ALWAYS Remember; It's BOSS Pelosi to You! Stay Calm, Trust Pelosi!

[Beetwasher.]

I'm with Josh Marshall on this:

Memories of Pelosi
No Democrat in DC is More Determined and Indomitable in a Clutch

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At a press conference a week after Brown’s victory, reporters pressed her on how she proposed to salvage the legislation whatever her resistance to the scaled down approach. “As I said to some friends yesterday in the press,” she replied, “we will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people…”

And that she did. The President signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23rd, 2010.

Critics of Pelosi would note that the ACA was itself incomplete and imperfect. They would certainly be correct. They’d also note that what I am describing here as a feat of strength and determination involved forcing her more progressive House caucus to accept the Senate’s stingier version of the legislation. They would be correct about that too. But she was insisting on scrapping her own version too.

Reality is never simple or pretty. But at clutch moments no one in DC is more determined and indomitable than Nancy Pelosi. She’s steamroll the Gottheimers of her caucus with little exertion or concern.

--snip--

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memories-of-pelosi

[Walleye]

1. So much respect for this woman. The way she silenced the applause of her caucus

After the first impeachment, with a stern look and a flip of a small piece of paper, it was masterful. Mother of five

[WHITT]

7. Just A Look

Like a stern nun at a Catholic school. It was great.

I think she will be acknowledged as the greatest Speaker in modern history. A lotta people talk about Tip, but a lot of that was get-along go-along. What we're seeing is real power and shrewdness.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. She and the rest of the dems ought to pay some attention to her own state

Sounds like they're about to lose the governorship and with Feinstein pushing 90 they could lose the senate Putting good old grim reaper back in charge.

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4. Oh, please. Newsom is not going to lose that recall vote.

You're counting your republican talking point chickens before they hatch...right here on DU too.

On the wrong site?

[Fullduplexxx]

11. Nope I'm relying on what I was told by stephanie miller was the latest poll

Which showed 70 % of cons saying they were voting versus 38% of dems .
Apparently I'm not the only one

https://democraticunderground.com/100215734238

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13. Polls are polls. There was another one last week which had...

54% of Dems planning ot vote for no recall. With Dems outnumbering republicans by more than two-to-one, that still favors Newsom.

I don't get too excited by polls as results can be manipulated by whatever the quesitons are and how they're asked.

I mean seriously, this is a by-mail election. Every voter gets a ballot by mail. People don't even have to go to the polls. They just have to make a check mark on a two-question ballot, drop it in the mailbox and they're done. I doubt only 38% of Dem voters are willing to take that effort to keep a Democratic governor.

[Fullduplexxx]

14. Thanks for that this stupid recall has me a little freaked out

Cause I know how incumbents tend to lose power. People are fickle

[StarfishSaver]

9. That's on Pelosi?

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Her too she has an interest in this ..

[LanternWaste]

15. What precisely should Pelosi do?

And on what objective measure is it her responsibility? :shrug"

[musette_sf]

3. Out of all the famous people with whom I have had Brushes With Greatness,

Rep Pelosi is top on my list. It was a privilege to be ensconced next to her for 5+ hours on a Virgin America flight from SFO to DCA. I kept my cool and only spoke with her when we landed, to express my deep appreciation for her and to tell her that this was my biggest thrill since I shook Bobby Kennedy's hand back in the 60s.

[Walleye]

8. Wow! Very cool experience

[Hortensis]

5. TPM unfair while expressing admiration.

Pelosi was committed to finally making it happen for America. No surprise that the house's version of the ACA was about as excellent as a bill like that could be when it and the senate version went to reconciliation and the Republicans got involved. And she did make it happen, though bringing national healthcare to America cost 63 Democratic house seats, and her own speakership, in the next election.

Far from "scrapping her own version," Pelosi is the reason as much of it survived as did. Over the 2-year battle to get it passed, senate Democrats and President Obama came to fear it might not pass at all and at one point seriously considered slashing it back to what they thought they could get through. Pelosi went to Obama and told him that congress would pass the version the House had approved, or nothing. She won, and so we did too.

[Beetwasher.]

6. Uhh, what? Josh Marshall is No Conservative, and he does Admire Pelosi a Great Deal

Not sure what you're getting at.

[Hortensis]

10. Yeah, got his name mixed up with a conservative

who runs another political site and plays this game. Apologies, removed the "conservative."