Since Nancy Pelosi helped her fatherBaltimore mayor and machine politician extraordinaire Thomas Big Tommy DAlesandromaintain a book of people who owed him favors, shes learned to wield power through the accounting of grudges and good turns. Washington received a preview of this in November, when Pelosi blocked an adversary, Jane Harman, from leading the House […]
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