. It’s not like there are Progressives that are signing on. It’s not like you have a broad-based coalition. So I find it — you know, I’m not totally bought into the concept.”

More at: https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/19/o...ocrats-pelosi/

[Swordsmyth]

As the days wear on and Americans get closer to Congressional inauguration day (January 3, 2019), it seems more and more likely that current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will become the Speaker of the House for the next legislative term.
Rep. Brian Higgins (D-New York) announced on Wednesday that, despite saying several months ago that he would oppose Pelosi to become Speaker, he has changed his mind. This about face comes on the heels of conversations with the California Democrat on issues surrounding healthcare and infrastructure, according to reporting from the Buffalo News.
Higgins specifically wanted to see infrastructure across the nation become a major platform plank, and wanted to take the lead role in a proposal to allow Americans the chance to “buy-in” to Medicare as a healthcare option if they’re over the age of 50.

“I have an agreement in principle with the Democratic leader that those are going to be two priorities, and that I will be the lead person on the Medicare buy-in,” Higgins said.
Higgins’ reversal is a huge blow to an effort to oppose Pelosi as the next Speaker of the House. His name had been one of the 16 included in a letter — made public earlier this week — posted by a group of Democrats urging new leadership in the next Congress. With his change of heart, it seems that Pelosi’s appointment as the next speaker is all but assured at this point.


More at: https://www.inquisitr.com/5172905/de...paign=homepage

[Working Poor]

Yea right....

[Swordsmyth]

Nancy Pelosi was expected on Wednesday to become the Democratic nominee for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, giving her the inside track to reclaim the House's top job in January, when critics in her own party may seek to block her.The 78-year-old San Francisco liberal, a frequent target of Republican critics, faces a small faction of Democrats who are refusing to back her for the post in which she made history from 2007 to 2011 as the first woman speaker.
Pelosi critic Representative Kathleen Rice said on Tuesday that while the rebels could not stop Pelosi from getting the Democratic caucus' nomination for speaker at a closed-door party meeting on Wednesday, they could block her election on Jan. 3 when Pelosi must win a majority of the whole House, both Republicans and Democrats, to become speaker.
"We know what's going to happen tomorrow. The issue is still going to be whether she can get the votes on the floor. And the votes just aren't there," Rice told reporters outside the House.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pelosi-ex...021051169.html

[Swordsmyth]

As she works to lock down the few remaining holdouts against her bid to reclaim the House speaker’s gavel, Nancy Pelosi and the loudest critics of her succession plan have begun discussing instituting term limits for caucus and committee leaders, according to Democrats familiar with the conversations.
While Democrats decided to postpone discussion of term limits in their weekly caucus meeting on Tuesday, according to an aide in the room, the conversations have prompted a sensitive debate in the larger caucus, dominated by long-serving Democrats, with all but one committee set to be controlled by veteran ranking members of the party.
Pelosi, in public and private, has resisted putting an end date on her potential speakership, arguing that it would make her a less effective leader.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pel...jtc_news_index

[acptulsa]

“I mean, if anything, I think that what it does is that it creates a window where we could potentially get more conservative leadership,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “And when you actually look at the signatories, it is not necessarily reflective of the diversity of the party. We have about 16 signatories, 14 of them are male. There are very few people of color in the caucus. There’s very few ideological diversity. It’s not like there are Progressives that are signing on. It’s not like you have a broad-based coalition. So I find it — you know, I’m not totally bought into the concept.”

I've heard more cogent and rational reasons given for voting for junior high school class presidents.

[Swordsmyth]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi all but ensured Wednesday that she will become House speaker next month, quelling a revolt by disgruntled younger Democrats by agreeing to limit her tenure to no more than four additional years in the chamber's top post.Within moments of announcing she would restrict her time in the job, seven of her critics distributed a statement promising to back the California Democrat.

Under the deal, House Democrats will vote by Feb. 15 to change party rules to limit their top three leaders to no more than four two-year terms, including time they've already spent in those jobs."I am comfortable with the proposal and it is my intention to abide by it whether it passes or not," Pelosi said in her statement.
Pelosi's opponents have argued it was time for younger leaders to command the party. They also said her demonization as an out-of-touch radical in tens of millions of dollars' worth of Republican television ads was costing Democrats seats.
While some Democrats are still certain to vote against Pelosi — especially incoming freshmen who promised to do so during their campaigns — most Democrats have remained solidly behind her. She's been a strong fundraiser and unrelenting liberal who doesn't shy from political combat, and her backers complained that her opponents were mostly white men who were largely more moderate than most House Democrats.


To be nominated to a fourth term under the agreement, Pelosi would need to garner a two-thirds majority of House Democrats. Several aides said they believed restlessness by younger members to move up in leadership would make that difficult for her to achieve.
The limits would also apply to Pelosi's top lieutenants, No. 2 leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland and No. 3 leader James Clyburn of South Carolina. Both are also in their late 70s.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., was among 16 Democrats who had signed a letter demanding new leadership but who ultimately helped negotiate the deal with Pelosi.
Joining Perlmutter in saying they would now back her were Democratic Reps. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts; Tim Ryan of Ohio; Bill Foster of Illinois; Linda Sanchez and Rep.-elect Gil Cisernos, both of California; and Filemon Vela of Texas.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-foes-s...-politics.html

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No, Trump and Nancy Pelosi did not watch midterm election results together or made secret deal