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| Nancy Pelosi's Last Chance |
| 2018-08-22 |
| [The American Conservative] Her caucus is clamoring for her head. If the Democrats lose this year, they just might get it. Most of the commentary surrounding the 2018 midterm election season is‐surprise, surprise‐about Donald Trump. After every special election, whether a Democrat wins or a Republican, prognosticators and pundits habitually steer the conversation towards what the result says about Trump’s longevity. A loss by a Republican in a district Trump won in 2016 is packaged as a political win for the Democrats. And a GOP win in a competitive race is interpreted as a blow to the Resistance movement. But the 2018 midterms are not all about Trump. There is another senior politico whose record is on the ballot: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The San Francisco congresswoman is everything the modern Republican Party hates. She’s West Coast, representing one of the most liberal states in the country. She helped push the Affordable Care Act across the finish line in 2010 without a single GOP vote. She raises boatloads of cash for Democratic candidates and progressive causes: a source told CNN that Pelosi has raised $91 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in this election cycle, a pile of cash that would make the Clintons envious. And she led Democrats back into the House majority in 2006 after 12 years in the political wilderness. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Yet now the HoR is Republican it seemingly is not possible to repeal... The thing is collapsing under its own weight and as of next year there will be no fine for nonparticipation, so actual repeal isn’t as important as it might appear, Bright Pebbles. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-22 10:18 |
| #1 >She helped push the Affordable Care Act across the finish line in 2010 without a single GOP vote. Yet now the HoR is Republican it seemingly is not possible to repeal... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-08-22 06:52 |