Kathleen Rice continues to oppose Pelosi

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2. Hakeem Jeffries, black caucus whip, is the new caucus chair.

I think THIS is far more important. Jeffries is 48 with years of good experience and has been talked about among his colleagues as an eventual possible speaker or other top leadership position -- because he stands out among and to his colleagues as leadership material.

How is it that the media, obligingly pushing stuff like Kathleen Rice's attention seeking, couldn't inform the public that Jeffries even existed until his Democratic colleagues forced some to admit it this afternoon?

Is it that it would spoil their pumping up and sensationalizing of a "battle of the shiny new v hoary old" theme? Btw, I just heard this 48-year-old member with several years experience in congress described as "new" on MSNBC.

Another, btw? He beat Barbara Lee, who contested for the position. Who's SHE? Oh, just another eminent but anonymous member of congress who didn't badmouth Nancy Pelosi.

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3. Because, like a smart politician, Jeffries worked quietly in the background.

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6. Yes. A busy man doing his job well.

Kathleen Rice wins backing from GOP officials
Regarding Rice, "She said the Democrats needed someone who could promote change, focus on the future and shake up the status quo. Earlier this month, Rice suggested that that person could be Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), whom she said had her “complete support.” “Right now, Tim Ryan is the one person who’s starting those tough conversations that so many of us wanted our entire caucus to have,” Rice said in a statement.

Tim Ryan, really? Uhuh. Rice is in that mostly conservative "problem solvers" group that masquerades as genuinely bipartisan. She's been endorsed in more than one election, including this one, by Republican officials back home. She had a very weak, amateur opponent in the Democratic primary, but he did point out that he was running in part because "Rice is a “Republican who changed parties because of the district we are in." He sounds rather loose and amateurish in his accusations of having no values except getting elected, etc., but I checked and she was a Republican before 2005.

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12. Tim Ryan THe Guy Who Was Practically On His Knees Yesterday

"imploring" Comrade Trump to keep his promises regarding GM in Ohio and is an avowed corporatist

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13. Yes. He didn't exactly play whatever cards he

imagined he had well, did he? No, Tim, 5 mismatched face cards don't beat a royal flush.

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4. Rep. Rice Has An Issue Methinks

by my count with 40 seat and a deal made with so-called problem solvers she has the numbers she needs with 1 to spare

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8. She's one of the Problem Solvers now and a former Republican

who is trying to hamstring Democratic house power. At least she seemed to say she was with the Problem Solvers as she supported their actions.

She's gotten elected and reelected by pleasing Republican leaders at home (who endorsed her over the Republican candidate) but is probably not destined for high position in the strongly liberal-dominated Democratic caucus. She is ranking member of the Homeland Security subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence

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10. She Hangs With Moulton & Ryan

and is very ambitious but would probably do better as the Con she once was but probably couldn't get elected as such. I have a real problem to those who are so blatantly dishonest. From what I've read she's not real popular with the caucus at large.

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5. Just googled a photo of Rice. Sorry, but she's no spring chicken either.

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7. Lol...really?

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9. I know, not that PC a thing to say but I couldn't help it when I saw her photo.

She doesn't look that much younger than soon-to-be-Speaker Pelosi.

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16. Relevance?

She's never proposed herself as an alternative.

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18. You've heard just as everyone else has of these ambitious, anti-Pelosi groups...

clamoring for younger leadership

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19. And how does that relate to her specific age, if she's not running?

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20. Come on. None of them have the courage to run but sure wouldn't...

turn it down if their name was put forward if Pelosi was deposed.

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11. Any chance that the likes of Rice will be hounded as Issa etc were ? Make them know that

they're being monitored by the people.

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14. Who are "the people?"

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17. Democrats of the district, like Democrats in other districts where that sort of pressure

had an effect. If these 'problem solvers' are the pocket of healthcare companies, I see it as imperative that they be kept under pressure.

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15. "The fight goes on"

says Mike DeBonis of the Washington Post. WHAT fight? Pelosi doesn't even have a credible challenger. The media continues to pretend opposition to her is a major story.

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21. She SAYS she tried to engage her in a reasonable conversation.

Here is the thing. That group are clueless about organizing. If they wanted to accomplish their goals they would need to get more people on board before trying to convince someone make a change. If they are about 10% of caucus they need to wait until they are closer to 40% with some that might want to join them. They apparently didn't have the ideas or the ability to present those ideas to change the minds.