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Oculus Spirit [93608]
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The impeachment may well have been swamp dems...
Feb 1, 2020, 9:52 PM
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keeping Bernie and Liz in the senate while Joe campaigns in Iowa.
"The nation’s most prominent elected Democrat said Friday her party must resist the temptation to chase progressive dreams, such as Medicare for All, if it wants to win the 2020 elections. The key to victory, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, is policies that appeal to the political mainstream.
“I just say to all of our friends, you know, you want to go to the left? You want to win the election, let’s make a decision to win the election. And when you make a decision to win the election, you have to make every decision in favor of winning,” Pelosi said in an interview Friday with the South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board.
“There's plenty of progressive work that we can do in the mainstream without, um, shall we say, having the luxury of our exuberances in carving up a pie we don't even have,” she said.
“We all understand what is at stake,” Pelosi said. For Democrats it’s defeating President Donald Trump and maintaining the House and winning control of the Senate..."
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-nancy-pelosi-mainstream-not-progressive-20200131-g76o6yaeebbx5b64uqll2q3ugi-story.html Pelosi says Democrats must focus on mainstream, not progressive exuberances, to win in 2020 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats resist the temptation to chase progressive dreams, such as Medicare for All, if they want to win in 2020. The key to victory, she said in an exclusive interview with the Editorial Board of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, is appealing to the political mainstream. “There's plenty of progressive work that we can do in the mainstream without, um, shall we say, having the luxury of our exuberances in carving up a pie we don't even have,” she said
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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I read her quotes as saying...
Feb 1, 2020, 10:36 PM
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"If we want to win the election, we cannot run on our principles."
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Oculus Spirit [93608]
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Seems to be the slightest resistance to the 4 horsemen...
Feb 1, 2020, 10:41 PM
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since they called her a racist last year. Pelosi has always been about power and any confusion about her being principled vanished two decades ago.
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Legend [19885]
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Re: I read her quotes as saying...
Feb 1, 2020, 11:41 PM
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To me, it’s more like “say anything to get elected, then once we’re in we’ll do whatever we want to”.
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Oculus Spirit [93608]
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That's traditional for both sides.***
Feb 1, 2020, 11:46 PM
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Legend [19885]
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Re: That's traditional for both sides.***
Feb 2, 2020, 12:00 AM
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S.O.P. for any politician.
You know the saying... How can you tell when a politician is lying?
Their lips are moving!
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