Why do any otherwise intelligent people think that Nancy Pelosi

[MADem]

31. Nancy Pelosi is one of the best parliamentarians and dealmakers in government.

She knows the rulebook backwards and forwards; she knows which buttons to push and where some of the bodies are buried.

There is a reason that HER peers returned her to her leadership position--because when you're in a fight to the death, you need a streetfighter who knows what the hell she's doing.


Some of these otherwise intelligent people of whom you speak actually believe that ordinary voters have some sort of input into how House and Senate leadership is chosen. They don't seem to understand that those chambers elect their own leadership, and it ain't up to us. They know, better than we do, who is adept behind the scenes, like Steny Hoyer, for example, and Jon Tester, and who is worthless and ineffective, only becoming a firebrand and a panderer when a TV camera is in the vicinity, rather like the failed candidacy of All Talk/No Walk Dump Wife/Marry Lobbyist Alan Grayson.

They know who works, and who chats.