In Opinion: As Nancy Pelosi’s title changes, so too will her strategy. And it’s unlikely that stepping down from leadership means she will be taking a back seat.
That may sound absurd considering that come Tuesday afternoon Pelosi will no longer be speaker and — for the first time in two decades — will not be the Democrats’ leader on Capitol Hill.
When Obamacare came to the House without a government-backed “public option,’’ many liberals threatened to reject it. Pelosi — who strongly supported a public option — understood that to insist on it would doom the legislation and prevent tens of millions of uninsured Americans from gaining coverage.
These are the compromises one makes when trying to move legislation and keep Democratic on the path to victory, not just in San Francisco, Boston or Ann Arbor, but in Indianapolis, Charlotte and Austin. Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan received nearly 17% of the vote when she challenged Pelosi in 2008 after Pelosi’s refusal to defund the Pentagon. It was among the highest vote totals for a Pelosi challenger since 1987, when she defeated then-Supervisor Harry Britt in her first run for Congress by fewer than 4,000 votes.
“You don’t want a Lyndon Johnson, a sort of Great Compromiser-type person, representing the Haight Ashbury,’’ Britt said in a conversation a few years before his death in 2020. “They should be representing Kansas City or somewhere.’’ Pelosi’s stature as former Speaker will make her more than a typical back-bencher, though she won’t have many opportunities to advance legislation in a Republican House.
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