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Nancy Pelosi
Democrats Have Finally Found Their Midterm Message The party has boiled Trump’s scandals and the GOP’s regressive policies down into a one-word story: corruption.
‘Rigging’ Primaries Is Fine. Backing Bad Candidates Isn’t. It isn’t illegitimate for a party to put its weight behind the more “electable” candidate — but only if it can be trusted to know who that is.
Could Nancy Pelosi Lose Her Leadership Position After the Midterms? If Democrats retake the House, Pelosi may need to keep Democratic defections at a minimum. If Democrats fall short, anything could happen.
After Ryan’s Exit, Big-Money Donors Turn to War for Senate “McConnell has said, ‘The House is lost, we have to hold the Senate,’” says a Republican operative.
The Most Unhinged Political Ad of 2018 Is Already Here Former Michigan congressman Kerry Bentivolio is attempting a comeback, sporting a terrifying new ad.
GOP Rushes Omnibus Spending Bill Through House After the near defeat of the rule for passage of the bill, the House whipped it through unread, though the Senate may not be able to do likewise.
Congress to Vote on 2,232-Page Spending Bill Before Ink Is Dry More than halfway through fiscal year 2018, Congress still can’t fund the federal government in an orderly and timely manner.
the national interest
Mar. 16, 2018
Nancy Pelosi Is Good at Her Job and She Should Keep It. Why are House Democrats again talking about getting rid of the most effective legislative leader they’ve had in forever?
House Democratic Leaders Rally to Defend Their Illinois Heretic Does a Democratic “big tent” really require that deep blue districts continue to elect congressmen like the right-of-center Dan Lipinski?
In Defense of the ‘Dumbest Shutdown’ The spending deal that Rand Paul held up for a few hours was pretty dumb, too.
backwards and in heels
Feb. 7, 2018
Pelosi’s ‘DACA-buster’ Speech Likely a Record-Setter for the House Pelosi can’t stop a spending deal that excludes DACA. But she can talk about it.
Surprise! Congress May Sneak Debt-Limit Increase Into Its Stopgap Spending Bill It could take care of a big legislative headache — or blow up the delicate negotiations.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says America Would Be Better If Nancy Pelosi Smiled More The Press Secretary was not pleased with the House Minority Leader’s sour expression during the State of the Union.
state of the uniom
Jan. 30, 2018
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Faith Adviser’ Also Offered Bad Advice Burns Strider may or may not be guilty of sexual misconduct. But it sounds like he was guilty of political malfeasance.
Lawmakers Turned the Government Shutdown Into a Blame Game Featuring a highly partisan White House voice-mail message.
Get Ready for More Pelosi and San Francisco–Bashing by House GOP Candidates Tying her opponent to culture-war boogeymen helped Karen Handel turn out conservatives in Georgia. There will be copycats.
reality tv judges
Jan. 18, 2018
Just 13 Shopping Days Before a Possible Meltdown in D.C.! The GOP has passed a tax bill in both chambers and pushed a government-shutdown crisis back two weeks. But the week before Xmas could be treacherous.
Nancy Pelosi Calls on John Conyers to Resign Over Sexual-Harassment Allegations Pelosi’s statement comes as the 88-year-old was reportedly hospitalized in Detroit.
Republicans Trying to Engineer a Government Shutdown They Can Blame on Democrats In the latest maneuvering over spending, Republicans want Democrats to go to the mats on immigration policy and perhaps trigger a government shutdown.
Teacher! Teacher! Don and Chuck and Nancy Are Fighting Again! Dangerously near the date when a stopgap spending agreement expires, Trump and congressional Democratic leaders are feuding and shifting blame.
Trump Tweets Skepticism of Deal With Democrats to Keep Government Open In response, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi canceled a meeting with the president.
sexual harrassment
Nov. 26, 2017
Conyers Steps Down As Ranking Democrat on House Judiciary Committee He is continuing to deny the allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against him.
Pelosi Wants Democrats to Talk Economics, Not Impeachment The speaker thinks her party should focus on making an affirmative case for its agenda — and let Trump destroy himself.
Trump Administration Supports Path to Citizenship, a.k.a. Amnesty, for Dreamers In the latest in a series of flip-flops, the Trump administration now seems to be endorsing eventual citizenship for beneficiaries of a deal on DACA.
So Much for ‘Bipartisan’ Trump: He’s the Congressional GOP’s Best Friend Again In backing a partisan health-care bill and working to save McConnell’s candidate in Alabama, POTUS is back in harness with his congressional party.
let her speak
Sept. 14, 2017
Nancy Pelosi Will Not Be Talked Over by Men “Do the women get to talk around here?” Pelosi asked at Wednesday’s White House dinner.
Trump’s Immigration Flip-Flop His astonishing (if shaky) deal with Democrats is a miniature version of the immigration reform efforts that divided the GOP in the recent past.
McConnell Says Next Debt Limit Vote Won’t Happen Until Next Year McConnell was blindsided by Trump’s fiscal deal with Democrats. But now it seems a debt limit increase can be delayed, reducing Democratic leverage.
The Trump-Democratic Fiscal Deal Puts The Lid Back On A Boiling Pot Trump’s fiscal deal with Democrats really just put off a manufactured crisis. The problems the GOP faces in enacting a tax bill haven’t gone away.
Uh-Oh: Tim Ryan Becomes the Star of a Republican Tax Ad His remarks were taken out of context in a GOP ad, but Tim Ryan can find ways to talk about economic growth without mentioning corporate tax cuts.
It’s Time for Term Limits for Congressional Party Leaders — Even Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi has done good work. But in an era where Congress is chronically unpopular, 16 years in leadership is too long.
‘I’m Worth the Trouble’: Nancy Pelosi Defiant As Democrats Discuss Ousting Her About a dozen representatives met on Thursday to discuss whether there’s a way to force her out ahead of the midterms.
Nancy Pelosi Didn’t Cost Jon Ossoff the Election The Democrats aren’t going to take back the House by winning voters who recoil at the thought of a liberal woman from San Francisco holding power.
6 Takeaways From the Very Special Election in Georgia Democrats again outperformed historical markers — but disappointed those looking for a breakthrough. What does that mean for 2018?
Georgia’s Extra-Special Election Enters the Final Stretch In a race that’s too close to call, both parties are seeing a potential harbinger for what will happen in the 2018 midterms.
Democrats Toy With Some Debt Limit Hostage-Taking of Their Own After years of supporting unconditional increases, they are now considering making the GOP abandon a budget-busting tax cut.
Heading Into Stretch in Georgia Special Election, Money No Problem for Ossoff Nor is it for his Republican rival in what is already the most expensive House race in U.S. history.
Pelosi Promises to Pass $15 Minimum Wage If Dems Take House Don’t look now, but Capitol Hill Democrats seem to be putting together an ambitious, populist post-2016 agenda.
Republicans Must Think Georgians Really Hate San Francisco An effort by the GOP to tie Jon Ossoff to Nancy Pelosi may be too clever by half in evoking the City by the Bay.
This Won’t End Well for House Republicans Nancy Pelosi had a theory for how this would work out. Paul Ryan didn’t.
Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats’ Focus on Abortion Access Is Hurting the Party She blamed Clinton’s loss on Democrats’ focus on social issues, including abortion.
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