Nancy Pelosi Gave 30,000,000 People Health Insurance And You Want To What?

[Moral Compass]

10. Pelosi knows how to play the game

Pelosi has done a phenomenal job while under phenomenal pressure that has never let up.

Now Democrats want to attack her because Jon Ossoff wasn't able to win in a district that Tom Price won by over 23%? I know Hillary only lost by 1% in that district, but in the same election Tom Price won with no trouble at all.

The Republicans will be so happy if the progressive wing of the party goes to the mats and splinters the party and makes it almost inconceivable that there will be any substantive gains in 2018.

I'm a progressive and Pelosi sometimes frustrates me. But she's a fighter and she picks her battles with care. Yes, she took impeachment off the table during the Bush years. She knew that there was no way Bush would be impeached and didn't want to spend a lot of political capital and time and effort on something that wasn't ever going to happen.

The Republicans will use her name in campaign ads. The people that respond to those ads hate her already and are not Democratic voters. Progressives and centrist need to unite and support the Democratic candidate in every case. If we fracture and stay home or write in candidates because the person running isn't sufficiently pure then we beat ourselves.

Haven't we just done that? How'd that work out?

The Republicans will be chortling with glee if we take our eye off the prize and start attacking one of our most effective leaders in the House.