When you’re a Democrat and you’ve lost the UK’s Guardian…:
Okay, today is the day I’m officially getting old. Moving toward the mushy middle. At least on this one question. Nancy Pelosi is going to run to keep her job as leader of the Democrats, and I am not down with this at all.
I think she was a good to very good speaker. In interviews and other occasions I had to speak with her, she’s not what you’d call an intellectual, and I dislike this habit she has of interrupting her own sentences and changing direction like a pinball that’s just hit a bumper. But she’s a sharpie, believe me. Maybe not up there with Schumer, but good political instincts.
But simple question: How can you preside over the biggest ass-whupping since 1938 and keep your job? You can’t. Simple.
She has to run, as I said, so maybe she won’t win. Although today it looks like she would. her deputy, the more moderate Steny Hoyer of Maryland, with whom she’s never gotten along, has said he wouldn’t challenge her. The remaining moderates and Blue Dogs will come up with someone, but many moderates and Blue Dogs got wiped out. The ones who remain tend to be more liberal, and Pelosi just raised a lot of money for them, so they owe her.
So I guess she wins. Unless a candidate of the rump faction really takes off in the next two weeks. Or unless some big party leader, like the highest-ranking Democrat in the country, were to step in and say no, change direction. Gee, who would that be…
Read the whole thing here. The Guardian is, of course, very left-wing. Still, we enjoy reading it because, unlike America’s newspapers, it doesn’t hide the fact that it is left-wing.