- Nancy Pelosi criticized the ‘Squad’ as ‘perfect’ and ‘pure’ progressive people, reads a new book.
- Susan Page of USA Today said Pelosi told her that some members propose themselves for sacred photos, while others give legislation.
- She said she appreciates ‘operational’ Democrats over activists who cause trouble in the party.
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House President Nancy Pelosi criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the left-wing “Squad” criticized themselves for posing as “perfect” and “pure” progressives and rejecting the compromise needed to achieve legislative results, reads a new book.
Susan Page of USA Today writes in her forthcoming book, “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power”, an excerpt of which was published in Politico on Thursday, that Pelosi adopted a childish voice when he read it in July 2019. discussed an interview. .
“Some people come here, as Dave Obey would have said, to pose for sacred photos,” Pelosi told Page, referring to the former representative.
Page wrote of Pelosi: “She changed her voice and imitated a child to make a solemn piety. ‘Look how perfect I am and how pure?’ ‘
The speaker insisted that “operational” democratic lawmakers, who are willing to lay their heads down and compromise on legislation, are more effective than activist members, Page writes.
“If you come in, cross that door, take that oath, you have to be results-oriented,” Pelosi told Page. “Trust in what you believe in, be humble to listen to someone else, because you are not a one-man show. This is the Congress of the United States.”
Ocasio-Cortez has criticized Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in Congress. Last year, she said the party needed ‘new leadership’, but conceded that progressives had not prepared a new leader to take over.
“The internal dynamics of the home have made it so that there is very little option for succession,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept in December. “The speaker indicated that she might switch and leave at some point, and that’s not really making a plan on the left either. That’s something we need to think about.”