Pelosi vows House will promote its own 'non-menacing' 2020 agenda regardless of presidential nominee

The Hill ^ | February 27, 2020 | Mike Lillis

[karpov]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that House Democrats will run on their own policy agenda in the lead-up to November, even if it means breaking from the platform of the party's presidential nominee.

The issue of 2020 messaging has come under the spotlight with the surging campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a liberal icon whose left-leaning platform — including policies like "Medicare For All" and the Green New Deal — has energized progressive Democrats but has also sparked waves of panic among more centrist lawmakers fighting for reelection in battleground districts.

Appearing to choose her words carefully, Pelosi said Democrats won control of the House in 2018 by pursuing a liberal but "non-menacing" policy agenda, and will press a similar message this year.

"I've been very clear in all of this: Our responsibility is to win the House," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol. "We know how to win. We've demonstrated that in the most gerrymandered voter-suppressed political arena you could name. And we gained 40 seats in the last election, by owning the ground with our mobilization — not yielding one grain of sand; by a message of a bold, progressive agenda that was mainstream and non-menacing; and having the money, the ends, to advance our cause with our message and our ground game."

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has spent decades on Capitol Hill — in both the House and Senate — pressing an agenda focused largely on economic and social justice. The unapologetic anti-corporate message has won him millions of enthusiastic followers around the country, who have propelled him to the front of the pack of the dwindling Democratic primary field heading into next week's crucial Super Tuesday primaries.

[karpov]

"Non-menacing" as opposed to Sanders' agenda? Is that what you meant, Nancy?

[Drango]

Sure.

[dowcaet]

Get Trump. Get Trump, and Get Trump. That’s been their agenda since January of last year, and it’s not changing.

[100American]

Just what we are talking about today, Bernie splits the log and they cut it up and build the fire

But you will be nice and warm they say, that is until they come for you

He is just planting the seed they hope to water until it blossoms

Evil, pure evil!

Sic Semper Tyrranis!

[Lee25]

This just occurred to me. If Bernie and Nancy stand together, Nancy would look like a conservative

[Dilbert San Diego]

And America elected Democrats to run the House , and what did Nancy do? Endlessly investigate and impeach the president. She’s as much as admitting that they didn’t do anything to enact the agenda she and Democrats ran on.

So how does anything she say mean anything now? Isn’t it likely that a Democrat House in a 2nd Trump term will just investigate and impeach some more, and her agenda be damned?

Or why the hell can’t she be honest, that if she continues to control the House, she and Ocasio-Cortez and Adam Schiff and Nadler will continue the impeachment? Why not be honest about what she will do?

[MagUSNRET]

Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber!!!

[TheConservativeTejano]

"Non-menacing" as opposed to Sanders' agenda? Is that what you meant, Nancy?

Partner, Nancy Pelousy does not even realize that she is not going to be the next Speaker of the People's House.

There was a Congressional Election in Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday Feb. 25th of this week and a Republican won overwhemingly over the Rat who ran in this race. The Rat party had kept this seat for 33 years.

This election has told us a lot of what is going to happen to the Rat party come this Nov. 3rd, 2020.

[silverleaf]

I think she just inferred that the Sanders agenda is “menacing”

But but but ......the popular vote!

[tet68]

They actually have no problem with Bern’s agenda.
They are just afraid it’s too soon and that the
nation will wake up and see the water is getting hot.

[smvoice]

I cannot wait until their convention! It is going to be EPIC. In its hideousness. 🍿🍿

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bernie represents the true heart and soul of the democrat party. Pelosi is irrelevant.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I’m hoping it makes 1968 look like a kindergarten pik-a-nik.

[rigelkentaurus]

So Nancy just said she would fully and completely implement our President Trump’s entire agenda?

[xp38]

Is this related to non-malarkey?

[redfreedom]

Your statement is very, very true. And the both of them make Bill Clinton a conservative.

[The Antiyuppie]

They have the same agenda but the presentation will be non-threatening.

[crz]

With all the panic stuff going on I doubt anyone has heard of that.

I know I did not, and thank you for that.

[Leep]

IOW She won’t drool publicly over the mention of Castro’s name.

[DannyTN]

So is she going to silence the squad?