Nancy Pelosi is not in the way. She taught them how to lead and has stepped down. No dissin Pelosi, she was the strongest Speaker of the House that Congress has ever seen. Pres. Obama would have gotten nothing done without her.
THANK YOU. And if it weren’t for Pelosi’s seasoned expertise in getting nearly-impossible things done, the Jan. 6 insurrection would have succeeded, Biden would not have been certified as President, and we would already be living in Trump’s dystopia rather than just dreading it now.
It’s kind of sickening to see how quickly our pioneers and warriors get thrown under the bus by those addicted to our youth-worshipping, instant-gratification culture.
MzNicky, Nancy kept the Titanic from sinking during 1.0 FOR SURE! I am 68 yrs old, no ageism in my stmt. I have purchased multiple books about Speaker Emeritus Pelosi for my thin "keep forever" shelf. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pic of a big conference table full of men, turd with lips pursed, arms crossed tight around his chest. Nancy is standing up, across the table from turd with a stern look and IIRC is pointing a finger at him. I think this is when she asked him "why is it with you, all roads lead to Russia?"
I know the photo you’re talking about and I love it too. That big-ass conference table and all the president’s men seated around it, staring shamefacedly into their folded hands, and Pelosi is the only one in the room who has the “balls” to stand up to the Orange Monster and point a finger at his fugly face. Pelosi is a fucking rock star, and I will not hear any whippersnapper armchair quarterbacks trashing her. And while I’m at it, the same goes for the godalmighty Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Except Ginsberg should have stepped down early in Obama’s second term so he could have appointed a proper Justice to replace her. Instead look what we got.
Hindsight and 20/20 vision? You are perhaps right, but to then hear folks screeching about how she’d “ruined her legacy” and blah blah blah makes me see red. RBG was a fucking trailblazer and hero long before the word “feminism” even became part of politics, The End.
Teri, Nancy was a force.....but since D assumed prominence its been all just performative. She hamstrung efforts to impeach D by narrowing the scope of the investigation
🫂❤️ The ACA saved us, too. Back in the day, we couldn’t get health insurance anywhere at any price because of preexisting conditions. ObamaCare saved probably millions of lives.
Mt late husband and I had back-to-back cancer diagnoses as our preexisting conditions. It’s fair to say the ACA gave him more years to live than he would have had otherwise.
I hold Nancy Pelosi is the highest esteem. But she just had hip replacement surgery in Germany after an injury. I've been emailing and calling her CA offices asking her to retire. Post-surgery rehab is difficult, and now she's in her '80s. Dems must hold the strongest line, all hands on deck. She had served us brilliantly. Unless she's in the House on a hospital bed for the resistance, time for Nancy to step down.
Nancy is another Feinstein....gonna be a burden to the effort vs. fascism. Dems spend alot of time coddling the octagenarian codgers much to the detriment to America. IMHO.
Teri, if she can show up and vote, I say let her have the rest of her term. If not, can Gavin appoint Barbara Lee to replace her for the rest of her term? Is it snowing in Paradise? The sun came out this morning.
Ellen, that sounds right. I've seen elderly folks close up go thru at-home rehab for hips -- it's difficult and takes 2 months plus. With the House divide so close now, we can't be missing anyone! Barbara Lee would be excellent! No snow, major fog. I'm at 2,000 feet. Saw two snowplows yesterday probably moving to our higher elevations.
So she had her time-but she made it so AOC couldn't be a committee head-and she's great at messaging and speaking, creating momentum for the working class-unlike the guy who was appointed that nobody knows, 74 yrs old with cancer (no offense meant towards him, and i hope he gets through his health troubles but he shouldn't have accepted!!!). The old guard needs to mentor younger candidates and step aside (imo by 68, then consult and advise if they want to stay in, or just fucking enjoy some retirement). And by doing this gatekeeping, Pelosi makes it so there is absolutely no female committee leaders-just older white men!!!! Wtf!!! This infuriates me-step aside already, you've had your time!!!!
As we Californians like to say, no committee head who can't count. Okay, I just made that up. But as we all know, the counter in chief has always been Nancy.
Pelosi is doing everything in her POWER to stop AOC from moving ahead, and bad-mouths Bernie Sanders at every turn.
She's dead to me, just like The Unpunished Traitor Hillary Rodham Clinton, may they both BERN in Hell. Honestly, I'd rather have an enemy I can see coming, rather than one that'll stab me in the back like those two....
Spoken like a true Hillaryinsta—Gods Damn her and P-Lousy!
You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting NeoLiberal Scum like those two and Schmuck Schumer over the only politician I consider WORTH supporting, Bernie Sanders.
As it turns out, many Founding Fathers were less than 40 years old in 1776 with several qualifying as Founding Teenagers and Twentysomethings. And though the average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was 44, more than a dozen of them were 35 or younger!
You just know that when they're in the cloak room, those old bastards talk about "the uppity colored girl." Hell, I'm surprised they don't just say it out loud, in front of a microphone.
I don't know what goes through the so-called minds of the younger right wing members of Congress, but the old ones are the same ones who lose their shit when Confederate generals' statues are removed, and military bases and schools are renamed. They don't bother to hide their sexism and racism, even in public. Behind closed doors? There have been plenty of examples of secretly recorded conversations at fund-raisers and other events.
Glad you aren’t running anything except your mouth.
We like it here fine and plan to stick around. You, on the other hand, might literally be separated when all three major fault lines activate in unison and you drop into the Pacific Ocean. Have a pleasant trip!
My, my. I don't believe that's how the fault lines work. What will the South do for money when California/the West Coast leaves? And how will you get all those Chinese imports when the West Coast ports no longer forward any thing to the rest of the country? Not to mention the tariffs T hopes to put on anything from China. And what about the food we grow? We are the fourth largest economy in the world. If we leave, the USA will no longer be the largest economy in the world, China will be. Oh, and by the way, my great grandfather fought in the Civil War for the North and his grandfather fought in the Revolution (for the colonies). We landed in Plymouth in 1633.
Oh, nothing short of dynamite is going to lodge Notorious P-Lousy from the House!
I have been sick of her ever since she started bending over for Bush in the 1980s, rather than fighting the Right Wing tooth and nail. Worse, she's made political moves, like opposing Congress insider trading legislation, that really smell bad....
I'm in Minnesota, and please believe me when I say Klobs is just another centrist whose only core values seem to be those which are exhaustingly poll tested and completely inoffensive. She'll never do anything that's difficult, despite tossing off a few quips.
Rooting for Dems is like rooting for the Jets....its bound sooner or later to end in failure, incompetence & frustration (& the Giants wanna join the club)
The Dems. Sheesh. I’ve lost faith in the Dems. Too fucking polite except for Rep. Jasmine Crockett—the wonderful hot shot from Texas! She’s the bomb!
AOC Iis also up there. Nancy Pelosi needs to get out of the way and let the “young guns” take leadership roles!
Nancy Pelosi is not in the way. She taught them how to lead and has stepped down. No dissin Pelosi, she was the strongest Speaker of the House that Congress has ever seen. Pres. Obama would have gotten nothing done without her.
THANK YOU. And if it weren’t for Pelosi’s seasoned expertise in getting nearly-impossible things done, the Jan. 6 insurrection would have succeeded, Biden would not have been certified as President, and we would already be living in Trump’s dystopia rather than just dreading it now.
It’s kind of sickening to see how quickly our pioneers and warriors get thrown under the bus by those addicted to our youth-worshipping, instant-gratification culture.
MzNicky, Nancy kept the Titanic from sinking during 1.0 FOR SURE! I am 68 yrs old, no ageism in my stmt. I have purchased multiple books about Speaker Emeritus Pelosi for my thin "keep forever" shelf. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pic of a big conference table full of men, turd with lips pursed, arms crossed tight around his chest. Nancy is standing up, across the table from turd with a stern look and IIRC is pointing a finger at him. I think this is when she asked him "why is it with you, all roads lead to Russia?"
Mancy
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I know the photo you’re talking about and I love it too. That big-ass conference table and all the president’s men seated around it, staring shamefacedly into their folded hands, and Pelosi is the only one in the room who has the “balls” to stand up to the Orange Monster and point a finger at his fugly face. Pelosi is a fucking rock star, and I will not hear any whippersnapper armchair quarterbacks trashing her. And while I’m at it, the same goes for the godalmighty Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Except Ginsberg should have stepped down early in Obama’s second term so he could have appointed a proper Justice to replace her. Instead look what we got.
Hindsight and 20/20 vision? You are perhaps right, but to then hear folks screeching about how she’d “ruined her legacy” and blah blah blah makes me see red. RBG was a fucking trailblazer and hero long before the word “feminism” even became part of politics, The End.
Teri, Nancy was a force.....but since D assumed prominence its been all just performative. She hamstrung efforts to impeach D by narrowing the scope of the investigation
Really? How did Pelosi do that?
My husband is alive because of her hard work passing the ACA.
🫂❤️ The ACA saved us, too. Back in the day, we couldn’t get health insurance anywhere at any price because of preexisting conditions. ObamaCare saved probably millions of lives.
Saved my Life, too. From cancer
Mt late husband and I had back-to-back cancer diagnoses as our preexisting conditions. It’s fair to say the ACA gave him more years to live than he would have had otherwise.
Mine also
I hold Nancy Pelosi is the highest esteem. But she just had hip replacement surgery in Germany after an injury. I've been emailing and calling her CA offices asking her to retire. Post-surgery rehab is difficult, and now she's in her '80s. Dems must hold the strongest line, all hands on deck. She had served us brilliantly. Unless she's in the House on a hospital bed for the resistance, time for Nancy to step down.
Nancy is another Feinstein....gonna be a burden to the effort vs. fascism. Dems spend alot of time coddling the octagenarian codgers much to the detriment to America. IMHO.
I sure hope not. I hope she announces her retirement at the end of this term. So how do you feel about Bernie? It's not the age, it's the condition.
Teri, if she can show up and vote, I say let her have the rest of her term. If not, can Gavin appoint Barbara Lee to replace her for the rest of her term? Is it snowing in Paradise? The sun came out this morning.
Ellen, that sounds right. I've seen elderly folks close up go thru at-home rehab for hips -- it's difficult and takes 2 months plus. With the House divide so close now, we can't be missing anyone! Barbara Lee would be excellent! No snow, major fog. I'm at 2,000 feet. Saw two snowplows yesterday probably moving to our higher elevations.
Governors can nominate temp replacements for Senators, but Representatives are only replaced by special election.
Sigh, thank you.
I would rather have Katie Porter replace her. She is another force to be reckoned with.
She just lost a close primary against Adam Schiff this election so no longer has a seat in the House.
She would scare the living Shit out of bad actors with her whiteboard , grilling them intelligently and strongly about their transgressions.
So she had her time-but she made it so AOC couldn't be a committee head-and she's great at messaging and speaking, creating momentum for the working class-unlike the guy who was appointed that nobody knows, 74 yrs old with cancer (no offense meant towards him, and i hope he gets through his health troubles but he shouldn't have accepted!!!). The old guard needs to mentor younger candidates and step aside (imo by 68, then consult and advise if they want to stay in, or just fucking enjoy some retirement). And by doing this gatekeeping, Pelosi makes it so there is absolutely no female committee leaders-just older white men!!!! Wtf!!! This infuriates me-step aside already, you've had your time!!!!
WTF wouldn't Nancy give AOC a committee chair. 😡
As we Californians like to say, no committee head who can't count. Okay, I just made that up. But as we all know, the counter in chief has always been Nancy.
Nancy stood in the way of AOC getting the committee Leadership. She wanted her old friend, as in old, to get it.
Pelosi is doing everything in her POWER to stop AOC from moving ahead, and bad-mouths Bernie Sanders at every turn.
She's dead to me, just like The Unpunished Traitor Hillary Rodham Clinton, may they both BERN in Hell. Honestly, I'd rather have an enemy I can see coming, rather than one that'll stab me in the back like those two....
Bernie Sanders has always been a saboteur.
Spoken like a true Hillaryinsta—Gods Damn her and P-Lousy!
You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting NeoLiberal Scum like those two and Schmuck Schumer over the only politician I consider WORTH supporting, Bernie Sanders.
US lawmakers older than 70 now outnumber those under age 40 by more than 3-to-1. WTF? A gerontocracy abhors real change.
When has older representatives outnumbering those under age 40 not been the case? This is nothing new.
As it turns out, many Founding Fathers were less than 40 years old in 1776 with several qualifying as Founding Teenagers and Twentysomethings. And though the average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was 44, more than a dozen of them were 35 or younger!
Back in the days when life expectancy was around 60 years or less?
You just know that when they're in the cloak room, those old bastards talk about "the uppity colored girl." Hell, I'm surprised they don't just say it out loud, in front of a microphone.
I don't think that is the case at all!
I don't know what goes through the so-called minds of the younger right wing members of Congress, but the old ones are the same ones who lose their shit when Confederate generals' statues are removed, and military bases and schools are renamed. They don't bother to hide their sexism and racism, even in public. Behind closed doors? There have been plenty of examples of secretly recorded conversations at fund-raisers and other events.
Just remember they lost that war. And I'd love to get rid of them again for good. They're just costing us, especially California, money.
Glad you aren’t running anything except your mouth.
We like it here fine and plan to stick around. You, on the other hand, might literally be separated when all three major fault lines activate in unison and you drop into the Pacific Ocean. Have a pleasant trip!
My, my. I don't believe that's how the fault lines work. What will the South do for money when California/the West Coast leaves? And how will you get all those Chinese imports when the West Coast ports no longer forward any thing to the rest of the country? Not to mention the tariffs T hopes to put on anything from China. And what about the food we grow? We are the fourth largest economy in the world. If we leave, the USA will no longer be the largest economy in the world, China will be. Oh, and by the way, my great grandfather fought in the Civil War for the North and his grandfather fought in the Revolution (for the colonies). We landed in Plymouth in 1633.
who isnthe uppity colored girl?? AOC? She's Latina
Jasmine Crockett. Yes, she IS wonderfully uppity! Texas needs 100 more like her.
Jasmine Crockett is just what we need. No fear!
Oh, nothing short of dynamite is going to lodge Notorious P-Lousy from the House!
I have been sick of her ever since she started bending over for Bush in the 1980s, rather than fighting the Right Wing tooth and nail. Worse, she's made political moves, like opposing Congress insider trading legislation, that really smell bad....
Love me some Ms. Jasmine... she ROCKS! \m/
AOC is pretty good, too.
Hakeem Jeffries, Amy Klobuchar, Jaime Raskin, Tammy Baldwin, Adam Schiff are great too.
Teri, what Adam Shiff did in the primary was terrible. Attacking Katie Porter...
Ooh, I hadn't seen that, thanks. I donated to Katie Porter alot. So sorry she had to give up her House seat to run for Senate.
Agree with you there. Lost a lot of respect for Schiff over that.
Porter needs to be in government in some capacity. She is a bulldog against corruption and evil doing.
I'm in Minnesota, and please believe me when I say Klobs is just another centrist whose only core values seem to be those which are exhaustingly poll tested and completely inoffensive. She'll never do anything that's difficult, despite tossing off a few quips.
Never liked her - too traditional
Thank you fellow traveler.
Add Jared Moskowitz
Crockett rocks!!
The young ones. I have faith in them.
Rooting for Dems is like rooting for the Jets....its bound sooner or later to end in failure, incompetence & frustration (& the Giants wanna join the club)
She is firebrand & adorable at the same time! Tho her targets would probably disagree with the second adjective..hehehe