Posted on 11/14/2020 5:12:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Nancy Pelosi is going about her business during this post-election period, apparently oblivious to the storm that’s raging among her caucus members.
In truth, it isn’t so much that there is much disagreement between radical Democrats and the “moderates.” The problem, as the moderates see it, is “messaging.” The radicals make Democratic proposals sound, well, radical. Centrist Democrats want a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. They prefer to soft-pedal some of the more extreme rhetoric coming from the radicals while embracing the ideas. They don’t want to call it “government-run health care.” They want their health care plan to be “inclusive” and “affordable” and “fair.” Thus is their real intent hidden from the voter.
It worked in a lot of districts and failed in others. But one centrist Democrat had the audacity (or stupidity) to actually praise Donald Trump and says she won’t vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. Rep.Elissa Slotkin of Michigan thinks it’s time to rein in the radicals and bring the party down to earth. Politico posted a long, revealing interview with the congresswoman.
“You know, the one thing I will say about Donald Trump,” Slotkin began, “he doesn’t talk down to anybody. He is who he is, but he doesn’t talk down to anyone. And I think that there is a certain voter out there because of that who identifies with him and appreciates him.”
Slotkin flipped a GOP seat in 2018 and was comfortably ahead in the polls on Election Day. But she ended up winning by half the margin she was projected to. She and other centrist Democrats believe there are lessons to be learned from Trump.
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Vote from Trump as the speaker. He doesn’t have to be a member of congress and is in line to the president.
If only a half dozen or so Democrats will support a moderate Democrat as Speaker then the Republicans could vote with them and send Nancy to the curb. The alternative is Nancy and the far left wing controlling the House.
I think Ms Slotkin, it may be time to change your party affiliation if you really mean what you say. Legislators who are bent on killing God's creation before and right after birth have been given over to a relationship with the devil. It will take more than words to rein them in . . . try exorcism.
RE: If only a half dozen or so Democrats will support a moderate Democrat as Speaker then the Republicans could vote with them and send Nancy to the curb.
And who might you say such a person would be?
Can you give us a few names?
Bet Ms Slotkin gets put on The List. The more the merrier.
Sorry, but she isnt a centrist.
Just another pro-abortion extremist, with a 100% planned parenthood record, pretending to be reasonable.
Oxymoron, antonym, etc...
Slotkin, like Spanberger, is CIA.
But she voted to impeach him. She needs to peddle her horseshit to another audience.
How many dem reps need to switch parties to flip the house? Just tossing it out there.
Oooo, dissension in the ranks....
l8r
Last I heard, the Dem majority was +12. So if 6 or 7 switch (not likely, I know), we own the House.
I expected Pelosi to be challenged for speaker, because of her age and her poor performance in the election, but I expected it to be from AOC and the far left, not moderates. Now I'm starting to realize ANY dem who can enlist 6 other Dems can form a voting bloc that can kill any bill Pelosi puts to a vote.
Any good news I can find is welcome nowadays...
There are absolutely no “centrist communists...
None...
Zero...
They are all just filthy vermin needing extermination...
Maybe in her party, she is ..😀
Communists ready to release plans for new world order CCP nods.
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