Democratic Leadership Elections

[Oryxslayer]

This is how the game is played when you got someone at the helm who knows what she is doing. You have allies rearrange the board so that by the time your opposition sits down, every move available is a losing one. We just have not seen the game for so long because the Tea Party and the GOP have been more coalition partners then a true big tent for the past 7 years.

[Oryxslayer]

Spanberger also doesn't appear to be budging either after meeting Pelosi, she's a hard no vote on the floor.

Spanberger strikes me as someone who could potentially become speaker in the distant future.

Agreed. Her seat will have to include Charlottesville first though, to protect future ambitions.

[Oryxslayer]

Ahem.

People seem to have forgotten that Pelosi was a member of the CPC before becoming leader. She only left because she refuses to join an ideological caucus as leader of the entire party.

Wow, 16 years ago Pelosi passed as a progressive. Progressive in 2002 just meant you were against deregulating everything in sight and invading every country at once.

Haha. Wow. That's the most Tea Party-like thing I've ever seen written by a Democrat.

Jfern thinks anyone to the riggt of Sanders shouldn't be a Dem because in his mind they already support republican policies, and differ little ideologically.