House Dems Grumble To CNN: We’re Frustrated That The Squad Keeps Making Trouble For Us

Hotair ^ | 07/17/2019 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

Damn, this thread is enjoyable.

2/ "The president won this one," said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. "What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them."

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

4/ "…instead of the issues the president brings up deliberately. Anything that takes away from bread and butter issues is playing into his hands."

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

6/ This perceived selective outrage rankled some Dems.

"Everybody was completely outraged by what the president said," said House Dem 3, "and everybody thought it was appropriate to criticize him…

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

8/ A few House Dems noted that Omar and Tlaib just introduced a resolution affirming the right of Americans to boycott, perceived as an expression of support for the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement that most House Dems oppose.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

10/ House Dem 4 recalls that "less than 2 weeks ago when members of our caucus were trying to support funds for children at the border," the Squad was arguing that "we're pro-putting kids in cages, we're against human rights. So there’s frustration."

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

12/ AOC, in particular "gives her chief of staff license to get candidates to run against her colleagues and to go after them on social media. It makes people's skin crawl," said House Dem 3.

House Dem 4 summed it up: "We were there for them; they should stop attacking us."

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 17, 2019

If it’s true that picking a fight with the Squad — at least on “go back to where you came from” grounds — is a political loser for Trump, some members of the Democratic caucus are slow to see it. The grievances here about Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff allegedly organizing primary challenges to some Dem incumbents are real and longstanding too. That was a key complaint in the Dem pile-on of Saikat Chakrabarti this past weekend, which feels like ancient history now because it happened 48 hours before Trump started tweet-ranting “love it or leave it” stuff at Ilhan Omar. But it’s fuel on the fire that’s burning through comity on Pelosi’s side of the aisle.

Trump thinks he’s winning this fight and wasn’t shy about saying so to reporters this afternoon. Note the shot here about Omar possibly having married her brother:

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There’s no question that something strange is going on in her marital history. Whether one of the men she was married to is actually her brother remains uncertain, as far as I know, but Trump’s not pulling that out of nowhere.

As for his point about the Dems going left on Israel, it makes me laugh that immediately after smoothing over the big Democratic brawl over AOC’s chief of staff by coming together to rebuke POTUS, Dems are about to have a new fight over the BDS movement thanks to Omar and the Squad. Here she is today making the case that BDS is sort of like the Boston Tea Party in that they’re both nonviolent means of pressuring an occupying power to leave. Which I guess makes the colonial continental army sort of like … Hamas? I don’t know. Cheers to House Democrats as they try to figure that one out.

[Steely Tom]

The “Squad of four” are a creation of the media. In normal circumstances they would just be ignored as left wing Marxists and two left wing Marxists Muslim extremists. All four hate our nation as it presently is. The power of these four is a total creation of the Media. Otherwise, they would be just inconsequential left wing Marxist and two Muslim Marxist extremist nut jobs.

Yeah, they're taking the heat off the Epstein story, Clinton, Prince Andrew, and that whole scandal-ball.

Not to mention the FISA scandal, the unmasking scandal, the Steele Memo, Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, etc.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You would think Pelosi would get a clue.

Trump has already defended her against racism.

Trump then goes after the Squad for Nancy.

The next thing Pelosi should have done was strip these four of their committee assignments and completely isolated them. And then she could have worked with Trump on things like infrastructure and fixing the aslyum loophole.

Remember that infrastructure meeting Trump stormed out of? He truly wants to help this country but you have these rabid Dems constantly going after him.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I know people are pissed because of what I wrote, but it is the truth. No compromise no gray area, no middle ground. Those four women gone from Congress, or, the Democrat Party goes down with them. They’re going to have to make a hard decision. It’s going to be tough.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

You know what you have to do. Find something on them, run candidates against them, whatever, but they have to leave Congress. If not, the Democrat Party goes down with them and it will be YEARS, if ever, before it will recover. Hard decision, no compromise. Either those women are gone, or the Democrat Party is toast.

[bagster]

[American in Israel]

Tide Pod Squad

[catnipman]

I think the truth of the matter is that there’s a tiny sliver of very active, virulent leftist social media tweeters, commenters, and posters whose voices have been greatly amplified by bots of unknown origin which too have been posting the same vile leftist garbage as actual people, and that the Democrats have mislead themselves into mistakenly believing that these apparent virulent leftist attitudes are somehow representative of their voter base as a whole, and that President Trump has indeed been deliberately provoking these shadowy (but strangely influential), ugly, hateful, and virulently leftist “voices” into ever louder and shriller conniptions, thereby perpetuating and increasing their power and influence over the grossly deluded Democrats ...

It also appears that not a single rational adult is in any way in charge of the Democrat Party nor can figure out their deluded misconceptions nor respond rationally to get the Democrats back on some less insane track ...

Trump has seen all of this and has repeatedly thrown gasoline on those fires on purpose, and interestingly enough, his main weapon has been to use the grotesque hatred of himself by the left and the leftist media against themselves by deliberately making statements that he knows they will attack him with, but which also inherently serve to publicize issues, subjects and people that Trump wants publicized ...

The above is exactly what happened (and was his intent) when he threw out those “America, love it or leave it” tweets that resulted in the Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse being promoted within hours to the new face of the Democrat Party by the media and the Dems themselves ...

(BTW, a truly Machiavellian view could even posit that those virulently leftist bots are actually being operated by pro-Trump forces ...)

Nonetheless, the Democrats are still operating by 20th century election rules and have learned nothing from the Trump-disruption of 2016. In the mean time, Trump himself is moving beyond his disruption of 2016, to implement an even newer disruption for 2020, namely, I believe he’s attempting to make ALL Congressional elections a fight about national issues rather than the traditional “all elections are local” BS.

I believe that Trump is going to force all candidates of both parties to take positions one way or the other on the plethora of insane leftist positions being promulgated by the Dem presidential candidates, the Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, and others of similar ilk.

If in fact President Trump succeeds in shaping the 2020 election to be “America Last” vs “America First” for ALL Congressional elections, then the GOP should achieve a Congressional victory like that which has never before been seen in U.S. history.

[catnipman]

“The Democrats are stuck. If they kick them to the curb, they will lose big in 2020. If they don’t silence them, it may cause extinction level damage long term.”

indeed.

the uber-leftist branch that the Dem Party has catered to for far too long has been given the time to grow unmolested and to bore their tentacles into Party like a cancer that can’t be removed without killing the patient ...

unfortunately for the Dem Party, NOT removing the uber-leftist cancer is going to kill the patient equally as dead ...

[Veto!]

Keep the idiot squad front and center. Long may their low IQs wave.

[right way right]

This situation with the dims reminds me of Evergreen State College here in Washington State.
The SJW student body took over the school and destroyed it.
It’s basically become a fascist training center.

[Billthedrill]

House Dem 4 summed it up: "We were there for them; they should stop attacking us."

It doesn't work like that. Sucker.

[Veto!]

“Either those women are gone, or the Democrat Party is toast.”

Which is exactly why they should stay, What better fate for Dems? Nice crispy toast.

[Migraine]

The demwits have been squawed.

[RocketMan1]

Put that in the shutty box! We want this circus to continue. Pass the damn popcorn!

[matt04]

Oh no. That Sucks. Poor Jake Tapper. lol

[matt04]

Excellent point. In CT this last election the Rep. Gov candidate were neck and neck and the Dem just barely squeaked by thanks to the major cities. Meanwhile, they “all elections are local” types keep electing the far left Dems in DC my 60+% margins. Make some of these Dems take a stand on “America Last” issues and suddenly it becomes much harder for them to win even in blue states.

[ModelBreaker]

Of course, were the squadettes Republicans saying nutty things, the media would be asking every other Republican to agree with or denounce them. That even applies to folks who are not Republicans (like David Duke).

Never heard them ask a Democrat about denouncing AOC’s statements.

[cpdiii]

These four Marxist are a total creation of the media. Otherwise they would be just be considered lunatics of the left of no importance. The democrat party has always had such Marxists. My question is why the media has elevated to them of importance? The media is the problem and not these Marxist and Muslim extremist ladies.

ps

It must be a real bitch to be Nancy Pelosie today. :)

[livius]

That’s very true, except I really think that most Dem politicians actually are America-hating crypto-Marxists. These radical nut-jobs just gave them the boldness to come out and say it and align publicly with these positions. Look how all the Dem candidates have been falling all over each other to proclaim their allegiance to the “Justice Democrat” agenda, ranging from no borders to black reparations to forced government health care to the confiscation of wealth and the control of the very air we breathe through their “Green Agenda.” Oh, and forcing everyone in the country to accept and pledge allegiance to various delusional sexual and moral ideas...well, the list just goes on. The radicals have just emboldened them.

However, I’m not sure, as you point out, that the Dems really have the support they think they do among the public for these extreme positions. The radicals - and not only the four most recently elected ones, but some of the older ones who have been spouting hate-filled nonsense for years but had been politely ignored by the press - have become the undeniable face of Dem leadership. This is partially through press promotion and partially through the fact that the Dems themselves are scared of them and no one dares to oppose them.

The Democrat party has spent years cultivating hatred of the US, hatred of “whites” (whatever those are), hatred of Western culture, hatred of our institutions, hatred of Christianity, hatred of success and hatred of freedom. While some of them may not have felt that way deep down inside, they certainly felt that these positions were a path to power, particularly as they began to think of their “base” solely in terms of ethnic or other identity group allegiance. So they created this monster, and now they can’t control it.

[central_va]

Define a Democrat moderate. No such thing. All the Democrat moderates are in the Republican Party. We call them RINOs.