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Nancy Pelosi: This Girl Is on Fire

February 1, 2017

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has been absolutely on fire since Donald Trump was elected president.

After her reelection to the Democratic leadership position in spite of a fourth consecutive loss for the party in a House election cycle, Pelosi has done little in the way of public remarks to indicate she'll move away from the hyper-partisanship that defined her during the Bush and Obama administrations.

The morning of President Trump's inauguration, she told MSNBC that Republicans were the type to "pray in church on Sunday and then prey on people the rest of the week."

"While we're doing the Lord's work by ministering to the needs of God's creation, they are ignoring those needs, which is to dishonor the God who made them," Pelosi said during the same interview.

She added that she wished the president well.

Earlier this month, Pelosi said repealing Obamacare would lead to "Grandma living in the guest room."

Within an hour of Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Pelosi declared him during a CNN town hall to be a threat to people who "breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medicine" or interact with the courts in any way. That would be everybody.

She also said the judge was hostile to children with autism.

Despite the election result, she also declared the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, had "succeeded in every way," including lowering costs, which it has not done.

After dealing with a host of microphone malfunctions at a protest of Trump's controversial immigration executive order Monday night, Pelosi was caught by that same mic urging a congressional colleague to identify himself as a Muslim to the crowd. The same mic also showed her referring to the "real people" at the event who would be speaking after Democratic lawmakers.