I have admired her honesty and clarity of heart and how these have both lead to her extraordinary tenure in House leadership. She opposed the Iraq War and privatization of Social Security. It was she that told Trump that all roads with him led to Putin. She stared him down over his stupid government shut-down for his dumb wall-money and supported two impeachments.
I admire her for this pure episode of imminently understandable contempt:
She retains the perfect venue from which to watch her successor in the role of Speaker try to manage his slim lead from his already compromised position of having let the crazies run him, instead of the other way about.
Her leadership in fraught times has been inspiring and consequential. A very hard act to follow.
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Nancy Pelosi was a fiercely competent Speaker; and able to wield a coalition of Democrats, with little margin for error, in ways no Republican could in the past and none will be able to in the future.
The spitting vitriol and hatred this woman has engendered from the Right (and sadly the so-called Left) shows how powerful misogyny is in this Country.
When seeing that Rep. Kevin McCarthy could not be bothered to attend her remarks as she winds up her time as Speaker, I couldn't help but to think back on her warm, decent remarks as she handed her gavel over to John Boehner back in 2011. She spoke as a patriot who genuinely wanted the House to be functional for the sake of the people of this country.
There is such a vast difference in class and quality between the two: it could be viewed from space.
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