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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,928 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:03 PM Dec 9

'Hard truth': Nancy Mace says Pelosi was a better House speaker

A prominent Republican congresswoman this week shamed GOP leaders, alleging Rep. Nancy Pelosi "was a more effective Speaker than any Republican this century," arguing Republicans should learn from her leadership and claiming the party is marginalizing rank-and-file members, including women.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who represents South Carolina's first congressional district, which covers parts of Charleston, cited issues maintaining where there was a "bipartisan supermajority," votes were nearly impossible to get bills passed.

In an op-ed for The New York Times published Monday, Dec. 8, Mace wrote she came to Congress five years ago "believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina and for a country I love deeply," but learned "the system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement."

Mace, 48, became the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state in 2021 and has criticized President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. But she has since become one of his closest allies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hard-truth-nancy-mace-says-164522420.html

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'Hard truth': Nancy Mace says Pelosi was a better House speaker (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 9 OP
Of course she was. Srkdqltr Dec 9 #1
Water is also wet LetMyPeopleVote Dec 9 #2
I got news for her, Republicans never did know Emile Dec 9 #3
Pelosi was the best Speaker in my lifetime. Nancy Mace is an asshole. Walleye Dec 9 #4
We have to get used to this... returnee Dec 9 #5
Of course... Amazing Mace would say Cha Dec 9 #6

Walleye

(43,844 posts)
4. Pelosi was the best Speaker in my lifetime. Nancy Mace is an asshole.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:16 PM
Dec 9

We saw the real Nancy Mace in the way she treated my congresswoman, Sarah McBride

returnee

(824 posts)
5. We have to get used to this...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:53 PM
Dec 9

…and maintain a reality-based attitude toward it. Republicans are jumping ship like proverbial rats. This represents rank abject opportunism, and is the other side of the universe from actual principled stance. They are not changing their spots, just their strategy and tactics for power and optimal self-promotion. They are not our friends. It’s not like the entire Democratic Party is without a trace of opportunism. Some of our folks do have their moments. But it is virtually a actual dyed-in-the-wool feature of the current repub party mot a bug.

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