Our tax dollars help pay her salary.

Via Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard:

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: Nancy Pelosi, who in my view is the most effective Congressional leader probably in 30 years…

COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: You mean in the House?

TOTENBERG: In the House, has kept her troops in line. Every one of them voted for a compromise or voted for a bill they didn’t like. And she gave them a tough speech about how they had to hold their noses and vote for something they didn’t like. This was not, this is not our values, she told them, but we will fight again. She means 2014. And I don’t think that she has in mind caving on some of the issues that have to be caved on.