Thursday, January 16, 2020

"Has any other Speaker of the House ever before lost the House majority and the Speakership twice? Nope."

Dov Fischer writes in Spectator,
...In the end, the only people who abused power during the Silly Season of Ukraine were Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. And once the House passed the Stillborn Impeachment, it devolved on Pelosi to submit it to the Senate for a quick and merciful funeral and interment. But she would not do it, obstructing the unilateral will of the Democrat House and obstructing the work of the Senate. In other words, the Honorable Dowager who represents a district composed almost exclusively

So Pelosi lost. Really bad. The foundation cracked all around her. It was as though Sen. Dorothy Gale of Kansas had tossed a bucket of water on her. One by one, Democrat senators went on TV talk shows to tell Pelosi to send over the danged articles already. Even her own mirror image — 86-year-old San Franciscan Dianne Feinstein — said it was time to give up the ghost. As Pelosi doddered forward, finally reflecting utter defeat while denying her public humiliation, she struck one more childish blow, an angry tantrum, giving voice to that sinful hatefulness that she had told us she does not bear “as a Catholic.” She petulantly said that, no matter what, no matter her defeat and trampling, she had won one small cardiac victory for her hateful heart: at least President Trump is “impeached for life.”of The Billionaires and The Homeless is the one who obstructed Congress. But we cannot speak of impeaching Pelosi for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — because those are not grounds for impeachment.

...Fascinating. Pelosi really is that small. That petulant. That hateful. At least he is “impeached for life.”

But the real legacy that Pelosi’s Stillborn Impeachment has laid out for Donald Trump is something else. Never in all of American history has the American electorate voted back into office a president who had been impeached. With many indicators suggesting that Trump stands a very decent prospect of being reelected this November, he would become the only American president in history whose popularity was so great that the American people rose up in defiance of their own elected House representatives to send him back to the White House after impeachment. Now that is a historic achievement. No one will remember why he was impeached, only that the American people rose up in revolt and presented themselves as The Resistance to a Swamp of Democrats and reelected their chosen leader barely half a year after his impeachment.

...And how will Nancy Pelosi be remembered in history? Has any other Speaker of the House ever before lost the House majority and the Speakership twice? Nope. Just stay out of the way as the shards from the glass ceiling rain down upon her when she gets ousted again from the Speakership — this time for life.
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