this is why you want nancy pelosi as speaker
and why she will be

from electoral-vote.com

In short, the political chess grandmaster is manipulating her pieces with great skill. First Pelosi locked up her loyal allies, then she got the progressives, and now it’s the CBC. The odds are pretty good she’s got the votes she needs, and she hasn’t even moved her rooks or her bishops yet. Meanwhile, the first vote on the new Speaker is next week, Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and the opposition doesn’t even have a candidate to put forward. In other words, Pelosi might as well place her order for new business cards, because unless she makes a lynching joke or poses for pictures with a Confederate hat on (see below), she’s a slam dunk to regain the speaker’s gavel