Posted on 01/03/2023 4:18:04 PM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON - With a popular Democratic president in the White House and big Democratic majorities in Congress, an emboldened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2009 pushed through a major climate change measure despite warnings of a political backlash.
“We passed transformational legislation which takes us into the future,” Pelosi exulted after the House narrowly approved legislation to cut emissions following her signature wheeling and dealing to corral reluctant Democrats.
It was a rare miscalculation. Her immediate future turned out to be in the minority as Democrats were crushed in the 2010 midterm elections by a public recoil to the climate bill, which died in the Senate, and a health care bill that was signed into law.
Pelosi refused to throw in the towel and step aside. She remained head of the defeated House Democrats and rose again in 2019 as a more pragmatic speaker, one who had learned from both her failures and successes and would preside over a period of remarkable legislative productivity. In the process, she sealed a legacy as the most powerful woman in U.S. politics to date.
What can arguably be called the Pelosi era in Washington came to a close at noon Tuesday as Republicans assumed control of the House and Pelosi finally retreated to the rank and file where, she insists, she does not intend to be a meddling mother-in-law offering unsolicited advice.
But her presence will be felt for years in the climate, health care, public works and social legislation she ushered through to signatures by two Democratic presidents, as well as the big moments of her tenure capped off by the electrifying invitation to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to address Congress just days before she lost the gavel.
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She is an evil woman. She has done great harm to our country.
Get lost you evil lying skank. Scrape poo off the streets of SF.
Nan made “WH intern” a legendary title long before Monica was born.
This cycle and this mentality needs to stop, but I'm not sure McCarthy is up for the task to stop it.
Where is the passion in the Senate like there is in some corners of the House?
She can’t disappear fast enough
Is she really losing control of Congress when her guy is taking charge? She will have more power with McCarthy in charge than she would with Jeffries.
Why would he stop it?
But she will never be held accountable, hence evil persists and our country will continue to suffer.
It’s our own fault for not punishing evil deeds.
Agreed. She was proof of how bad people can be yet be utterly convinced they are good.
Most effective speaker ever. Too bad she was not a GOP speaker.
Only MAGA adherents or Trump can save this country.
Without doubt, the worst speaker in the history of the nation. The US may not be able to recover from much of the damage she has perpetrated upon the country.
An awful lot of irritating dem women in our country’s politics but I don’t know any as bad or worse or as irritating....
Making a fool of herself, as usual.
https://twitter.com/clownworld_/status/1606110816540819457?s=46&t=ITOLGWUpCb6S9cQC2MxUWQ
I hear GITMO is nice this time of year.
I think she’s enjoying the show today. Reps in disarray.
How are we going to save our country when we couldn't even hold a protest without walking into an obvious trap, or cancel our TV subscriptions to the networks that are working against us and Trump, or find alternatives to leftist companies that sabotaged us and our president if it means giving up some convenience?
And how is Trump going to save the country when his own supporters couldn't do any of this to help him?
Not all of you, but you know who you are.
Only God can save this country, because we sure can't.
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