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Nancy. She said... (Original Post) sheshe2 Oct 2019 OP
K & R! Iliyah Oct 2019 #1
Imagine what it meant for a caucus heavily made up of men, Hortensis Oct 2019 #2
I'm with her! mcar Oct 2019 #3
So am I, me. sheshe2 Oct 2019 #4
Love Madam Speaker! redstatebluegirl Oct 2019 #5
Remember this headline from January....Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat? Elwood P Dowd Oct 2019 #6

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Imagine what it meant for a caucus heavily made up of men,
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 05:46 PM
Oct 2019

all of whose successes depended on selecting the right leaders from among over 200 of them, to choose Nancy to be the first female House Speaker in American history. Highest ranked female ever and third in line to the presidency.

And then her colleagues did it again, in spite of massive external attempts to derail by those who really need her gone.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
6. Remember this headline from January....Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat?
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 06:17 PM
Oct 2019

Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat

Maureen Dowd
January 12, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-nancy-pelosi-donald-trump.html

WASHINGTON — Two men, sons of immigrants, rising to be the head of their own empires, powerful forces in their ethnic communities. Both dapper and mustachioed with commanding personalities. And both wielding a potent influence on the children who learned at their knees and followed them into the family businesses.

But here’s the difference: Big Tommy D’Alesandro Jr. taught little Nancy how to count. Fred Trump taught Donald, from the time he was a baby, that he didn’t have to count — or be accountable; Daddy’s money made him and buoyed him.

Fred, a dictatorial builder in Brooklyn and Queens from German stock, and Big Tommy, a charming Maryland congressman and mayor of Baltimore from Italian stock, are long gone. But their roles in shaping Donald and Nancy remain vivid, bleeding into our punishing, pressing national debate over immigration, a government shutdown and that inescapable and vexing Wall.

Pic of Nancy and parents talking with JFK.

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