Posted on 07/01/2018 7:31:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Joe Crowleys stunning primary loss to 28-year-old progressive and first-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday reverberated not only through Democratic circles in New York but in the halls of the U.S. Capitol: Crowley had hoped to succeed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, raising new questions about the future of the Democratic Party.
Were in a moment of transition, Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told ABC News.
Crowley, the boss of the Queens Democratic Party and fourth-ranking House Democrat, had been quietly positioning himself to replace Pelosi as the top House Democrat after November's midterm elections.
But even before Crowley's stunning upset, Pelosi, the onetime speaker and highest-ranking female politician in American history, was seeking to reclaim the gavel if Democrats managed to flip 24 House seats and gain back the House majority.
"We will win. I will run for Speaker. I feel confident about it, Pelosi told the Boston Globe recently.
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She is a fool if she had anything to do with the young socialist winning in Queens. That young woman is not at all who she presented herself to be. She grew up in West Chester County, has a degree in political science and owns her own publishing company. I bet that she even changed her hair do to make herself look less sophisticated and more ethnic.
She is another wealthy socialist woman in the Democrat Party, along with Pramila Jayapal from Seattle. I think that these women are getting help from the DNC leadership, but not Pelosi.
Theifdom queens on the throne
Just put it off for a while and the will all go away.
I agree with you. If she needed campaign contributions, Id send her money. But that theyre even contemplating keeping this loony old bat around shows just how screwed up their situation is
They called her a progressive. Beautiful! A free everything Bernie Socialist platform is now progressive. The LEFT unmasked.
It’s a Hobson’s choice they likely won’t have to make.
If she’s going to be the ‘RAT speaker, she better have a proctologist “repoot” her brain first.
Were in a moment of transition,
No, you are disintegrating.
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