Posted on 07/04/2018 3:17:39 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Move over, House Freedom Caucus. Progressive lawmakers are poised to play a pivotal role in the next Congress if Democrats take back the House in November.
That’s because a dozen members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) are in line to chair congressional committees, which would give the left-leaning group immense power to influence the chamber’s legislative agenda and strengthen their hand as chief antagonists to President Trump.
The stunning primary victory of self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) has also opened up a coveted spot at the leadership table, bolstering the argument that progressives should have more representation in the party’s top ranks.
Some congressional observers are predicting that congressional progressives could emerge as the liberal equivalent of the House Freedom Caucus, a group that has been highly effectively at pushing the GOP further to the right by banding together as a conservative voting bloc.
“The Freedom Caucus has been a big player in the House because of the big Republican advances in 2010,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist. “I think that’s a good analogy for what will happen with the Democratic members.”
The Freedom Caucus, a group of roughly 30 conservative rabble-rousers, was launched in the years following the 2010 tea party wave that swept the Republicans back into power on Capitol Hill.
Now, many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus believe their political star is on the rise, with some election experts predicting a blue wave this fall, largely fueled by anti-Trump energy on the left.
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waiting...waiting.......waiting......... ah..................... nope
The Democrats are totally desperate. I would expect that they will turn on the vote fraud machine with more force than ever before. I don’t how anything has changed so that it cannot happen.
>>not this Blue Wave crap again..
I watched a live stream of the Trump rally in Fargo last week. The pre-rally was interesting. People lined up, in the smashing heat, with no shade, no chairs, just standing waiting to get in. For 10-14 hours many of them, just to catch a glimpse of Trump. 3 or 4 people had heat strokes. There wasn’t an empty seat in the place, and there were about 12k people outside that couldn’t fit in.
I giggle when I hear about how “energized” the left is. Hillary couldn’t fill a high school gym in 2016. Nancy and Chuck couldn’t fill a quickstop parking lot today.
There will be no blue wave.
They're trying to 'rally the troops'.
But never-say-never.
These are cornered rats so they could make some desperate moves.
Shaping?? Like anti American ? Yes they are
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“We’re Dems! We hate America!!! Vote for us”!
Yeah. That’ll fly.
Look at how small liberal rallies are.
If the RATs take back congress, the fall of the republic will be here sooner than you think.
I don't want him to "stymie" their agenda. I don't even want them at the table. I want the MAGA train to keep steaming full speed!
We CANNOT lose Congress this year! Losing is not acceptable.
Take the challenge seriously and get to the polls. Vote for every candidate with an (R) after their name. This is the only attitude to have.
So much BS.
I am poised to reshape my shopping list if I win a billion dollar Lotto.
I am so close, I just know it will happen now.
Thinking there will be no blue wave is the same type of arrogant stupidity demonstrated by the dems during the last presidential election. However, should blue happen, it will be the result of the stupid party earning its nickname once again. The pubbies are holding a very good hand. At issue is whether or not they’re smart and tough enough to play it instead of the usual GOP habit of folding under pressure. Blue is corned, frightened, full of hate and rage and perhaps going insane. Red best fight back with everything they’ve got.
They are evil to the core, controlled by Satan, and hell bent on destroying America from within. Tagline
I am under the opinion that our president is saving a lot of stuff for the mid terms, stuff that will expose the filthy left. Be that as it may we we need our new SCJ confirmed before the election .
I take nothing the Democrats say or do for granted.
As long as they exist as a party, even in their weakened state, they are a danger to this Republic.
If they have any gains it's because of their underhanded tricks or we became complacent.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We all hope he does but it’s not something we should count on.
Ocuckoo Cortez running on her race klan platform. Ocasio-Cortez is just Hugo Chavez in drag. She wants to institute all the failed policies that made Puerto Rico and Venezuela and other Latin American nations undesirable places to live if not outright shitholes. The same policies that caused her and her family to flee to a majority white America. We have nothing to learn from Latin Americans and they have nothing to show us.
She framed her candidacy in racial terms and as a campaign against whites and won. Funny how so called anti-racists like Antifag and the (((media))) have no problem with race baiting when it comes from the left and non-whites and in fact champion it as “progress”. Will Bobby De niro be threatening to punch her lights out?
Now self hating, virtue signaling white males are being thrown overboard in the Democrat party by the growing rainbow coalition. That wasn’t supposed to happen. A fire bell in the night indeed and this is probably just the first of many more.
OMG...she got less than 16,000 votes in a district of over 200,000 Democrats....Crowley took his District for granted and it’s an anti-incumbent time period. This, in no way, coupled with other Dem losses, supports a “blue wave”. The Senate will become more Republican and the House will stay Repub.
I checked the word “ progressive” in the article, 16 different instances.
“Socialist” was in there only once.
There was not a single instance of “communist” anywhere in there.
Why are they hiding their true nature if they believe that communism is so perfect?
They were scared to hardly mention socialist.
Yet out of about 22 paragraphs 5 of them are talking about Cortez who is a self proclaimed Marxist, ie, COMMUNIST.
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Remember the report of Obama after the election riding in a car wondering, 'Did we push to hard?'
Yes they did.
Their agenda was a purge and they pushed too hard too fast.
When Obama was elected, I said it was a good thing because white people were still the majority. If whites had been a minority it would have been 'the end'.
Then Hillary came along in 2016 and started talking about 'white privilege'. Imagine that. An old white woman lecturing white people about their privilege.
The Democrats aren't defeated. They're only wounded. And they're regrouping.
The only question is how much damage can they do? And it's up to us to limit their damage.
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