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Pelosi Bonaparte sees her Waterloo
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Thursday’s vote on impeachment says everything about Mrs. Pelosi’s speakership and nothing about Mr. Trump’s presidency.This is Nancy San Fran NanPelosi  Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...’s Waterloo, and she knows it. Pelosi Bonaparte has desperately tried to throttle down the impeachment freight train that the crazies in her party have been frothing about since Election Day 2016. Not because she likes Mr. Trump or wants him to be president, but because she is a smart enough politician to know that impeachment will fail to remove the president and could very well cost Democrats control of the House ‐ not to mention assure Mr. Trump’s reelection. In that case, Pelosi Bonaparte still goes down in history as the nation’s first female House speaker, but she also goes down as the first female House speaker to lose her majority ‐ twice. Thursday’s vote is final proof that she has surrendered and allowed the inmates to take over the asylum. Among those voting who clearly understands what Pelosi Bonaparte also understands is Rep. Collin Peterson, the longtime Minnesota Democrat who represents a district that voted for Mr. Trump by 30 percentage points in 2016. In 1998, when the House voted to launch impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Mr. Peterson voted in favor of proceeding, though he would later vote against actually impeaching the president. What does it say that a guy like Mr. Peterson saw a case at least worth pursuing against the president of his own party back in 1998, yet he doesn’t see such a case worth pursuing against the president of his opposing party today? It tells us that, like Pelosi Bonaparte, he knows Waterloo when he sees it. Related: Nancy Pelosi: 2019-12-09 ‘Treason': House Judiciary Committee Report Implicates Trump in Ultimate Crime Nancy Pelosi: 2019-12-09 Republicans mount ad blitz on impeachment, making some vulnerable Democrats nervous Nancy Pelosi: 2019-12-08 Pelosi Reportedly Wants To Strip Online Free Speech Protections From Trade Deal Related: Collin Peterson: 2017-10-04 If The NRA Is So Bad, When Will Democrats Return Their Donations? Collin Peterson: 2013-11-21 GOP to Host Press Conference for Democrats 'Running on Obamacare' Collin Peterson: 2010-03-03 Support Building to Unregulate CO2 Posted by: Fred 2019-12-12 |
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