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Nancy Pelosi is a big part of GOP plans to win the midterms
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/1/18 | Susan Ferrichio

Posted on 02/01/2018 6:12:20 PM PST by markomalley

House Republicans will lean heavily on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her comment that the GOP tax cut amounts to just "crumbs" for people in their quest to retain the majority this year.

In an interview with reporters on Thursday, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, who runs the House campaign arm, said the top Democrat is helping Republicans politically with her own well-publicized criticisms of the GOP.

Most recently, she called the Republican tax reform plan “Armageddon,” and said the $1,000 bonuses some companies awarded as a result of corporate tax cuts are “crumbs.”

“Her crumbs comment,” Stivers said. “That’s something I think we can use pretty effectively.”

Stivers echoed President Trump, who talked about Pelosi when he addressed the Republicans at the Greenbrier Resort Thursday during their annual retreat.

Trump told Republicans Thursday that the “crumbs” comment could hurt Democrats in the same way many believe Hillary Clinton by saying, during a campaign speech, that Trump supporters belong in “a basket of deplorables.”

“And then we got hit with these corporations giving tremendous bonuses to everybody, that Nancy Pelosi called crumbs,” Trump said to the GOP crowd. “That was a bad — that could be like deplorable. Does that make sense? Deplorable and crumbs?”

Republicans face a formidable challenge in November. Dozens of GOP lawmakers are retiring, including some in districts vulnerable to takeovers by Democrats.

Some generic ballot surveys have recently showed a significant advantage for House Democrats, but their lead was substantially cut after Republicans passed the tax bill.

Pelosi is sticking by the “crumbs” comment. She repeated it Thursday at an event in Massachusetts, according to the Daily Caller.

“There is a tax advantage in the beginning for workers, and that’s their enticement,” Pelosi said at a tax reform event in Cambridge. “While they give banquets to … the high end, to corporate America, and I say ‘crumbs,’ they mock me in ads for saying that, compared to what they get at the high end.”

Stivers said the recently passed tax reform plan can help the GOP hold onto the majority if they can effectively promote it to voters.

“I feel good about our chances,” Stivers said.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: california; crumbs; deplorable; deplorables; incometaxes; massachusetts; nancypelosi; ohio; stevestivers; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: markomalley

Every time she opens her mouth, a brilliant negative campaign ad is born.

Keep talking, Nancy.


21 posted on 02/01/2018 6:45:38 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Irish Eyes

:)


22 posted on 02/01/2018 6:51:39 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Pelosi is a total wreck. She is so incoherent that no one has a clue what the hell she’s talking about most of the time.

Being pretty hard on her. You know, after using every lie and excuse in the book, it's not easy to come up with new ones.

23 posted on 02/01/2018 6:52:58 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Great move with Pelosi, nationalize the midterms (see Newt Gingrich, 1994)


24 posted on 02/01/2018 6:59:49 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: markomalley

Won’t work now since the Dems know they are going to weaponize her crumb comment. Nice try though, would have worked nicely if stealth.


25 posted on 02/01/2018 7:04:18 PM PST by fastrock (It is right to do wrong, even if sanctioned by law. - Abe Lincoln)
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To: markomalley
Nancy Pelosi is a big part of GOP plans to win the midterms

I can just see President Trump driving those "Contruction Round Road Levelers" running over the Rats in 2018.

I already know of a lot of Rat Senators that are literally defecating bricks as they prepare to somehow get reelected.

It does not look good for the Rats and they know it now after the fantastic "SOFU" speech on Jan. 30th, 2018 by President Trump.

It could not have happened to a nicer bunch of guys like the Rat party.

One more time, President Trump is not a Politician. He is a businessman and builder the likes of which we have never had at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

26 posted on 02/01/2018 7:07:04 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano
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To: TheConservativeTejano

I should correct my typo---It should read "SOTU" speech.

27 posted on 02/01/2018 7:09:26 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano
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To: JohnBrowdie

Even when she doesn’t open her mouth too.

Plenty of pic and video of her scowling and playing with her dentures when Trump made pro-American comments during the SOTU


28 posted on 02/01/2018 7:11:14 PM PST by digger48
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To: markomalley

With the media's fervent help they can pivot away from her in a flash.

29 posted on 02/01/2018 7:12:28 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: markomalley

Another one from Pelosi is that illegals are Americans too


30 posted on 02/01/2018 7:35:53 PM PST by Lee25
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To: Cyclone59

Dems have to hide these mutants because while they might be in safe districts, many Dems in the real United States are not - and it is impossible for them to maintain power between the West Coast and the Northeast if their support in the Upper Midwest is crumbling. As long as freaks detached from reality are the public faces of the Democratic Party, they must accept they’ll be lucky to control even 15 of the 50 states.


31 posted on 02/01/2018 7:40:36 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: markomalley

32 posted on 02/01/2018 8:01:49 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: markomalley

Never got more money in my pocket by anything a Dumacrat did.


33 posted on 02/01/2018 8:05:14 PM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: markomalley

All Republicans have to do is point out that Democrats care more about fraudulently documented foreigners than citizens.

It’ll be new for a lot of them because they have also been representing illegal aliens and their employers.


34 posted on 02/01/2018 8:09:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: markomalley; vette6387; sheik yerbouty; NFHale; left that other site; ZULU; null and void; Liz; ...

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=115759

Super PAC going after Piglosi in campaign ads.


35 posted on 02/01/2018 9:11:07 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: markomalley

Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus are God’s forever gift to POTUS, DJT & the Republican Party. Both of them are “Heaven Sent” in making certain the current Democrat Party dies on the vine, politically, come the Mid-Term elections in November, 2018.

Nancy Pelosi is just simply insane from head to toe and, the “CBC” is losing African-Americans in massive numbers as every new day passes. The reasons are as obvious as the nose on your face. Yep, Obama & Clinton, ya done a great job in destroying “your” Democrat Party”!!!


36 posted on 02/02/2018 6:10:50 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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