Talk about beat sweeteners.
no thanks. steny is in bed with defense contractors who comprise a good deal of his district. I prefer pelosi, at least i know she is a fighter.Canât recall any standouts fr his career.
Pelosi gets my vote. Let the women run the coming Trial of the Century.
who has a white-knuckle grip on power.
Hey AP! Up yours.
hear, hear
A womanâs place is in the House. And in the Senate. But the irony of picking an old guy, excuse me, âlongtime leaderâ is what theyâre calling him, to replace a woman whom people say is too old is too rich for me.
And Joe Crowley from Pelham Bay to Corona, New Yorkâs 14th Congressional District includes some of the nationâs largest Korean-, Colombian- and Indian-American communities. thinks heâs up to it? Hubris on steroids.
O Stenny. No youâre not going to be Speaker, not when the most effective Speaker this century has seen is still available - Nancy Pelosi, one of the best Speakers ever.
Being recognized by your peers as being the smartest leader in the room, with a solid track record of success to prove the point, is hardly a âwhite knuckle gripâ. AP is confusing Pelosi with Paul Ryan.
Younger lawmakers talk about sweeping all the top leaders from office as they hunger for fresh faces
This is really frustrating. Younger lawmakers are also inexperienced lawmakers. Every time you start a new job â even one you are nominally overqualified for â thereâs an onboarding period where youâre less effective, when youâre leaning on your teammates or your collaborators from other teams in order to get the work done while youâre trying to get up to speed. The length of that onboarding process depends on how complicated the job is.
We have every reason to believe that a job in the national congress is one of the most complicated non-science jobs there is. There are a million ropes to learn, even ignoring everything about negotiating with the other side. You have to learn all of the procedures so you can use procedural tricks against your opponentsâ efforts, and defend your own from the same. You have to learn enough to be confident of your obligations and rights when dealing with extremely powerful and savvy lobbying groups, who will happily snow you if they think they can get away with it.
Until these âfresh facesâ get substantial experience under their belts, they will be powerless to defend the public good against the many rapacious vultures that work every day to feast privately on it. Itâs hard to believe any of them are really prepared to combat regulatory capture â or even to identify it. Itâs hard to believe any of them are prepared to stand up to claims of âexecutive privilegeâ and ânational security secretsâ that are actually baseless. People say âfresh facesâ and I hear âpopular sheep.â
This, incidentally, is what convinced me that term limits for congress are a bad idea. Congress is the place where we draw the line between legal and not-legal, and so naturally it is where all the savviest, most successful criminals go so they can get behavior âre-zoned,â making legal their past, ongoing, and anticipated wrongdoing. We need equally savvy and determined people there to see through those attempts, and to resist them.
Damn straight! And like FDR, she wears their contempt as a badge of honor.
Heâs too young and clean.
Glad Iâm not the only one who saw that line and checked the byline to confirm that yep its the AP being the AP.
While I doubt Mr Hoyer will ever be speaker, there is a certain value to sending a ânever-Pelosiâ democrat out to these purple places to do the campaigning. Better to create a fantasy bubble that favors dems than one that doesnât.
Sheâs failed. Thatâs her badge of honor?
âbest Speaker everâ?
She lost the House eight years ago with a Dem president and Dem Senate. Pathetic.
Two soon-to-be octogenarians fighting for Speaker because no one else is qualified? Is that what youâre saying?
Would I be disappointed if it doesnât happen? No,
Hoyer at least is smart enough to know itâs very unlikely he will be Speaker. Pelosi is probably one of the best there has been at this job and I hope sheâs Speaker in 2018, we need her progressiveness and her influence over her caucus to push back, sheâs fought harder than just about any Democrat in the past 20 years. I do hope, when she hangs up her congressional hat (2020 or 2022?) there is a younger and just as progressive Democrat who has built up the internal respect and ability to move legislation and people, to take over. So far there are very few if any younger Democrats who have come across as impressive in that respect, at least the ones that have been named so far, havenât shown any ability to do much other than lob easy bombs at Pelosi.
True story: back when I was in high school, Steny Homer, who was my Representative at the time and only 6 years into the job, took my class on a tour of the Capitol, including taking us to the House floor. He graciously answered all questions and took time to sign our tour books. Another Rep came by and told us that he thought Hoyer was a great guy, totally unsolicited.
Even though I have moved away from MD, I still tell people about Hoyer. Heâs one of the few people in Congress who still knows the people he represents. Just mentioning Pelosi around my conservative friends is enough to get their blood boiling, but they donât have any bad words to say about Hoyer. He needs to be Speaker. #rememberinnovember
Fuckinâ A. Itâs about as delusional as Bernie now addressing black audiences because he thinks he can woo them when he runs in 2020 after having ignored them in 2016. When heâll be 79 years old.
Of course. Pelosi has had the bad luck of aging while being a woman and so became ripe for conservative trashing as well as from the far left of our party. Nobody much knows she was going retire when Clinton won, but while she stays sheâll be an effective, prodigious fundraiser for her party and no one else in the Democratic caucus can say. The blue wave will only strengthen her.
@tomanjeri You get it.