Reply #15: Don't be too sad or too harsh

[jfxgillis]

There are numerous positives that can emerge from this no matter how "hard" she fights.

For example, as I mentioned above, real paper-trail legislation or House rules should come out of this.

Also, I don't know how old you are, but I remember the "Bloody Eighth" dispute after the 1984 elections and that consumed the House for months. The month of January in Congress might be critical to defining American politics for the next decade. Pelosi simply can't allow that critical period to be consumed by a credentials battle.

Releasing a seat that we might concievably control is a price we have to pay to control the Congressional agenda and the news narrative and to prevent as much as possible further damage to the country from the Bush Administration.

Politics is the art of the possible.