{"id":7893,"date":"2020-05-05T16:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2020-05-05T16:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:29:32","slug":"repost-pelosis-brilliant-career-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/repost-pelosis-brilliant-career-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost: Pelosi\u2019s Brilliant Career &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u00a0<\/a>has been right about a lot. She was right in the early 1990s, when, as a fierce critic of China\u2019s human rights record, she rejected the bipartisan faith that economic liberalization in China would inevitably lead to greater democratization. She was right again in 2003 when, as the leader of the House Democrats, she was one of the few party leaders to oppose the war in Iraq. She was right during the 2008 primary, when she rejected the entreaties of powerful allies of Hillary Clinton \u2014 Harvey Weinstein among them \u2014 to get behind a plan to use superdelegates to help Clinton take the Democratic nomination from Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Pelosi was right throughout Obama\u2019s administration, when she struggled to make the president see that his fetish for bipartisanship was leading him to make pointless concessions to Republicans, who would never negotiate in good faith. In \u201cPelosi,\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/molly-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Molly Ball\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0admiring and illuminating new biography of the most powerful woman in American politics, there\u2019s a scene where Pelosi expresses her frustration to Obama\u2019s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, over Obama\u2019s doomed courtship of Republican support for health care reform. \u201cDoes the president not understand the way this game works?\u201d she asks. \u201cHe wants to get it done and be beloved, and you can\u2019t have both \u2014 which does he want?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">The House speaker would rather get it done. There\u2019s a pattern in Ball\u2019s book. Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook, finally as an establishment dinosaur \u2014 and throughout, as a woman. She perseveres, driven by a steely faith in her own abilities. And more often than not, she is vindicated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/05\/books\/review\/pelosi-molly-ball.html\">Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Brilliant Career &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u00a0has been right about a lot. She was right in the early 1990s, when, as a fierce critic of China\u2019s human rights record, she rejected the bipartisan faith that economic liberalization in China would inevitably lead to greater democratization. She was right again in 2003 when, as the leader of the House &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/repost-pelosis-brilliant-career-the-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost: Pelosi\u2019s Brilliant Career &#8211; The New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}