House Democrats Of All Stripes Are Mad At The Disruptive Centrists | Talking Points Memo

House Democrats from both sides of the political spectrum are finding it hard to contain their annoyance at their 10 colleagues threatening to topple President Joe Biden’s entire agenda — for no real reason. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1385608
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No worries, Manchin and or Sinema will kill it in the Senate. This is their plan. All of these so called representatives need to be primaried.

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Henry C’s seat is perfectly safe in a general election, but his dumb ass only made it out of the primary in 2020 by about a point and a half.

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Would the GOP secretly offer the 9, weak candidates in 22 in return for this. I’m very concerned that a deal has been made that perhaps even Dem leadership is unaware of. Far fetched? Yes, but these are far fetched times.

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Just make sure you continue to correctly report on it by not mentioning the names of these 10 assholes. They all want the attention Manchin and Sinema have been given and the only thing they should get is (1) dared to vote no and (2) told behind closed doors that if they do, they are 100% finished, will be primaried and will never get another Dem dollar ever again.

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Good point. It’s entirely possible the GQP would try to bribe them. Nothing is off the table for the GQPers. Nothing.

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I’m not worried about a single one of them. Remember how deftly Pelosi bought off every potential challenger when she took back the gavel after 2018. She knows how to apply the right amount of lollipop or belt as needed.

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Certainly hope so. She’s certainly a master at it, but that doesn’t mean it always works, and as was accurately pointed out, they may have competing “offers.”

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Not exactly enduring himself to the D base. Are the brain cells operating?

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Mad respect for @ralph_vonholst, but I just think the worries are overrated.

Unless they’re prepared to switch parties, there’s no amount of carrot that the republicans can offer that can outweigh Pelosi’s stick of being able to destroy them in primaries, withholding all money from them and throwing support to competitors, things like that.

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O/T but this is a good read on what Biden has accomplished so far
“Not since the Second World War have we seen a government mobilize so broadly, do so much…do it by and large so well” | Blue Virginia

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Somebody is paying them something

“The motivation behind this is, I think, quite cloudy,” she added.

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Fake news! It was Biden’s deadline. These dc press folks are engaged in a kind of bacchanalian orgy of hate, lies of omission and misinformation.

Who is this miscreant btw? Never heard of her. Fox?

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Okay, but what if they’re very popular in their red-to-purple districts because they do stuff like this? How do you think primarying them would work out in that case?

Not worth paying attention to. In 2020 she was downplaying COVID.

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I just want to know why they’re all bent on destroying his presidency. They must know that’s the direction they’re taking things.

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The way the press is bending over backwards to avoid discussing what possible reason they could have to be doing this, and the MoC’s pissed off about them are likewise biting their tongues to avoid saying it makes it perfectly clear to me that these assholes are planning to screw the party: force a vote on the Bipartisan Bill of Bipartisany Goodness and then engage in deficit fearmongering ratfuckery when the reconciliation bill comes up for a vote to gut it.

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Can’t fight the Wave of “centrist democratic” derp out in the Open…Pelosi is going to have to resort to methods behind closed doors.

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I thought Trish Regan was one of those fox business idiots like Lou Dobbs and Maria bartiromo

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