New excerpts from This Will Not Pass, via Punchbowl News:
“The experience of begging for support was wearing on her… Pelosi was the only Democrat in the chamber — the only Democrat alive — who had already served as Speaker, who had shown she could do the legislative arithmetic and twist the necessary arms to get things done. And yet her fellow Democrats were making her grovel. ‘At this point in my life, I don’t need this,’ she vented.”
“Her victory in holding onto the speakership, ‘seemed like a joyless one.’ Pelosi expressed “her frustration with unusual vehemence that day, discussing her political future in a way she rarely did around colleagues. ‘You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to run for Speaker again,’ Pelosi said.”
