Posted on 06/24/2017 6:09:35 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A dozen or so House Democrats want Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to go after a dispiriting loss in a House election in Georgia. They just don't know how to make it happen.
"We can't keep losing races and keep the same leadership in place. You have a baseball team that keeps losing year after year. At some point, the coach has got to go, right?" said Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., on Friday.
The frustrated Democrats met in Rice's office a day earlier to discuss their options as they face long odds of knocking out the woman who has led the Democratic caucus for nearly 15 years from minority to majority and back, raised tens of millions of dollars and has had multiple legislative successes. Their action plan: Keep talking. Keep raising the concern that something needs to change within the ranks of the party's leadership.
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The main argument against Pelosi from her Democratic detractors is that more than 30 years in Washington and hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads against her have taken their toll when it comes to public opinion. Millions were spent in Georgia with ads linking Pelosi to Jon Ossoff, who lost to Republican Karen Handel on Tuesday. They argue that Democratic candidates will have a better shot on Election Day if they're not tied to Pelosi.
"The issue I think strategically is that Trump energizes their base and Leader Pelosi energizes their base," said Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who was unsuccessful last year in trying to unseat Pelosi.
Said Rice: "The Republican playbook has been very successful. It's not fair. It's not accurate in its attacks on our leader, but it's effective. They keep winning and we keep losing."
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“The Republican playbook has been very successful. It’s not fair...”
“It’s not fair.”
“It’s not fair.”
Trump is winning!
“It’s not fair.”
Trump is winning!
“It’s not fair.”
Who said ?
Elections have consequences?
I guess that the wicked witch who seems to be senile needs to retire to save her party. But she won’t do it.
You have to pass the bill to read what is in it. What a stupid lady and they love her.
Should be quite easy, actually. Just have someone step forward whose not afraid of the vicious Democrat Party bureaucracy and hierarchy, who speaks simple truths - and Pelosi will crumble immediately
Send her to a softball field and tell any guys roaming around that she’s a Republican.
Many of us are hoping Nancy remains as minority leader.
They need to get Keith Ellison in there and stat!
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LOL. These are House democrats, truth means nothing to them.
Pelosi is their top fundraiser, she owns that caucus.
What was that old saying about how if you’re going to try and take down the ‘king’, you’d better succeed or else?
They’re trying to oust a power-mad and vindictive Queen of Mean, and the Queen is not amused.
Correction: At least, in her lucid moments, the Queen is not amused.
Where’s that bag of popcorn when it’s needed most?
Nancy Pelosi is not the problem. As long as the Democrats continue to embrace the rooting corpse of Woodstock, they will continue the way of the Whigs.
Put her in a burlap bag and drop her off the Wilson bridge?
She’s not gone yet and those who are plotting against her better start looking in the closet and under the bed before they go to sleep. If she wins she will destroy them
Hey Dims! Please leave her there, we love her!
If the RATS replace her, I hope it’s with Maxine Waters or Shelia Jackson Lee.
Hide her botox.
"Nancy Pelosi, once invaluable for Democrats, has become invaluable for Republicans"
If Repubs say keep her the Dems will have more motivation to dump her. Time for reverse psychology cyops. Repubs should come out and say Nanners should leave for the good of the DemoRat party. Then the Rats will rally around to keep her. Mission accomplished.
Pour water on her!!!!
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