Many many people have underestimated Speaker Pelosi throughout her career. Many are doing so today. The latest efforts by the opposition and national press, Wolf Blitzer et al., to pressure her into agreeing to a ‘skinny’ relief deal — “but it will help, so why won’t you just do it?!?” — she can see right through. She knows, from dealing with this duplicitous and cynical GOP and Mitch McConnell over many years, that they are only willing to do anything because they are desperate heading into a (hopefully losing) election day; and after this, they will give nothing. So the package rises or falls as a whole. If she agrees now to only a single provision (e.g. an unemployment extension), then the other ones — aid to states, support for testing, etc. — which are actually critical to the rescue and protection of the country and working people, will never see the light of day. This is political courage in action, based on shrewd analysis. We should all appreciate it.