House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the savior of the nation, is on fire this evening on the All In with Chris Hayes program on MSNBC.
I met her in 1986. In that 34 years, I have never once heard her more lucid and penetrating in her communication than this evening.
There is something so very beautiful about women shedding the shackles and limitations placed on too many of them early in life, and coming into their own as true forces of nature later in life, as did Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
It seems clear that Nancy Pelosi is fueled by righteous indignation at the criminal negligence of the Trump Administration that has led to 200,930 deaths to date.
Both she and Joe Biden are refusing take the bait of the Dark Eminence’s latest distraction: endless rambling on about his pending Supreme Court nomination.
Pelosi said, “The three issues in this election are healthcare, healthcare, and healthcare.“
But she didn’t stop there. She connected Trump’s response, or non-response, to COVID-19, to the ongoing corruption and dismantling of government in his broader administration. In other words, Pelosi made the connection between giving an ideology of total contempt for all government and all institutions the reins of power, and the massive death that we see all around us.
Imagine where this country would be if we had not taken back the most democratic branch of American government, the House of Representatives, in 2018. It was Pelosi herself, who masterminded candidate recruitment with her leadership team, who shepherded that campaign to the most massive victory in modern history.
If this nation is, in fact, to be saved at all, Nancy Pelosi will eventually be forever remembered as the savior of the American nation.
Never underestimate her!
I posted in another thread about liberals love for superheroes. This one is almost too funny, though.
I know it’s a lot more fun to feel intellectually superior to those trying to Marshall our resources and to ridicule them constantly. It’s not a really fun game we play on the left?
I think we should be honest about her leadership. I don’t care about the sometimes nice quotes or the clapping at SOTU. What’s she doing every day (and for the last decade)?
The power that that position has and how we are apparently fighting for the soul of our country and against fascism . . . and then we approve an expanded military budget for this President? Or refuse to scale back surveillance powers of this President? All things that could have been stopped in the House.
This unquestioning worship of powerful people is legitimately dangerous. On both sides. The “hashtag resistance” has been so bad among liberals – with constant deification of folks like Mueller, Schiff, Pelosi, even George W a little bit, not to mention a little love for John Bolton.
And giving Pelosi full and sole credit for the 2018 wins is just silly. Luckily we have a handful of amazing members who beat Pelosi’s direct support and institutional funding to win seats.
Shortly after the House voted for a second round of robust COVID relief, she tanked progressives by agreeing to a small appropriation, WITHOUT EVEN NEGOTIATING WITH THE OPPOSITION. Her previous work on COVID v.1 where she gave Mnuchin unprecedented power to give goodies to GOP friends should have been humiliating to her backers but there will always be people with zero experience in policy making who suck up. Hello Terry.
If you are unable to understand where our country would be right now had the Democrats not taking back the house of representatives in 2018, there is really nothing I can do about your lack of imagination.
Dems won in 2018 because of a bottom up strategy, not because of a top down Pelosi effort. She has done great work in the past but she needs to leave the stage, along with much of the leadership. I am looking forward to using the phrase Speaker Clark. Soon.
I agree that the blue wave of 2018 was not a result of “leadership” from Ms. Pelosi. My sense is that most of America was retching about the results of the 2016 election. Anybody who has eaten a plateful of rotten clams or oysters on the half-shell knows the feeling.
It looks to me as though America has bifurcated into two warring or nearly-warring states. Those of us in the Democratic States of America are ignoring the corrupt and aggressive behavior of the Republican States of America at our extreme peril.
The death, casualty and economic toll of the federal pandemic response is not accidental. It is falling most heavily on densely-populated urban regions that are also the centers of Democratic strength. The same is true of the sabotage of the 2020 census. The same was true of the changes to deductions in the GOP tax giveaway to the wealthy — taxpayers in blue states were explicitly targeted.
I think this is going to get much uglier before it gets any better at all.
That’s not the claim you’re making.
The Democrats would have won the House in 2018 with or without Ms. Pelosi.
I’m going to have a hard time with her referring to the Green New Deal as the “Green dream whatever”. I really don’t appreciate that kind of dismissiveness, especially considering her state is on fire.
But sure, when she’s good, she’s good. I wish she were always good.
Perhaps this is one of those situations where whether she’s good or not depends on whether we agree with her position.
I fear we are winning the occasional battles while losing the war.