Congresswoman-elect Spanberger (VA) says she won't support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker...
...today on MTP Daily.
Max Rose personally told me the same thing. There may be a fair number of new Members of Congress who hold the same opinion.
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by small-d democratic principles.
extremist wave has peaked, at least the current one, still choppy waters, but they lost real support among the electorate, and that's huge. And the GOP is still bound to an evildoing president who literally can't stop causing them harm.
As for those on the radical left who deny everything good that mainstream Democrats do, they get to watch Nancy and the rest of our caucus at work -- and eat it. Like their counterparts in the tea party, they literally can't be pleased and will only despise her and our Democratic coalition the more for being good. So big "oh well."
Who knows, maybe our big Democratic caucus under her leadership will be able to enrage them and generate nearly as many bitter complaints as her getting healthcare reform passed over tremendous difficulties did. Something to hope for. 
not dissent. Others drawn to their rhetoric seeking new answers will mostly eventually move on, but not them.
After all, those leaders for whom opposition is an important part of their political identity know perfectly well that insisting on the impossible empowers them (them especially) because it feeds their followers' need to oppose and fulfills their faction's underlying, unadmitted reason for being.
Just look at their counterparts on the right. The Republican leadership has offered the tea-party/Freedom Caucus virtually everything possible many times in attempts to reunite into one caucus that could defeat us, but the Freedom Caucus literally cannot be satisfied. The Freedom Troublemakers' leaders never fall into the trap of uniting to achieve common goals because they know that would eliminate their reason for existence.
Bless their mean, dark little hearts.
Oh, well. When anxiety finally lessens and assurance of stability increases, they and the rest of the radical and extremist factions will all shrink and fade back into the shadows, and we'll get to mostly forget them again for another few decades.
I kept thinking, "How's Oregon fit in this? What'd I miss?" 
It finally dawned on me that you were referencing "Our Revolution". Didn't know about that before 2016 and haven't read anything since -- wallowing in my own ignorance.
If I could draw...
Monday:
a big ship with "U.S." on the bow,
off the starboard bow are 2 steam tugs belching black smoke with $, barge flying Fox flag, Limbaugh flag - stoking coal into the boilers, MAGA-Nazis yelling on deck with megaphones, destination a slimey boiling sea with dead animals floating, Trumputin straddling the rails of the tugs
off the port bow is a collection of rowboats and sailboats, pulling toward an island with palm trees and flowers and a rainbow over it
dead ahead is a collection of every kind of boat from paddle boats to nuclear, all lines coming together but the final line labelled DEMS to the ship's bow is not as big as the one to the smoking tug on the right, destination not clear but the sea isn't boiling
on deck are red-hatted Repugs guarding a wall of ruples protecting the line to the tug, with more whittling away at the Democratic line at the bow
Tuesday:
A bunch of voters hack through the line to one tug, TrumPutin teetering as that tug begins to veer
Wednesday:
A bunch of blue-suited men and women coming up through a hatch from the hold, carrying a heavy line to connect to the boats dead ahead, a bunch of red-hatted people heading down another hatch into the hold.
Maybe I've just been in siege mentality too long and my brain is starting to melt.
of blue suited rescuers was via airlines and passenger vans, and they're all carrying briefcases. I'm not an artist either, so this is about the closest I can come. Of course, this misses the long lines of the real heroes on the ground determinedly enduring the waits they know are intended to screw them over.
We're for raising pay checks, lowering healthcare costs, increasing paychecks by building the infrastructure of America and for cleaning up government to make sure people understand that the people's interest, not the special interests are served here in the United States Capitol."
Yes!
Thanks, Hermit. I hadn't seen that but knew that all over the nation Democrats were campaigning locally and statewide on this strategy.
It's regrettable but not surprising that so many could watch cable all day and come away believing Democrats didn't know what we stood for. That's what they were told. The media need controversy, and reporting that candidate after candidate were running on what their constituents wanted and needed won't sell newspapers. Boring!
But those who dissed Pelosi were widely covered, with the further reward of not being accused of not knowing what they were for. They did: they were for being against Pelosi. Finally -- someone who's taking a strong, principled stand!
I posted this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211406195
Wasn't sure if it was as significant as it seemed to me, until a couple of longer-time DUers commented. With you, Cha, and question everything saying it is, I feel better.
Too much Pelosi-bashing going on recently, I think.
with the further reward of not being accused of not knowing what they believed in. Dissing Pelosi proved they did: they were for being against Pelosi. "Finally, a strong candidate who takes a principled stand!"
The media need controversy, and reporting that candidate after candidate was running on what their constituents wanted and needed doesn't sell newspapers or keep people listening through commercials.
Meanwhile, hundreds of candidates around the nation ran and won following Pelosi's advice:
We're for raising pay checks, lowering healthcare costs, increasing paychecks by building the infrastructure of America and for cleaning up government to make sure people understand that the people's interest, not the special interests are served here in the United States Capitol."
Yes!
It's regrettable that some could watch cable all day and come away believing that Democrats didn't know what we stood for and were going to lose. It would have saved a lot of anxiety to understand the games the media always play. Like new candidates are bright and sparkly, while old ones are boooring. And everyone needs to learn how good it feels to know existing leaders can be competent and be able to have confidence in them.
Now back to happy thoughts, like our electoral sweep in the midwest.
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Can't we get together on anything for gods sake.
