Parties and Leadership II

For Monday, Davidson, ch. 7-8, Straus ch.2

Speakership Elections -- and more from Matt Glassman

Note:  even majorities of the president's party may split with the administration agenda.  See Democrats on trade in 1993 and 2014.

The Johnson Network

• The Favor Bank

The Johnson Intelligence System

• One week after becoming president, LBJ mentions his long relationship with J. Edgar Hoover (ab at 19:00).

The Johnson Procedure

• Unanimous consent agreement -- functional equivalent of a House rule

The Johnson Treatment

• Caro on LBJ, the House, and the Senate

LBJ in Frank Underwood's office

 

The inside game and the outside game:  in LBJ's time in the Senate, the outside game scarcely counted.  During the early 1990s -- just before the Web dominated political communication -- Rush Limbaugh was central to the GOP outside game.

Newt v. O'Neill 1984 (start clip at 9:30)

Limbaugh was central to the GOP outside game in the early 1990s, before the Web came to dominate political communication

Women in Congress
Pew data

Pelosi as a leader:

• Years later, John Spratt, a South Carolina congressman who voted against her at the time, sheepishly told me, “I couldn’t quite see her as whip, because you need to be kind of tough to be whip, and I estimated her differently. I just didn’t put two and two together.”
• Pelosi’s reign was successful because she understood the will of her caucus rather than bending it to hers.

Approval rating:  compare Pelosi and McConnell

Pelosi and AOC

Two sides of Pelosi and religion: