No. of Recommendations: 9
In the past 5 days I've been reading quite a bit about the jobs of the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate. From what I have gleaned other than their ministerial roles their primary roles are to keep the caucus focused and voting together and raising and allocating funds for the next election campaign. Those are jobs I am not qualified for, nor even knowledgeable enough to speculate who is. I am glad that Johnson and Thune weren't up to the job.
I think that's a very narrow definition of the job. Nancy Pelosi wasn't a great Speaker because she did only those things well. She was a shrewd and excellent negotiator with the president and the Republicans, and she got things done. She ran circles around the Republicans, and they hated her for it.
