Posted on 07/13/2019 10:46:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
The border crisis appears to have inched the Democratic Party towards another episode of internal strife. Civil war? Well, I’m not so sure about that, but it’s been getting pretty nasty. The House passed a $4.6 billion border package that included strings attached, aimed at curbing immigration enforcement. This was pie-in-the-sky. Trump would never sign it, though he did sign the Senate bill into law, which provided the same funding but without the trash provisions against enforcing the law. It was also overwhelmingly bipartisan. Moderate House Democrats and Pelosi signed off on the Senate bill, which infuriated the far left. The Squad, as they’re called, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), are all part of this unholy alliance. They’re the face of the growing far-left contingent in the House. Pelosi has taken swipes at their agenda, which has not been well received. AOC hasn’t spoken to Pelosi in weeks and this crew dishes it right back. It reached new heights when AOC pretty much accused Pelosi of racism, saying her criticism in targeting women of color in her caucus was disrespectful.
Now, we have AOC’s chief of staff going after fellow Democrats, saying their votes “enable a racist system.” Whatever that means. It did not sit well with House Democrats who clapped back. At Netroots Nation, a far left wing conference, Pressley picked up the ball, pretty much saying that those who support Pelosi are race traitors for lack of a better term:
Netroots panel kicking off w @IlhanMN: "There’s a constant struggle with people who have power about sharing that power. And we are not really in the business of asking to share that power; we are in the business of grabbing that power to return it to the people."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
Up next, @AyannaPressley says that she is fed up with "palace intrigue," not much mystery about what she means.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
The panel is moderated by @aimeeallison, who is not interested in litigating Tweet Tweek, though she nodded at it in her intro. Moving conversation to child separation. @RashidaTlaib:"This is a whole generation of children who will never forget what our nation did to them."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
.@AyannaPressley: "What is happening in these ICE facilities where they pilot how they can abuse privacy rights, how they can abuse human rights, and they scale that up." But notes that black and brown people disproportionately work for CBP.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
"They are now a cog in this machine of oppression of people who look just like them."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
Quoting what a colleague said to her, @IlhanMN: "If there were dogs in those cages, every single member of Congress would vote to make sure those cages didn’t exist."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
Moderator brings up impeachmnt with @RashidaTlaib: "We're gonna impeach the MFer, don't worry," she says.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
Omar is recounting her questioning of Elliot Abrams in the Foreign Affairs committee: "[Knowing] the trail of blood that he has left in South and Central America. I wasn’t about to let him come and talk to us about what he was doing in Venezuela."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
Pressley seeming to hit back at the criticism from the CBC et al: "We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need any more black voices that don’t want to be a black voice."— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 13, 2019
A member of AOC’s squad picks up where AOC’s Chief of Staff left off, strongly hinting that African American & Hispanic members of the Democratic congressional caucus aren’t black or brown enough if they support Pelosi’s agenda. https://t.co/HzmS5NPgFN— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 13, 2019
The claws are out. Grab the popcorn. There is nothing more riveting that Democrats ripping each other apart.
I hope they start shooting at each other.
Oh the irony.
5.56mm
Normally, that's news of the variety of "someone broke into my house and stole all of my tools".
Moderate House Democrats
Name names. This list is either nonexistent or short.
I think you're more Christian than I am.
“There’s more to life than DC politics.”
My experience with elderly people in the business world is that those in positions of power will hold onto them until they die at their desk. They identify not as a man, but as the job they hold. They hang on until they are a detriment and cause chaos. If they give up their prestige job they will feel as though they will die. In most cases that’s true. I dealt with a corporate director who had dementia so bad that his wife would drive him to work and walk him to his office. Several times he got lost in his work area and could not find his office, despite it being in sight. After they finally laid him off he died shortly afterwards.
Believe me, if Nancy were unable to be the Speaker, she would feel as though she was dead. Then, she would probably die. Like Strom Thurmond, she will hang on until the last possible moment. She will leave the building on a stretcher.
“...As a fellow American...”
She’s not “a fellow American”. She’s a liberal democrat.
They’re two completely different things.
“...and enjoy what’s left of your life....”
Personally, I hope she’s miserable for every minute of whatever remains of it. It’s just rewards for all the misery her and her party have caused the American people.
“Most race traitors are white...
. . . and female”
Even the men.
Bunch of wusses.
Bwahahahahaha
To paraphrase Kyle Reese:
Listen, and understand. The spendaholic, Big-Government Democrats are out there. They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop over-spending & growing Government, ever, until you and every other taxpayer is dead.
nice job
Nancy will be 80 in March. Time to put her on Xanax and stick her in the day room watching “Matlock’’ reruns. Seriously.
I checked DuckDuckgo...
There’s approximately 5000 or so animal shelters in the world. I assume a majority of them have cages. Democrats are always allowed to get away with saying the most insane and stupid things when a conservative would get butchered for them.
Shame on you Matt. Basing an entire article on some worthless Twit wars.
Power, my FRiend. The gods had ambrosia. For politicians, it is power. Nothing drives them nor sustains them more than to feel power thrumming in air about them, coursing through their failing bodies, and the fear and awe of it written on the faces of lesser mortals in their thrall.
Holding, wielding, exercising US Federal Power. Ted Kennedy and John McCain died holding the lightning. You can bet that Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Nancy Pelosi want to do the same.
Hillary Clinton is still going through withdrawal. It’s a drug that she does not want to quit.
What AOC and this new breed of racist bigots forget is that there’s another election right around the corner and the DNC controls the $$. They may just find themselves back on the streets with zero power.
That’s comedy gold right there! I could almost see Rodney Dangerfield straightening his tie with every punchline! :-D
“Boy, I tell ya. It’s rough out there. Nancy Pelosi went to her priest for a blessing...and he held up his crucifix to her!”
Yeah, you’re were better...
I’ve been thinking the same. These “Justice Democrats” could be a massive trolling operation, applying the Dems’ own inconsistent-yet-absolutist standards to themselves.
No, my friend. Nancy Pelosi may be weak in body and mind, but she has spent a political lifetime making allies and securing powerful people in her debt. She will annihilate the breathtakingly naive and weak upstarts should it become necessary to do so. Unless the upstarts stop and think about what they are doing — to themselves — this will happen very soon. They won’t know what hit them until after the body count is taken. Take this to the bank.
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