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Pelosi Concerned Outspoken Progressive Flank Of Party Could Harm Democrats’ Reputation As Ineffectual Cowards

Admitting she had worries about the rise of left-leaning activist groups within her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concerns Thursday that outspoken progressives could do permanent damage to Democrats’ reputation as ineffectual cowards. “They mean well, but if they continue to aggressively push their agenda like this, they run the risk of fundamentally altering the public’s perception of Democrats as bumbling, feckless chumps,” said Pelosi, adding that this brash brand of politics could be easily manipulated by Republicans to paint the party as something other than a bunch of sniveling wimps who are too weak-willed and complacent to stand up for anything with even remote political risk. “I understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.” Pelosi also noted that her concerns shouldn’t be overstated, as she knew it would take more than a few activists for voters to associate the Democratic party with the vaguest inkling of courage.

In other words it's just another daily game between the Washington Generals and the Harlem Globetrotters. The same side of the coin. The oligarchs party.

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The Onion gets it right.

"America's Finest News Source."

I remember picking it up as a weekly in Madison, WI, way back when at its start. "Dead Guy Found" was a classic early headline (body discovered after the ice/snow melt).

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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15 years ago on DKos. I was known as Pen back then. Glad to see my Globetrotters analogy still lives on. Over there, of course, it mostly got sneered at. Shills. Fuck em.

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