Pelosi appears to take new jab at Ocasio-Cortez, says ‘a glass of water’ with a ‘D’ could win their districts
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., on Monday made a point to heap more praise on Democrats who flipped Republican seats in the 2018 midterms and downplayed representatives like herself and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., who carried districts where a "glass of water" with a "D" next to it could win.
“When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s,” Pelosi said. “[S]he’s a wonderful member of Congress as I think all of our colleagues will attest. But those are districts that are solidly Democratic.”
Pelosi, who is traveling in Europe with a congressional delegation this week, made the comments during an appearance before the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Pelosi’s comment appeared to be her latest attempt to play down the influence of the Democrats’ progressive wing. During a Sunday interview with CBS News’ Lesley Stahl on “ 60 Minutes ,” Pelosi said that faction was “like five people.”
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Now that was what Iv'e been trying to understand....how Cortez and Omar managed to win elections in this country.
Thanks Nancy
What Speaker Polosi is actually saying is that despite, or maybe because of and thanks to, the far far far right wings's concerted organized efforts to defame, demoralize, degrade, dehumanize and demonize them AOC and Ilan Omar are more popular than ever and will both be overwhelming reelected by their grateful constituents, The righties are just indignant there is not one damn thing they can do to stop them both being reelected so we will be treated daily to this sort of vainass bullshit propaganda. Righties are terrified by honest representatives who are not owned by big banks, big oil and big defense contractors. Get used to it...
is that despite, or maybe because of and thanks to, the far far far right wings's concerted organized efforts to defame, demoralize, degrade, dehumanize and demonize them AOC and Ilan Omar are more popular than ever and will both be overwhelming reelected by their grateful constituent
Now that's funny.
Bernie Sanders seemed to be defending Omar, last night, saying "“It is not anti-Semitic to be critical of a right-wing government in Israel”. I wonder how long he's going to cling to that defense? How long will it take before Omar takes another shot at Jews?
Nancy Pelosi is shrewd, unlike the young crazed leftist freshmen to whom she's having to explain life. Nancy understands the House is won by winning seats in marginal districts. AOC's seat is safe... unless a glass of water attempts to primary her. Collin Allred's is not, and every time AOC or Omar embarrasses the Democratic Party, the Republicans gain ground in districts that are close.
Today's angry leftists have replaced the angry Falwellian morality zealots of the 1980s, and are missing the same lessons. Most people are not extremists. Most people don't want you interfering in their lives, no matter what your echo chamber tells you or how good you think your intentions are.
Every time AOC makes an idiot of herself on television or Omar makes a bullshit comment about Islam, it reflects poorly on the Democratic Party and makes it less likely that Allred or Lucy McBath or Angie Craig or Abby Spanberger is going to be re-elected.
Nancy is smart enough to understand this. Far too many liberals are not.
The "righties" absolutely LOVE AOC and Omar. They are the biggest gifts to the Republican Party since Sheldon Adelson. Just turn them loose and watch them destroy the Democratic Party from within. It's almost impossible to believe they're not on some Republican payroll somewhere.
Just being loud and obnoxious is not impressive or productive.
Tell that to Trump, mcconnell, and the rest of the repugs congressional members
Of course Pelosi has no room to talk. Her district is no better. Democrat only to say the least.
She admitted that
She's not wrong.
The Democrats won the House by running "moderates" in moderate districts. If they run race obsessed, ignorant idiot AOC clones in moderate districts, the Republicans would easily control the House.
And if they are unable to pass any significant legislation, while spending all their time opposing Trump they will loose the House right back in 2020
Exactly. AOC and Omar excesses will also damage the odds of these so called moderates getting re elected in swing districts.
What significant legislation have republicans passed
Make me a list
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Whataboutism?
You can do better than that, Don
I'm waiting, what century will you provide that list
We passed legislation. We got a tax cut and The First Step Act.
Now back to you. What have dems passed?
Our friend must be googling! Let's see how long it takes?
What's that axiom of lawyers? Never ask a question, unless you know what the answer will be. I guess some forgot the TAX ACT & THE FIRST STEP ACT, but we should all know that the House hasn't put forward any significant legislation since the dems took over
It's really too bad that your caps lock, shift, >. and ?/ keys don't work. Glass houses and all that!
Why can't you just admit that you hate conservatives and/or Republicans so much that you would just deny anything that anyone came up with as lies or falsehoods anyway. You have done so before on numerous other occasions, so why bother?
Whataboutism Is that gibberish? What do ou think it means
Where's my list?
Very true. I was being charitable...
Thanks again Nancy
Another gift to the GOP.
Glad you like to dream
The right is so scared of Nancy they pee their diapers when she says anything because the can't comprehend anything worth while
Oh we are really petrified!
The only thing scary about Nancy Pelosi is the way she looks. I'm pretty sure she's the Crypt Keeper's older sister.
And here I though she was his mother...
In your own words, "Glad you like to dream."
The only things the right has is provision of the Christian ethics and morality
The right lives on dreams because they have no reality
Oh come on Don, is that the best you can do? I expected better from you...
"Pelosi appears to take new jab at Ocasio-Cortez, says ‘a glass of water’ with a ‘D’ could win their districts."
It didn't "Appear" to me at all. It WAS A JAB !
I Actually luv'd it.
AOC won't get it though.
It isn't saying much about those who vote in that district either.
It was a dig at them too !
Pelosi has her hands full trying to control her most vocal 3 new kids on the block.
I think Kevin Williamson summed up the state of the Democrat Party pretty nicely:
The Democrats are in a political pickle. They would very much prefer that the Jew-hating caucus shut up, and they are not crazy about the fact that the public face of the Democratic party is, at the moment, risible and demented amateurs such as Representative Omar and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, i.e., the people who are even crazier than Senator Sanders. But intersectionality is a jealous god, and they cannot simply tell Representative Omar et al. to sit down and clam up. All they can really do is to try to raise the price of criticizing the nut cutlets on the Democrats’ menu by insisting that criticism of Representative Omar is an attack on Muslims as such, that criticism of Representative Ocasio-Cortez is an attack on Latinas who don’t know how a bill becomes a law, that criticism of Robert Francis O’Rourke is an attack on . . . whatever it is that “Beto” is pretending to be this week. The New York Times et al. are reliable allies on that front.
This is, incidentally, what all those fake hate crimes are really about: Redefining criticism of Democratic politicians and constituencies as violence. When there isn’t enough violence to make that case in a sufficiently dramatic fashion, then violence can simply be invented — and, if the case of Jussie Smollett is anything to go by, the cost of doing so is pretty low. When’s the last time you heard of a prosecutor dropping a 16-felony indictment in exchange for a firm handshake?