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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a liberal Dem. This woman is causing too much trouble for the party[/quote]

It's only considered 'trouble' because the israeli lobby, as described by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, have taken over the leadership of the Democratic party.

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I don't think this is true. It is another case of the Democratic leadership responding to critics acting in bad faith and not taking time to get the facts. The Democrats needs to learn to take time to catch their breath and not immediately cower in front of every manufactured outrage. Now they have created a self-inflicted problem for themselves.

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BTW I worked for Eliot Engel for a short while - the atmosphere of the staff had an overarching focus on israel/middle east/jewish issues. It was clear what was the top priority for him.

It isn't - bad faith- top democratic leadership truly is in line with a likudnik and christian zionist mindset.

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That may be true for Engel, though even he may be softening a little. It may also be true to an extent for Hoyer, but I don't think it is true for Pelosi or many other in the broader leadership. The bad faith was on the part of those who hyped the mischaracterization of Omar's remarks. The Democratic leadership bought that mischaracterization and is now having having a difficult time backing off of it.
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I do not think there is a single Democrat who would not prefer a centrist or center left govt over a Likud govt. You may be using "likudnik" to refer to positions held by Israelis and well to the left of Likud and their American supporters.

As for the remarks, I urge reading this

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/ilhan-omars-dual-loyalty-charge-was-anti-semitic/584314/

There is no doubt a response is needed.   The problem was that NDP wanted to pass something early enough to get it off the table before HR1 comes up tomorrow, and so tried to do a quick draft "top down".

But she will get this resolved.  As Rep. Raskin says, people have lost a lot of money betting against Nancy Pelosi. 
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She might just be grandstanding, but Pelosi in this video sounds a tad misplaced in her loyalties:

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1102985099367366657 [/quote]

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