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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: USA4ME on July 18, 2019, 06:49:42 AM
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CNN’s Jake Tapper said he spoke to several Dems in the House under condition of anonymity and they admit that Trump “won this one” and that they are sick of the Squad causing party turmoil, threatening Israel, and threatening to unseat Democrats.
From Jake Tapper’s twitter:
1/ House Democrats appeared unified in their votes this week but I’ve spent the day talking to a bunch of them and many are extremely frustrated. All agree POTUS’s tweets needed to be condemned; they spoke under condition of anonymity so they could be candid. (Thread)
2/ “The president won this one,” said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. “What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them.”
3/ Another issue: what are Dems focused on? Is it what will help the class of 2018 (largely more moderate than the Squad) get reelected? Dem Rep 2: “The president’s words and actions speak for themselves. We need to focus on the issues that got them here: jobs, health care…”
4/ “…instead of the issues the president brings up deliberately. Anything that takes away from bread and butter issues is playing into his hands.”
5/ Other House Democrats are conflicted about having to defend the Squad given things they’ve said and done. House Dems cited: talk of supporting challengers to incumbent Dems in primaries, AOC’s use of the term “concentration camps,” anti-Semitic comments by Tlaib & Omar.
6/ This perceived selective outrage rankled some Dems. “Everybody was completely outraged by what the president said,” said House Dem 3, “and everybody thought it was appropriate to criticize him…
7/ “…but this was the *first* time the House has taken action to criticize him in any way, We couldn’t even bring ourselves to have a resolution exclusively condemning anti-Semitism uttered by one of those members” — Omar — “but we leapt to their defense here.”
8/ A few House Dems noted that Omar and Tlaib just introduced a resolution affirming the right of Americans to boycott, perceived as an expression of support for the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement that most House Dems oppose.
9/ “So we’ll hear a tirade of attacks on Israel from the same group,” said House Dem 3. “Hopefully they won’t be anti Semitic.” House Dem 4 also brought up that bill coming “from someone with a history of anti-Semitism” — Omar — “So yeah it’s challenging.”
10/ House Dem 4 recalls that “less than 2 weeks ago when members of our caucus were trying to support funds for children at the border,” the Squad was arguing that “we’re pro-putting kids in cages, we’re against human rights. So there’s frustration.”
11/ Others noted that this week the House Democratic Caucus stood by a group that is not perceived as standing by them. “I can’t tell you the number of Members who are angry and annoyed about them criticizing us,” said House Dem 3.
12/ AOC, in particular “gives her chief of staff license to get candidates to run against her colleagues and to go after them on social media. It makes people’s skin crawl,” said House Dem 3. House Dem 4 summed it up: “We were there for them; they should stop attacking us.”
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I see Tapper told the truth for once. Let's see if the primitives pick up on this.
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Well, Dems, maybe if you stop covering for them and protecting them, they'll go away. Let the investigation into AOC's campaign finance irregularities happen, let the investigation into Omar's naturalization, marriage and divorce, perjury, taxes, etc, happen.
If you throw them under the bus, it goes a long way to showing you're for the rule of law.
But they won't do that, becuz brown women or something...
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212288761
The DUmp response? :lalala:
watoos (6,849 posts)
1. **** Tapper
The squad is representing its base.
I heard the opposite of what Tapper is saying, I heard that the constituents are behind the squad.
melman (4,611 posts)
8. The president won this one?
And he's politically brilliant?
**** that. And **** Jake Tapper.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212288761
The DUmp response? :lalala:
Yes, the constituents are behind the Squad. That's why they have a -13 approval index... in their own districts
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212288761
The DUmp response? :lalala:
Thanks! I looked over there and didn't see this thread. Their responses are predictable. I look forward to them ripping each other to pieces.
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I prefer the term "Shrew Crew" to squad.
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Ignoring reality they don't want to hear or be heard sets up DU-folk for major shocks down the road. DU-folk do it to themselves and have many times. Reality doesn't have to conform to DU's Toe-the-Party-Line TOS.
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Even leaving aside my own conservative feelings, I'm really not surprised that the other Dems would feel that way, it seems genuine.
I can indeed see them being embarrassed of some of the things those four harpies have said, and not want them to be associated with teh Democrat party.
Also, AOC in particular has always demonstrated real arrogance as well as contempt towards the more seasoned Dem politicians like Pelosi, so it doesn't surprise me that she would seek to raise up candidates as radical as she is to try and unseat some of them.
I prefer the term "Shrew Crew" to squad.
LOL, yes!
Perfect term for them!
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I think Gang of Four is closer to what they hope to be.
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The modern-day liberal ideology of the Dem party created and nurtured these un-American harpies. That it's coming back to bite them seems only right.
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They are going full speed ahead down a dead end street. :-) :-)
And when they lose the next election they will find some new excuses or some one to blame why they lost. :mental: :thatsright: :loser:
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A reminder to Dems.
:ownit:
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They are going full speed ahead down a dead end street. :-) :-)
And when they lose the next election they will find some new excuses or some one to blame why they lost. :mental: :thatsright: :loser:
They usually blame it on voter suppression or some dude named Gerry Mander.
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I think Gang of Four is closer to what they hope to be.
So they hope to be former members of the House of Representatives?
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So they hope to be former members of the House of Representatives?
That's what I hope they'll soon be. They hope to be tyrants wreaking their will on the citizens of the US, just like Madame Mao's Gang of Four.
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I think Gang of Four is closer to what they hope to be.
I think the 3 stooges and dopey is more like it!! :-) :rotf: