{"id":9460,"date":"2022-12-05T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:43:49","slug":"nancy-pelosi-was-really-really-good-at-her-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9460","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi was really, really good at her job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, who announced she\u2019d step down from leading the House Democrats on Thursday, made history as the first woman to ever hold the position and was a political target<\/a> \u2014 and thorn in the side \u2014 of Republicans for the better part of two decades. All that frequently obscured her mastery of her job and her singular skills as a legislator, according to Molly Ball, a Time political correspondent and author of the biography Pelosi<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pelosi has been central to many of Democrats\u2019 biggest policy wins in recent years. She kept a divided caucus unified to pass landmark bills, including the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank banking reforms, and the American Rescue Plan. She won so many concessions from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Covid-19 relief that he had to be pulled from the talks, according to Ball. And she\u2019s corralled members time and again when the party seemed on the verge of fracturing over their differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere\u2019s someone who had a 30-year career being the force behind all kinds of major legislation and liberal accomplishments in the House, chief among them the ACA. But when people talked about her, the only thing they seemed to talk about was just how disliked she was,\u201d says Ball of the misconceptions people held of Pelosi when she first began reporting on the speaker.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/11\/20\/23467057\/nancy-pelosi-speaker-legacy-molly-ball-biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced she\u2019d step down from leading the House Democrats on Thursday, made history as the first woman to ever hold the position and was a political target \u2014 and thorn in the side \u2014 of Republicans for the better part of two decades. All that frequently obscured her mastery of her job and her singular skills as a legislator, according to Molly Ball, a Time political correspondent and author of the biography Pelosi.
\nPelosi has been central to many of Democrats\u2019 biggest policy wins in recent years. She kept a divided caucus unified to pass landmark bills, including the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank banking reforms, and the American Rescue Plan. She won so many concessions from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Covid-19 relief that he had to be pulled from the talks, according to Ball. And she\u2019s corralled members time and again when the party seemed on the verge of fracturing over their differences.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s someone who had a 30-year career being the force behind all kinds of major legislation and liberal accomplishments in the House, chief among them the ACA. But when people talked about her, the only thing they seemed to talk about was just how disliked she was,\u201d says Ball of the misconceptions people held of Pelosi when she first began reporting on the speaker.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[440,542,1764,906,1742,1741],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bills","tag-congress","tag-leaders","tag-legislation","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-speaker-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}