Penelope
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- Jul 15, 2014
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Dems took a lashing from passing Obama care, now everyone wants to keep it.....Music legend Barbra Streisand retweeted a list of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s biggest legislative achievements. Film director Rob Reiner called her “the smartest, toughest strategic thinker in our party.” And tennis champ Martina Navratilova wondered aloud why Pelosi’s job was at risk but her Senate counterpart’s position was in no such trouble.
“Go figure,” Navratilova tweeted. “A man loses and keeps his place, a woman wins and gets booted?!?”
While congressional leadership fights have historically revolved around insular matters such as committee assignments and rules changes, the battle over who will lead the newly empowered House Democrats has exploded into a national political campaign.
At stake is not merely the House speakership, a job second in line to the presidency, but who will emerge as the country’s most high-profile counterpoint to President Trump — who will set the strategy for investigating him, who will lead the opposition to his agenda, and who will be the face of the Democratic Party ahead of the 2020 campaign.
Fight for House speaker explodes into national political campaign
Will Pelosi come out on top again and if she does will the results be the same as they were when she was the leader of the House in the past.
What changes does she need to make to not repeat the thrashing Democrats took the last time she was the Speaker.
President Trump got rid of the Hated Individual Mandate
Only the "true" freeloader do not like the mandate.