I don’t really hate her either to be honest. In many of my replies in this thread I’ve pointed out that I don’t want her to resign and then live in a cave the rest of her days. She’s clearly got some gas left in the tank, I wish she’d leave government to allow the party to grow, but she could still have tons of…

I just noticed that you said that the leader of the Democratic Caucus in the House has no role to play in elections. That right there is 100% wrong and utterly wrong and here’s why: Do you know why Pelosi has been around all these years? It’s not her gender honey. It’s all that sweet sweet Bay Area liberal millionaire…

That’s a little too easy a reply on your part. Try having some intellectual honesty.

Your post: “Why don’t you go foam at the mouth at the two MEN who do have influence over what the DNC and the party do during elections? Do you even know their names (spoiler: you don’t. They aren’t even the men whose names you’re struggling to remember, above)“

“Pelosi’s job is to keep the caucus in line, full stop. That. Is. Her. Job. And she has done an admirable job at it.”

Then why isn’t Pelosi ordering Crowley to move his ass off the ballot? Once again you choose to ignore my factual argument and call me sexist. ffs.

*please read this in the voice of Werner Herzog*
At first there was silence, then a dull rumbling, growing to a roar.... the siege is now in its third day with little signs of a quick resolution. All sides are exchanging fire, some with arguments and perspectives, others with snark. There are no winners on this…

I’m just trying to have a really great cookout and I can’t have it without the whole political landscape. My ideal grilling team would be a trumpster (this guy does a mean briskit), a reagan conservative (California transplant in Texas, does amazing things with meats and a smoker), and a liberal (steakmaster and head…

Seriously it’s been a real bummer. 

Thank you. 

seriously man goddamn no one scrolls through the threads before firing off some shots... if comments were bullets this place would be Chicago (great town, great people, great pizza, too many bullets).

Hey you never acknowledged that I corrected the record. You just called me sexist. So do you accept my original premise was correct? Regardless of what you think of my biases (which are incorrect, but we’ve never had lunch, so who can blame either of us for immediately throwing out insults), I believe the facts are on…

She’s the leader of the Democratic Caucus in the House. Tom Perez and Ellison (it’s actually two men not one man) are not in government. They’re influencers, and ineffective bumbling ones at that. I’d point out that somewhere in this thread I’ve called for Pelosi and her numbers 2 and 3, both men, to resign. Why don’t…

From what I gathered from her and Axelrod’s talk Baltimore used to have very similar machine style politics, though it’s faded quite a lot since the 70s.

My problem with Pelosi is not her gender nor does her gender have any bearing on it. Though I’ll give you the ageism. I don’t think Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, or any of the eight senators and fifteen house representatives that are 80 years old should still be serving in the highest echelons of government. The members…

someone didn’t read two posts down where I apologized for my error and corrected it thoroughly, but hey it’s the internet so fuck you.

I’m sorry, I fired off the post quickly and was going off a memory. I’ll try to correct the record here. Pelosi’s father was a hard-nosed politician in Baltimore from the era when they had wards, Nancy was very involved as a kid with her father’s work. My wires got crossed regarding Chicago because I was recalling her…

If you think that Pelosi, who comes from a long line of Chicago politicians, doesn’t know how to influence Burroughs/Ward-style politics then you don’t pay attention enough. Go back to the play room and let the adults talk.

That’s not at all what I said.

Haha definitely! My maga hat wearing uncle will help man the grill while my socialist friends help plate tapas brava and we'll all toast to the end of one of the worst eras of democratic leadership since the 1950-60s.

I would say that anyone would be a dramatic improvement over Pelosi. Much like HRC, she’s frankly more useful for GOP fundraising emails than democratic fundraising because of the nightmare vision of her that conservatives have built up in their own minds over the decades. Obviously the right would attack whoever is…