She's still using the "Better Deal" slogan that apparently some Democratic marketing consultants came up with, presumably on the theory that boring voters to sleep is the best way to inspire midterm turnout this year.
Pelosi generally comes off as tired and bored. "Phoning it in" comes to mind when I hear her speak.
It's not so much that what she is advocating is bad. It's just that it's the stock conservative (yes, conservative) Democratic rhetoric that has become the standard language of the corporate Democrats. You won't hear any phrase like "single payer" or "Medicare for all" in this press conference. But she wants to give us a Better Deal on healthcare, somehow.
But even when she's talking about the scandalous separation of children from their asylum-seeking parents at the border and calling it "barbaric," she sounds like she's reciting dull talking points that really don't make much difference to her one way or the other. She'd rather be schmoozing with mega-donors.
She even sounds dull and unserious when she says, "I just don't even know why they aren't uprisings all over the country and maybe there will be, when people realize that this is a policy." (Just after 13:40)
In the real world, her response and that of her House Democratic Campaign Committee to the popular uprising against Trumpism in the surge of activist candidates has been ... to try to get more conservative, owned-by-corporate-donors candidates elected instead of people involved in "uprising."
But she does talk about "reducing the deficit" and "infrastructure." Both of which have been reduced to meaningless by endless and vapid repetition. And nobody really cares about the deficit anyway. Nor is there any particular reason to.
Howie Klein gives a good look at the state as the Democratic "Resistance" as embodied in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC, aka, "D-Triple-C") in Imagine How Brilliant The DCCC Would Be If It Could Learn From Its Mistakes! Down With Tyranny! 06/13/2018.
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