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"Know your why."
Opinion | Why Kevin McCarthy should still watch Nancy Pelosi’s goodbye
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Columnist
November 20, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST
It’s a shame that Kevin McCarthy skipped Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 15-minute speech on Thursday announcing she was stepping down as the House’s Democratic leader. For the California Republican who hopes to be speaker himself, it was an ungracious act, of course, but also something worse.
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The daughter of a New Dealer who lived through every iteration of modern American liberalism — its low points as well as its triumphs — Pelosi always knew where she wanted the country to go and which reforms were necessary to getting there. Her advice to women is good advice to men in politics, too: “Know your why.” She knew why she was there.
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Opinion by E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne Jr. writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. He is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, with Miles Rapoport, is “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.” Twitter https://twitter.com/EJDionne
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Columnist
November 20, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST
It’s a shame that Kevin McCarthy skipped Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 15-minute speech on Thursday announcing she was stepping down as the House’s Democratic leader. For the California Republican who hopes to be speaker himself, it was an ungracious act, of course, but also something worse.
{snip}
The daughter of a New Dealer who lived through every iteration of modern American liberalism — its low points as well as its triumphs — Pelosi always knew where she wanted the country to go and which reforms were necessary to getting there. Her advice to women is good advice to men in politics, too: “Know your why.” She knew why she was there.
{snip}
Opinion by E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne Jr. writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. He is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, with Miles Rapoport, is “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.” Twitter https://twitter.com/EJDionne
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