Posted on 11/06/2022 5:21:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Scurrying and sneaking, each looking for some Democrat godfather's blessing, the race to be King 'Rat is on.
The battle to be King 'Rat among the rapidly sinking Democrats is now going full steam.
According to Politico:
The race to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the leader of House Democrats may have been clinched at a meeting in the Capitol on Sept. 1.
That’s when House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York slipped back to Washington to connect in Clyburn’s office during the summer congressional recess at Jeffries’ request.
Jeffries, the fifth-ranking House Democrat who aspires to be the first-ranking House Democrat in the next Congress, was picking up heightened chatter from colleagues about California Rep. Adam Schiff’s outreach expressing his own interest in the top caucus job.
Hakeem, it seems, was pretty sure he had it in the bag until Adam Schiff came along, sneaking around under cover of darkness to get the leadership job locked up. According to my research from last January, Hakeem's planned it out like this for years. He went running to Clyburn, the man who made Joe Biden president, to try to get Godfather's blessing again.
Clyburn, who is said to possibly want the job himself, was suitably clerical in his vaguely positive anointing of Jeffries as House Democrat leader:
“There’s nothing I would ever do to impede the progress of our up-and-coming young Democrats and I see him as an up-and-coming young Democrat,” Clyburn said in an interview about Jeffries. “He knows that, I didn’t have to tell him that — but I did.”
Asked if he would be willing to serve in an emeritus role in the leadership, Clyburn said he is “willing to do anything the caucus thinks is to their benefit,”
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Put them both in a room with bricks. Survivor rules. Humanity wins regardless.
no mention of hoyer
has he bowed out?
i am hoping for hakeem
the more radical the better
At 83, Hoyer seems like the perfect age to lead the Ds.
Gyno-American Katherine Clarke of MA might be a candidate. Even has a ‘non-binary’ pet child to parade around. She and Jeffries seem to be pals, so it might be one or the other. Both currently under 60 and liked by the Dem Establishment
Schiff should be censured. Mark Steyn should write the resolution.
<>strip Adam of all committee assignments, as Nancy did to Greene<>
This must be done. Throw this tactic back in their faces. Deny the Schiff-worm any status as ranking member on any committee. It will drive him nuts and ruin his ability to raise money.
"Never take a knife to a gunfight." -- Osama bin Obama
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