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Nancy Pelosi’s on her last legs
NY Post ^ | 7/25/2021 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 07/25/2021 11:24:47 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Nancy Pelosi used to point her angry finger at Donald Trump, but she leaves him for dust when it comes to busting norms, dividing Congress and causing mayhem. If anyone is to blame for the hyper-partisanship in Washington these days, it’s the spiteful House speaker.

She behaves more like a Mafia don waging a gang war than a dignified, fair and honest presiding officer, which is what the speaker’s role requires.

Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln’s entreaty to “the better angels of our nature.” Everyone in Congress — and by extension the nation — has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere. There is no grace or Christian charity, just the barren wasteland of the zero-sum game, power for power’s sake.

It’s made all the worse by her increasingly frantic claims to be a “devout Catholic.”

The fact that all this venom is packaged in the shape of a small, elderly, expensively shod woman has bestowed upon her an element of deference her actions do not deserve. But last week there were a couple of signs that she’s finally worn out her welcome.

One was her game-playing over the Jan. 6 select committee, when she arbitrarily rejected two Republicans — Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana — from an already stacked panel.

She claimed “integrity” required her veto since the two Republicans had “made statements and taken actions that I think would impact the integrity of the committee.”

Hah. This is a committee which includes such models of integrity as Adam “Steele Dossier” Schiff.

Pelosi is scared of Jordan and Banks, even though she has the majority.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capitol; congress; house; jan6th; pelosi; pelousy
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To: MV=PY

It’s the power=money.


61 posted on 07/26/2021 5:54:27 PM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
She behaves more like a Mafia don waging a gang war than a dignified, fair and honest presiding officer, which is what the speaker’s role requires.

True!

62 posted on 07/26/2021 8:34:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough & Max Boot - Largest un-vaccinated group in US is blacks...)
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To: BradyLS
Byrd, Kennedy, McCain... They wouldn’t let go of the lightning and thunder in their hands. To feel Federal power coursing through you even as your life ebbs away...

The source article reads like a prose poem.

Your comment likewise.

63 posted on 07/26/2021 8:46:17 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
"The fact that all this venom is packaged in the shape of a small, elderly, expensively shod woman has bestowed upon her an element of deference her actions do not deserve."

Hmmm. St. Nancy the Discalced?

64 posted on 07/26/2021 8:46:56 PM PDT by thecodont
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