Nancy Pelosi IS the Democratic leader in the US House….
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. is a second term law maker repping parts of New York City….
AOC got her job by knocking off a old-time Democratic House leader….
She , at time leads the Progressives , in the House….
She is learning to be a smart politician , and media iconic one at that….
But?
Change in the American Congress NOT something that people there tend to like….
AOC is IS about that….
While AOC has generally supported Pelosi…
A new Pelosi book goes into the generational political change politics that veteran lawmakers do NOT like….
Adapted from Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, to be published by Twelve Books on April 20.
“Nancy doesn’t have much patience for people who don’t know what they don’t know.”
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Pelosi was famous for having what POLITICO once described as “an iron fist in a Gucci glove.” There was no better example of that than her dealings with the Squad, the quartet of progressive women elected in 2018. She hadn’t survived as the top Democrat in the House for nearly two decades by ignoring challenges or challengers. Instead, she applied the lessons she had learned to win them over, or at least keep them at bay.
The relationship between the speaker and AOC, her party’s most charismatic newcomer, is complicated. Colleagues and congressional aides said Pelosi saw the New York congresswoman as a talented person but one who was often naïve about how the institution worked and unrealistic about what could be achieved, and how. She feared the Squad’s demands would imperil hard-won Democratic control — the slim majority that had put Democrats in a position to change the country’s course, but not to win every battle.
Allies of Pelosi compared AOC to Bernie Sanders, the nominally independent Vermont senator: a leader with a vision, but not a legislator who could build the sort of coalitions necessary to get much done in Congress. She was exactly the sort of fresh-faced, would-be revolutionary who had been giving speakers of the House trouble for generations. Pelosi saw them coming a mile away…..
image….CNN
“Complicated “ and “complex “ have become your two new words of choice of late I see.
Everything is “complicated “and “complex.”
Translation?”I don’t know anything to say so I’ll say this.”
Silliness.
Bring back “people can be more than one thing” and “alternate universe,” two other meaningless doozies that have been apparently edged out!
Nevertheless Jack?
We have debated ur simple answers and solutions to complex issues…
You din’t do it on everything
But sometimes u do it….
It’s who u are…
One would think that a blog where comments are invited and where the moderator daily engages in “discussions” ,of a sort anyway ,with other posters is ipso inviting comments.
To simply declare something “complicated “ or “complex” is nothing but an old “cop out.”
Of course we only starting noticing this “insight” from our moderator recently and he is of course known for injecting such trivial comments into most discussions here.
It’s who he is.