House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dismissed the notion that there are schisms within her caucus Sunday, minimizing the far-left contingent.
“By and large, whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center,” Pelosi told CBS’ Lesley Stahl. “That we have to…go down the mainstream.”
When Stahl pushed her, asking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the other prominent freshmen members, Pelosi was reductive. “That’s like five people,” she shrugged.
Watch the full interview here.
Y’know . . . .?
I’m wondering why, rather than ask yet again the Dems-in-disarray questions, these people don’t instead ask some Republicans why there’s not more disarray in their caucus as their president says and does things that would give them the howling fantods if a Democratic president were to say and do those things. Even Dems would voice their disagreements with Obama, and on the record at that.
Silence is complicity. But no one seems interested in examining that.
Pelosi has been reading her Sun Tzu:
Her “holding the center” has kept the Democrats in the minority for most of her career, and she lets the Republicans control the definition of the “center.” The only two times the Democrats have won the majority back under Pelosi have been when voters were sick of Republicans, not because anything the House Democrats have done.
But there you have her: Nancy Pelosi, Queen of the Donor Class, in her full glory.
She only cares about ensuring a stream of
campaign contributionsbribes from her oligarch friends so she can payoff her tired old incumbents for their votes. She does not care about delivering healthcare for all Americans or seriously addressing global warming. She only ridicules and dismisses those who do.Her recent actions to block primaries challengers to incumbents is Exhibit 1 of her disdain for voters and democracy.
She wants to block any threats to her money and personal power. That’s all she cares about. She nakedly does not care about what the majority of Democratic voters want.
Follow the money.
‘hold the cebter’, ‘go down the mainstream’.
Says a member of the Pig Rich.
I don’t disagree that we hold the center, I just disagree on the definition. The policies of those “like five people” are the popular policies with the majority of Americans. I think that would be a good way to define the center, the majority of Americans.There are a ton of studies/polls that show the policies of the left are the most popular policies in the country, Minimum Wage, Taxing the Rich, Medicare for all…are all more popular that anything the Republicans put out.