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| Nancy Pelosi should resign - Jonathan Turley |
| 2020-02-06 |
| Winners and well-intentioned nonpartisans get to share their opinion: [The Hill] The House has its share of infamies, great and small, real and symbolic, and has been the scene of personal infamies from brawls to canings (good times. Good. Times.) But the conduct of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the State of the Union address this week will go down as a day of infamy for the chamber as an institution. It has long been a tradition for House Speakers to remain stoic and neutral in listening to the address. However, Pelosi seemed to be intent on mocking President Trump from behind his back with sophomoric facial grimaces and head shaking, culminating in her ripping up a copy of his address. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #19 She's barking mad. Lost all contact with reality. Proof positive that these people - who, contrary to their BS about "glitches" in the Iowa "vote-counting app," really do know how to count heads and assess which way the political winds are blowing - know they are f---ed for November. Game over. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 13:21 |
| #18 I watched a few minutes of |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-06 11:44 |
| #17 She's doing a news conference right now - deranged and haggard |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-06 11:33 |
| #16 She won't resign. The only hope is that after November she'll become the House Minority Leader. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-02-06 11:16 |
| #15 The House Speaker represents not her party or herself but the entirety of the chamber. She is too blinded by her arrogance for this realization. Resignation? Ritual suicide is also acceptable. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-06 11:08 |
| #14 This was like a lawyer in a jury trial making faces during his opponent's closing argument. It might feel good in the moment, but the jurors -- 37 million American viewers -- hate it. |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-02-06 09:23 |
| #13 "Nancy Pelosi should resign" Hell no! She's the best thing ever to happen to the Trunks, um... besides Schiff... and AOC.... and Nadler....oh yeah, Schumer, too OK she can go,,, |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-02-06 07:28 |
| #12 The lawmaker asked that after conducting the ethics probe, the committee make referrals to the Department of Justice “for further investigation and prosecution.” Pelosi, Gaetz alleges in the letter, “appears to be in violation” of a law that prohibits willfully destroying paper or documents “filed or deposited” in public office. New York Post |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-06 07:27 |
| #11 "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-06 06:51 |
| #10 heard today: The Clerk gets the official copy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-06 05:41 |
| #9 In the UK Bercow the dismally partisan ex-speaker has not received anything after leaving his position, it's normal to get something and most deserved it. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-02-06 03:28 |
| #8 She's not mentally competent. Needs to be in an institution (not Congress) |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 02:34 |
| #7 And lawyers all over the internet are saying sge stepped in dodo by doing that. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-06 02:11 |
| #6 TW. Daily speeches to Congress are entered into the Congressional Record and a copy must be presented to the Senate and the House by the person speakibg before both chambers. Pelosi tore up the House Congressional Record copy presented by the speaker. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-06 02:07 |
| #5 From the video they looked like double-spaced lines of Pica-12 (sized for blind people) lettered "information copies". The official one is probably single-spaced, fancy letterhead, signature and all that official stuff. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-02-06 02:05 |
| #4 h/t Instapundit |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 01:55 |
| #3 I would have thought the original document is on file in President Trump’s office, while what the honourable Speaker of the House and Vice President Pence were given were merely ceremonial copies so they could follow along as the president spoke. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-02-06 01:54 |
| #2 *correction* 18 us code 2071 |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-06 01:31 |
| #1 Pelosi broke the law. See 18 Code US 2027 establishef 1868 and is still the law. That was THE ORIGINAL document presenyed to her, The Speake, by ths POTUS. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-06 01:27 |