Moderate Democrats warn Pelosi
of impeachment obsession
Politico,
by
Sarah Ferris
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/15/2019 7:44:36 AM
A day before the House Judiciary Committee took its biggest step yet toward impeachment last week, moderate Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi voiced his frustrations directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The battleground freshman told Pelosi and other leaders at a closed-door meeting that he and other centrists feared that talk of impeaching President Donald Trump was threatening to swamp the Democratic agenda, according to multiple people in the room.
“It’s very frustrating for me — someone coming from a district that was one of the districts that helped get us into the majority
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/15/2019 7:55:55 AM (No. 180316)
I concur with OP's statement. I'd very much like to hear the Rep define "moderate".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/15/2019 7:57:38 AM (No. 180318)
Swamp the demonratic agenda? Impeachment is their only agenda. What else have they done for the last 10 months?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/15/2019 8:49:08 AM (No. 180351)
A moderate is a democrat that claims to be their own person, runs on a pledge of working across the aisle. And then votes in lockstep with Pelosi ans Schumer.
A moderate is a democrat in camouflage.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/15/2019 8:57:32 AM (No. 180357)
Democrat agenda? HaHaHa! Their only agenda offers even less ground to stand on.
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More leaked "protection" for Dems running in competitive districts where Trump may be popular. There is NO impeachment coming. This is political theater for the boobs in the middle. Later, as the "evidence" piles up, these same Dems, after checking with polling data, will tut-tut their way into the campaign with the usual platitudes about honesty in government, high moral and ethical values, these things need to be investigated and brought to light...you know the schtick. Meanwhile NYT, WaPo, LAT, and the usual broadcast/cable "news" outlets will run with every thing with red-faced screaming about "impeachment".
In the meantime, Mitt is warming up in the Uniparty/GOPe bullpen in case this turns his way. Ask Bill Weld how it works.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/15/2019 9:13:07 AM (No. 180383)
Dims, why stop now. You, the msm, and your deep state are doing just fine digging your hole deeper and deeper. Keep it up with the impeachment schtick. Everyone now knows what you are, who you are, and why you are doing it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 9/15/2019 9:42:34 AM (No. 180441)
Many of these new Dems squeaked into office with the media fueling the Mueller report and Trump not at the top of the ticket. In 2020 they won't have either advantage, but will have the deranged Democrat philosophy hanging around their necks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56 9/15/2019 9:48:57 AM (No. 180449)
A moderate Democrat is one who plays moderate and maybe even nearly conservative when he or she is back home with the rubes and suckers but once they cross the DC Beltway, they do what Nancy Pelosi and Chuckie Schumer tells them to do.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/15/2019 10:02:39 AM (No. 180463)
If you call Dick Durbin or Leaky Lahey a moderate that's like calling a snake a worm. Give me a break all democrat are nuts some are just a bit more vocal about it. There's no such thing as a moderate democrat or Pelosi would have stopped this a long time ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 9/15/2019 10:47:24 AM (No. 180495)
Moderate dems are sheeple.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/15/2019 11:42:12 AM (No. 180545)
If Nancy was really The Speaker she would have crushed this already.
So many of the Blue Dogs best prepare demselves for one term.
Suckers.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bamboozle 9/15/2019 11:52:57 AM (No. 180558)
Moderate Democrat?? You mean as in:
1. unlimited killing of unborn babies?
2. arbitrary seizure of currently legal guns as defined by whatever metric the party chooses?
3. seizure of the the entire medical care and insurance industries. Medical care to be paid whatever the government says is 'fair'?
4. complete shutdown of the energy sector with no thought given as to what will replace it leading to mass starvation and people freezing in their homes next winter?
5. Allowing unchecked invasion of our nation by whoever wants to come in?
That is today's Democratic agenda, the way for which will be paved by impeachment of any jurist or politician standing in the way. Moderate? Not so much.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/15/2019 11:54:46 AM (No. 180561)
I am beginning to wonder if Pelosi is even attached to reality anymore. Does she want her party to Deep 6 into disaster next year? If not, she sure has a funny way of showing it right now. If there are no more moderates left in the party, could be because they are keeping their heads down and riding out the sewage flood in their party. I have noted that the hardcore Left is trying to push them out of the congress and the party. This is all on Pelosi, Schumer and Perez/DNC.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/15/2019 1:19:41 PM (No. 180639)
Insanity runs deep in within the democrats.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/15/2019 1:50:54 PM (No. 180661)
What these "moderates" don't realize is they are just useful idiots to leftists like Pelosi and Hoyer. They're expected to vote with the leftists on important votes unless given permission to vote against. They're allowed enough meaningless "against" votes to make it look like they're not in lockstep with Pelosi.
However, when push comes to shove, they'll be sacrificed to Pelosi's leftist ambitions. Remember how the Blue Dog Caucus was mostly wiped out over Obamacare?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/16/2019 1:34:01 PM (No. 181441)
Fools Never Learn. Too bad the democrats never listen. Or maybe not.
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