someone on the Democratic side finally said it...................
[***[SIZE=5]Angry Nancy Pelosi Slams Young House Progressives As 'Tiny Squad With No Support'[/SIZE]***]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-freshmen-congresswomen-progressives-081719792.html')
House Speaker [Nancy Pelosi]('https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/nancy-pelosi') (D-Calif.) has issued a surprisingly scathing attack on the gutsy crew of progressive freshmen women in the House of Representatives, dismissing them as a tiny squad who have a “public whatever,” but no backing in Congress.
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Speaker Pelosi says [[S]@[/S]**AOC**]('https://twitter.com/AOC'), [[S]@[/S]**IlhanMN**]('https://twitter.com/IlhanMN'), [[S]@[/S]**AyannaPressley**]('https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley') and [[S]@[/S]**RashidaTlaib**]('https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib') “have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
Pelosi’s harsh comments followed a quote from a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez in a Washington Post op ed Friday that the “[greatest threat to mankind]('https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/07/05/feature/haunted-by-the-reagan-era/?utm_term=.0319cae4b349') is the [cowardice of the Democratic Party.]('https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez')” The young squad of Pelosi critics also includes Rep. [Ilhan Omar]('https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ilhan-omar') (D-Minn.), Rep. [Rashida Tlaib]('https://www.huffpost.com/topic/rashida-tlaib') (D-Mich.) and Rep. [Ayanna Pressley]('https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ayanna-pressley') (D-Mass.).
“If the left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it,” Pelosi concluded defiantly. “As I say to these people, come to my basement. I have these signs about single-payer from 30 years ago. I understand what they’re saying. But we have a responsibility to get something done, which is different from advocacy. We have to have a solution, not just a Twitter fight.”