The final legacy of an authoritarian
Link to quote: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-healthcare-pass-the-bill-to-see-what-is-in-it/
Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement yesterday. She is finally ending her political career at what might just be the correct time. She is up for reelection in her home district and may have faced a real challenge. She served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. During those two terms she became legendary for ruling with an iron fist and getting democrat representatives to line up as one behind any bill she wanted them to back.
As she leaves it is time to assess her legacy.
1) It was the passage of Obamacare that will be foremost. Fifty-two House democrats went down to defeat in the following 2010 midterm election. It came at a high cost, but Pelosi pushed it through. Later the Supreme Court helped to make it legitimate and finally the Affordable Care Act now faces surging premiums.
2) It was Pelosi who contributed most to the partisanship that now infects the House of Representatives. The collegiality of that chamber is long gone.
3) The persistent drift of the democrat party to the left began under her leadership, mainly in her second term as Speaker. Like all democrat leaders of the time, they had to adjust to accommodate a very vocal far left wing.
4) It was also Pelosi who was a leading beneficiary of congressional insider trading. It made her a millionaire and she got away with it. One day congress may enact a law to stop it, but Pelosi got to walk away.
5) It was Pelosi who abused the articles of impeachment to try an embarrass a President that she hated. It may have been the first act of lawfare. That scene when she ripped up the President's speech after he gave it will be how many will remember her.
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All I can say is "good riddance."
Nancy, you were a disgrace to your heritage.
And yet she was praised by the equally irascible [ ✘ ] MTG.
Says who?
[✘] Tell us why Nancy was anything other than as I described her.
Besides standing up to China way back in the 1990's after the Tiananmen Square massacre, she had numerous legislative victories that have shaped America and are things many rely on today.
You can sour grapes bitch about her because she got shit done for the party you are ideologically opposed to, but you can't say she didn't get shit done and wasn't effective at her job which was basically congressional Democrat cat wrangler.
The fact that so many on the right are so pissed off at her proves she did her job for the American people and stood up against bullies, misogynists and religious conservative dickwads trying to turn our nation into some white Christo-fascist promised land. So, I cannot thank her enough for her backbone and hard work for the American people and the constitution.
To what 'heritage' btw? That just drips with potential racist overtones. Is she a 'disgrace' to white people because she didn't support Republicans white nationalist agenda? Is she a disgrace to her Italian American roots somehow because she stood up against the white male Christian patriarchy that has run America since our founding?
Pelosi should have never ripped up the speech transcript. There is plenty of criticism that can levied against her. But you label her a disgrace while supporting and defending Trump. If Pelosi is a disgrace, then it is a challenge to find the words to describe how damaging and embarrassing Trump is as PotUS compared to Pelosi.
Explain how one can support and defend arguably the worst PotUS in our history who continues to blatantly, outrageously lie and cheat daily and inflict damage on this nation yet be so critical of Pelosi merely because she was an effective D Speaker and thus advanced D causes (which are, obviously, antithetic to conservative, right-wing views)?
The answer, it would seem, is that Trump is 'good' because he opposes/attacks the Ds and any opposition/attack against the Ds is 'good' no matter what the consequences to the health and well-being of our nation and its people.
Did you not watch Halux's video?
That's the one
At least she only ripped it up. I would have pulled out my cigarette lighter and burned it. Then lit a cigarette
Were that so I would adopt your resplendent hubris and claim to know the thoughts of NT's readers.
As to your description(s) of Nancy, something has changed from your original denigration of her? However seeing as you desire some northern, albeit borrowed, German wisdom:
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster ... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I understand why you and others on the right are grabbing at anything stuck to the bottom of your shoes considerring the hellacious weeks dear leader has seen fit to impose upon his gulible minions.
In the meagertime, BBC is coming out with a new sitcom called It's a Fine Crypto Bromance ...
It was good theater and definitely got the point across.
Speak on!
TG,. . .you got a cigarette lighter?!!!! For what?! Tell me you don't smoke- say it isn't so!
(Just kidding, but be careful as you can.)
I liked it!
She should off ripped up his orange neck!
I like to set things on fire. Like cigarettes
Oh Kay! So you are a fire-starter and not a smoke breather—got it!
Big fun there, TG!
I am a smoker
I know and understand, Love. I smoked cigarettes for 18 years myself. . .and quit for 30 years now. Just sportin' with you.
That's all right. My family is always on my ass about quitting. I tell them I'm not a quitter
LOL! You've got jokes. I love it!
That's cold, VIC!
How many times have you served in public office?
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The disgrace and danger to the GLOBE is none other than "DIRTY DIAPER DONNIE!
Be interesting to see if the next leader (she's still the leader), can keep all the dems in the house on a leash like she did. There's got to be some independent minds in the party, right?-----
Wrong
They are all as petrified as Chuck Schumer of the crazies on the left. As we all know the left will primary them.
"Da LEFT, Da LEFT ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!:
Not "Dirty Diaper Donnie", the adjudicated RAPIST, convicted FELON,
compulsive LIAR accused by 26 women of sexual abuse and rape.
No, Donnie is a really nice guy!
You think!
And that is the first thing she has done in her career that benefits the country.
All that did was showed the world that, despite her age, how childish and petty she really is.
When one is sucking on the "Trump" pump, that is what MAGA LOON says, every Democrat is a CAREER CRIMINAL, and "Dirty Diaper Donnie" is a
"Genie Arse"!
Or, words not remotely similar.
Why? Is Trump done?
right headline, wrong story ...
Well, Gsquared, it might be because TRUMP "DIRTY DIAPER DONNIE" is a CON MAN, a Carnival Barker, an adjudicated Rapist, a convicted Felon, and a BULL FACED COMPULSIVE LIAR, for starters!
And he's the best at it. No one has ever been better.
Pelosi was a staunch advocate for gay rights, she was no authoritarian.
After her husband was attacked by a MAGA lunatic who believed all the harsh right wing rhetoric thrown at her even by Trump himself, it was only a matter of time until she retired.
Her husband's health and this devastating attack took it's toll.
Why would anyone want to drag her down now when she is leaving?
Her legacy far exceeds Dennis Hastert the pedophile, Newt Gingrich and his corruption, Paul Ryan who threw in the towel to right wing extremists that went way farther right than the "tea party" and don't forget John Boehner or Mark Meadows who also failed to lead and ended up shoved out the door by right wing extremism like the Freedom Caucus which is now frayed in tatters.
Take the win! She's leaving.
Repuritians live on tearing everyone down that ain't them. Anger, Hate, and Revenge feed the MAGA MOVEMENT.
Nancy Pelosi was also conspicuous in overturning the Democratic primaries to push Joe Biden out and coronate Kamala Harris as the nominee. A not very vocal (or visible) segment of the Democratic base blame Pelosi for Trump winning the 2024 election. While praise for Pelosi may be universal in Democratic circles, not all Democrats are going to shed a tear to see her go.
I agree, she was a leader, but I always prefer someone else.