Two signers of Jayapal's appeasement letter are backing away from it

[BeyondGeography]

Pocan and Jacobs:

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To make matters even worse, Jayapal incredibly (or is it appallingly) held this event at the very moment Speaker Pelosi was at a conference in Zagreb on Ukraine and Crimea answering questions about Kevin McCarthy’s “blank check” quote and reaffirming US commitment to Ukraine. This is either terribly inept or shockingly disloyal, take your pick.

Jayapal apparently has designs on a leadership position post-Midterm. Her ambitions are going up in flames—or at least they should be.

[Demsrule86]

1. After this stunt, Jayapal will not end up in leadership...very bad judgement on her part.

[SoBlueInFL]

2. I usually adore her but this suggestion of appeasing Russia was a horrible idea that r/o

will stick in my craw for a long time.

[marble falls]

12. Ironically, the people who are upfront and ahead of the pack usually don't get to lead ...

... and this is why.

It was a very bad move.

[Demsrule86]

17. The timing was awful...just before the midterm.

[marble falls]

22. And at a point the bear seems to rolling downhill to a defeat. Trying to negotiate with someone ...

... is a waste of time when Russia has no negotiation strategy past a list of non negotiable demands.

All this "peace" initiative is going to accomplish is encouragement to the Bear.

[Raven123]

3. Put this letter in the What Were They Thinking File. Stunningly bad politics

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I hope that someone will explain the timing of the release of this document.

If it sat for nearly four months, why now?

[Celerity]

8. +1000

[Celerity]

5. yes, the whole thing looks like a massive Jayapal clusterfuck that took a 4 month old, now out of

date letter and completely sand-bagged the other 29 signers by releasing it now without any consultations.

What a stupid move by a politician I thought was FAR more aware and shrewd.

[chowder66]

11. +1

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. She has been so sure footed in the past, and good at messaging...

Not this time. May this be the worst mistake she makes in Congress, it's pretty damn bad. I'll get past it in time if she returns to her former form, I hope she can too, but for now I am really disappointed, and that is the mild way of putting it.

[Celerity]

9. completely agree

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. I have to wonder if she thought better of the whole idea and never intended to release this letter

It is very odd that it was supposedly signed in July but word of it only got out now. I don't know if she is the one who "released" it now, could be, but if so I can't help but think maybe someone else was about to "out it" so she decided to get out in front of it. Either way it is bad on and bad for her and the other signers. The letter is real even if they did get cold feet about going public with it. If she was trying to move into House leadership a rival could have been behind the release of the letter now. This was all the ammunition they needed to trip her up if that's the case, and she provided it on a silver platter for them.

[LisaM]

19. She laughed on stage when Bernie fans booed Hillary.

It was at some event with the "squad" back in, I think, 2020. She's my rep, and it annoyed me excessively, and I had the phone in my hand about ten times ready to call her office but decided to stand down.

[marble falls]

24. I forgot that. In my mind this is the first major squad mis-step and it's a doozy and not in a ...

... any sort of a good way.

[LisaM]

28. It is a doozy.

But I still bristle when I think of the squad up there on stage laughing while Hillary was booed. Are they Democrats of convenience only? I would hate to think that, but....

[betsuni]

29. People should really pay more attention to these Justice Democrats politicians.

They have their own goals.

[herding cats]

7. It seems suspect that something they put together in June/July is released now.

I would have opposed it then also, but the reality is the optics now are much worse.

Putin would love to hit a pause button and come back out refreshed and restocked in March. Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the war can see that.

[Scrivener7]

20. Very scammy-feeling.

I wish my representative would back away from it. I'll vote for him because he's the Democrat, but he's quite a disappointment.

[JohnSJ]

10. No excuse is valid. You don't undercut President Biden on this. Very disappointed

[SheltieLover]

13. Absolutely agree!

[bronxiteforever]

25. +100 Absolutely

[Takket]

14. So the people who signed onto this...

Did It months ago and don’t even know why it went out now. So Jayapal just hung all those people out to dry to answer questions about this right before the election.

Jayapal and anyone else responsible for releasing this need to be hauled into the Oval Office for a thorough tongue lashing from Biden and Pelosi.

[Celerity]

16. +1

[renate]

18. My daughter gets sick of MSNBC being on every evening but will always stop and watch Pramila Jayapal

My daughter is super politically aware and into social and economic justice, etc, and is very picky about who she likes. I always loved watching her too... she just looks and sounds so kind, intelligent, and caring.

So this is just incredibly incredibly disappointing.

[LisaM]

21. When she first ran after McDermott retired...

Her primary opponent was Brady Walkinshaw, a local environmentalist from a somewhat prominent local family. I really liked him, and voted for him, but one thing that bothered me at the time was that Jayapal essentially accused him of being anti-feminist because he ran against a woman. It's one of the little things about her that bugs me, even though in general I am satisfied with her as my representative.

This misstep needs some explanation, though.

[sarcasmo]

23. Kissinger wanted Ukraine negotiating, that's how you know negotiating with Putin is wrong.

[Wingus Dingus]

26. Boneheaded.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

27. "You cannot reason with a tiger..."

“When your head is in its mouth”
Churchill’s admonishment was as valid in June, when the orcs were still taking bites out of Ukraine’s sovereign land as it is now, when they are terrorizing the civilian population and threatening nuclear devastation, again against the civilian population and infrastructure. Jayapal’s letter was as spectacularly bad then as it is today.