Nancy Pelosi is the most effective Democratic leader in the House, certainly since at least the days of Sam Rayburn, maybe before. Jim Wright may have lived up to the potential to have that title as I suspected he could have, but he was sandbagged by the putridly corrupt and amoral liar Newt Gingrich, the media and the then idiotic leadership of Common Cause.
Nancy Pelosi has certainly had to work against those who have opposed her, Republicans, the media, the play-left, all of whom are always gunning for her, the reason her colleagues have kept her in her position for so long has something to do with her enormous skill at internal politics, it also is because she is probably as smart as anyone who has had that position and she is a political realist who knows, in the end, having the ability to do things and take them to completion is the real limit in politics. Lofty principles and alleged ideals sound nice and make people feel good, mostly about themselves, but in the end it is writing legislation, having the ability to pass legislation and to implement it that is the goal of all real politics instead of play politics.
If the limits of real politics are something your lofty principles and alleged ideals render you unable to live with, you should avoid going into elective office or even trying to get there, you should certainly avoid any leadership position because if you can't accept reality you're only going to be useful for your opponents, the corrupt, unprincipled, most definitely not lofty and even more allegedly idealistic Republican-fascists.
Nancy Pelosi has every reason to hold the position on impeaching Trump that she does because, unless things change very radically in ways they haven't in the two plus years of mounting scandal and exposed corruption, the Republicans in the Senate will never remove him from office no matter what he does. The only thing that would move those corrupt scumbags to remove him is if they thought keeping him there would endanger the thing they value most THEMSELVES. If it's not going to happen there is less of a reason to go through the exercise and she can be certain of one thing, impeaching Trump will allow him to rally his duped disciples and would rally the corporate media to his side in even more overt ways than they have been, all along. Look what impeachment did for Bill Clinton*
If you don't like that you have the friggin' Founders to blame because they made it almost impossible to remove a president by impeachment, it's never happened in our history and the media which first created Trump and then put him in the office against the most massively qualified person to have ever run for that office - not without some little help from the very play-lefty and lefty magazines and other media outlets who never miss a chance to slam Nancy Pelosi no matter how brilliantly she does the possible with what she can do it with.
The play left should fucking shut their stupid mouths because they prove themselves to be idiots and dupes and fools. They never learn. Never.
* It amazes me how many of those who now slam Nancy Pelosi stood by Bill Clinton as he blew his presidency through the most putrid of personal self-indulgence. That would be Bill Clinton who also aided those who sandbagged Hillary Clinton by both saying stupid things and by such things as his idiotic meeting with Loretta Lynch, something both of them should have known was a gift to Republican-fascists. If I never hear another word about or from Bill Clinton it will be OK with me, if it turns out he was involved with the Epstein scandals, I hope he rots in prison with the rest of them. Nancy Pelosi is worth all of the Bill Clintons there ever were or ever will be. I suspect that for more than a few of the detractors of Nancy Pelosi, it has everything has everything to do with her gender in the way it never does for the Bill Clintons.
If Trump shot somebody dead at high noon on 5th Avenue two days before Xmas, the GOP Senate still wouldn't vote to remove him from office. It would be Walker in Wisconsin redux, with Trump empowered for re-election, all but invisible and bulletproof.
ReplyDeletePelosi both slapped Trump ("he's not worth it") and hung him on the GOP like an albatross. It's the best thing she can do for the country in 2020.