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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/386476-pelosi-gop-targeting-me-because-im-effectivePelosi: GOP targeting me because Im effective
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent interview that Republicans target her because she is effective.
I take it as Im effective, Pelosi told The Associated Press. I also happen to be, apart from anyone whos running for president or been the presidential nominee, the biggest fundraiser in the country."
Pelosi also said House Democrats have both the political climate and fundraising to help them win the lower chamber in the upcoming midterm elections.
This is not going to be big margins, Pelosi told the news outlet. It is going to be small margins in many places.
Me.
(35,454 posts)but not over promising...so let's hope the Dems over deliver
Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)mcar
(42,388 posts)Sad to see some on the left supporting the right on this.
Me.
(35,454 posts)I do think it's sad, though.
helmedon1974
(92 posts)I think the media is as much to blame for Trump as anything else.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)mcar
(42,388 posts)Because she's "divisive" (there's that word again). There have been many posts here on DU about it.
*Not all on the left.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)It talks about her effectiveness and fund raising abilities.
Who on the left supports the right's attacks because of her effectiveness and fund raising abilities?
mcar
(42,388 posts)and insist she's not been effective, because of the aforementioned "divisiveness." Some want her replace by a white male Dem congressman because...
Hekate
(90,846 posts)...in the House, and that Nancy is old, tired, close to death (if you look at actuarial tables), out of new ideas, out of touch, needs to be primaried by a real progressive, not inspirational to young progressives, a millstone around our necks, and a lightning rod for GOP hatred. The latest one said we needed "a housecleaning from top to bottom" -- which at least had the virtue of targeting every Dem with experience and not just the women.
Friends, did I leave anything out?
Progressoid, these things have been posted often enough at DU that I have memorized them without even trying. "Who on the left?" you ask. Look around you.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Ive asked several people which new faces theyd replace her with and what qualities make them suited to be Speaker.
Nothing but crickets ...
progressoid
(49,999 posts)let's say a life-long Democrat and supporter of liberal causes, should have legitimate criticisms of another Democrat (Pelosi or otherwise). How does that life-long Democrat voice those criticisms on DU without being labeled as someone 'siding with the right', a Russian troll/bot or some other lame accusation?
Hekate
(90,846 posts)Don't you think so?
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Hekate
(90,846 posts)Don't you?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Cha
(297,768 posts)out for herself!
Mahalo, mcar
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)I think the RW trolls are doing what they do best...sow misinformation and foster divisions (divide and conquer).
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)Isn't it sad that some on the left seem to agree?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)A number of DU members are not able to see tweets. Besides, it saves many DU members some time clicking through.
Verified account @imillhiser
Ian Millhiser Retweeted Paul Kane
I never thought GOP attacks on Pelosi were about winning elections. They are about tricking Dems into removing their most effective leader.
Ian Millhiser added,
Paul Kane
Verified account @pkcapitol
Republicans see diminished value in anti-Pelosi campaign. They need more than that to save majority. My guest hosting of #daily202
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/04/daily-202-hey-republicans-pelosi-attack-ads-may-not-be-enough-to-keep-the-house/5aeb6b3b30fb042db57972e3/
MarinCoUSA
(891 posts)Hell Yeah! Go Nancy! Tell it like it is and givin' 'em hell at the same time.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)they'd demonize and then target whoever was our leader. It's not like Schumer gets off the hook.
The latent national misogyny, of course, makes it all the more effective (and appalling)
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Republicans were there then with us on draining the swamp. She didn't do it and lost credibility. Even got a Democratic President.
mcar
(42,388 posts)I don't understand this post.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)You don't remember that?
mcar
(42,388 posts)No, I don't remember.
Hekate
(90,846 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)But, by no means, should the Democratic Party give in to such hatred. They should loudly decry sexism and misogyny, along with white supremacy and xenophobia.