Posted on 09/18/2019 9:40:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler in a closed-door meeting last week, saying that the panel has taken the push for impeachment of President Trump far beyond the position of the House Democratic caucus.
Pelosi shocked those present at the meeting with her criticism of Nadler and added that the Democrats don’t have the necessary votes to impeach Trump.
“You can feel free to leak this,” Pelosi said to those present, according to Politico.
The revelations come on the heels of a contentious hearing in which former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was summoned to testify regarding allegations of obstruction of justice on the part of the president.
During the Tuesday hearing, Lewandowski was asked to shed light on whether Trump asked him to tell then–attorney general Jeff Sessions to curtail the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. The investigation itself ultimately concluded there had been no collusion, but prosecutors did not make a charging decision as to whether Trump’s alleged attempts to curtail the investigation constituted obstruction of justice.
Pelosi and Nadler have been at odds for some time over how to handle possible impeachment proceedings. The latter is extremely supportive of impeachment, and has turned up his rhetoric on the issue recently.
“Personally, I think the president ought to be impeached,” Nadler said on Monday in an interview with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. Nadler is currently facing his most difficult primary challenge in years, a factor several Democrats said is contributing to his hard line on impeachment.
Pelosi seeks a more moderate stance due to what she sees as insufficient support within the Democratic party for a more radical course of action. She fears that a failed bid to impeach Trump will embolden him during an election year, as he may use the proceedings to claim his exoneration.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning...”
cat fight...need more popcorn.
Rope-a-Dope!
Nancy Pelosi: Unlikely Voice of Reason
Dont you live watching rats fight?
She should do it.
She can? Did not know that
This does seem crazy.
Nancy is the speaker of the House, the most powerful Democrat in the House. It strains believability, that impeachment efforts , committee hearings etc, are allowed to happen without her consent, without her implicit approval of those proceedings taking place.
So are we to believe that Speaker Pelosi had no control over her Democrat committee chairmen????
She can strip ANY member of their assignments and basically put them in the corner for the rest of their term.............
Interesting about Nadler potentially getting primaried. That’s really tough to do with a long-time incumbent but it would certainly serve as a warning shot to the rest. I doubt the Dems have the stones to do it but we’ll see.
That would make my week.
Things are REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD when pelosi is the voice of reason in the dem party.
Nadler’s socialist parents did their job well in creating a hateful, Godless monster.
They should be proud.
Speaking of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and allegations of obstruction of justice on the part of the president
...... where the heck is the House of Representatives’ hearing with Inspector General Horowitz? The hearing was supposed to be occurring now and on C-Span. I see nothing anywhere.
Out here in the dusty, barren plain we watch the lioness patiently circle her water buffalo prey, cut off from his herd . . .
This is where a national political party gets into trouble by filling a committee like this with radical partisan mutants like Nadler, Swaller, Lee, Johnson, etc. There aren’t enough voters in this country to keep the Democrats in control of the House if this is the kind of idiocy that gets national attention from that side of the aisle.
““You can feel free to leak this,” Pelosi said to those present, according to Politico.”
Yet this cold water on the progressive narrative still took a week to reach us.
” Nadler is currently facing his most difficult primary challenge in years, a factor several Democrats said is contributing to his hard line on impeachment. “
SO... impeaching Trump is the ONLY accomplishment that Nadler can offer his constituents ?
I think this is more of a case where different groups who make up the Democrats in the House....are marginally convinced to bring her back in as House Speaker. If you were to go to someone else....who, and can you find enough votes among the groups to get that individual into the speaker seat?
The new and more hardcore folks want someone even more harsh than Nancy. The Democrats who are barely winning in southern states....absolutely don’t want any hardcore replacement.
She is letting the progressive freak prance and posture.
She just doesn’t want another floor vote.
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