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TPM Opposing Pelosi For Dem Leader?

By Big Tent Democrat

So many questions:

So Many Questions

TPM Reader EA:

I don't get why Democrats would want to maintain the same leadership personalities in the House. Don't people all around the country really really hate Nancy Pelosi and probably James Clyburn too? Don't we have any 'young guns' to showcase over the next couple of years? Doesn't an even more 'liberal' minority leadership structure only increase the likelihood we'll see the dreaded triangulation from the President? [. . .] What's the strategy here? Is it more about convention and entitlement than strategy?

(Emphasis supplied.) Interesting. Though there clearly is one easy answer on the "triangulation" question - if the President is going to triangulate, better that he triangulate against a more progressive position in the House Dem caucus, than against a "moderate" position in the House Dem caucus. But I do find the anti-Pelosi TPM position quite fascinating. I wonder what that's about.

Update: TPM posts a counterpoint. Maybe they don't oppose Pelosi after all. Or maybe they don't want to appear to be opposing her. In any event, strange stuff.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).