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To: i-node who wrote (537319)	12/18/2009 11:09:02 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

"Nancy Pelosi can play. Faced with adamantine opposition from Republicans, take-no-prisoners exhortations from progressives and foot-dragging equivocation from nervous Blue Dogs, the speaker still managed to get a bill out of the House that included almost everything President Obama wanted, including a public health insurance option. It always amuses me to hear people call Pelosi a "San Francisco liberal," because while the description is objectively true, it suggests a certain delicacy of sensibility. In fact, Pelosi was born and raised in the bare-knuckles world of big-city machine politics -- her father was Tommy D'Alesandro, a legendary Baltimore mayor. She knows how to count votes and how to keep them counted. Pelosi also knows how and when to exercise her many prerogatives. We saw an illustration on Wednesday, when she brought to the floor several hot-button measures: a hike in the debt ceiling, a defense bill laden with baggage such as an extension of unemployment benefits, and a $154 billion new stimulus package funded with unused financial-bailout money. Normally, each of these would have sparked a huge fight -- but not on the last day before recess, when everyone was rushing to get out of town. That's the way stuff gets done."