AOC Should Have Won This Fight — Nancy Pelosi led the charge to keep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out of a key House position. It was a bad move.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/pelosi-aoc-democrats-house-oversight-trump.html
AOC Should Have Won This Fight — Nancy Pelosi led the charge to keep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out of a key House position. It was a bad move.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/pelosi-aoc-democrats-house-oversight-trump.html
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Just what we need, old guard career politicians clinging onto power
>Ocasio-Cortez has spent the past few years being a good Democratic soldier. When she first arrived in Washington, this wasn’t necessarily the case. In late 2020, when she ran for a position on the Energy and Commerce Committee, Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries seemingly retaliated for her perceived lack of loyalty by sabotaging her campaign, blocking her rise in favor of Kathleen Rice, who had been in Congress longer than AOC but lacked even the official support of her own state’s delegation.
>Who, you might ask, is Kathleen Rice? Exactly. She’s not even in Congress anymore.
The article lays out a strong (and true) argument for why Ocasio-Cortez is the strongest Democrat option for Oversight and pretty necessary for the Democrats as Trump gets back into office. But I think this closing paragraph is the most important part, because it illustrates how Nancy Pelosi has a history of bitterly sabotaging Cortez to the detriment of the party and for no good reason. At this point it just looks like Pelosi is engaging in a feud. It’s dishonorable and petty and shouldn’t be happening. Especially not right now.
Pelosi has actively held back AOC a few times now. The old guard will never learn, even after the recent defeat, and try to stay as conservative as possible, while pretending to be the party of change. Like voters haven’t noticed already it’s just a lie. The Republicans are at least openly despicable assholes.
I shouldn’t have to explain this to Nanny Pelosi, but there’s a big difference between oversight and overlooking.
Someone should run against Pelosi. San Francisco isn’t that big.
Democrats lost because old people were running the show. Time to pass the torch Nancy.
Nancy Pelosi is everything that is wrong with American politics.
She is a career politician who was born during WWII and has been in power for 37 years and has an estimated net worth of over $240m with a yearly salary that is just under $200k / yr.
She is a sycophant and is the exact reason congressmen and women need both term and age limits to run for office. I don’t really care for AOC but this is ridiculous. The Democratic party can’t get out of its own way the last 10 years.
AOC is not appealing to big money donors. She’s actually left of centre. Corporate interest can’t have that shit. Nancy obliges.
When was the last time the Dems let us choose anything?
Pelosi did the worst thing she possibly could have.
She literally pushed out the new blood to keep a swamp member in charge. She’s doing exactly what the Democrats have been accused of and now it’s in full CineScope.
She’s fucked the DNC
The Democratic Party has been doing this shit my entire life and I’m sick of it. We need a real left in this country.
There’s no difference between Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. They do so much damage, instead of making right decisions. They’re way past retirement.
For me the Dems better come back to their roots. A plan that say’s we are for the middle class, working poor, and poor no matter race color or creed. A good start is go all in on Universal health Care. And make sure your plan is easy to understand so Republicans can’t hijack it. Let’s face it our best Dem is an Independent (Sanders) and the one Dem who was close to Sanders just lost to a 74 year old who is backed by someone born in the silent gen who has had a silver spoon in her mouth since she was born.
We should primary every democrat over 65.
Bad move? Vindictive and ultimately short sighted. Putting an old, sick workhorse in the gate when you need a Derby winner is bad politics.
Pelosi has been an effective speaker in the past but I think she’s making an error in not settings things up better to be able to pass the torch. It seems in this like it’s driven by a a personal grudge she has against AOC which really sucks.
However I am encouraged by the fact that AOC got over 80 votes despite Pelosi’s meddling. To me that implies that a lot of people in the party do support her.
fuck boomers. Tired of octogenarian misrepresentation. LET US STAND AT THE TABLE! We FUCKING DESERVE IT. You dumbasses literally took everything from us.
Fuck all these dinosaurs, just trying to line their coffers like Smaug the dragon instead of letting the next generations take the wheel and start trying to pick up the pieces.
If you’re 75 or older, you shouldn’t hold any government position of power.
If Pelosi cared about the party or America she would have let the torch pass. She is a DINO in more ways than one. A lich trying to hold onto any vestige of power to the detriment to her party and country.
Fucking boomers need to just go away. They are selfish. They are arrogant. And they are burning the house down on their way out of the door.
This is more proof that the establishment is not looking to change, and is banking on everyone hating trumps performance so much that they can pull off a win in 2028 like they did in 2020.
If Trump wasn’t Trump, they’d have lost in 2020.
And this is why democrats lost in 2016, and again in 2024. The establishment bulldozes through the direction the party is actually moving.
We are rapidly reaching an inflection point. The left is not much unlike the right in 2016 right now.
These people don’t realize that these actions in this time are bad, very bad. These things are going to tarnish their reputations for future generations. People are only going to remember Pelosi as an old person who was unwilling to yield to the future.
People like Pelosi only care about the power and the benefits of the power. Not what actually makes sense or would be progressive. Have a seat old people. Let some fresh ideas have the floor for fucking once. As a democrat, I hate the democrats sometimes.
The recognition of seniority in Congress on the part of the democrats is hilarious. Like it’s so important to respect the people who have accomplished almost nothing for 40 years while getting rich. They’re complicit in all the crap since 1981.
Dems just don’t get it. They got their asses kicked in November in what should have been an easy win. So they’re doubling down on old out of touch politicos and ideas. Idiots
Democrats wonder why they can’t excite voters and then pull this bs. Pelosi is up there with McConnell for her bs
Pelosi needs to shut the fuck up and retire.
The Progressive Caucus needs to go full Tea Party.
Nancy Pelosi has done more to hurt American people over her career then help, she might as well be an undercover republican
Yes, let’s continue to let 300 year old people make the decisions that’s been working out great. Anyone hear about trump filling up his diaper in front of other world leaders yet?
Democrats are paid by billionaire donors to self sabotage. Get stock trading out of politics. Get corporate donors out of politics.
Pelosi still thinks it’s her party. She is on the side of the uni party
Same folks own Pelosi as own Trump.
AOC would not be good for those donors.
We need, but do not have, a party left of center. DNC is basically rockefeller republican.
Vote out the fucking old guard, let them find out.
She should retire. She’s too old.
The establishment dems would rather see Republicans in office than people like AOC or Sanders. They’ve had a hard on for AOC since she was initially elected, even trying to primary her a couple of times.
I’m really tired of people who don’t know when to retire.
Pelosi has led the party to a humiliating run of losses. She needs to step aside.
This whole situation is a perfect microcosm of why the Democratic party is viewed as a weak party. I say this as a fairly moderate democrat who can’t stand MAGA.
The Democrats under Biden/Clinton/Pelosi/etc. have created a structure in the party that rewards never letting go and only doing things that benefit them personally. Example would be Pelosi being against Congressional stock trading bans when we all know she makes bank through her husband’s trading on knowledge she gives him. They shut down any movement that threatens their power and control. We saw exactly how that worked out for Hilary Clinton in 2016. I firmly believe that Bernie would have won that election as he had won the populist vote similar to what helped Republicans this year. The old Democratic guard refuses to admit that the dynamics have changed. They will continue to founder until a new generation can take over and clean house and restructure. Its going to be a very painful time for this country and I blame Dems almost as much as MAGA for letting it get to this.
That I’m done with the Democratic Party is immaterial. That my best friend is done is far more meaningful. He was a big enough donor to have met occasionally with Pelosi and Jeffries. Democrats are an absolute mess and will be until they meaningfully move left and change reigns.
Pelosi doesn’t represent the middle class anymore. That ship sailed long ago. The lesser of two evils is still evil. I’m a Bernie fan and AOC fan but they’re not in my state.
Ya know we don’t live in a small village of 25-50 people anymore and need to rely on our village elders. Get these old folks outta office.
The other piece is, with the continued “reliance” on 70-85 year old people running the country, they will continue to push the narrative that people that work don’t need social security or retirement because they are still working. Even tho they have tremendous wealth and we do not.
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