Posted on 04/09/2022 4:39:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Nancy Pelosi privately vented about having to "grovel" for another term as House speaker after the 2018 midterms and said "at this point in my life, I don't need this," according to a forthcoming book.
New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns pull back the curtain on Pelosi's internal frustrations in their forthcoming book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," due for release on May 3. Punchbowl News reported on some excerpts of the book's reporting on Friday morning.
Pelosi showed "her frustration with unusual vehemence" on the day of her election to serve as House speaker, the authors wrote, describing her as "discussing her political future in a way she rarely did around colleagues," and saying her 2019 election to serve as speaker again "seemed like a joyless one."
"You couldn't pay me a billion dollars to run for Speaker again," Pelosi said that day, according to the book.
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Several moderate members from battleground districts had campaigned on opposing Pelosi for the role. And multiple members of her Congress from across the ideological spectrum openly challenged Pelosi's leadership and suggested she was out of touch, leading her to make a number of deals and arrangements with Democrats in the weeks leading up to the speakership vote.
"The experience of begging for support was wearing on her," the authors wrote of Pelosi. "Pelosi was the only Democrat in the chamber - the only Democrat alive - who had already served as Speaker, who had shown she could do the legislative arithmetic and twist the necessary arms to get things done. And yet [her fellow Democrats] were making her grovel."
"At this point in my life, I don't need this," Pelosi said,
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When is she even going to have a chance to run for Speaker again?
Also she is not getting any younger and probably prefers not to decompose on live tv.
Too late. The senile old, tooth sucking bag looks like a wax works in the sun.
Translation: The jig is up.
Why get paid when you can just skim it from taxpayers..
Maybe cause you got your ass handed to you not so many years ago and is about to get your ass handed to you again maybe, PelosiIdiot? One can only hope that the ass whooping is so great that the DEM party nearly goes extinct...../s
Is she really tired of the position or just seeking out the highest bidder?
Nice to know that she can’t be bought. Sarc
The corrupt b**** didn’t need billions, she did it for a few millions. That ignorant s**t would be pushing burgers had she not boinked a rich guy and purchased her way into the world’s most corrupt collection of folks who’ve never had a real job. She successfully managed to lower a loathed institution to the lowest depths possible.
Eff her and the turd she crawled in on.
From 2020...
Bertelsmann buys Simon & Schuster for $2.2 billion in U.S. publishing play
The Euroweenies. Again.
Paging Will Smith!
She’s already grafted her billion from the taxpayer, so this makes sense.
So she’s bumped her price up to a Billion plus 1?
What a B
Anybody believe this? Anybody? Show of hands? Nobody? Yeah, she would sell her soul, and the souls of every American, to the Devil, to remain Speaker.
Oh what a world, what a world!
Is that you, Jimmy Kimmel?
IOW, she wants that billion paid under the table.
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