222-213 in the house.
Pelosi gonna have to suck up to the commies in the party to get their votes... that will make winning in 2022 that much harder
Where does this constant revisionist history that Pelosi can't get the caucus to vote in unison come from?
She delivered the ACA to Obama. She had 2 Dems vote no on Impeachment.
She has been way way way more successful at keeping all wings of the party behind her, than Boehner or Ryan ever did from 2010-2018. She saved Bush and Trump from having a second Great Depression fall under their watches.
She has been way more effective of a politician than people give her credit for. I know people in the party want her to move aside from some fresh blood, but she's even been able to keep those "progressives" on a leash when it came down to it. There was way more party in-fighting under Boehner and Ryan than there has been on Pelosi's two speakership terms. One of the only big scandals where she had a public fight with one of the newer bloods was Omar and the Israel stuff.
Pelosi said she'd step down in 4 years as Speaker when they retook the House. Considering the Dems, even if they get to 50-50 in the Senate after the runoffs, won't have a true majority in Senate, having Pelosi ramming bills to McConnell's desk from one side, and having Biden pressure McConnell from the White House on the other, is about the best play the Dems have of trying to get anything meaningful done.
And Pelosi is very effective at it. Probably almost as effective at getting what she wants done as McConnell is in the Senate.
If Pelosi is this ultra uber left wing communist that the right always makes her out to be, how is it progressives like AOC think she doesn't do enough? This is like how Biden keeps getting portrayed as somehow this bigger progressive socialist than Obama, when Obama tapped him to be Veep to balance the ticket since Biden was essentially a centrist moderate.
If there is one thing the right is good at, it's moving goalposts to whatever narrative they want and pounding that message over and over and over until people believe it. But by then the damage has already been done.