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Why Are Liberals So Mad at Nancy Pelosi?
There’s a reason the House speaker keeps feuding with fellow Democrats. It’s her job.
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The best thing you can read today is from Kevin Drum at Mother Jones, who points out that liberals are mad at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one big reason: because she’s doing her job. In the latest example, Pelosi is feuding with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over emergency funding for the border crisis. Pelosi criticized AOC and her “squad” for failing to support the House Democrats’ spending measure and dismissed the faction as irrelevant. It all got a lot of attention.
But as Drum puts it: