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Posted on 02/10/2018 10:17:35 AM PST by EdnaMode
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor for eight hours Wednesday, giving the longest speech in that chamber in at least a century. She did so to pressure Speaker Paul D. Ryan to permit a vote on protecting the roughly 700,000 undocumented “dreamers.” Republicans expressed delight that eyes were on the polarizing Pelosi, but her marathon speech served to energize activists while highlighting that House Republicans will not commit to a vote. Despite having little leverage, she scored a tactical success.
It’s not just Republicans who discount Pelosi’s talents. Some Democrats are unsatisfied with her leadership: They accuse her of being unable to deliver on liberal Democrats’ top priorities, hurting the party’s brand and blocking the way for younger members.
But Pelosi is one of the most underrated American politicians of the past half-century. Her media and activist critics judge her competence and leadership almost entirely based on her performance in front of a microphone. Pelosi has never tried, as Ryan did, to seduce the press, and what she says in public is occasionally convoluted. Her strength is in what she does away from the microphones.
Growing up in a political family, Pelosi learned to balance competing demands, get people enough of what they needed for them to feel satisfied, to keep track of who crossed you, who helped you, and whom to call on to return favors. And she learned to listen and ensure that people know they are heard. Pelosi draws on this experience while serving both her constituencies: San Franciscans, and the Democratic members of Congress she has led since 2003.
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OK, so how many cards IS she playing with? I had her at about 40.
If she needs someone to defend her in the Post like that, she knows shes in perilous shape
The stooges at the Compost should treat this broad like she’s radioactive. Trump has big plans for her in the midterms.
Great piece on Pelosi!!! Don’t knock the piece.... no one has done more the Republican Party than Nancy Pelosi....other than maybe Barrack Insane Obama.
If that's true, what were all those botox treatments about?
Great! Keep her in place!!
She may well be. She doesn’t get credit for functioning at all at the same time she is undergoing the longest stroke in the history of the universe...
Thanks EdnaMode. And to lefty Jeff Bezos, may all your rocket tests fail.
Of course Pelosi's cognitive abilities and sanity are always in question..
Stands 8 hours for illegal aliens, couldn’t stand 5 seconds for Americans during the SOTU speech. ‘Nuff said.
I pray that the democrats keep pushing her out front! Her and the shmuckmiester!!
It is impossible to under rate Plastic Face
They keep calling this a speech. She read letters and case studies of illegal immigrants out loud.
If I read from the phone book, it’s not a speech.
She is. I think she should be added to the Guinness World Book of Records for referring to the current Commander in Chief, President Donald J. Trump, as President Bush, a record number of times.
Somebody should have shouted “Palomino!” to end her speech.
The barf alert was incredibly underrated. Projectile and violent, accompanied by explosive intestinal disturbance would have been more apt.
Yeah that would have been much more accurate.
Yup.
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