Anybody have the nerve to call NDP too old now?

[EffieBlack]

And if you say yes, I dare you to tell her that to her face ...

[Gothmog]

1. Nancy Pelosi is amazing

[lunatica]

2. I never doubted her.

[2naSalit]

3. ...

Didn't think so.

[Anon-C]

4. If Trump-Pence were indicted and resigned the nation would have an amazing Madame President.

[MontanaMama]

5. Loved and supported her before she was elected Speaker

and love her more now. She OWNS that gavel.

NDP embodies “Hold by wine and watch this...” 🍷

[MLAA]

6. Anyone who tries will lose said face!

Impotus has been losing a lot of face since she has been back!

[July]

7. Preach!

First person to call Chump's bluff. Not a Republican. Not a male. But yes, an experienced legislator who knows her job. The contrast with Idzilla could not be greater.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. She is having her finest hours as we watch this unfold.

And she's had some truly fine hours in the past.

Imagine. In the last few days, weeks, and months she has beaten back challenges to her leadership from the left and right within her own caucus. She has backed down a cadre of men who wanted her job. She has done the same to women who tried. She then caused perhaps the greatest unforced error Trump ever made. And tonight she gets her first clear capitulation from the man-baby bully.

And she is not yet a month into her two year term.

I can't stop saying it. She is a **TRUE** BADASS that most people can only hope to be.

[Hekate]

13. NY Times called it brinksmanship, which is a term I have not heard since the Berlin Wall fell!

And it is, and the Mad King is the one who blinked, and everybody can see it.

I am thrilled. We all might get out of this alive yet.

[LonePirate]

9. I thought passing a public option health care bill was her crowning achievement. This may be better.

[ProudLib72]

10. The Rump demonstrates you are never too old to receive an ass whoopin

Pelosi demonstrates you are never too old to give and ass whoopin to someone who really, really deserves it.

But let's be honest: ageism applied to Pelosi is really just misogyny lite.

[JCanete]

11. Nancy is alright...but I"m still totally baffled by all the praise and badass memes. Is she doing

anything at all more than we should expect from our house leadership at this time? Who would do less regarding standing up to Trump, and would we consider that par, or outright unacceptable?

[EffieBlack]

15. Do you think Tim Ryan would have handled Trump the way Pelosi has?

Wall construction would have started at the border three weeks ago and Steve Miller would be putting the finishing touches on a triumphal State of the Union Address for Trump to deliver as scheduled next Tuesday with Ryan grinning and clapping behind him.

[JCanete]

21. oh hell no. That is however, why that pathetic blue dog coup attempt that was about as tone deaf and

patronizing as you can get towards the new progressives in the party, failed so spectacularly. Tim Ryan, just as an example, had no business being in the role of speaker.


And again, I do have to give Pelosi more credit here in this instance than my initial post did, even though I really think holding a line against an incredibly unpopular President as a Democrat is a no-brainer. That said, we've still done worse in the past, over and over, when it comes to that.

[betsuni]

12. I'm still totally baffled by accusations that Democrats are spineless, don't fight for anything,

have no message, don't care about the people because they're rich old out-of-touch elitists beholden to corporations and Wall Street, etc.

[JCanete]

14. Actually, I'll give you that. I've seen us do far worse in the past. Maybe Pelosi does deserve more

credit than I'm giving her here.

[EffieBlack]

17. This reminds me of an old joke (albeit a dated and sexist one, but it makes the point)

about the housewife whose husband keeps asking "What do you do all day? It seems to me that while I'm out working hard, you just sit around here not doing anything."

The next day, he comes home to find dirty breakfast dishes in the sink, beds unmade, kids dirty, hungry and unruly, no dinner on the table, laundry not done and the house generally a mess.

"What the hell?!" the husband exclaims.

"You know how you keep telling me I sit around doing nothing all day?" the wife says. 'Well, today, that's what I did."

Speaker Pelosi takes care of business at her House - and she does it so brilliantly and effectively, she makes it look effortless and some people think she's not really doing all that much and what she does, anybody could do. But she's doing a hell of a lot and we'de notice if she DIDN'T do it.

[JCanete]

20. Even at my most cynical, I would never question whether or not Pelosi does a lot and gets a lot done

[cwydro]

16. Can't help but wonder if David Hogg still thinks she's too old. nt

[mcar]

18. I highly doubt "new blood" would have accomplished

what our Speaker has.

[panader0]

19. She is showing the younger how to be an effective Speaker.

She is setting the bar that future Speakers will have to meet.
Proud of her!