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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Pelosi's Hour

 Nancy Pelosi is the most impressive and powerful Speaker since at least Newt Gingrich, if not Tip O'Neill. Apparently she has a plan for this week that is going to be a return to Nancy Smash. Yes, the Senate and Manchinema will remain the problem, but Democrats have to corral votes in the House, too. As Pelosi says, she never brings a bill to the floor without the votes.

I can't help but wonder if McConnell's irresponsible conduct on the debt ceiling isn't unifying Democrats in ways that Democrats couldn't do themselves.

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