Pelosi Secretly Orchestrating Another Attempted Shake-Up of Dem Leadership

[babylonsister]

Pelosi Secretly Orchestrating Another Attempted Shake-Up of Dem Leadership
DEM-EAT-DEM
Former Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is urging a younger challenger to take on Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the party’s ranking member on the Judiciary Committee.
Sean Craig
Updated Dec. 1 2024 12:41PM EST /
Published Dec. 1 2024 10:47AM EST


Months after running an internal pressure campaign that nudged President Joe Biden out of the 2024 election, former House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is plotting another ouster within the Democratic Party.

The representative for California’s 11th congressional district—who stepped down as Leader of the House Democratic Caucus last year after two decades—is targeting the top member of her party on the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the New York Times reported.

Pelosi is among a group of Democrats privately urging 61-year-old Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to challenge Nadler, 77, for his post. Raskin is thinking about it, though hasn’t made up his mind and must weigh the fact that he and Nadler are friends, congressional colleagues told the Times.

Pelosi’s effort is part of an existential rethink among congressional Democrats, who are concerned their oldest members are not best suited to take on President-elect Donald Trump’s vociferous MAGA allies in Congress.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. age is a criteria in my book

[Scrivener7]

2. It isn't necessarily in mine, but I know it is in many people's, and that's a reality we

have to deal with.

[haele]

5. I don't think it's age. I think it's the ability to quickly adapt advisarial tactics

If Pelosi doesn't think Nadler is aggressively flexible enough to fight the GOP in committee because he's used to doing things old school, she might be pushing for the more nimble Raskin to take the helm.
Now's the time for someone who can work the angles rather than work by the book, not that working by the book doesn't fit into the overall strategy as well.
Raskin and Nadler tag-teaming isn't a bad strategy.

Haele

Haele

[Hekate]

6. Good points

[arthritisR_US]

15. Really good points.

[Tetrachloride]

29. quick response vs the lack of it is the effect of what i mean by age

[Lunabell]

3. Now do the future senate minority leader!

We need new blood. Hot, take no prisoners blood! A pugilistic bad ass!

[dpibel]

4. Good to know Dems are in disarray!

That Nancy Pelosi! She's such a...what is that word??

[Hekate]

7. Mastermind? Master tactician?

She is that

[dpibel]

9. Well, that's a little too reality based, isn't it?

[arthritisR_US]

16. What do you mean?

[mucholderthandirt]

17. Conniving backstabbing old harridan? She's worried about some old guy? Has she looked in the mirror?

[Arazi]

8. Her ploy to force Biden out and install her own candidate failed

While I’m not averse to changing things up, I’d prefer someone else strategizing on replacing senior staff.

Maybe she needs to retire. If she thinks Biden and now Nadler are too old… 🙄

[dpibel]

10. Gosh. A "ploy"?

Are you sure you know what that means?

[soandso]

11. And her trashing of/blaming Biden in the NYT piece was disgraceful

From OP's article:

Pelosi “wasn’t happy that the only bloody fingerprints on the knife were hers“

Anyway, so her new thing is going after people due to their age but why do her ideas not apply to herself? What she's doing is going to cause hard feelings between members.

[Celerity]

13. It didn't fail, it gave us a fighting chance. Biden would have very likely lost by far larger numbers

than Harris did.

[Alaninahammock]

20. Did it not fail?

After all she said the plan was to push out Biden and then have an open primary to pick the replacement.... Obviously that did not happen after Biden endorsed Kamala

[Celerity]

22. Well, the open primary part, I will give you that part. And, as to that open primary, it would have been a hot mess at

the convention.

[dsc]

23. It was delusional to think we were going to have an open primary at that point

No state, not even blue ones, were going to rerun the primary at a cost of millions of dollars because we didn't want to have the successor we voted for in the first place. And letting delegates, who none of us could pick out in a police lineup make the choice for us, was equally delusional. had that happened and a white male was picked over Harris black women would have, quite rightly, told us to f all the way off.

[themaguffin]

26. It's her fault that leadership didn't act earlier?

[Alaninahammock]

28. I don't have much of an opinion

I'm just going by what she said the original plan was compared to what happened. She was, apparently, the one that was blindsided by Biden's endorsement.

So I guess by her own words it was a failure.

[themaguffin]

32. She action doesn't negate reality. His campaign was in real trouble. His decision to drop out was just way too late.

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[BeyondGeography]

30. We'll never know how badly Biden would have lost

And for this you should be thankful.

[mackdaddy]

12. This is now a Knife Fight, MAGA is not playing by The Marquess of Queensberry Rules

The democratic leadership needs to be able to get down and dirty to have any sway in this bizzaro world.

[mr715]

14. My leader

I think.

[Passages]

18. This is not about friends.

+1 for Raskin.

[bigtree]

19. so the aged former leader is doing this?

...wasn't driving Joe Biden out of the race by making a stink about his age and losing the election enough for her?

Now she's on a mission to blow up another sitting Dem's position of leadership?

I missed the part where she's targeting actual republican seats.

[Kaleva]

24. She stepped down from her own leadership position.

[ismnotwasm]

25. Not a secret if TDB has a whole-ass article about it.

IMO

[themaguffin]

27. I trust Pelosi.

[obamanut2012]

31. I agree, in that we need more Crocketts and Ocasio-Cortezs in the House

They are more astute at knowing Dems are bringing a knife to a gun battle and being accused of bringing a tank. They need to actually bring the tank. AOC and Crockett can do that.