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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe time Nancy Pelosi saved Social Security.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/21/18103325/nancy-pelosi-social-security-privatization-bush-planTo people whose main reference point for politics is the late Obama years, the 2016 presidential campaign, and the post-Bernie Sanders blossoming of left-wing politics in the United States, Nancy Pelosi seems and, indeed, is an establishment figure.
But for those whose political horizons go back a bit longer, she stands out as the exemplary progressive among powerful Democrats.
She had a role in stiffening President Obamas spine after Scott Brown threw the future of the Affordable Care Act into doubt, and her opposition to the Iraq War came at a time when the partys other legislative leaders (Reps. Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt, Sen. Harry Reid) and presidential aspirants (John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton) were backing it.
But more fundamentally, her reputation as a shrewd and effective leader dates back to the huge fight over privatizing Social Security in the mid-aughts. At the time, the Democratic Partys fundamental political position looked more precarious and Pelosi successfully held her party together against chipping away at one of the greatest party achievements in American history.
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The time Nancy Pelosi saved Social Security. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Nov 2018
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)1. She was a progressive before we had progressives.
Whatever the hell that term means today. I am a proud liberal.
As is Nancy Pelosi. A FDR style liberal. What our party needs. A hard nosed, liberal pragmatist.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)2. K&R
mopinko
(70,077 posts)3. lbj in a skirt
but w/o the war.