Pelosi's advice for the 'Squad': 'You're not a one-person show'

[DonViejo]

BY JOSEPH CHOI - 04/12/21 08:46 AM EDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in a soon-to-be-released biography, offered advice to the “Squad,” telling the progressive group of female lawmakers in the House, “You're not a one-person show.”

Axios reports that Pelosi gave the blunt piece of advice to the group — which consists of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) — during one of 10 separate interviews she had with the book's author, USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.

“You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said of the advice she would offer the lawmakers.

Pelosi and the Squad have exchanged numerous barbs since the group was elected in the 2018 blue wave.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/547634-pelosis-advice-for-the-squad-youre-not-a-one-person-show

[Scrivener7]

1. The press is ginning up a cat fight. Gosh. How surprising.

[WhiteTara]

22. The Hill. Birdcage material.

[tonedevil]

29. Sounds like cruelty to our avian friends. /nt

[WhiteTara]

32. Oh, they'll just poop on it

and no harm no fowl!

[ismnotwasm]

34. "Cat fight"?

[Scrivener7]

39. Exactly.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Meeeow!

[brooklynite]

42. By quoting the Speaker? How DARE they!!!!!

[localroger]

2. They haven't really been acting like one-person shows

They have been acting like they know why they were elected and are representing the interests of their constituents.

[Budi]

5. No. They have acted exactly as Speaker Pelosi called it.

"Money & Media" is more what I see than anything else.
That's not effective legislating. Which is what the job is about.

Sorry, but I gotta agree with Speaker Pelosi on this one.

[Budi]

3. Ya, like Speaker Pelosi didn't have a read on them from the 1st day on the job.🙄

“You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said of the advice she would offer the lawmakers.


'Money & Media'

[Me.]

9. Totally

[SheltieLover]

12. +1

[Lunabell]

4. My advice for pelosi...

Shut up and listen to them. They are the future and will lead this nation when you are gone.

[Budi]

6. My advice for pelosi "Shut up and listen to them"

Are you fking serious!

Shut up & listen?
That's really disgracful

That's Pelosi, with a capital P

[Lunabell]

7. Yes, typo.

And, it is Madame Speaker too. I don't discount what she has done for the Democratic party, but her ideas need some freshening up. These newly elected representatives represent where the party needs to go.

[Budi]

10. Well it appears President Biden's sticking to his campaign policy plans

And remarkably they appear to fall in line with the OLD original Democratic Party tenets.

Posturing for media position isn't legislating.

There was posted here awhile ago, the list of each House member's effectiveness.

Pretty much told the story of what Spker Pelosi was refering to.

Nah. I totally agree with Pelosi after reading that.

[Voltaire2]

18. Old Democratic Party tenets: medicare for all.

"In 1945, President Truman proposed a national healthcare plan to Congress. In his plan, he outlined five main goals:

Address the lack of trained healthcare professionals in all communities.
Grow public health services.
Increase funding to medical research and education.
Lower the cost of individual medical care.
Bring attention to the loss of income when severe illness takes hold.
Truman’s plan was that all Americans would pay a certain amount in fees and taxes each month to cover the new healthcare program’s costs. With a Democratic controlled House, Truman’s proposal turned into a bill that would end up as part of the Social Security expansion, but it was quickly shot down as people began to fear an increase in taxes. Some people even feared the program would be a “Communist” act, giving too much control to the federal government. This fear was spread specifically by the American Medical Association (AMA). The bill was also halted by Republican Senator Robert Taft’s Taft-Smith-Ball Bill, which would allow states to make healthcare private. As Republicans regained control of the House in 1946, Truman’s healthcare bill died. Truman considered this a failure of his presidency."
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/challenge-national-healthcare

Maybe those Democrats are too old?

[Me.]

8. REally...Shut Up?

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To the person who has been a smart, staunch leader in Congress, the best we've ever had. Listen while they keep criticizing our president? Truly insulting and not at all reflective of how valuable a leader the Speaker has been.

[Budi]

11. Yup. That was the nail-on-the-chalkboard-level recoil.

Wow.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

13. Shut up and listen...

Laura Ingram is that you ?

[LizBeth]

14. I would hate to see the nation looks like if we did not have Pelosi for Trumps last 2 yrs.

I think your shut up to Pelosi is disgusting, especially as bold as she has been and often the only Democrat taking the Republicans on and herding the other Democrats. I mean really offensive.

[mcar]

19. You are telling the most successful Speaker of the House

the first and only woman SoH, to shut up? And listen to these young women legislators who have accomplished what, exactly?

What bills have they put forward and gotten passed? How many Democrats have they raised funds for and helped get elected/re-elected?

Point to me one accomplishment of the "squad" that comes close to being comparable to Nancy Pelosi's illustrious career - just one.

[Budi]

33. aaaand "chirp"

🙄
How come they never answer that question?

[mcar]

35. Shame on us for letting reality get in the way

Of a good narrative.

[Autumn]

40. Nancy has already said she would have retired had Trump not been elected. Maybe it's time

for her to mentor the younger, more popular Dems for a year and then retire. They are the future leaders in a world that will be very different from what Nancy and others are used to. They problems they face are not the problems she has faced.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

45. Plus one million

[Cha]

47. I'm sure Madame Speaker Pelosi has

listened to them so she knows she's talking about.

And, I think they have listened to Nancy Pelosi.

Your "advice telling the Democratic Speaker of the House to "Shut up".. is unwarranted.

[stillcool]

15. I think the Squad and the Speaker

both play a vital part in passing legislation. Neither may get all that they want, but the ebb and flow of ideas and more importantly gaining support for those ideas is not monolithic. Every hand has five fingers. Those fingers have different lengths, different purposes, but you need all five for the hand to function at it's best. Nancy's knowledge is an asset that is immeasurable, but so is the voice, and energy of those with the ability to reach people where they are.

[LizBeth]

17. +1

[Me.]

20. The Difference Is The Speaker Is Trying To Get The President's Agenda Passed

and other are criticizing it

[stillcool]

26. True. But they will always want more...

and really, it's their job, isn't it? I see the push and pull of various interests as the natural ingredients in legislation, but the wounded government we have that is hanging on by a thread, and the damage done to the electorate have the varying positions of what is needed be nothing but a source of fear. It's like our government, our country, is so damn fragile, we need to be like a horse with blinders and race as fast as possible, for as much as possible until we run out of track.

[Me.]

30. Not If Nothing Can Get Done Because Of THeir Demands

Like Manchin in the Senate. It can be counter-productive. I think PJB had done an amazing job in less than a 100 days. Less than 100 days~ And there are more prductive ways to push besides yet another TV appearance.How about talking to your consituents and having them be the ones making loud demands?

[Voltaire2]

16. its the hill shit stirring

Also 'a squad' cannot be 'a one-person show'.

[ck4829]

21. I think we should appreciate this diversity of thought

You don’t see Republicans talking this way towards Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[SYFROYH]

23. There are things I admire about Pelosi, but the way she dismisses these women of color is not one.

Evidence of dismissal:

1: Referring to four women acting in concert as one-person

2: Calling what they do a show.

[Budi]

24. She dismisses the grandstanding.

[Me.]

31. Speaker Pelosi Doesn't Dismiss Anyone In Her Caucus

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She is too smart for that.

[Arazi]

25. This is a bullshit talking point, designed to divide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-11/ocasio-cortez-allies-move-to-court-establishment-not-fight-it

Ocasio-Cortez, Allies Move to Court Establishment, Not Fight It

Members of Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s so-called Squad are taking leadership roles in the House and building experience on Capitol Hill, turning them into not just ideological purists but also strategic legislators. They’re gently pushing a bolder Democratic strategy and meeting regularly with White House aides, bringing liberal dreams like a $15 federal minimum wage and a permanent child tax credit within reach.

Rather than starting a rival group within the Democratic Party, far-left members are joining and taking leadership positions in the 95-member Congressional Progressive Caucus that’s been around for three decades. Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, also elected in 2018, now leads the CPC’s vote-counting team.

[demosincebirth]

27. I wholeheartedly agree with Speaker Pelosi. Don't undermine her!

[uponit7771]

37. Bullshit assed half quoted shit kicking article, I hate these are posted here too much

[msfiddlestix]

38. Susan Page is someone I've always viewed as a Right Wing Hack

Despite being given the red carpet treatment by the punditry dolts. I have never ever trusted her reporting, even if it's generally within the realm of factual context, it is nearly always tainted with a weird smirk, sometimes snide, often not very subtle shot at the Democratic Party in general. Could never stand her.

[TheFarseer]

41. So, Be quiet and just do what I tell you to do

Thanks but no thanks for that advice.

[question everything]

43. K&R

[Johonny]

44. I'm pretty sure one person doesn't make a squad

[Gidney N Cloyd]

46. Why TF is she releasing a biography at this time?