SalamendaciousOct 4, 2023

Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building

https://lemmy.world/post/6274149

Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building - Lemmy.world

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the newly named interim speaker, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building. She does maintain her regular office in the Cannon House office building. An email sent from McHenry’s office to Pelosi’s office just after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening that was viewed by CNN, stated, “Going to reassign h-132 for speaker office use. Please vacate the space tomorrow.” Pelosi said in a statement that she was not in Washington, DC, to immediately move her belongings.

Show threadSomeDudeOct 4, 2023

A better headline would be what she said in response:

“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them,” she said. “Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people.”

Dems have shown demonstrated absurdly good communication skills, but somehow, it’s never really shown given proper attention. Like, seriously, just watch this clip show of young Dems destroying Republicans last week: youtu.be/v6VZIjBLcyU?si=H9TuL2aRF9PM0vpY

Dems are fucking fierce, man.

Edit: Reworded a sentence to make it more clear.

AOC utterly DESTROYS entire Republican argument with one simple question

YouTube
Show threadTheAlbatrossOct 4, 2023

Catty, more like.

I’ll save fierce for when we get a living wage and single payer healthcare bill passed.

Show threadSomeDudeOct 4, 2023

Well, then give them a house majority and a veto proof Senate majority. The last time they had that (for a whole 72 days), they immediatly passed Obamacare.

Oh, and did I mention that every time the minimum wage was raised, it was done by Democrats (21 times) or because dems forced this as a concession from republicans (2 times)?

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023
Obamacare aka Affordable Card Act was written by Newt Gingrich
Show threadImFresh3x
Uh. No.
Oct 4, 2023 at 4:11pmWeb
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023

Yet, in an odd twist of history, it was Newt Gingrich, one of the most conservative speakers of the House, who laid out the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act as early as 1993.

https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/conservatives-backed-the-ideas-behind-obamacare-so-how-did-they-come-to-hate-it/

Show threadCeruleanRuinOct 4, 2023
Well that’s great, good for him. He also wrote a novel about the Civil War. Guess what that blueprint and his novel have in common?
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
That’s not great. It shows that Obama and the Dems are actually conservatives that want to prevent universal healthcare. If you read the article that is the main reason Gingrich came up with this in the first place.
Show threadCryophiliaOct 5, 2023

Rofl pull the other one, dumbass

Obama is actually a conservative…this is almost as stupid as Jewish space lasers

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023

The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican - Obama

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/137156-obama-says-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s/

Obama says he’d be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s

Obama said he thinks few people believe he wants to impose socialism on the country.

The Hill
Show threadCryophiliaOct 5, 2023
Please stop, you’re just embarrassing yourself
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Hard to accept the “left” Dems are actually economically conservative. You’ll get it some day to late.
Show threadCryophiliaOct 5, 2023
“Both sides” is tired propaganda from 2016. Do better.