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   By any objective measure, the first 100 days of Nancy Pelosi in   
   her second stint as the Speaker of the House were an unmitigated   
   and unproductive disaster. This mark of 100 days is a   
   traditional point at which to assess the strength of a new party   
   in power. While the Democrats hit this landmark the other day,   
   they reached it with nary a feckless whimper and without proving   
   anything but their own disunity and ineffectiveness in policy.   
      
   The only significant legislation for which House Democrats have   
   been able to secure any notable Republican support was the joint   
   resolution to rescind the national emergency declaration by   
   President Trump for the southern border. It was summarily vetoed   
   and accomplished precisely nothing. The Democrats themselves   
   prompted the national emergency declaration with their steadfast   
   refusal to fund essential border barriers to combat the   
   worsening crisis on the southern border, and their inability to   
   override his veto means they are now in a worse position than   
   before.   
      
   Even the purely symbolic bills, such as the Green New Deal and   
   the Big Tech handout deceptively known as the Save the Internet   
   Act, that Pelosi and her caucus have passed with the full   
   knowledge that they would have no chance of becoming law are   
   thin gruel. Despite the excuses about controlling only one   
   chamber of Congress, this is an embarrassing record. The first   
   time Pelosi became Speaker of the House in 2007, she enjoyed a   
   Senate controlled by her fellow Democrats while she had to   
   contend, as she does today, with a Republican president at the   
   helm.   
      
   Nevertheless, Pelosi came roaring out of the gate that year,   
   passing a whole host of liberal legislative priorities,   
   including a minimum wage increase and “pay as you go” budgeting,   
   not just in the first 100 days, but in the first 100 legislative   
   hours of her term as Speaker of the House. Moreover, most of   
   that legislation passed the Senate and was signed into law by   
   President George Bush. The same can also be said for the last   
   Republican Speaker of the House under similar circumstances. In   
   the first 100 days of 2011, when John Boehner stepped into the   
   same position Pelosi now occupies, he managed to extend the tax   
   cuts that were a central element of the legislative legacy of   
   Bush, even with President Obama in the White House and Democrats   
   in control of the Senate.   
      
   By stark contrast, the second time around for Pelosi has   
   accomplished effectively nothing so far. The reasons should be   
   clear enough. In addition to the president, the Republican   
   majority in the Senate, and an electorate that is not   
   particularly impressed by the increasingly radical Democratic   
   agenda, Pelosi has had to contend with an openly socialist left   
   wing that already tried to stop her from becoming Speaker of the   
   House again.   
      
   Piloted by the increasingly unpopular darlings of the far left,   
   including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, the radical   
   division of the caucus is thwarting efforts by Pelosi and the   
   more responsible Democrats to actually govern. With help from   
   the media, Democrats are trying to spin her tenure as some kind   
   of resounding success. On top of taking a victory lap without   
   winning anything, Pelosi told “60 Minutes” about her restless   
   socialist members by citing the diminutive presence of “like   
   five people.”   
      
   CBS took this at face value and gave her one of the greatest   
   softball interviews in recent memory. Lesley Stahl gushed all   
   throughout her questioning, calling Pelosi “one of the very few   
   people who stood up to” President Trump and won. Complete with   
   shiny graphics from the online storefront selling “patron saint   
   of shade” shirts, the show applauded Pelosi on her disgraceful   
   displays during the State of the Union Address back in February.   
   Still gushing, Stahl described Pelosi as “like a giant slayer.”   
      
   Unfortunately for Pelosi and her supporters, no amount of   
   favorably biased media treatment can cover for her actual record   
   of failure. The Democratic House majority has already scuttled   
   itself, ceding any real leadership and governance to President   
   Trump and the White House.   
      
   Madison Gesiotto is an attorney and a commentator who serves   
   with the advisory board of the Donald Trump campaign. She was an   
   inauguration spokesperson and former Miss Ohio. She is on   
   Twitter @MadisonGesiotto.   
      
   https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/440052-nancy-pelosi-had-   
   disastrous-first-100-days-as-speaker-of-the-house   
         
      
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