Robert Creamer, HuffPo: Why Nancy Pelosi Should Continue to Lead the House

[highplainsdem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-nancy-pelosi-should-c_b_780156.html

Robert Creamer
Posted: November 7, 2010 10:51 PM

Why Nancy Pelosi Should Continue to Lead the House

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Pelosi is one of the best strategists and organizers in modern American political history. She understands how to engage the self-interests of her colleagues and forge consensus. Far from being the divisive figure portrayed by her Republican opponents, she is the consummate coalition builder. She is a great listener. She pays close attention to what her Members say about their needs, their problems and their priorities. That's how she was able to construct majorities that could actually pass Health Care Reform, Wall Street Reform, and an energy bill which - had it passed the Senate - would have begun to create the clean energy jobs of the future.

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Nancy Pelosi did not cause either the enthusiasm gap or the economic crisis. In fact, she pressed for greater levels of stimulus at the beginning of 2009 that was the single largest thing that could have been done to improve the economy and limit the political damage last week.

She got the House to pass the Disclose Act that would have limited the power of the Chamber of Commerce and other Republican front groups to spend hundreds of millions of secret money - some from foreign sources - to spread massive amounts of mis-information about Democrats relentlessly for the last year and a half. Senate Republicans stopped the Disclose Act using the filibuster.

More than that, she did more than anyone else to limit this election's damage to her caucus by tirelessly touring the country raising the tens of millions of dollars necessary to finance their defense. In fact, far from causing these losses, without her work, they would have been much more severe.

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[deacon]

1. We need her there. She's a liberal, experienced and connected. n/t

[alanquatermass]

2. Almost got into a fistfight over Pelosi this morning!

REPOSTED FROM ANOTHER THREAD:

There's this Rethug who lives down the hall from me, a real Neanderthal-type. Anyway, there I am at 9 AM, stepping onto the elevator when he goes "Hold the door" and comes running over, kind of winded from the 12 yard jog (did I mention he was 300 lbs?). So the doors close and we're both heading down to the lobby when he looks over and sees Pelosi's name on the front cover of the "Mother Jones" I was carrying. He kinda smirks at it and goes, "Pelosi, huh? Guess there's one 'tard who's gonna need a job in a couple weeks. Wonder if Denny's is hiring."

I go, "'Tard'?! You saying Sarah Palin's any smarter?"

He goes, "Pretty hard to be dumber."

I go, "Maybe...but that's not what I asked. Is Palin any SMARTER?"

He couldn't answer me (of course). He just kind of smirked again as the doors opened and he shuffled off.

I was ready to kill the guy.