Just a note: Steve Lynch is not my congressman, thanks be to G_d. (Joe Kennedy is.) But I know of Lynch. The best way to describe him is “Dumb as a post.”
Literally one week ago: “we are committed to voting for new leadership both in our caucus meeting and on the House floor.”
Now: “of course I’ll vote for her on the floor!”
I’m glad he came around and isn’t going to put McAdams and Spanberger in a bad spot for their first vote, but geez, this guy…
Looking like Grassley doesn’t help.
Dear Rep. Lynch,
You can walk away from the spotlight now. And don’t forget to pick up your pride, which you seem to have dropped on the floor.
Best,
A supporter of the boss lady
Come on in guys, the water’s fine.
The Democrats CAN ‘seek a new direction’ AND have Pelosi as Speaker…it’s kind of ‘funny’ that these people don’t ‘support’ replacing any of the white male leadership that stand beside Pelosi.
I continue to be puzzled about the change in direction these guys, like Lynch and Moulton, are looking for. Is it just that Pelosi has been vilified for many years by the GOP? They’ll turn anybody else into a witch, secret African Muslim, or child sex ring operator or whatever, and they know that. Or should.
Or are they looking for a Bloomberg-style centrist? Honest question. I have tried to figure it out, but have not been able to.
This whole thing was silly. Of course she was going to be Speaker. More cable news fodder.
Mr. Lynch: Democrats won the House with Nancy Pelosi at the helm.
Don’t insult posts. They’re just trees that couldn’t find a better job.
You are so right. If pressure results in Pelosi opening up opportunities to the challengers, good for them. A win, win.
Some appear to have bought into the Republican smear job or supported it to, in their mind, gain support and votes. These newly-elected house members have shown the voters don’t want weasels. I don’t, either.
Rep Lynch - 'Not saying Democrats should go full Hair Hilter, but why not become the part of choice of the Hater Lite vote, like we were back when I was a kid? We don’t necessarily need to marry white supremacy, but some of us kinda you know get elected to the House as the Boston Bigot, so all I’m saying is we make 'em feel more welcome is all. Maybe let 'em have their rebel statutes, show a little solidarity by burning a cross or two, what’s the harm?
Mister we could use some Dems like Strom Thurmond again.;
So Mass. had two of these genius reps, then… Lynch and Moulton. Are they both old Mass. Dem party apparatus types? Any idea that a primary challenge could push these seats left?
They lost the presidency, the house, the senate, a thousand state seats and most of the governorships in 2016 because of establishment thinkers like Pelosi. Keep supporting the same corporate Democrats who lost against Donald Trump and watch what happens in 2020. I won’t be at all surprised if these same fools don’t try to run Hillary again, Nor would I be surprised to see Josh Marshal write a sage editorial telling us that he thinks she has a good chance this time around. The people on this site would dutifully tow the establishment line, and then cry and scream and cut themselves when she lost to Trump again and wonder how it could possibly happen.
People never seem to learn.
Lynch is about as old school as they come (his district is based around South Boston. I’ll leave it at that, though he did have a tougher than expected primary this time around). Moulton just has an over exaggerated sense of his own importance. He got his gig because the old school Dem he ousted was up to his eyeballs in a corruption scandal. Live by the primary, die by the primary. Let’s just say that the women who run the Democratic machine in his district are none to pleased with his recent behavior.
Lynch is my congressman, something I’ve not been happy about. I wrote his office last week and said that I felt his position was idiotic before noting that he’s always been a Republican in Democratic clothing. The guy really needs a primary challenger.
I have to say, any Dem esp. one from MA which we considerably reliably blue except for the detour to elect a R governor, who predicts with such certainty that trumpp will be reelected and why is not someone who should we listen to. EVER. Maybe Pelosi’s not letting him in her strategy to keep the House Democratic or how any she engineered the blue wave. So, dumb as a post it is.
A thousand, a million likes and hat tips to “boss lady.”
are you a people?