Politics: Midterm elections catch-all thread...

[Jon]

Re: 2018 midterm elections catch-all thread

it is nice to see the epitome of human garbage being taken out. i am glad she no longer represents our state.

now I really hope I run into her again

 

[MattinBama]

Re: 2018 midterm elections catch-all thread

Hmm, weird that the big scary caravan coverage isn't anywhere to be found on the Fox News front page all of the sudden. I wonder what could have changed to make it not as important.

 

[twofbyc]

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That's not the point. The goal is to demonstrate that they are capable of responsible governance.

You mean like the current Republican House?


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[Crimson1967]

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Pelosi will be 79 in March. They need to move on from her.


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[2003TIDE]

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Pelosi will be 79 in March. They need to move on from her.


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I’m not sure. With the House and Senate split and Trump as POTUS, they need experienced leadership. If the Senate goes blue in 2020, then yeah she needs to move out of the way.

 

[GrayTide]

Re: 2018 midterm elections catch-all thread

Pelosi will be 79 in March. They need to move on from her.


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While I agree with your sentiments, Pelosi's experience and clout in Washington will be a benefit to the new Democrat controlled House. She has the experience to deal with Republicans in the House and with Mitch McConnell in the Senate. I believe she should be Speaker of the House for a period of time while the Democrats groom someone to take her place. I do not remember her name, but there is a House member from Illinois who, at least on TV appears to be a a good prospect. Pelosi needs to get the House in order and then yield control to a younger, more centrist member.

ETA Cheri Bustos.

 

[Crimson1967]

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Cheri Bustos sounds like a stripper/porn star name.


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[92tide]

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good riddance to rubbish

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[92tide]

Re: 2018 midterm elections catch-all thread

and just as a reminder

 

[uafanataum]

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While I agree with your sentiments, Pelosi's experience and clout in Washington will be a benefit to the new Democrat controlled House. She has the experience to deal with Republicans in the House and with Mitch McConnell in the Senate. I believe she should be Speaker of the House for a period of time while the Democrats groom someone to take her place. I do not remember her name, but there is a House member from Illinois who, at least on TV appears to be a a good prospect. Pelosi needs to get the House in order and then yield control to a younger, more centrist member.

ETA Cheri Bustos.

How well did she do when gaining this experience dealing republicans? As far as I remember when she was leading a Democratic controlled house she never got the republicans on board on ant meaningful issue. If all she did was bump heads in the past, why does anyone think that experience will help her not bump heads this time around?

 

[92tide]

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[2003TIDE]

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never got the republicans on board on ant meaningful issue.

Awww that's cute.....You think the GOP has and interest in working with a Dem controlled House.

 

[UAH]

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Awww that's cute.....You think the GOP has and interest in working with a Dem controlled House.

I do recall Mitch McConnell saying that his job was to defeat Barack Obama. Later he amended that to defeat Barack Obama and end Obama Care. Hard to see him being bipartisan now.

 

[CharminTide]

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This is the biggest knock against Pelosi as speaker:

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060162807960870913

Trump wants a foil more than anything, and Pelosi is probably better suited to rally his base than even Clinton. I hope she has the prescience to recognize this and, should she win, transition to new blood before the end of 2019. If she remains speaker in 2020, the Democrats are handing Trump exactly what he wants most.

 

[92tide]

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Awww that's cute.....You think the GOP has and interest in working with a Dem controlled House.

brown invaders funded by globalist jew soros are coming to take over our country . but the new democrat speaker is just awesome.

 

[uafanataum]

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Awww that's cute.....You think the GOP has and interest in working with a Dem controlled House.

Well it's a Democrat house and Republican Senate so it would be in her job description to try to work with both parties.

 

[UAH]

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This is the biggest knock against Pelosi as speaker:

[TWEET][FONT=&quot]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060162807960870913[/FONT][/TWEET]
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060162807960870913

Trump wants a foil more than anything, and Pelosi is probably better suited to rally his base than even Clinton. I hope she has the prescience to recognize this and, should she win, transition to new blood before the end of 2019. If she remains speaker in 2020, the Democrats are handing Trump exactly what he wants most.

Trump's base will be Trump's base. The question is what does Pelosi bring in terms of educated voters, young voters, women voters and minority voters. I didn't agree with her leadership of the House in Obama's first term because of overreaching and costing themselves the majority. Hopefully she learned a lot in that process. She will have a lot of new faces in Congress in January and will need to guard against overreaching again.

To me she is a lovely woman, mother and grandmother as well as an obviously savvy politician but as it will come to all of us she will need to hand over the reins to a younger candidate to be the face of the Democratic Party into 2020 and hopefully beyond.

That won't change the fact that she has been a trailblazer for women in politics which is good I think.

 

[CharminTide]

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Arizona GOP sues to limit mail-in ballots in McSally-Sinema race

There's a reason this one hasn't been called yet. Somehow, there are still 600k uncounted votes (!), and of course the GOP is suing to stop them from being counted.

 

[Bama 8Ball]

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To me she is a lovely woman, mother and grandmother as well as an obviously savvy politician but as it will come to all of us she will need to hand over the reins to a younger candidate to be the face of the Democratic Party into 2020 and hopefully beyond.

That won't change the fact that she has been a trailblazer for women in politics which is good I think.

It is arguable that she and MCconnell see the political angles better than anyone in DC has in a long time.

 

[CharminTide]

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Gillum-DeSantis race now in recount range

Votes from South Florida keep coming in for Gillum at 2:1. We're gonna have to wait to know the outcome on this one.