Pelosi: She has much better caucus discipline than Boehner, so despite intensely disliking her she gets props from me for caucus management.
Agreed; for all the roadblocks the Senate caused in 2009-2010, Pelosi demonstrated some incredibly impressive organizational efforts in corralling
just enough of the House's Blue Dogs to pass Health Care Reform, Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, Dodd-Frank, Cap and Trade, DISCLOSE Act, etc, all with very narrow margins. If you look at the roll calls, the most impressive thing is the way she had the conservative Democrats trade off, so they all passed with as few votes as possible with every Blue Dog being able to tell their constituents they opposed Pelosi on at least several of the major pieces of the Democratic agenda.
