Nancy Pelosi's Leadership Lessons for Bossy Girls Everywhere

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http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/nancy-pelosis-leadership-lessons-for-bossy-girls-everywhere

It’s hard to look away when Nancy Pelosi is whipping her caucus in a leadership race. It’s like watching a lion drag down an antelope twice its size or a slow-motion shark attack. Even though you think you know how it ends, the sheer power on display keeps you watching.

Take last week, after 16 Democrats announced that they would oppose Pelosi for speaker — just enough opposition to kill her bid. Within hours, her operation went about knocking the naysayers down one by one, along with Pelosi’s only announced challenger, Rep. Marcia Fudge, who dropped her bid after Pelosi re-started a dormant subcommittee on voting rights and put Fudge in charge of it. There are still murmurings of discontent in this corner or that, but the momentum seems to have shifted perceptibly to a second Pelosi speakership through a combination of Pelosi-sponsored sweeteners, tightening screws, and sheer force of will.

No matter how the vote ends in the Democratic caucus Wednesday, we will have never seen a woman in politics, or maybe anywhere on the American stage, so publicly and so relentlessly go about getting what she wants. In a country with an entire cottage industry encouraging supposedly unconfident women to stand up for themselves, Pelosi’s second quest for the speaker’s gavel offers real-time lessons in leadership from a woman who has been at the top and wants to go there again, at 78 years old, no less. No matter your politics, this is how it’s done.

When you come at the Queen, you best not miss.

[Brainstormy]

1. I never doubted! n/t

[sagesnow]

2. Nancy The Boss! n/t

[betsuni]

3. K&R

[Cha]

4. #TeamPelosi!

Link to tweet

Don't Come for Nancy Pelosi unless she sends for you!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Sing it!

[mcar]

6. K&R

[samnsara]

7. i want to be her when i grow up

[DonViejo]

8. She was never in any danger...

The only question, to me at least, is who used who? Did the media use the disgruntled Dems or, did the disgruntled use the media to provide coverage of their temper tantrum?

Nancy Pelosi knows her stuff, and knows how to play the game of politics very well. We Democrats are very lucky to have her in our country's highest elected leadership.

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9. I love how AOC completely outmaneuvered the anti-Pelosi people

She even got Pelosi to owe her a favor, without giving up anything. I think Pelosi respects game when she sees it.

[DonViejo]

11. I have many friends living in Seth Moulton's district...

All of them were very strong Moulton supporters, expecting him to go far with his leadership abilities. Now, they all say if he's reelected, he's probably forever and seriously marred for trying to overthrow the first in history woman to serve as Speaker and Minority Leader....in the time of Trump no less. One of those friends is working with other Moulton constituents to find a woman to run against him.

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12. Yup

When you come at the Queen, you better not miss

[JHan]

13. this ++

[dansolo]

18. AOC was smart enough to know which side was going to win

Please, don't make her out to be some sort of genius. Her decision was a no-brainer. I only give her credit for not being dumb enough to kill her political career before it started. Nancy owes her nothing.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Love one of her statemennts,

you have to earn this job,I did. Bam!!!

[JHan]

14. K&R

[fierywoman]

15. And may she teach the young women who are entering Congress in 2019

her moves!

[libdem4life]

16. Wheee doggies, as we used to say in the South !!! nt

[JudyM]

17. My mom, who is 15 years older than Nancy, has been very interested in how this has been playing out

and was really impressed when I caught her up on it tonight. Inspiring to all ages, not just the young’uns!