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Del. Mary Ann Lisanti (D-Harford), who is white, allegedly told a white colleague late last month at an Annapolis cigar bar that campaigning in Prince George’s County on behalf of another candidate amounted to door-knocking in a “"n-word" district” reported The Washington Post.

 

Edit: TIL that the profanity filter goes nuts if you try to type the actual n-word.

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The GOP playbook for 2020 is going to provide a good test for how much the term "Socialism" remains a boogeyman compared to the actual issues that people agree with the Dems on (including the ones that poll well with the GOP).  Stuff like Medicare for all/universal healthcare/whatever it is called by any specific candidate, minimum wage increase, etc etc are all issues that folks side on the left with.  

 

Calling Dems "socialists" or "communists" or whatever, is the same identity politics the right claims to hate. 

 

Unfortunately history tends to show that labels tend to work better than actual policy. 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/03/12/daily-202-six-revealing-quotes-that-speak-volumes-about-the-political-moment/5c868df61b326b2d177d604b/?utm_term=.fd4561507592

 

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Nancy Pelosi: “I’m not for impeachment. … Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.”

 

“This is news,” the House speaker told our Joe Heim last Wednesday for a story that published yesterday. “I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this.”

 

The California Democrat said this knowing that she’d take instant and intense heat from her left flank, which she has, but her goal appears to be protecting vulnerable moderate members who are up for reelection next year in districts that Trump carried. Pelosi saw firsthand what happened to Republicans when they impeached Bill Clinton in the 1990s. She’s realistic that the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t convict Trump to remove him from office if Democrats acted unilaterally, and she gave herself an out to change her mind if something new emerges. 

 

Many Democratic strategists believe that impeachment would give Trump a useful foil and get recalcitrant Republicans to rally behind him for 2020, barring big new bombshells from the investigations by special counsel Bob Mueller or newly empowered congressional committees. Pelosi is one of the shrewdest tacticians in modern political history, and she appears to be playing a long game of trying to increase her party’s odds of keeping its majority.

 

“While liberal firebrands have won an outsize share of media coverage, the House Democratic majority was captured largely because of freshmen who ran to the center, said Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — and many of them are uncomfortable with impeachment talk,” Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade report.

 

“We’ve got 31 Democrats who serve in districts that Donald Trump won, and I’m one of them,” Bustos said. “When I go home, I don’t have people asking me about impeaching him. That is just not something that I hear. They consistently ask about health care and rebuilding our country and figuring out how to work together.”

 

During her interview with Joe, the speaker was unequivocal that Trump is not fit to be president, ethically and intellectually. Then she demurred. “I hardly ever talk about him,” she explained. “You know, it’s not about him. It’s about what we can do for the people to lower health-care costs, bigger paychecks [and] cleaner government.”

 

Pelosi’s comments will make it harder for Trump to say Democrats plan to impeach him and will tamp down on momentum to do so from the left.

 

Smart.  Now she just needs to keep the cats more or less in a herd. 

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1 hour ago, NoCalMike said:

Nothing wrong with her answer. She leaves room for a situation where something damning is revealed, but otherwise it isn't worth going down that road when the GOP will just stop the process.

 

I think her answer is really politician-speak for "We'll impeach him when the polls say a majority of the voters want him impeached."  

 

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