Posted on 11/30/2024 5:34:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Tell us something we didn't already know! (Yes, I'm stealing from paying homage to Wizard of Id. Sue me, peasants!)
The first effects of a Democrat adjustment to their crushing loss in the presidential election may come in the chamber where they actually managed to hold serve. The New York Times reports that backbenchers may give their entrenched leadership the heave-ho in the next session of Congress to muscle up for the first two years of the Donald Trump restoration. House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler is their first target, but not their last:
House Democrats are considering pushing aside some of their most senior leaders from top posts in the next Congress, driven by a worry that aging members are not up to the task of countering President-elect Donald J. Trump and his loyal Republican allies in Congress.
The debate has grown most intense in recent days as dozens of Democrats have been privately pressing Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland to challenge Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York for his position as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. They are doing so out of concern that Mr. Nadler will be ineffective in pushing back against any efforts by Mr. Trump to abuse his power.
Is this a youth must be served revolt against the eminence grises of a barnacle-encrusted clique? It might read that way at first, except that the oldest of that clique is leading the campaign to dislodge Nadler from his perch:
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been among those privately encouraging him to challenge Mr. Nadler, according to the people familiar with the internal discussions.
Nancy Pelosi leading a leadership challenge is somewhat akin to Gordon Gekko demanding reform and better enforcement at the SEC. Pelosi is practically the entire problem with House Democrat leadership. She encouraged the lawfare that eventually backfired, and the La Resistance strategies that just landed Democrats in the Washington wilderness. Democrats should have dumped Pelosi out of leadership the first time she lost the House majority, not to mention the second time she lost it.
The New York Times leads off the article by suggesting that House Democrats may target all of their senior leadership, but they only have specifics on the challenge to Nadler. It sounds as though this may be a test case to see whether the House Democrat rank and file want to rethink leadership after a series of profoundly stupid and corrupt decisions over the last few years. If that's what they want, though, House Democrats should rethink anyone connected to Pelosi -- and to the Squad as well. They're all pretty revolting these days.
They stink on ice.
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Well done.
That will certainly cause a rift with rats. I hope it tears them apart.
From the History of the World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLLcrlyrHLg
I wonder if the young RATS like Hakeem “Skyhook” Jeffries will let us send them lists of who we think needs to go.
She just can’t help it. Her last coup worked out so well, she’s looking to do another. Dumb as a post, but being stupid doesn’t mean you can’t be cunning, determined, ruthless, and vicious. Always with the plans within plans
This will come down to money. Who has it, who decides who gets it.
Beat me to it!
Right? Pecker puss Pelosi is leading the revolt against aging incompetent leaders? What a joke.
The New York Times leads off the article by suggesting that House Democrats may target all of their senior leadership, but they only have specifics on the challenge to Nadler. It sounds as though this may be a test case to see whether the House Democrat rank and file want to rethink leadership after a series of profoundly stupid and corrupt decisions over the last few years
I wouldn’t call what happened in the House elections crushing.
The dummies still following Pelosi? After all the damage she just did to the party? Guess stupid just runs in their veins.
All Dems are revolting.
“privately pressing Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland to challenge Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York for his position as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.”
This will certainly make things MUCH more acrimonious as between Congress and the President. Raskin is a nutcase.
But I think that plays into Trump’s hands. If Raskin tries to do 2017 redux with the hoaxes and impeachments or by trying to prevent Trump from taking office because of J6, the country is not in the mood for that. Lawfare and hoaxes and impeachments and insurrection have been rebuked in a decisive victory. Trump’s approval now stands at 57%. It’s never been above 50% before, ever. Similar approval ratings for his cabinet picks.
More stupid and dishonest attacks by the Raskin/Schiff/Brennan axis will drive that number up and make Trump’s transformation of America easier.
What will be interesting is to see if they rev up Antifa riots this summer (probably not Raskin but his handlers in the deep state). Something, somewhere will go south and a black man or an illegal will be killed by a white fed. Or a cute 12 year old girl will die in a Texas camp while being processed for deportation. Or some such. When you are dealing with millions of people. Something bad will happen somewhere. And that could be the spark.
Whether that spark ignites into a blaze depends on whether the folks who financed and organized the BLM/Antifa riots will think it’s a good idea to start them back up. But that will wait until one of the next two summers—rioters don’t show up in icky cold weather. The political calculus will be whether waiting until the summer before midterms benefits or damages the deep state or whether getting an early start at preventing Trump from governing and punishing the voters for electing him is more important to them.
But if the DOJ is revamped, there will be a serious investigation of conspiracy/RICO charges against the organizers and funders of the riots. The left has never had to worry about that sort of thing for many decades. They should think long and hard before fomenting revolution again.
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