Reminder to Nancy Pelosi: don’t wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
One Speaker of the House after another comes to a bad end because strong-minded, unruly members in the majority party reject leadership from the person they select to lead them. In each case, the speaker’s political career ends in ignominious resignation and retirement. When Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment proceedings on Tuesday, did she look like someone who wants to get in the ring with swine?
I don’t think the House members who pushed her into this action even know what they are doing. The Squad of Four come across as earnest party destroyers, no more politically savvy than the Tea Party radicals who stormed Congress in 2010 and after. We know what happened to them. The Republican party enveloped them, and eventually the Tea Party caucus climbed into the sty to join the pig. Now left-wing Democrats want to get him reelected.
So let’s say a blessing for Nancy Pelosi’s long public career, which will end in ignominy after her clueless troops impeach Trump, and Trump wins the 2020 election. Republicans need to flip only nineteen or twenty seats in 2020 to resume the majority they had due to Obamacare. If they do that, Nancy Pelosi would not even have to resign the speakership. Republicans would walk in and take it from her.
One more reminder: Trump and his allies in the Senate may schedule the vote for his acquittal during the week before election day. That makes outstanding political theater: vindicate your base, deflate your opponents, and win.
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An impeachment inquiry will probably not help the Democrats in 2020, but I do know that if Trump’s lies, corruption, self-dealing, encouragement of foreign interference in our elections, … are not impeachable, then nothing is. If there are no limits to a demagogue as president, then what’s next?
Yeah, maybe Москва Mitch will schedule Trump’s acquittal vote on Halloween 2020. Or maybe if Trump sees no limits to his whims, the election results will be hopelessly compromised. Or maybe even Warren or Biden (or whoever is nominated) will be arrested on trumped up charges (no pun intended) or assassinated by a Trump patriot shortly before the election instead.
As for the “squad,” I am certain they are not the ones who pushed Pelosi into starting the impeachment inquiry. As of yesterday 223/235 Democrats supported impeachment, including many from moderate districts. When the Democratic Party or some of its members take a controversial position, why do people on the right “blame” it on the squad? Do you think that say, Iowa’s three Democrats feel they have to take marching orders from AOC?
As far as the Democrats being “preachy,” if not one Republican will vote with them because they are part of the Trump cult or fear for their political careers, then that’s on them. Actually there are a few Rs who have some sense of decency, Reps. Amash & Sanford, Bill Weld.
Correction: 223 of 235 supported an investigation into impeachment, not impeachment.
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