Posted on 11/26/2022 8:12:50 AM PST by Libloather
Hakeem Jeffries seems poised to replace Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats. A Black political moderate, the Brooklyn congressman is often likened to Barack Obama. Even-tempered, he is known to “play” with most of the children in Washington. And at 52, he represents generational change from the 82-year-old Pelosi.
Who among Democrats would have a problem with him? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have a problem. She also has problems with President Joe Biden and, frankly, the mainstream Democratic Party off which she feeds. A preening socialist princess, she has done much to entertain Fox News and cost the Democrats their House majority.
“The last time I ran into AOC,” said Sean Patrick Maloney, one of four Democrats to lose his suburban New York district to a Republican, “we were beating her endorsed candidate two to one in a primary, and I didn’t see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority.”
Ocasio-Cortez has a long record of pushing primary challenges to Democrats deemed insufficiently radical. These attempts are almost always unsuccessful though draining to the incumbent. Shortly after she was first elected to Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez reportedly put Jeffries on her list of Democrats to get rid of.
She didn’t follow through, but the threat prompted Jeffries to help start a group called Team Blue, which raised money for Democrats being challenged from the left. The time has come for Team Blue to turn the threats around and support good progressives willing to primary the homewreckers of the left fringe.
They might also consider Pramila Jayapal, another pain in the Democrats’ butt.
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If we still have a country in the year 2035, AOC will probably be speaker of a democratic house.
Crowley would have VOTED exactly like AOC has. They are all rubber stamps.
He wouldn’t have done that Green New Deal nonsense and would not have poisoned the minds of the younger generation with AOC-s commie crap.
I am afraid this aspect of AOC will have negative effects for years to come.
She also has a lot of money because well-earning horny tech worker manchildren give it to her and she is using it to get more radicals elected.
“Hakeem.” Did his parent(s) choose this name from the Koran, or did he choose it?
I think you are right.
wasn’t the Republican candidate pretty good
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries It’s his given name.
She was smeared with the Q/J6 narrative. I think that letting AOC be AOC is the best course to defeating her.
Moderate equals not quite Marxist.
No such thing as a moderate dim....especially if he's likened to bammy.
I agree they should keep her in the game. The more she shows the public who Dems really are, the better I feel.
Every time I’ve seen him speaking, he has sounded like black racists Obama, Booker, etc.; not a political moderate.
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