{"id":1744872,"date":"2022-11-19T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744872"},"modified":"2022-11-19T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:49:20","slug":"john-podhoretz-nancy-pelosis-legacy-spending-a-colossal-amount-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-podhoretz-nancy-pelosis-legacy-spending-a-colossal-amount-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"John Podhoretz: Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Legacy \u2014 Spending a Colossal Amount of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-podhoretz-nancy-pelosis-legacy-spending-a-colossal-amount-of-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"John Podhoretz\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/17\/nancy-pelosi-quits-as-house-democrat-leader-after-gop-takes-majority\/\">who announced she would not continue as the Democratic Party\u2019s leader<\/a> in the House of Representatives, has been a great legislator. You\u2019d have to be to last for 19 years at the top of the Democratic legislative greasy pole.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean she has been a great font of ideas, a great visionary, or a great leader of the American people. She has been none of those things.<\/p>\n<p>Her own contributions to this country on matters of policy, rather than shepherding or opposing bills in the House, have been negligible. She was impotent when it came to dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/07\/democrats-just-endorsed-anti-semitism\/\">an anti-Semitic outbreak in her caucus in 2019<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>And she descended into childishness to match her target\u2019s behavior when she ripped up Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union speech as she sat behind him in 2020. But fair is fair. She has proved herself a political technician of immense skill. And if you like the game of politics, you have to enjoy someone who plays it masterfully even if she\u2019s on a team you dislike.<\/p>\n<p>She has also benefited from a sea change in American politics that began with the rise of Republican Newt Gingrich to the speakership of the House in 1994, seven years after Pelosi entered Congress.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-02.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Nancy Pelosi.\" class=\"wp-image-24693930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Nancy Pelosi announced she would not continue as the Democratic Party\u2019s leader in the House of Representatives.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gingrich helped nationalize the politics of the House, which had been consciously designed by the Founders to represent local interests. What a New York district might need from the federal government is wildly different from what an Oklahoma district might need, and so their representatives were supposed to contest for dollars and rules.<\/p>\n<p>Technological and social developments in the United States changed that in the 1990s. Gingrich united a newly energetic Republican Party around a set of issues and ran on them nationwide. Gingrich proved too incompetent to make real use of his nationalized politics.<\/p>\n<p>It was Pelosi, who became speaker 12 years later, who figured out how to herd the House\u2019s cats and make the body into a weapon for progressivism. In 2009 and 2010, Pelosi forcefully subordinated the individual interests of her party\u2019s members to the national interest of the Obama administration and prevailed upon Democrats in conservative districts to vote for ruinously expensive and statist regulations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-01.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Rep. Newt Gingrich making his victory speech during election night on Nov. 8, 1994.\" class=\"wp-image-24693938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Republican Newt Gingrich became speaker of the House following the 1994 election, seven years after Pelosi entered Congress. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her imperious success proved a Pyrrhic victory. She lost her speakership. Republicans picked those Democrats who should have voted against Pelosi\u2019s and Obama\u2019s wish-list laws, took 63 seats and the House majority, and blocked Obama\u2019s legislative agenda for the next six years.<\/p>\n<p>Then <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> mishandling of his legislative agenda (among other things) helped sweep Pelosi\u2019s party back into power in the 2018 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>And when Joe Biden became president \u2014 after Trump screwed things up again for Republicans by helping Democrats win the Senate in the Georgia runoffs in 2020 \u2014 she painted her masterpiece. With an incredibly scant majority in the House, she managed to help Biden secure <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/15\/the-true-cost-of-dems-3-5-trillion-plan-is-actually-5-trillion\/\">around $5 trillion in new spending<\/a> in just 20 months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-03.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Nancy Pelosi.\" class=\"wp-image-24693940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/pelosi-legacy-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pelosi still said she would continue to represent San Francisco. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And, in large measure due to the midterm electorate\u2019s allergy to Trump\u2019s effect on the GOP (are you seeing a trend here?), the cost to her party was nowhere near what even she expected it would be. But they did lose the majority. Pelosi knows better than anyone that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/17\/nyc-rep-hakeem-jeffries-favored-to-succeed-pelosi-as-house-democratic-leader\/\">being the minority leader<\/a> is no fun, and so she has stepped down to let a \u201cnew generation\u201d of Democrats take charge \u2014 and suffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Pelosi, who announced she would not continue as the Democratic Party\u2019s leader in the House of Representatives, has been a great legislator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1744875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}