AOC Has Extended An Olive Branch To Pelosi, Meeting In The Works

discobot · July 17, 2019, 5:25pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to set up a meeting, presumably to calm the waters after some public sniping following a disagreement on border funding legislation.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1236136

redemptionsong · July 17, 2019, 5:30pm

Sister squabbles doesn’t mean internecine warfare.

publishermike · July 17, 2019, 5:33pm

Dems need to keep their eye on the prize; Trump MUST NOT be re-elected in 2020 lest the nation as we know it fade into history.

kerf · July 17, 2019, 5:33pm

Why don’t you and her fight?

katscherger · July 17, 2019, 5:36pm

Yes. A million times over.

benthere · July 17, 2019, 5:36pm

My hope for the future would be for Dems to argue their differences in private instead of via social media or other media. There are many political and policy issues to tackle not the least of which occurs on a specified date in November of 2020…

george_spiggott · July 17, 2019, 5:43pm

tRump is the great uniter after all!

meri · July 17, 2019, 5:46pm

More or less.

But, if the Four Horsewomen weren’t making noise in public, would anything be happening? I suspect that they started making noise in private, and were told to sit down and shut up.

pike_bishop · July 17, 2019, 5:48pm

Smart move for Ms. AOC.

Good move for USA.

joce_m · July 17, 2019, 5:48pm

One of my sisters was the instigator of battles between the other two sisters. I get the reference - it does seem there is magnified attention to “Dems in disarray” and what (I think) would have been “not news” if two male representatives were “having discussions.”

schmed · July 17, 2019, 5:49pm

My sentiment exactly!

sickneffintired · July 17, 2019, 5:49pm

Everybody Hates Trump!

george_spiggott · July 17, 2019, 5:52pm

Well…95% of the people by my reckoning!

lizzymom · July 17, 2019, 5:54pm

Somehow, when women have spats they’re “hair-pulling cat fights” but when men have spats they “just don’t see eye to eye”…

Kinda like men are assertive and women are bitchy…or shrill…

counterlife · July 17, 2019, 5:54pm

And there should be strict rule that no Democrat ever grants an interview to Maureen Dowd, ever. I like Pelosi and was disappointed she did not remember that.

benthere · July 17, 2019, 5:57pm

Point taken, but unlike Donnie and his enablers, most Dems have the capacity to learn from their mistakes and not repeat them.

emiliano4 · July 17, 2019, 5:58pm

The Squad came out for Impeachment (which I took for opening up an Impeachment Inquiry). The article here references a Border funding dispute.

So long as I see some progress in Dem CongressPeople getting on board with the Impeachment Inquiry.

There should be a running total on this. The last I heard was 85 but that was a while back (118 is the 50% mark of Nancy’s Caucus).

Similarly there should be a running data point on “persons in favor of Impeachment”. If I had my druthers, I would also include the Impeachment Inquiry as a question as well.

callmeeric · July 17, 2019, 6:01pm

∞ times over.

khyber900 · July 17, 2019, 6:02pm

And this is how stuff like this should be settled. Why it took Trump to open his big mouth for this to happen is beyond me, but Pelosi seemed to snap into political mode and seized the advantage. She has much more to gain by leveraging AOC’s branding to frame Trump and help the Dems win in 2020.

meri · July 17, 2019, 6:02pm

Define “mistake” though. If they think that Pelosi isn’t acting against Trump in the manner they think he should, the mistake could very well be assuming the role of the True Believer in the mythic Eleventy-Dimensional Chess.