re: #263 dangerman

im fine up to the last line as long as it’s metaphorical.
i want her as speaker as well

like every other rep, she earns it when she wins the vote

Oh she earned it.

She kept the Ds together to pass the ACA which has been a huge win for the Dems in the last few elections (despite the crazy misguided fervor on the right). She got regulations passed for the banking industry (which the Rs have decimated). She’s earned it by not forcing the centrist Dems and the liberal Dems into a fight and finding common ground. The reason the RW hate machine targets her is because she actually get results (and not voting for the same thing 100 times achieving nothing).

Lastly her insight in legislation was that it wasn’t a year or a two year plan to keep her hide safe. She went on a decades long plan to make things better for Americans.

In short - I’m with her :).