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Salamendacious Oct 4, 2023

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

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.

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SomeDude Oct 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

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TheAlbatross Oct 4, 2023

Catty, more like.

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

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SomeDude Oct 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)?

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CeruleanRuin

Fucking THIS, people. You can moan all you want about the Dems not getting stuff done, but unless you acknowledge that, oh wait, they actually DO when they have a majority that ALLOWS them to do it, you’re just adding to the static. Politicians still have to work within the political system they’re a part of.