Citing examples that go back decades, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she’s still optimistic the Democrat party can retake the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.
“History is on our side,” Pelosi said. “As you recall when Clinton was president, the Republicans won. When Bush was president, the Democrats won, when Obama was president, the Republicans won. It’s nothing to be taken for granted. But we feel again, history on our side. I have never in my years in politics seen so much enthusiasm.”
Pelosi recently gave her grades for President Trump’s first 100 days in office, which were mainly a string of “F’s.” But Pelosi pushed back against ABC host Jonathan Karl when he argued that Democrats had become the party of “no.”
“We’re looking for the infrastructure bill, which we welcome him and want to work with the president on,” Pelosi said. “We welcome some of his ideas … he said in the campaign about work and home balance in terms of child care, affordable child care. We look forward to working with him. We said we would work on a tax reform for fairness and transparency. But … he put out but a wish list for billionaires. I see everything as an opportunity.”
Despite those few items of possible consensus, Pelosi was blunt about there being no room for any kind of “grand bargain” with the president’s ongoing immigration policies, in which the administration might keep going forward with the construction of a border wall while Democrats would get a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently in the country.
As for the recent news that former President Obama made $400,000 for a “Wall Street speech,” Pelosi said that Obama had all the warrant he needed.
“Here’s the thing. President Obama led the way on Dodd-Frank, which did more to curb the influence and greed beyond greed, almost some of it criminal, in terms of what they were doing on Wall Street.”
