# The Nancy Pelosi appreciation thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907 "2019-01-17T01:42:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/861 "2021-08-25T23:33:24Z")

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We need to get out of this cycle: Republicans are in charge: nothing gets done because they don’t want anything to get done. Democrats are in charge: nothing gets done because they can’t everything they want done.

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/862 "2021-08-25T23:35:49Z")

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Exactly. Spot on.

To use a football analogy, we obviously would love to throw it 65 yards into the end zone for a touchdown, but if all you can get is a 4 or 5 yard run up the middle, then you take what you get. You don’t throw into triple coverage to get the TD if it ain’t there.

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/863 "2021-08-26T00:08:47Z")

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> [@asahi](#):
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> Pelosi is a badass - a once-in-a-generation parliamentarian.

She’s got to be up there with the greatest Speakers of all time.

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/864 "2021-08-26T00:11:24Z")

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In some regards, she’s probably in the top two or three of all time simply because of the partisanship she has to deal with. Tip O’Neill is obviously legendary, but he had it relatively easy relative to Pelosi. You’d have to go back a long damn way to find someone who’s been as skillful during such trying times.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/865 "2021-08-26T00:18:10Z")

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Sam Rayburn, perhaps?

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/866 "2021-08-26T00:28:11Z")

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Definitely in that category. If we still have a liberal democracy and the same map of the US 50 years from now, there will definitely be a Nancy Pelosi House Office Building.

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