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Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 07:53 PM Jul 2018

Nancy Pelosi: 'They Come After Me Because I'm Effective'

Nancy Pelosi is under attack because she is a very effective leader https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nancy-pelosi-interview-696750/

Executing this launch sequence would tax the powers of any politician. Pelosi’s task is made more difficult by the ideological divides roiling her own party, and by a GOP that has made her the face of its attacks on Democratic candidates. Pelosi is unique among current congressional leaders in being weaponized against her team – she’s been featured in more than 16,000 attack ad airings through May. “We haven’t seen the Republican leaders singled out in this sort of way,” says Erika Franklin Fowler, a director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political ads.

Pelosi is one of the most powerful women in global politics. She gets credit for securing passage of much of the legislation in the Obama legacy, including the Recovery Act, Wall Street reform and especially the Affordable Care Act. “Nancy Pelosi has been one of the most transformational figures in the modern Democratic Party,” says Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez. Pelosi also spearheaded the takeover of the House a dozen years ago in 2006 – an achievement that has become fodder for her critics. “Leader Pelosi has talked about how we need to do what we did in 2006,” says Rep. Seth Moulton, an ambitious Massachusetts Democrat who argues for a “new generation” of House leadership. “I mean, we barely had iPhones in 2006 – it was a different world.”

But for all the talk about Nancy Pelosi, less time has been spent actually listening to her. Rolling Stone sat down with Pelosi for an hour on a May evening in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was raising money for the local Democratic Party. At the fundraiser, standing before a wall-sized American flag, Pelosi sought to flatten the difference between President Trump and GOP candidates. “He’s their guy,” she says of Trump. “Make no mistake: This election, it’s not – well it’s about him in certain respects, we can’t ignore that – but it’s about them.”
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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
6. Disagree. Maybe the party leaders...but the leaders
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:13 PM
Jul 2018

effectively made her into their party's joke. The average Repuke hates her and probably has no idea why. She probably has lost us votes because if this.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
10. It does not matter who we put in leadership, the GOP will mock and smear them...
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 02:00 AM
Jul 2018

...lie about them and use them for a punching bag. ESPECIALLY IF THAT LEADER IS A WOMAN. In that case, being used as a punching bag and butt of mockery will continue after they leave office and beyond the grave.

See: Hillary Clinton.

At this juncture, why on earth would the Dem party or leadership even think about replacing our best in the vain hope of pleasing the GOP? We would be fools to do so.

Demsrule86

(68,347 posts)
13. They will hate anyone we put up...and she is effective in the House...what we let the GOP decide who
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:12 PM
Jul 2018

our leaders are now? I hate McConnell and Ryan so what.

 

NY_20th

(1,028 posts)
14. I sincerely doubt that Nancy Pelosi has lost us any votes.
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:12 PM
Jul 2018

Republicans hate her because she's effective.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
20. Totally agree on what the leaders think..BUT
Thu Jul 12, 2018, 08:37 AM
Jul 2018

I am talking about the run of the mill low info voter. I live among them. They know zero about her but they treat her name like a dirty word. They ALL react like she represents the devil incarnate. It is a rallying cry that works. I don't care how great and effective she is to us it's a legitimate fact that she is used effectively. So was Hillary. Both mocked. If u believe that trussia costs us votes then u can believe the false narrative that a Pelosi costs us votes. It is also a legitimate idea that you could get more votes if u start at least at zero and not below zero. Remember it takes time to inform these Dipshits who to hate.

Jersey Devil

(9,862 posts)
12. Jesus, stop counting chickens that haven't hatched
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:08 PM
Jul 2018

It will be fun to have a battle over who will be Speaker if and when we win the House. Until then it is just divisive bullshit.

 

NY_20th

(1,028 posts)
15. I'll agree that it's ridiculous to talk about the next Speaker of the House at this point,
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:15 PM
Jul 2018

but the divisiveness is coming from those who are talking about it, not from Nancy Pelosi.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
18. Generally speaking, the ones who hate Pelosi are the same ones who are defending Sarandon.
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:43 PM
Jul 2018
Shame on Democrats who come after this strong leader
Generally speaking, the ones who hate Pelosi are the same ones who are defending Sarandon. And I wonder if they're even Democrats at all.

All I'm saying is that anyone who smears and denigrates our party's leaders deserves our contempt and distrust. Loyal Democrats (the *real* Democratic base) don't do things to intentionally harm or weaken our party.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
17. Hated by the fringe on both sides. But...
Tue Jul 10, 2018, 07:40 PM
Jul 2018

Hated by the fringe on both sides. But I sure do love her!

Nancy Pelosi: 'They Come After Me Because I'm Effective'
She's 100% correct!


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