Pelosi expected to pass House leadership to Hakeem Jeffries today at noon

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intra vires said:
Everyone will be terrible, Pelosi was also terrible going by the terminally online complaints. That's not to say there aren't valid criticisms, of her and Jeffries, but most people never discuss those because they don't actually know what the Speaker's job is.
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Which is a patently ridiculous thing to say at this point.
 
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Progressives on Twitter crying their eyes out. :hhh:
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Dems did better than expected, but the next 2 yrs are gonna be rough. Nothing getting passed and Hunter Biden investigations
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Moderate republicans not tied to Maga in blue states Biden carried aint jumping off the cliff with the Maga caucus.. They will absolutely vote with Dems on legislation…
 
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intra vires said:
Everyone will be terrible, Pelosi was also terrible going by the terminally online complaints. That's not to say there aren't valid criticisms, of her and Jeffries, but most people never discuss those because they don't actually know what the Speaker's job is.
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i always got my jokes off, and if we're speaking frankly she's a self-enriching career criminal who embodies everything that's wrong with washington DC

but she's probably the most powerful woman in american history. actually, given how recent events turned out, she definitely is
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i respect her :obama: hell of a career
 
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Make baseless claims, I wonder why :mjpls:
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His signature maneuver in 2021 has been to start Team Blue PAC, a committee to protect Democratic incumbents from progressive primary challenges. Given that Dems are likely to lose the House in 2022, the next leader’s job will be to win back seats from Republicans, not protect safe blue seats from internal contests. And those right-leaning incumbents in safe seats were already most likely to support Jeffries in his campaign for the top job, all of which adds up to signal that the formation of Team Blue was less about winning potential votes for Democratic leader than about settling scores with young Squad-adjacent progressives. It’s made stranger by the fact that Jeffries insistently self-identifies as a progressive.
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Jeffries was the leading congressional recipient of hedge fund money in 2020. He banked $1.1 million from the financial sector, real estate interests, and insurance industry in the 2019–2020 cycle. Everyone from JPMorgan Chase to Goldman Sachs to Blackstone contributed. Zimmer Partners, a hedge fund, is one of Jeffries’s top donors in 2021.
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From the outset, he has governed with those interests at heart. While Democrats were reconsidering their coziness with Wall Street, he broke ranks to vote with the financial services world, including on a high-profile measure literally written by Citigroup lobbyists in 2013 that killed the Dodd-Frank “swaps push-out” rule, allowing banks to engage in risky trades backed by a potential taxpayer-funded bailout. Reporting by The New York Times found that “Citigroup’s recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee’s 85-line bill.” His former chief of staff Cedric Grant left Jeffries’s office for a job as an H&R Block lobbyist.
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Meanwhile, Jeffries has remained a vocal advocate of charter schools while the party has backed away from them. He was a top priority of Democrats for Education Reform, a pro–charter school PAC that was critical of teachers unions, which named him to their “hot list” immediately upon his announcement of a congressional bid in 2012. He has spoken at fundraisers and rallies on behalf of charter schools across New York City.
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On Israel, Jeffries not only started out as an unequivocal hawk, but has maintained that position even as more and more Democrats have shown a willingness in 2021 to condition aid to the country after the siege that followed the evictions of Sheikh Jarrah. But not Jeffries, who signed a letter opposing making aid conditional as recently as late April. Two years prior, he supported the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which would impose criminal penalties on companies that supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

Those positions, though conservative, do have a home in the big-tent Democratic Party. But Jeffries is also one of the rare Democrats to have received donations from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp PAC, the political-donation arm of Fox News. Jeffries banked donations from them just a few months ago, as well as in 2016.
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Succession

Hakeem Jeffries is the heir apparent to Nancy Pelosi. Little has been made of his record.
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Maybe it's baseless, maybe it's not.
 
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