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Democratic Caucus Chair Kicks Around the Big Nancy Pelosi Elephant in the Room

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By The Daily Caller. House Democratic Caucus chairman Joe Crowley showed support for Nancy Pelosi on “Fox News Sunday” and said he will not be challenging her for a leadership position.

Host Chris Wallace asked if Pelosi has become a liability for Democrats, but Crowley dodged the question by bashing the GOP.

“I think it was more reflective of the fact that Republicans are bankrupt on ideas. They don’t have anything else to offer except to go after Nancy Pelosi to win elections,” Crowley said. “If they think that’s a winning strategy, they are completely mistaken and wrong.” . . .

“Conor Lamb won because he ran a local election,” Crowley replied. “He talked about that the cuts that the Republicans were attempting to make into privatized Social Security. He talked about what affect the federal government has on local politics, on people’s lives. And that’s why he won that election, not because of Nancy Pelosi.”

Crowley’s not planning on running against Pelosi and claims he’s only focused on winning back the House for Democrats this November, he said.

“I would wait and see just what would happen in terms of that if Nancy Pelosi decided not to run,” Crowley added. “But if Nancy Pelosi stays, I don’t see a scenario by which I would challenge her for that position.” (Read more from “Democratic Caucus Chair Kicks Around the Big Nancy Pelosi Elephant in the Room” HERE)

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Pelosi Urges Dems to Stick to Economic Script

By The Hill. House Democratic leaders are sticking to their script as the midterm elections inch closer, largely disregarding the turmoil surrounding President Trump to focus instead on the economic consequences of the Republicans’ legislative agenda.

In a Dear Colleague letter sent to Democrats on Monday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urged her troops to highlight new funding hikes in areas like health care, veterans services and education — adopted as part of the recently passed 2018 spending package — while hitting Republicans over tax reform and a proposed balanced budget amendment, which Democrats consider a threat to domestic programs like Medicare and Social Security.

“With a strong first quarter behind us, we must now step up our efforts to protect Americans from the ongoing assault by the Trump Administration and Republican Congress on hard-working families,” Pelosi wrote.

The strategy builds on the Democrats’ “Better Deal” agenda, launched over the summer, which is designed to speak to the economic insecurities of middle class voters in lieu of spotlighting the turbulence within Trump’s White House, including the ongoing investigation into Moscow’s 2016 election meddling and potential collusion with the Trump campaign. (Read more from “Pelosi Urges Dems to Stick to Economic Script” HERE)

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Nancy Pelosi: When We Take Back the House, I PROMISE We’ll Repeal Those Republican Tax Cuts

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By The Daily Wire. As soon as Democrats retake the House in November, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told a town hall meeting Wednesday that the first priority is repealing and “replacing” the GOP tax cut package that passed last December.

Speaking to her constituents in Culver City, California, alongside Hollywood Congressman Ted Lieu, Pelosi pledged to discard the popular bill, which has prompted several major American companies to boost wages, share profits, and in some cases move their production operations back from overseas, because Republicans were so secretive in enacting the bill.

“One of our complaints about what they did with the tax bill is they did it in the dark of night with the speed of light,” Pelosi said.

As soon as they’ve done that, Pelosi said, she’ll “work with Republicans” on a fairer tax measure.

“We’ll sit down at the table and say … what would be a tax bill that creates growth, that creates good paying jobs as it reduces the deficit?” Pelosi said. “It’s not about chipping at this piece or that piece, it’s about a comprehensive look at what our tax policy should be for the future.” (Read more from “Nancy Pelosi: When We Take Back the House, I PROMISE We’ll Repeal Those Republican Tax Cuts” HERE)

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Pelosi: Democrats Will Repeal the GOP Tax Law When We Retake the House

By NTK. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Democrats would indeed repeal the GOP tax law if they are successful in retaking the House of Representatives this November during a town hall on Wednesday . . .

Pelosi then declared that Democrats will win back the House in 2018, and after they do, they will work with Republicans to create a new tax bill.

“We’ll sit down at the table and say … what would be a tax bill that creates growth, that creates good paying jobs as it reduces the deficit?” Pelosi said. “It’s not about chipping at this piece or that piece, it’s about a comprehensive look at what our tax policy should be for the future.” (Read more from “Pelosi: Democrats Will Repeal the GOP Tax Law When We Retake the House” HERE)

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Pelosi Mocks Pence’s Religion, so GOP Rep. Literally Mocks Pelosi’s Face

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined the mockery of Vice President Mike Pence’s religion and found her face mocked in return.

The insults were exchanged at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s annual Congressional Dinner on Tuesday Night, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.

Pelosi was one of the four lawmakers who performed stand-up at the event that brings journalists and lawmakers together.

“Do you think Mike Pence is allowed to dine alone with a man in drag?” the Democrat asked.

Pelosi was recently a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and her comment referenced her cameo and an interview Pence did with the Hill in 2002.

The Indianapolis Star highlighted the interview during the 2016 presidential race saying that in his 12 years in Congress, “Pence had rules to avoid infidelity temptations, or even rumors of impropriety,” following what is known as the Billy Graham Rule, according to the Washington Post.

“Those included requiring that any aide who had to work late to assist him be male, never dining alone with a woman other than his wife, and not attending an event where alcohol is served unless Karen was there.”

During the 2002 interview, Pence called this, “building a zone around your marriage.”

“If there’s alcohol being served and people are being loose, I want to have the best-looking brunette in the room standing next to me,” he reportedly said.

After Pelosi’s comments on Pence, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen turned the mockery around.

“Let’s be serious — it’s tough to win legislation in Congress,” she said, according to the Daily Mail. “Many times, the process is as frozen as Nancy Pelosi’s face.”

She added, “I’m kidding, but sometimes her happy and her angry face, they’re pretty similar.”

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise also took aim at Pelosi.

“Nancy, it’s always great to break bread with you. I promise next time not to leave so many crumbs,” he joked in reference to her comment that the tax cuts were “crumbs” for Americans.

Pelosi was not the first to make fun of Pence and his religious views. Joy Behar took aim at his religion as well on “The View.”

“It’s one thing to talk to Jesus, it’s another thing when Jesus talks to you,” Behar asserted. “That’s called mental illness if I’m not correct.” (For more from the author of “Pelosi Mocks Pence’s Religion, so GOP Rep. Literally Mocks Pelosi’s Face” please click HERE)

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Pelosi Demands Gun Control after Florida Shooting, Actor Adam Baldwin Shows How Wrong She Is

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a bevy of Hollywood personalities calling for greater gun control measures following the Wednesday shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead, while actor Adam Baldwin said the better response is within the schools themselves.

“Too many of these instances take place across the country. As leaders, we have a moral obligation to prevent them and protect our communities. We need more than thoughts and prayers #EnoughIsEnough,” Pelosi tweeted.

In response to Pelosi’s tweet, actor Baldwin wrote that schools need better security including not just armed guards, but volunteer staff members with concealed carry permits.

Security expert Mark Fuhrman agreed that better school security is needed.

“I think you need to make school security a specialty,” Fuhrman said. “You need to make it a specialty just like terrorism.”

However, Baldwin and Fuhrman were countered by an abundance of liberal entertainers using the tragedy to push anti-Trump, anti-gun and anti-God talking points.

Actor Mark Ruffalo went so far as to say God does not respond to just thoughts and prayers.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler called for Americans to elect candidates that are not supported by the National Rifle Association.

“It is disgusting how many times this has happened and Republicans do nothing. You all have blood on your hands,” she tweeted.

Actor and director Rob Reiner managed to tie the shooting to Trump and Russia, saying the chief executive “refuses to support sensible gun safety laws.”

Conservative commentator Lawrence Meyers, writing for Townhall, noted that after a rash of school shootings in the 1970s, Israel implemented security features and active shooter protocols at schools, which ended the problem.

“Guards don’t just stand around,” he wrote. “They check everyone entering, and engage threats.”

“And yeah, they’ve got guns.The lawful purposes for carrying guns are very clear: protect school personnel and students, create a sense of security, deter the ill-intentioned, and provide self-defense,” Meyers added.

Following Wednesday’s shooting, California Democrat Sen. Diane Feinstein tweeted that she has introduced legislation to impose a new assault weapons ban.

She pointed out the shooter used an AR-15, which is a semi-automatic weapon that would be covered by the ban.

Dudley Brown, president of the National Association of Gun Rights, in a statement to The Western Journal, said, “The 10-year Feinstein ban (passed in the 1990s) on so-called ‘Assault Weapons’ and normal capacity magazines did nothing to reduce mass shootings or crimes, and was roundly dismissed as a failure, even by gun control fanatics.”

Erich Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, agreed that more gun control measures will not address the mass shootings issue.

“[I]t is disgusting to see media pundits and politicians calling for gun control as the knee-jerk reaction to this tragedy,” he stated. “The fact is this tragedy happened in a gun free zone, where sadly over 98 percent of the public mass shootings occur.

“Furthermore, anti-gun liberals tell us that these types of shootings don’t occur in other countries. But that’s a lie. The U.S. is not even in the top ten when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings,” said Pratt.

As to the prevalence of privately owned weapons in the U.S., Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro tweeted a chart following the Las Vegas shooting last October showing that the murder rate has been trending down for decades in the U.S., despite gun ownership increasing significantly.

In other words, there is no correlation between the prevalence of guns and incidents of violent crime involving guns.

Notably, the rate remained low and then decreased further after the assault weapons ban, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, expired in 2004. (For more from the author of “Pelosi Demands Gun Control after Florida Shooting, Actor Adam Baldwin Shows How Wrong She Is” please click HERE)

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All for Dreamers? No, Nancy Pelosi’s 8-Hour Speech Was for Nancy Pelosi

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So what, exactly, was the point of Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s record eight-hour speech on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday?

On the surface, it was a speech demanding amnesty for illegal aliens. Pelosi vowed to hold the House floor under the obscure “magic-minute” rule — which permits the majority leader, the minority leader, and the House speaker to talk as long as they’d like — until Republicans agreed to hold a vote on legal protections for so-called “Dreamers.”

Pelosi spent hours reading testimonies from illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

She quoted the Bible, with rosary in hand.

She told a story about how her grandson wishes he were Hispanic.

She actually thanked illegal immigrants for breaking the law and bringing their children to the United States, creating the controversy over amnesty that has consumed Congress.

Asserting herself as leader of the resistance, Pelosi declared her opposition to the two-year $400 billion budget cap-busting spending agreement reached in the U.S. Senate — a deal she worked to put together — because it does not address the legal status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients.

She confused and angered many Democrats. Those running for re-election in red states are worried that Pelosi’s extreme defense of illegal immigrants, along with her willingness to vote to shut down the government again, will hurt their chances in November.

“This stunt … had nothing to do with protecting vulnerable members who have to take a difficult vote,” said one anonymous Democrat who spoke to Politico. “Working out this deal and then saying she’s not going to vote for it? Come on. She was at the table.”

“Many of our members are furious. We have spent the last three weeks insisting that we don’t want to shut the government down over DACA, and she essentially made the whole thing about it. Virtually everyone trying to win seats outside of California feels she has hurt their chances,” another Democrat told Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur.

At the same time, Pelosi is being hammered for giving a nice speech but neglecting to whip votes against the budget deal. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., vented to Politico, saying, “There’s all kinds of ways, I assure you, that leadership exercises its influence — the least of which is a floor speech.”

When asked if there was any ongoing effort to organize Democrats against the budget deal, Pelosi said, “I’m just telling people why I’m voting the way I’m voting.”

Count Gutierrez and other open-borders zealots in the Democratic Party unimpressed.

“I think the fact that you have not heard from the Democratic Party, the Democratic caucus, from Democratic Party offices, you would think that there’d be hashtags galore supporting this effort — this unprecedented effort from Nancy Pelosi,” Gutierrez told reporters Thursday. “But it’s not a coordinated effort, is it? So it makes me fearful that tomorrow the reason there isn’t a coordinated effort is that nobody wants to show their hand.”

So, if Pelosi is not organizing a Democratic revolt to shut down the government to give amnesty to illegal immigrants, what was she doing Wednesday?

Quashing rebellion:

A stealthy discussion is already underway within the Democratic Caucus, particularly among members whose only experience in Congress is in the minority.

Assuming Pelosi either leaves on her own or is pressured to step down, her exit would trigger a messy battle between the party’s old guard, led by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), and the party’s younger members, represented by House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).

It’s a generational showdown that’s been put off for years, but one that Democrats might not be able to be avoid much longer.

“It will be an intraparty war. That’s what you can expect,” said Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), who predicted a “mass exodus” of Democrats if they don’t win the House in November. “That’s at the highest levels of leadership and at the committee level.”

That’s from a Politico story published Tuesday evening, speculating about Pelosi’s political future in Democratic leadership should Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives. While last month it looked like the GOP was headed for a blowout in November, new polling is showing the Democratic advantage shrinking. President Trump’s approval rating is on the upswing. The tax cuts are becoming more popular as millions of Americans are receiving bonuses and bigger weekly paychecks. At a time when Republicans are governing to benefit the American people, Democrats are demanding government benefits and protections for illegal aliens at the expense of American citizens. If Democrats do not recapture the House, progressives are going to blame the party for not being anti-Trump enough, for failing to #Resist.

So Pelosi is scared. She’s worried about a leadership coup if her party fails to deliver in the midterms, and she’s taking steps to shore up her progressive bona fides. Pelosi’s eight-hour speech was for Pelosi. She doesn’t actually care about Dreamers; if she did, she’d whip the votes against the budget deal.

Nancy Pelosi is bitterly clinging to power. And this 77-year-old swamp creature will hold the House floor for eight hours without a break to keep it. (For more from the author of “All for Dreamers? No, Nancy Pelosi’s 8-Hour Speech Was for Nancy Pelosi” please click HERE)

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Meet the Man Behind the Nunes Memo

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By WND. Before President Trump was inaugurated a little more than a year ago, few Americans had heard of Devin Nunes.

But with his leading role in the Trump-Russia probe over the past year and with the imminent release of a four-page document he spearheaded that is said to allege politically motivated intelligence abuses “worse than Watergate,” the 44-year-old Republican congressman from California’s San Joaquin Valley is in the spotlight.

As WND reported Thursday, a senior administration official told reporters President Trump has read the memo and plans to hand it back to the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Nunes on Friday for release . . .

The biggest paper in his district hometown newspaper has joined with Democrats in calling him a “Trump stooge,” charging he’s trying to deflect attention from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to win the 2016 election.

The editorial board of the Fresno Bee asked: “What, pray tell, does Rep. Devin Nunes think he’s doing by waving around a secret memo attacking the FBI, the nation’s premier law enforcement agency? He certainly isn’t representing his Central Valley constituents or Californians, who care much more about health care, jobs and, yes, protecting Dreamers than about the latest conspiracy theory.” (Read more from “Meet the Man Behind the Nunes Memo” HERE)

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Pelosi Twitter Tear Targets ‘Obsessed’ Nunes Ahead of House Intel Memo’s Imminent Release

By Fox News. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi unleashed a Twitter storm Thursday, blanketing her social media feed with calls for the removal of U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which voted to release a contentious memo on purported surveillance abuses.

Using the hashtag #RemoveNunes, Pelosi wrote late Thursday: “RETWEET if you are concerned about @DevinNunes’ obsession with prioritizing short-term politics over America’s long-term national security!”

Underneath the post warning of Nunes’ “obsession,” which Pelosi pinned to the top of her Twitter account, were four more urgently worded posts – also made Thursday – calling for Nunes’ departure.

“@DevinNunes’ deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,” she wrote Thursday. “@SpeakerRyan must immediately remove him from this position.” . . .

Pelosi soon doubled down in a follow-up post on Twitter, this time employing an illustration: Nunes appears superimposed behind the words “NUNES MUST GO” in all-capital letters.

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Pelosi Finally Calls on Conyers to Resign

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It took nine days since the accusations were first leveled, but Democratic minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., finally thinks that accused serial sexual harasser Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., should resign.

Pelosi has reversed her position on Conyers. Just four days ago on Sunday, Pelosi called Conyers an “icon.”

Now, what about Al Franken and his five accusers? (For more from the author of “Pelosi Finally Calls on Conyers to Resign” please click HERE)

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Pelosi Knows Puerto Rico Is Part of U.S., Right?

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Hillary Clinton doubts that Donald Trump knows Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but maybe she should have been worried about Rep. Nancy Pelosi . . .

Taking the podium just after New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez, who is Puerto Rican, Pelosi asserted, “thank you to your commitment to our entire country and that includes Puerto Rico.”

Pelosi then claimed that Velazquez “came to America” when she moved from Puerto Rico to New York.

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Soros-Backed Activists Say Pelosi Aiding ‘Fascism’ by Condemning Antifa

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Leading anti-Trump “resistance” group Refuse Fascism has condemned House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other critics of Antifa, saying they are abetting the “fascism” of the Trump administration.

The resistance group issued a statement Saturday declaring its support for Antifa and hammering its critics, even as Pelosi and others on the left attempt to distance themselves from Antifa, the violent far-left movement that federal authorities have said is engaging in domestic terror activity. Refuse Fascism specifically noted Pelosi’s criticisms of Antifa, before attacking all critics of Antifa as siding with “fascism.” The statement was titled “Shameful, Dangerous, Wrong Attacks on Antifa.”

“Differences over tactics, where they exist, must not divide the people’s resistance. Distancing and effectively joining in the threats and attack by this fascist regime, and other government authorities, is not only morally bankrupt, it also accommodates and quickly leads to collaboration with fascism,” Refuse Fascism stated.

“To stand against injustice at this moment requires firmly understanding that the attacks against ‘Antifa’ are designed to intimidate, suppress, and divide all opposition to fascism. The threats and attacks on Antifa and anyone else standing up against fascism, especially attempts by the state to brand them as ‘terrorist’ or put them on watchlists, must be opposed.” (Read more from “Soros-Backed Activists Say Pelosi Aiding ‘Fascism’ by Condemning Antifa” HERE)

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Mitch McConnell Is the New Nancy Pelosi

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In the elections of 2010, grassroots Americans flipped the House from Democratic to Republican based largely on the anger against Nancy Pelosi, who was then the Speaker of the House.

Shortly after the elections, the New York Times asked, “Is Pelosi America’s most unpopular politician?”

It turns out she was, and she was used as a foil for years by grassroots and establishment Republicans in campaigns to crystallize the problems of the nation.

Yet for years, the Democrat Party chose to keep her at the helm of the leadership of the Democratic arm of the House. This year, some Democrats tried to remove her from leadership, and she famously said that she was “worth the trouble.”

The tactic of using Pelosi as a specter of danger during campaigns was extremely successful. Pelosi, in 2013, became the most popular name in congressional leadership, Democrat and Republican alike, but that popularity was largely negative in nature. She became a household name because she was so awful. She was safe in her San Francisco district, but despite that fact, it was her name recognition that destroyed her party’s command.

The nation in 2010 could not remove the president, whom they had finally seen as the destroyer he really was. We tried but could not remove Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with Republican Sharron Angle, due to shenanigans by the establishment wing of the Republican Party. So with the president locked in for at least two more years and the Senate majority leader locked in for 6 more, it was the unremovable Pelosi who took the brunt of the nation’s ire and would for years to come.

Now that the Republicans lead the House, the Senate, and the White House, the lowest-polling leader is Mitch McConnell. Though Pelosi was terribly unfavored, she was not as unfavored in her own party as Mitch McConnell is now.

Just as Pelosi was used during past elections to make the nation think of what kind of future we would have if any of her Democrats remained in office, the nation needs to use Mitch McConnell as the specter Pelosi was and still is to make the nation think of what is standing in the way of the people who want action on the conservative aspects of Trump’s agenda.

Mitch isn’t going anywhere, though many politically inexperienced supporters of the president have suggested he be removed. But though Mitch’s name should be used in the primaries as a weapon, it is his second job that should be the real target.

Recently, the president put McConnell in his Twitter crosshairs, but then relented and made nice when both McConnell’s people and the White House issued statements that they would continue to work together. They intend to work together on agenda items like tax reform, which, if experience is any indication, will be nothing like the promises Trump’s team made during his campaign. They also will work together on infrastructure, which is estimated to add to the deficit significantly. And they both want the debt ceiling raised, as if the nation needs one more boulder on the backs of working Americans. The Senate majority leader’s first job is to continue the legacy of the previous Senate because he’s the epitome of the establishment.

But McConnell’s second job, a job he takes just as seriously as the first, is to elect carbon copies of himself so that they will vote the way he tells them to.

Some Trump supporters are gleeful that Trump was seen before the Phoenix rally with possible challengers to Senator Jeff Flake. But today, those supporters are hoping Sheriff Joe Arpaio will challenge Flake. Since Flake is a McConnell lackey, I suppose the grassroots of Arizona will have to decide who can best oust Flake.

But Trump has put his weight behind Luther Strange of Alabama, another McConnell lackey. So it isn’t wise for Trump supporters to campaign for whoever Trump wants them to, because seemingly Trump himself doesn’t understand that his agenda will never be put into action until the McConnell army is stopped.

If McConnell’s carbon copies win, Trump’s presidency may well end in 2020, with very little done but the continuation of Pelosi’s agenda.

After all the work the people have done to pull the nation away from the fire since 2010, allowing McConnell to continue to elect proxies to call the shots will seriously damage Trump’s agenda, the people’s agenda, and the future of the nation.

Any Republicans running for Senate ought to be asked point-blank if they will go along with McConnell. If they answer yes, they’re done. If they equivocate, they’re done. If they answer no, and provide the right reasons why, they should be carried on the shoulders of the grassroots to victory.

Those who answer improperly will know why: It’s because of Mitch McConnell. (For more from the author of “Mitch McConnell Is the New Nancy Pelosi” please click HERE)

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