And that applies to both sides in this matter.

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If he was a DEMOCRAT...I would find it something to take under advisement...but, he is Not A DEMOCRAT....So, he is being inflammatory intentionally.

She can have private conversations, but she must realize as well the respect flows both ways.

...the nomination he will no longer be a Democrat.

Which brings up a point - since he has clearly declared himself as a Democrat, why does his Senate website still show him as an Independent?

Before anyone says it's because he was "elected" as an Independent, the House website shows Justin Amash as Independent even though he was elected as a republican.

He lost trust with me on this very issue....a hard line issue for me.....We are being used....again....

Got it?!

And each sub-group is a small part of the whole.

from office. Without the success of important step one, nothing else will matter.

we're basically fucked. For good.

Anyone who thinks Trump and his right-wing mouth breathers are going to be shamed into better behavior needs a full-body adjustment. These Neo-Nazi, nationalist goons both here and abroad are undermining the basic understructure of all our western democracies. What greater prize than the United States? The public intra-fighting between Nancy Pelosi and AOC serves only one purpose: dissembling the single barrier we have against the thugs, a unified Democratic front in the House. Without that, we have no arsenal at all.

We need to keep our eye on the real threat--Trump, Trumpists and the extreme right-wing elements vying to bring the world down. Anything less is national suicide.

building a power base of other reps, many more than four and some preferably not as far left for added credibility, instead of sniping and tweeting at the Speaker and other Dems, they could've went to the Speaker with actual leverage and said we can defeat this immigration bill with our block unless some changes are made.

Time to learn how to operate in Washington, the big leagues. This is no longer the high school-college-20-something twitterverse where you casually toss out insults to others where the world can see and suffer no consequences.

Uh-un, not there anymore. Be adults, stop attacking other Dems on twitter. Try doing what grown-ups do. Walk down the hall to their office and hash it out in-house.

To make sure Trump gets out, older folks usually vote so its the youth we need to get to vote. I just think we don’t want to piss them off.

I understand both sides of what happened and think Nancy should call and talk privately in the future to them. They are the children in this and she with the experience so of course the young ones will make mistakes but we absolutely need their energy in this election.

Things like this if not stopped will keep the young from voting not in primary because they can vote far left but in the general where it really counts.

As a person who has talked to many knocking on doors and calling we need to all work together this time from far left to as far right as our party goes!!

One is not the same as the others.

....a woman of color and insinuating that she's a racist.

They get a pass on that one, though.

And I don’t mean defending him, I mean tell him to tamp it down or go away. He’s nothing short of disgusting

will be their downfall.

Of course.

And we saw the inevitable result of those attacks this morning.

Yes.

is outta control..

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....the Democratic leadership and when called out on it they play the race and gender card.

Reminder:

Nancy Pelosi is a WOMAN! (her mother was an immigrant from Italy and father's family traces back to Italy!)

Also, there are other freshmen women of color who HAVEN'T been "singled out":

Jahana Hayes (African American)
Lauren Underwood (Aftican American)
Lucy McBath (African American)
Sharice Davids (Native American)
Deb Haaland (Native American)

Is Nancy Pelosi going easy on them because they're "women of color"?

C'mon, look at what you've been doing and ADMIT that Nancy Pelosi didn't call them out because they're women of color, and you know it. You were "singled out" because of your actions.

PS - notice that none of them, especially the one from Queens, have said a peep about Saikat Chakrabarti "singling out" Sharice Davids as "enabling a racist system".

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....she should go to her office, close the door, look around, and remember who occupied that office long before she did. Then think of the example she set.

WTF!

Thankfully she's less outspoken.


If you can't see how that's a fucked up thing to say...I can't explain it to you.

It may get some angry people to jump with joy but it is a disaster for mainstream.

Just being outspoken without cerebral analysis, education and/or experience behind it is called "loud mouthed." The latter is seen with scorn and disdain.

harmful that behavior is with the tea party, Trump and even 2016 primary.

She's from The Bronx and she has a name. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

But you can't hold back the tide.

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without any knowledge of what was truly happening. A lazy way of getting his two cents in.

They simply destroy the Democratic party's message discipline and its future -- which is their stated goal.

In their undisciplined twitter messages, they smear the entire Democratic party with unpalatable memes of extremism and in the end, if the Democratic party loses the house, the senate and the white house, no one on the left from slightly left to extreme left gets ANYTHING.

Wildebeests are a classic example -- as long as the herd is unified and travels together as a group, it is safe. As soon as its members veer off the discipline, they are picked by predators one by one and before long, half the members become dinner for lions, cheetahs, hyenas and vultures.

when he hasn't had to manage 234 other members in the same caucus. Pelosi would prefer everyone work together and help each other. Making an unnecessary ruckus doesn't help them. Gathering support within the caucus is key. Antagonizing the wrong ones does not work.

all he wants and the Democratic Party must treat him with kid gloves or his supporters of youth will get mad. Now he is insisting on the same for these young women. Pelosi did not call out the freshman out of the blue. She was responding to their behaviors and comments. This is the real world, they need to grow up and face the repercussions of their actions instead of having "daddy" come to their rescue. Or really, just create more chaos in our Democratic Party while facing this huge and important election.

I always find it odd he has never devoted the same energy to being a gadfly against the GOP. Oh well.

Welcome to DU. You're in for a bumpy ride.

They are elected members of Congress. And they have the right to disagree with party leadership.

And Sanders didn't "insist" on anything. He was asked a question and gave a measured response.

The growing up comes from understanding that "right" works both ways instead of crying fowl when their behavior is actually addressed.

to the world on twitter?. Blast repugs left and right and up and down but keep your beef with other Dems in-house. Be a grown man or woman and put down the phone, walk down the corridor to the other person's office and hash it out.

It came out of AOC's office from her chief of staff that some other Dems are like segregationists from the '40s.

I mean that really happened. Come on now, Repugs are our enemies not other Dems. That was the last straw with the tweeting against other Dems and those attacked went to Pelosi to complain. And now we're embroiled in this riff from some not knowing to not publicly blast members of their own party.

Why don't they know this? It's Politics 101.

And now it's metastasized from all the media attention to it into trump sending out extreme racist tweets against these four women.

statement that Pelosi has a valid point and they listened. Owning the situation they created.

Without thought. I need that thought in there if our leaders are going to attack and that is what is lacking. Like Sanders comment. Not a lot there, just putting out, Pelosi isn't being fair. I want conversation of what is happening, if he is going to step into the conversation. Sanders puts no effort into this answer. Sanders has not been successful leading people as we see from 2016 and the damage by the lack of leadership. Sexual harassment was thru out his campaign and was known to Sanders yet he was unable or unwilling to address it. A leader does. His supporters walked into our convention with the purpose of being disruptive and Sanders was well aware. I do not need to hear from Sanders how Pelosi should do the job. I do not think he has earned that respect.

Attacking Democrats for funding of the camps without any context is horribly irresponsible. If these Representatives has an issue with the vote then discuss all of the issue instead of reactionary couple sentence criticism. If they do this then they should expect more thoughtful people to say hey, ... wait a minute here. There is more to this than the tweet. We kind of have this responsibility if we want to be taken serious and do not want to do damage to our party.

We are the party of adults. This is not the way adults address issues. It just becomes a back and forth. We are living in a time were a lot of conversation is reduced to simple back and forth. It is not productive.

An example would be: After having thought about this conversation just now, I felt a need to have a longer more thoughtful conversation about the issue instead of just a come back.

I want conversation again.

the group that votes the least. Not about anyone else who votes more often and more consistently.

He lives to bash Democrats every chance he gets.

WAIT! Am I allowed to use "excoriate?" Is too close to "snipe?" Hmmm...

Anyhoo (intentional typo. Sorry, Spelling Police )

Not very wise.

That's pretty much all you need to know about Bernie's criticism of Democratic leadership.

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Just often enough to remind his base.

and deflected criticism of Tliab's intemperate language and referenced to the "bejamins" I hardly think she has been to harsh.

Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff may be the real issue. He had been part of the previous Sander's campaign.

(I admit to not being partial to Silicon Valley millionaires -especially someone who seems to promote 20th century Nazi collaborators. I also don't care for the Sarandon-style multi-millionaire "progressive" who jump to the forefront to lecture lecture us all on what she considers to be "the working class&quot .

Is Pelosi ignoring young people or is that a straw man argument ?