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Quote:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly bashes members of “the Squad” in a new biography by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.

Pelosi spoke ten separate times with Page for the book, scheduled for release April 20. During the interviews, Pelosi took shots at several prominent members of her own party including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. She mocks Ocasio-Cortez specifically for her youth and apparent ignorance, according to Axios:

Pelosi unloads on the Squad, at one point adopting a child-like voice when discussing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and offers the Squad this blunt advice: “You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States.”

During another part in her series of interviews with Page, Pelosi blames former President Barack Obama over problems whipping votes in favor of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, from lawmakers representing Obama’s home state of Illinois.

“Why are we having a problem with Illinois?” Pelosi asked. She also said that Obama does not deserve sole credit for getting legislation through Congress under his administration.

Pelosi and members of the Squad have shared a tense relationship at times, especially after the Squad’s members first joined Congress following the 2018 election. Ocasio-Cortez began clashing with the speaker before even being formally seated as a representative from New York. Ocasio-Cortez’s first appearance in Washington, D.C., was at an anti-Pelosi protest. As The Daily Wire reported at the time:

Ocasio-Cortez joined a group of young activists called the “Sunrise Movement” in staging a sit-in protest outside the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House Minority Leader and, come January, the likely Speaker of the House — and Ocasio-Cortez’s new boss.

Ocasio-Cortez addressed the protesters, who were holding signs asking for a “Green New Deal” from Democrats in charge, and demanding “Green Jobs for All,” shook hands, and gave high-fives to the 50 or so protesters who blocked the entrance to Pelosi’s office.

The event marked Ocasio-Cortez’s first visit to the soon-to-be Speaker’s office, and leftists were pretty miffed that she introduced herself to her Democratic colleagues not by embracing inter-party collegiality, but by openly disagreeing with her party’s long-time leadership.

Pelosi has taken time to wrangle AOC and her rogue colleagues, and all members of the Squad voted to re-elect Pelosi as speaker of the House in January. Ocasio-Cortez decided to back Pelosi despite calling on progressives to formulate a plan to oust the aging speaker and her Senate counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), several weeks prior to the vote for Pelosi.

“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a December interview with The Intercept. She complained about the lack of leadership “grooming” going on among House Democrats.

“Whenever there is a challenge, it kind of collapses, and that, I think, is the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of real grooming of next generation of leader,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

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The eminently mockable mocking the eminently mockable.
Say that 5 times fast.
ding dong must not have solicited commie tommie for advice beforehand.....

EAT THEIR OWN
So Boehner unloads on the Tea Party and Pelosi unloads on the squad. Bipartisanship. I like it.
Quote:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed the January 6 Capitol rioters would have “had a battle on their hands” if they messed with her, adding that she is “a street fighter.”

“That’s what they were setting out to do,” Pelosi told USA Today, adding the rioters had intended to access herself and other targets such as former Vice President Mike Pence.

She added that if they had reached her, she would not have been someone to mess around with.

“Well, I’m pretty tough. I’m a street fighter. They would have had a battle on their hands,” she continued.

Members of Congress had to evacuate the scene in gas masks after a violent mob took over the U.S. Capitol building.

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Quote:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as an “enabler of some of the worst stuff,” according to an excerpt of USA Today journalist Susan Page’s autobiography of the 81-year-old speaker, Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power.

“Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,” Pelosi said, describing him as an “enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on his own.”

According to reports, the rift between the two likely grew even further following the passing of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as McConnell allegedly rejected Pelosi’s idea to have the late justice lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda “on the grounds that there was no precedent for such treatment of a justice,” according to Page.

“When William Howard Taft had lain in state in 1930, he had been not only the chief justice but also president, McConnell noted,” Page wrote. “He wasn’t swayed by the argument that Ginsburg had achieved an iconic status in American culture, especially for women and girls.”

Pelosi also told Page she refers to McConnell as “Moscow Mitch,” primarily because he takes issue with the nickname.

“It’s an effort to smear me,” McConnell said during an appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show in September 2019. “You know, I can laugh about things like the Grim Reaper, but calling me Moscow Mitch is over the top.”

The book also reveals Pelosi would not have been elected to Congress in 1987 if not for tricking Republicans to vote for her with misleading mailers, which reportedly had elephant logos on them and “criticized efforts to raise taxes, and argued Pelosi would oppose income tax hikes if elected to Congress,” as Breitbart News exclusively detailed:

The push worked, and delivered her thousands of GOP votes. Had she not gotten those Republican votes these mailers helped deliver for her, given the close margin of her first victory that then sent her as the only Democrat into the runoff that sealed her election to Congress in the 1987 special election in San Francisco, she might not have ever won in the first place — and might not be Speaker of the House today, her second stint in the job.

The book is slated to come out April 20.

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Comes out on Hitler's birthday, fitting.
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