JD's on steroids: House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, is getting primaried

[james_1957]

I love it! The Justice Democrats are going after Pelosi!

Stephen Jaffe is a Democrat from the state of California who is having the guts to do something many Democrats have been scared to do: primary House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi is a controversial figure within the Democratic Party. She is praised and loved by the mainstream media, the Democratic establishment, and the Clintonite wing of the party, but she is incredibly disliked by the progressive wing of the Democrats.

Why is Representative Pelosi so utterly disliked by left-wing Democrats? There are plenty of reasons: her lack of support for Medicare for All, her support for a hawkish foreign policy, the fact that she doesn’t oppose money in politics, and many other issues where she has stood against the working-class.

Jaffe is progressive. He supports Medicare for All, he’s against raising money from special interests, and he also proclaims himself a “hardcore Bernie supporter.” He has stated several times that Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign inspired him to run for Congress

http://progressivearmy.com/2017/05/09/house-minority-leader-nancy-pelosi-is-getting-primaried/

 

[KingOrfeo]

You know the Democrat will win the general election in that district. If it's a JD, will you love that?

 

[james_1957]

You know the Democrat will win the general election in that district. If it's a JD, will you love that?

Yes, I will.

What doesn't change? Vote count

What does change? No more Pelosi

 

[KingOrfeo]

What doesn't change? Vote count

You're a fool if you think that won't change, and in the Dems' favor, in 2018.

 

[Conager]

Not to mention a live foaming at the mouth example of what socialist the Democrats actually are on TV to motivate the red states.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Not to mention a live foaming at the mouth example of what socialist the Democrats actually are on TV to motivate the red states.

I expect many Pubs in the red states will like the "Medicare for all" idea.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I expect many Pubs in the red states will like the "Medicare for all" idea.

Too many of them are veterans or related to veterans to think the government can provide competent health care...

 

[james_1957]

Bernie Sanders backers say Democrats are ‘in absolute crisis and denial’

You're a fool if you think that won't change, and in the Dems' favor, in 2018.

In the Dems favor in 2018, KO?

RoseAnn DeMoro, the outspoken leader of the California Nurses Association, looked out at a horde of red-clad supporters as they prepared to march on the state Democratic Party’s convention Friday to advocate for public-funded universal health care.

“They are a party in absolute crisis and denial,” DeMoro said of the resistance her group, which supported Bernie Sanders for president, encounters from the Democratic establishment. She offered an explanation for the friction coloring their disagreements: “They are too comfortable.”

Inside the convention hall, DeMoro’s nurses booed and heckled Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez. They repeatedly interrupted Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Activists marched to the historic mansion of Gov. Jerry Brown protesting contributions from oil companies.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article151854382.html

 

[KingOrfeo]

In the Dems favor in 2018, KO?

Regardless of how successful the JDs have or have not been by November 2018, the Dems will pick up more seats than they lose, if only because of anti-Trump backlash. As for the Congressional Pubs themselves, since Trump took office they've done much to make themselves look worse and nothing to make themselves look better, and many dare not face their constituents in town hall meetings.

 

[james_1957]

Regardless of how successful the JDs have or have not been by November 2018, the Dems will pick up more seats than they lose, if only because of anti-Trump backlash. As for the Congressional Pubs themselves, since Trump took office they've done much to make themselves look worse and nothing to make themselves look better, and many dare not face their constituents in town hall meetings.

Seems to me the Dems are afraid to hold town hall meetings, KO.

Vulnerable Dems lay low as town hall angst rages
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/vulnerable-dems-lay-low-town-hall-angst-rages/

Democrats Facing Elections Refusing to Hold Town Hall Meetings
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...g-elections-refusing-hold-town-hall-meetings/

Democrats bracing for town hall protests directed at them ask Bernie Sanders for help
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...cee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.eca4ce9b731d

The Democrats who don’t dare face voters at town halls
http://nypost.com/2017/02/25/the-democrats-who-dont-dare-face-voters-at-town-halls/

 

[KingOrfeo]

Democrats bracing for town hall protests directed at them ask Bernie Sanders for help
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...cee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.eca4ce9b731d

But protesters have also gathered in blue states, marching to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s home in Brooklyn to demand the obstruction of Trump nominees, and showing up at the offices of safe-seat Democrats to demand that they filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

That could strengthen the position of JDs seeking to primary Establishment Dem incumbents. Otherwise, it certainly will not hurt the position of Democratic candidates as such in the general election, quite the reverse -- nobody discontented with the incumbent for those reasons is going to vote for the Pub, and such readily will vote for a JD who supplanted the incumbent on the ballot.

 

[james_1957]

That could strengthen the position of JDs seeking to primary Establishment Dem incumbents. Otherwise, it certainly will not hurt the position of Democratic candidates as such in the general election, quite the reverse -- nobody discontented with the incumbent for those reasons is going to vote for the Pub, and such readily will vote for a JD who supplanted the incumbent on the ballot.

How did that demand to filibuster Gorsuch work out, KO?

What other demands do the JDs have for Schumer?

 

[KingOrfeo]

How did that demand to filibuster Gorsuch work out, KO?

It was ignored; that's why so many voters are pissed with Dem incumbents -- but, as I said, nevertheless will vote for them, or the JDs who supplant them, in the 2018 general.

What other demands do the JDs have for Schumer?

[shrug] Dunno, it's not mentioned in the article you linked.