115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

[Handyman]

Not only that but it takes a long time to get to leadership.

How old is Paul Ryan?

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

How old is Paul Ryan?

48

[Handyman]

48

Ironic that the Party of Youth has someone pushing 80 and the Crotchety Old Party is lead by a relative kid

They need an Obama style person in leadership. Nancy has been a good soldier for years but new blood is needed at the top.

[Kepler]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Ironic that the Party of Youth has someone pushing 80 and the Crotchety Old Party is lead by a relative kid

You know the expression. The only thing sadder than an old hippie is a young conservative.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Ironic that the Party of Youth has someone pushing 80 and the Crotchety Old Party is lead by a relative kid

They need an Obama style person in leadership. Nancy has been a good soldier for years but new blood is needed at the top.

That's fine. I personally don't care about age, sex, religion, or color. I only care about policy. Nancy is years younger to me than Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan's ideas are older than dirt and more dangerous than plutonium.

[Rover]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

A good exercise is to figure out which Dem Congresscritters you've actually heard of and who've made a good impression. That presumably would be a good place to start for the next Speaker.

I know of Steny Hoyer for example as well as John Lewis. Hoyer is about Pelosi's age and Lewis while a Civil Rights legend must also be getting up there in years. So discount those two.

Schiff in CA and Elijah Cummings from MD have done a stellar job fighting GOP knucks in hearings and investigations. Cummings is pushing 70 but Schiff is only in his 50's.

From my home state Moulton and Kennedy have been pretty high profile. Kennedy is probably biding his time for a Senate seat to open up (both MA senators are in their 70's while he's in his 30's). Like how Moulton took down a thoroughly corrupt Dem congressman in a primary a few years ago.

Other than Tim Ryan can't think of anybody else that stands out.

[French Rage]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

A good exercise is to figure out which Dem Congresscritters you've actually heard of and who've made a good impression. That presumably would be a good place to start for the next Speaker.

I know of Steny Hoyer for example as well as John Lewis. Hoyer is about Pelosi's age and Lewis while a Civil Rights legend must also be getting up there in years. So discount those two.

Schiff in CA and Elijah Cummings from MD have done a stellar job fighting GOP knucks in hearings and investigations. Cummings is pushing 70 but Schiff is only in his 50's.

From my home state Moulton and Kennedy have been pretty high profile. Kennedy is probably biding his time for a Senate seat to open up (both MA senators are in their 70's while he's in his 30's). Like how Moulton took down a thoroughly corrupt Dem congressman in a primary a few years ago.

Other than Tim Ryan can't think of anybody else that stands out.

Ted Leiu (sp?)

[Kepler]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Joaquin Castro 43, Ted Lieu 48, Keith Ellison 54, Adam Schiff 57, Henry Cuellar 63.

[joecct]

Joaquin Castro 43, Ted Lieu 48, Keith Ellison 54, Adam Schiff 57, Henry Cuellar 63.

You need good cat herders, something Nancy and Steny are very good at. The policy wonks get committee chairs, but the top needs to keep the Party on (the same) message

[Rover]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

You need good cat herders, something Nancy and Steny are very good at. The policy wonks get committee chairs, but the top needs to keep the Party on (the same) message

Indeed. Need a messenger and a strategist/parliamentarian. That's why I favor one of these people who've been duking it out with the Nunes and Gowdys of the world on these bogus investigative committees. They essentially have to do both and in the examples I listed have done a good job (Schiff and Cummings).

[Handyman]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Schiff would be my guy...he has countered the GOP collusion bs perfectly.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Joaquin Castro 43, Ted Lieu 48, Keith Ellison 54, Adam Schiff 57, Henry Cuellar 63.

Schiff or Lieu would be good choices. Ellison has too much baggage.

[LynahFan]

Anyone who votes against a candidate because they are non-white or a woman is already a straight-ticket Republican voter who votes in every election because they think Baby Jesus wants them to usher in the new White Christian Age.

I absolutely disagree with this. I think there is a huge group of Americans with an unconscious, unacknowledged, probably unacknowledgeable bias against women and minorities. A lot of them probably vote D occasionally...just not if it's a woman. But not because of her gender, you understand - they just happen not to like her policies or personality or trustworthiness, or.....

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I absolutely disagree with this. I think there is a huge group of Americans with an unconscious, unacknowledged, probably unacknowledgeable bias against women and minorities. A lot of them probably vote D occasionally...just not if it's a woman. But not because of her gender, you understand - they just happen not to like her policies or personality or trustworthiness, or.....

She could be emotional. Only men are stable geniuses

[Kepler]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

I absolutely disagree with this. I think there is a huge group of Americans with an unconscious, unacknowledged, probably unacknowledgeable bias against women and minorities. A lot of them probably vote D occasionally...just not if it's a woman. But not because of her gender, you understand - they just happen not to like her policies or personality or trustworthiness, or.....

No, that was true in the 1980s. Since then they have all migrated to the GOP as part of the Great Mitosis where all the other scum have moved to the right and been sealed inside the Echo Chamber.