Frankly, Pelosi wields way, way, way too much power in DC.
She’s the one running things, not Biden/Harris. Just watching him yesterday(?) signing that one EO and he says he doesn’t know what he is signing...and Pelosi tells hime to “just sign it.”
I was concerned over Pelosi’s power grabs a few years back and she is getting worse and worse as each day passes. There is no one to ‘check’ her power. Trump couldn’t seem to do it, nor the SCOTUS. Mitch walked the tight-rope with her, but clearly still wasn’t able to put her in her proper place.
Pelosi is running the country and has been since early on in the Obama years.
And Obama is running Pelosi!!
Good point........ she gets elected Speaker even as Democrats b*tch and moan about her. They elect her, despite their misgivings.
We need to have transparency here. Clearly, she wields and deals our tax dollars to get elected Speaker:
<><> promising free Congressional tax-paid foreign trips on her tax-paid govt plane;
<><> financial pkgs to their districts--using targeted legislative initiatives;
<><> promises of asst perks and privileges only she can dole out.
<><> putting relatives and friends on the Congressional payroll;
<><> doling out US govt pension applications, and so on.
Being a Congressional relic, she knows all the tricks to get tax dollars.
Plus she controls DNC campaign money----a big factor in her power mongering.
NEED TO KNOW ASAP:
<><> what is her Speaker budget?
<><> lists of her tax-paid reimbursement vouchers
<><> how many tax-paid trips does she have planned (need advance planning so the info is out there)
<><> lists of govt sinecures and bailiwicks she's doled out to Congressional relatives and friends.
<><> lists of phantom people she's put on the govt payroll, and so on.
“Pelosi is running the country and has been since early on in the Obama years.”
Exactly. She & her then partner in crime, Harry Reid, engineered the sequential presidential qualifications for office of 1) John McCain and 2) Barak Obama. Both had dubious claims for ‘natural born’ status. (Though I think McCain’s was on more solid ground as the child of a serviceman serving overseas. But that was just greasing the skids for Obama’s more problematic finding.)
She would make a formidable mob boss
It’d be funny if someone in a Grim Reaper costume or a vulture costume, maybe carrying an hourglass, started showing up to Pelosi’s events to remind the old hag just how old she is.