She is probably hiding.
Pelosi landed a solid burn on freshmen Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi was quoted by Maureen Dowd. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
Well 𝗢𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗼-𝗖𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘇 took it pretty personally.
Her first tweet was loaded with snark as she implied that Pelosi is out of touch with the public. “That public ‘whatever’ is called public sentiment,” she wrote. She also said that the power of that sentiment is how “we actually” achieve change. That “actually” is another obvious dig. She’s saying that the old, establishment Democrats don’t know what the Democrat base wants, and haven’t done anything worthwhile anyway.
“I don’t believe it was a good idea for Dems to blindly trust the Trump admin when so many kids have died in their custody,” she said, obliquely laying the deaths of children at Pelosi’s doorstep. She then more explicitly said that “people’s lives are getting bargained” by Democrats like Pelosi in their attempts to work with Republicans.
A few hours later, Ocasio-Cortez went in on Pelosi again. In that tweet, she explicitly defended herself for her Twitter-focused activism and political base. Perhaps in the intervening time the responses by her followers compelled her to defend them. And she went after the whole party while she was at it. “I haven’t dialed for dollars *once* this year, & have more time to do my actual job. Yet we’d rather campaign like it’s 2008,” she said.
On Sunday, ABC’s Martha Raddatz asked Rep. 𝗧𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗯 about it, and she, too, spared no kind words or caveats as she likewise bashed the Speaker in response.
Raddatz quoted Pelosi’s comments, prompting Tlaib to offer a response.
“ But many of us have been missing in the halls of Congress. More people like us, people of color have been missing in the chamber Tlaib replied, immediately framing it as an us vs. them along racial lines, with Pelosi being the “them.”
“And I’ll tell you right now, we’re not going to stand by and sit idly by and allow brown and dark-skinned children to be ripped away from their parents to be dehumanized,” she added, obviously suggesting that Pelosi doesn’t care about the children as much as she should, because of their race or ethnicity.
Honor the fact we are there, that 650,000 people are represented by each and every single one of us, that there is some sort of, I think in many ways, something special about having a refugee, having a woman that, you know, has experienced alone what incarceration has done to her family, right,” said Tlaib. “All of us have these experiences that I think have been missing in the halls of Congress.”
Again, by saying it has been missing, it’s a very straightforward attack the party establishment as being old and white and not representative of or invested in the lives of people or communities of color.
“Honor that, respect that, put us at the table,” said Tlaib. “Let’s come up with a solution together.”
She took an aside to defend again her no vote, over which Raddatz had earlier challenged her, and then went back to bashing Pelosi.
“Uplift the women, especially the women of color, within your caucus that are out there because I’ll tell you more people like us, more people like me that come out to vote, we win, all of us win,” she began, as Raddatz cut in to tell her they were out of time.
“It is very disappointing that the Speaker would ever try to diminish our voices in so many ways,” Tlaib got in before they had to end the interview and toss to the break.
Michigan Congressman and former Republican 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗵 said that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should have kept her mouth shut about impeaching President Donald Trump if she wasn’t prepared to begin the process.
On Sunday morning;s edition of CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, host and anchor Jake Tapper asked Amash if Pelosi is bungling the impeachment issue.
