Dems take back the House? Be careful what you wish for...

[TalkRadio1]

Pelosi says she was 'busy doing other things' during Ryan farewell speech

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she didn't hear Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) farewell speech on Wednesday because she "was busy doing other things."

“This may come as a shock to you, but I was busy doing other things at the time. I wish him well as he goes forward," she said when asked at a news conference what she made of Ryan's remarks.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...oing-other-things-during-ryan-farewell-speech

 

[Adre]

Any particular reason you felt the need to report this useless information to the GB?

 

[phrodeau]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...oing-other-things-during-ryan-farewell-speech

Was his audience as small as Michele Bachmann's?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/12/michele-bachmann-wants-to-say-thank-you.html

 

[Luk]

Any particular reason you felt the need to report this useless information to the GB?

You just described 97.54% of his posts.

 

[TalkRadio1]

House Dems feuding before new Congress even begins

The new Congress hasn't even started and already the left is warring with Democratic leadership.

Two leading progressive lawmakers on Wednesday vowed to oppose a rules package they believe will inhibit votes on key liberal priorities, including Medicare-for-All. That resistance — should it grow — could endanger the obscure collection of provisions that will govern the new Congress.

And it would be an embarrassment for incoming speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team, who quickly moved to explain the decision and tamp down opposition. The rules package is one of the first votes of the new Congress, which begins Thursday. It needs 218 votes to pass and is typically a party-line vote, meaning 18 Democrats could sink it.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/02/house-democrats-feuding-1077467

 

[RoryN]

https://i.imgur.com/bdHPjGN.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ulIL7iz.gif

 

[Kirkrapine]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...oing-other-things-during-ryan-farewell-speech

And this reflects badly on her how?

 

[TalkRadio1]

Pelosi's daughter: 'She'll cut your head off'
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...ter-cut-head-off-trump-meeting-newday-vpx.cnn

 

[Luk]

Pelosi's daughter: 'She'll cut your head off'
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...ter-cut-head-off-trump-meeting-newday-vpx.cnn

Trump to Iowa rally supporters: "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them."

Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’

Trump: ‘Knock the Crap Out’ of Protesters, I'll Pay Legal Fees

miles, kill yourself.

 

[coati]

Pelosi's daughter: 'She'll cut your head off'
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...ter-cut-head-off-trump-meeting-newday-vpx.cnn

^^^^Deep-seated Deplorable fear that what she really will do is cut their balls off.

Contrary to the theme of this thread, Democrats don't fear taking back the House.

 

[TalkRadio1]

Confused Pelosi botches Speaker speech: ‘I think I skipped a couple of pages'

At the conclusion of her first speech to Congress after becoming House Speaker again, Nancy Pelosi realized she “skipped a couple pages” of her remarks.

Then she announced to herself, “I think I skipped a couple pages. I’m not sure,” on a hot mic.

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/co...hink-i-skipped-a-couple-of-pages-im-not-sure/

 

[RoryN]

Pelosi waaaaaah

https://i.imgur.com/j4wwho2.gif

 

[TalkRadio1]

Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach

Fresh-faced U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just hours after being sworn in.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters Thursday night, the Michigan Democrat and first Muslim women elected to Congress said of Trump: "People love you and you win. And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the mother***er.'”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-call-for-impeachment-on-first-day-of-new-congress

 

[10NadNuder]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-call-for-impeachment-on-first-day-of-new-congress

2 thoughts on this:

1] Debating whether or not he ever f'ed any mothers,
2] Even if he is impeached, & eventually kicked out of office, he never won the election, but still got the office for some time, & passed things (& undid things) while there, so he won in a lot of ways.

 

[TalkRadio1]

Dems livid after Tlaib vows to ‘impeach the motherf—er’

House Democrats are furious that an incoming freshman’s expletive-riddled statement about impeaching Donald Trump has suddenly upended their carefully crafted rhetoric on their plans to take on the president.

Rank-and-file Democrats, immediately fearful of the damage the comment could cause, unloaded on their new colleague Friday morning. Republicans, they argued, would hold it up as proof that Democrats are playing politics rather than pursuing genuine oversight of the president — even if the GOP never showed interest in investigating Trump scandals while it was in power.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/dems-livid-tlaib-impeachment-comment-1081370

 

[10NadNuder]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/dems-livid-tlaib-impeachment-comment-1081370

I didn't take the link, but I read the part in the box-thing.

Again, 2 thoughts:

1] What is this about "taking on the President"?! I thought we wanted to take him out!

2] He's going to make it a whole lot more literal if he cancels his plans in Florida (which apparently Melania did anyway) & stays in DC!

 

[Kirkrapine]

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/co...hink-i-skipped-a-couple-of-pages-im-not-sure/

What, you wish she had gone on longer?

 

[Kirkrapine]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-call-for-impeachment-on-first-day-of-new-congress

What an unjust canard! He's a daughterfucker!

 

[TalkRadio1]

Hoyer says impeachment talks are a 'distraction'

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Sunday that discussions about impeaching President Trump are a "distraction," and that Democrats should instead focus on their legislative agenda.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/424058-hoyer-says-impeachment-talks-are-a-distraction

 

[Luk]

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/424058-hoyer-says-impeachment-talks-are-a-distraction

Hoyer is correct.

Now, act like a human and discuss this with other humans. Or, just be a boring fucking robot and C&P someone else's thoughts.

 

[TalkRadio1]

No, Pelosi is not the constitutional equal to the president

Shortly before becoming House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made an interesting statement in an interview with the New York Times that the Constitution makes her to be President Donald Trump’s equal. While President Donald Trump is criticized for misconstruing his inherent powers (often for good reason), Pelosi also appears to need a basic constitutional primer on the office.

The Times piece is a largely celebratory story about Pelosi as an “icon of female power.” However, Pelosi was asked “if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal.” She responded “The Constitution does.”

No it doesn’t. The Constitution makes the Legislative Branch the equally to the Executive Branch. Indeed, I have testified repeatedly before Congress in the hopes of reminding members of that fact. Members have allowed the expansion of presidential powers for years — ignoring their constitutional duties to protect the inherent powers under Article I. Pelosi played a major role in that erosion under the Obama Administration.

Now back to the Speakership. A speaker is not the equal to a president because a speaker is not the head of one of the branches. She is at most the head of one of the house of the Legislative Branch and even that can be contested as overblown since her powers are limited under House rules.

https://jonathanturley.org/2019/01/...itutional-equal-to-the-president/#more-140642

 

[Liar]

So, some are more equal than others?

 

[Luk]

https://jonathanturley.org/2019/01/...itutional-equal-to-the-president/#more-140642

Pelosi? Thank you for bringing up her name.

For your reading pleasure...

Donald Trump is less popular than Nancy Pelosi for the first time during his presidency

Poll of the week: A Gallup poll out this week finds that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a favorable rating of 38% and an unfavorable rating of 48%. That's bad enough for a net favorability rating of -10 points.
The same poll also showed that President Donald Trump's favorable rating is 40% to unfavorable rating of 58%. That means his net favorability rating is -18 points.

 

[TalkRadio1]

Dem chairman begins prep work for legislation to enact 'single payer' healthcare

House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., has asked the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the effects of shifting all healthcare costs onto the federal government, a first step toward the "Medicare for all" legislation sought by progressives.

"Members of Congress developing proposals seeking to establish a single-payer system will face many important decisions that could have major implications for federal spending, national healthcare spending, and access to care," Yarmuth said in a letter to Keith Hall, the director of the CBO.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-legislation-to-enact-single-payer-healthcare

 

[Kirkrapine]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/02/house-democrats-feuding-1077467

That is only to be expected, once the unifying pressure of being in opposition is removed.