Comrade obama foretold the rse of the four.
Posted on 07/20/2019 4:23:06 AM PDT by Liz
On Jan. 3, Nancy Pelosi presided over my swearing-in ceremony. With my hand on the Holy Bible surrounded by my wife and children, I thought I was standing next to the progressive hero, the Democrats’ top tactician, and the speaker of the House. I was dead wrong.
Now I know there isn’t just one speaker, there are four. The self-proclaimed “squad,” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley run the show in the People’s House. They’ve flanked Pelosi from the Left and stolen her mantle as the leader of the so-called progressives.
Pelosi’s fall from grace has been a slow trickle. Before the 116th Congress even gaveled in for the first legislative session, it was blatantly obvious Pelosi didn’t have control of her conference, nor the group that would soon become the de-facto leaders of Democratic Party in the House.
House Democrats launched a campaign to undermine her bid for speaker. It was almost successful, too. Only after she privately lobbied Ocasio-Cortez and acquiesced to demands she support a term limits deal on the speakership was Pelosi able to narrowly evade massive embarrassment. At least, she thought.
Traditionally, the speaker of the House sets the legislative agenda, gives the party marching orders, and ensures that rank-and-file members fall into place. On all fronts, Pelosi is failing miserably.
Ask any American living outside the Beltway to name a single piece of legislation from this Congress and I’d be willing to bet the only one they’d be able to name is Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.” Would a single person mention H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act that Pelosi held a press conference about in March? Would they be able to name H.R. 5, the so-called “Equality Act,” which the speaker unveiled at another press conference with House and Senate Democratic leadership? The answer to both is a resounding “no.”
While Ocasio-Cortez has introduced the only piece of legislation to become a household name so far this year, Tlaib has taken the post of field general, dishing out marching orders.
Just hours after Pelosi swore us in, Tlaib told a room of MoveOn supporters (note the irony) that she would lead the Democratic Party on a crusade to “impeach the motherf---er,” referring to President Trump. Shortly following Tlaib’s comment, a memo went out to all the Democratic committee chairs to leverage the power of the legislative branch and undermine the ability of the president to fulfill his campaign promises.
Even though Pelosi knows it's political suicide to pursue impeachment (poll after poll shows more Americans want congressional Democrats to let Trump be) she seems powerless to stop it.
A member of her own conference and a fellow Texan, Rep. Al Green, (once again) filed articles of impeachment just this week. Pelosi said she doesn’t support impeachment, but, with more than 80 members of her conference in support of launching a formal inquiry, it is unclear how long she will be able to hold them off.
For her part, Omar must have Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer under a spell. Both Pelosi and Hoyer have been vocal supporters of Israel for decades. But since Omar came to town they can’t even condemn her naked anti-Semitism and even put her on the House Foreign Affairs Committee to spew Hamas talking points.
To their credit, Pelosi and Hoyer did try to condemn Omar’s now infamous anti-Semitic tweet, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” But something went awry. The resolution condemning anti-Semitism somehow transformed to a watered-down resolution condemning “hate.”
Omar got the message: She can say any hateful thing she wants without reproach! It didn’t take her long to suggest American servicemembers were “terrorists,” blame the U.S. for devastation in Venezuela, and share Hamas propaganda on Twitter. Neither Pelosi, nor anyone from her party’s leadership, has lifted a finger to stop it. Why? They are terrified.
The latest example of the “squad’s” control over the House was Pelosi’s resolution to condemn President Trump for his comments during a Twitter fight with four speakers over the weekend. After calling the president “racist” on the House floor, an act of pure pandering to the squad, Pelosi was ruled “out of order,” breaking a House rule which has remained unbroken for roughly 30 years. Pelosi’s gaffe led to a member vacating the speaker’s chair, a two-hour delay in the floor proceedings, and a cancellation of the evening’s scheduled votes.
The House and the Democrats are in disarray. Speaker Pelosi was first elected to a post in the Democratic National Committee 43 years ago — before Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, or Omar were born. One would think that many years of experience would count for something. Not in today’s Democratic Party.
Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican, represents Texas' 21st congressional district.
She’s 79...I’m sure there were older speaker than that, but obviously her successor doesn’t have to adhere to any term limits deal.
The speaker is whoever can get a majority of the House to vote for him or her.
Any statute placing term limits would be overriden by another statute electing so-and-so to Speaker.
Yes, I know an election for Speaker isn’t really a statute. The President doesn’t have an opportunity to veto.
With all the bribes that go on in the house it should be called a whore house.
BOL.....nice comeback.
Thanks MarvinStinson. Sidebars from the Ilhan Omar keyword:
Actually there are two Speakers. Ilhan Omar is the functional brain, small as it may be, and Occasional-Cortex is the face.
Chip Roy is a guy who barely won his US House race last year (by 3 points), in a district with pieces of San Antone and Austin. In 2020, the Abortion Barbie just announced that she plans to run against him.
Obviously he need our support!
Only support I can give him is money BUT if he were to run against Senator John Cornhole and win the primary he’d be a good candidate....as well as Dan Crenshaw. These guys will go places......fearless!
There was a video up on FR which I can’t find now, of the body language of the Four Horsemen of the Antisemitic Apocalypse together answering questions. It shows Ilhan as very much in charge and Cortex as submissive.
Florida same.
Pelosi should not be disappointed. What is happening to her is the end result of fifty years of Leftist lunacy. In a few more years, the Leftist members of Congress will start putting a bounty on the heads of their opponents and trying to outlaw white politicians.
Kind of like Stalin/Trotsky split. The Squad believes that “the end justifies the means” while Pelosi and other socialists want to implement socialism through the “proper channels” so to speak.
Cortez and company have actually made the title of Speaker of the House completely meaningless. Pelosi should strip all of them of committee assignments and gag them, otherwise what does it actually mean to be SotH?
I know this was a different time and part of congress but remember when Hillary hit the Senate? She demanded the Senator she replaced Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s nice office and his primo committee posts. She also wanted to hire pollsters. The senior dems told her no to all and put her in her place as just a freshman senator. They showed some guts. So now they no longer have any. Are the dems becoming the party led by total barking moonbats a bad thing?
Something else I have not heard one peep about, What is the opinion of senior dem reps about “the squad?” The ones just behind P’lousy. These harpies hurt their power too.
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...... more on that later.
Isn’t this one of the guys that voted for the H1-B’s?
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