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In reply to the discussion: Democrats threatening to upend Pelosi's House Speaker bid. And they're working with Republicans [View all]UTUSN
(70,652 posts)10. Here's a definitive article on what these jerks are about from TruthDig (courtesy DUer Rainy) -
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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/whos-really-leading-the-democratic-rebellion-against-pelosi/
Who's Really Leading the Democratic Rebellion Against Pelosi?
.... ... ideology is not driving this campaign, and this is no populist rebellion. In fact, its leaders have no discernible ideology at all.
Thats how corporate money rolls in the Democratic Party. It lays low, hides its true colors, and pretends it only wants to get things done.
The anti-Pelosi insurgency is not a movement. Its a cabal, orchestrated by the appropriately hashtagged #FiveWhiteGuys, a group of self-self-interested players with big money behind them. ....
...vague on the issues, big on cliches and platitudes, ... is the hallmark of centrism, the billionaire-funded political faction that serves its financial backers by selling themselves as non-ideological, technocratic architects of bipartisan consensus who can break the gridlock and solve problems.
For this crowd, solving problems always winds up meaning the same thing: cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and an unwarranted obsession with the federal deficit that alwaysjust accidentally, mind you!winds up helping corporations and the billionaire class. ....
...claims to be above parties and partisanshipwhich, in the end, is another way of saying its free of any principles except the interests of its paymasters. It often comes in the guise of patriotism, as when Seth Moulton says he places country over partya comment that, implicitly, is a deep insult to those who believe one partys proposals would serve the country better than the others.
The anti-Pelosi campaign is being supported by one of the mainstays of the corporate centrist worldthe cynical political ploy known as No Labels, which I wrote about in 2012, and its creation, the Problem Solvers Caucus. ... a guaranteed-employment plan for Republican and Democratic political hacks, ... ....
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Democrats threatening to upend Pelosi's House Speaker bid. And they're working with Republicans [View all]
dajoki
Nov 2018
OP
Well said! I've started thinking of them as Lieberman's Lemmings, since they are following his
suffragette
Nov 2018
#19
There's democrats right here at DU proposing working with republicans against democrats.
Iggo
Nov 2018
#4
Here's a definitive article on what these jerks are about from TruthDig (courtesy DUer Rainy) -
UTUSN
Nov 2018
#10
Republicans do not compromise. They use the word to get what they want, at all our expense.
Wintryjade
Nov 2018
#14
List of the nine. One is in my state and I will start calling and FB'ing tomorrow.
Wintryjade
Nov 2018
#15
Kurt CRAP Scrader is from my state. They should all get rotten committee assignments
trueblue2007
Nov 2018
#22