Posted on 08/19/2018 8:50:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
You may have heard that we are having an election on November 6th (known as our midterms). Everything seems to revolve around the presidency these days, and that office is only halfway through its term. The MSM is all aflutter about their allies, the Democrats and Leftists, ringing up losses they declare as moral victories. But, they are “close” losses. Occasionally a Dem wins, validating his or her cause. Now their party is pushing a crop of candidates who say if they get to Congress they will not vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. That is bullpucky.
The current rage of the Left-wing media is to emphasize how many candidates have said they will not vote for Pelosi for Speaker. In an August 10, 2018, article on NBC News by Jack Bohrer and Ali Vitali, they stated 51 candidates had run away from Pelosi. NBC was so motivated by this story, which was then echo-chambered throughout the rest of the Left-wing press, they actually surveyed all the candidates. Forty-two fresh meat Dems and 9 current officeholders have come out against the Queen of the Bay.
They said they were against Pelosi because they are in districts where she is as popular as cow dung. Their crack team of professional handlers told the candidates to run to a microphone and announce their dis-allegiance to the Empress of Free Needle Town.
Don’t buy it, America. If you vote for these people and put them in Congress, therefore allowing the Dems to take control of the House, Pelosi will head up their team. You say to me “Bialosky, how can you be so certain of this?” Let me tell you why it is as certain as the sun coming up tomorrow, and I do not do predictions. This is not a prediction because it is a certainty.
I have studied the Blue Dog Democrats (supposedly moderate Dems) for a long, long time. I wrote this column about them nine years ago. I have not written much about them since because they don’t really exist anymore. They were wiped out in 2010 and then the final knife was put into the group in 2012. Currently they barely exist.
Rahm Emanuel, the now failed Mayor of Chicago, convinced a group of people in 2006 and again in 2008 to run as Democrats in the districts that Dems could only win with a non-Leftist individual. They won many seats in those years and the Dems took control in 2007. However, because Bush was president, they could not get their agenda passed so they had to wait until 2009 when Obama became president. The Blue Dogs went along with the agenda of Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid. Talk about love them and leave them. The Blue Dogs were wiped out in the 2010 midterms because they voted for the Left-wing agenda and lost their House seats.
The only people remaining in the Democrat Caucus were the hardcore Left-wingers from the gerrymandered districts where Republicans could not win. They remain loyal to Pelosi. They still do today. She does the job for them. She raises bushels of money from her rich friends and she keeps the caucus in line. Tim Ryan (D-OH) has no chance with these long-time Lefties.
The new folks will want their committee assignments. They are not going to vote for a sure loser and end up in an office the size of your laundry room.
Ms. Pelosi comes as speaker with all her friends that she has bought over the years. People like Auntie Maxine (Waters) who have been aching to control the committees they are on and wield the gavel with an iron fist. Waters would take over the Financial Services Committee in the House. If you think Barney Frank was bad with his Dodd-Frank bill that destroyed community banking in the United States, then wait until you see Committee Chair Waters. This is a woman who during the throes of the mortgage crisis (reminder: the principal cause was the government and Congress) recommended that if people can pay rent they should be able to get a loan.
Pelosi will be in charge of the Democrat Caucus until she retires, or possibly, if they don’t win control of Congress. The new people calling for new blood will fall in line and once again be used as expendables by Pelosi and her team. Maybe not immediately because they will not have control (because of Trump), but 2020 would be their goal to elect a Dem as president and then make the new members of Congress superfluous once again.
The safest way forward is to not fall into their trap and bite on their lies about independence from Pelosi. The Left controls the Caucus and Pelosi is firmly in charge. Don’t fall for their game.
Look back on her early years. She did nothing to earn that position. My guess is that she has dirt on everyone and is literally blackmailing her way to the gavel.
Pelosi shows signs of senility. It is not a good idea to have her hold any office where competence and good judgment matter.
I don’t doubt it.
Very well said.
How did our country go from Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams, Alex Hamilton, George Washington, Abe Lincoln to people like Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barak Obama?????
Nancy ,the Gift that keeps giving ,to herself
where competence and good judgment matter.
well that doesn’t include congress.
I wonder what kind of stuff she has on everyone? Because damn, she seems like an out of control old woman.
You can add dennis hastert, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell to that list.
The right is not immune from sticking their faces where they do not belong.
But Trumpist should not want competence and good judgment in the leader of the opposition.
President Trump recommended that the Democrats keep Nancy Pelosi in power for a very good reason.
"...Voting Out Pelosi Will Not Happen..."
What’s going on with that skin flap below her nose and above her lip? Bad plastic surgery? Is it about to fall off?
Same with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We need her to win in NOV, otherwise Crowley is back as Pelosi's wingman. We need Alexandria around for 2 years, not 2 months.
Few Congresspersons will do better at bringing more votes to the Right than those two.
For many ageing politicians, their profound vanity becomes the strongest part of their existence. The same vanity disguised as pride which helped them to achieve status as a younger person, now clouds their vision. They don’t see how their performance is slipping and consider themselves to be indispensible. John McCain is the primary GOP example right now.
Pelosi’s madness and incompetence are the face of the Democrat Party. She is what it has become. She’s the quintessential Democrat.
Yep...I can go along with that...
Keep her at the Leadership position, her history and “ideas” going forward are just what is needed at this time. Yea, that’s the ticket
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