Pelosi is playing the FDR card: "Sounds like a great idea - now go out and get the support we need to make me do it."
And she's not wrong.
To reiterate: Pelosi is in charge of The House. That's no small thing, but it's 1 part of a 6-part machine and the Repubs control majorities in all of the other 5 parts (ie: Senate, Executive, Judicial, State Governments and the Big Money Donors).
And again, she's playing a pretty strong game (so far) with a pretty weak hand.
And also too, I can't presume to know everything she knows, so I have to presume she's working in the context of information I know nothing about.
That said, there's nothing wrong with keeping up the pressure. We just have to be a little careful not to express our frustrations in terms of "she's stupid" and "she's incompetent" and "she's not doing her job", etc. We can't afford to get suckered again.
Because this is not about "those bumbling dumbass Democrats".
We're in this pickle because of the GOP - because of Republican policies in service to the 40-year project of Radical Libertarians to shitcan our little experiment in self-government and replace it with plutocracy.
Don't fall for that shit.
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