After nearly a month of
fiddle-farting around, Nancy “The Master Legislator” Pelosi finally accepted
defeat. The battle with Senate Majority
Leader McConnell ended with a whimper not a bang. Forced to accept the Senate would not proceed
on terms favorable to the diaper-soiling meltdowns of her party, she quietly
surrendered.
During an interview
with CNN’s Dana Bash back in December of 2018 Pelosi boasted, “I put on a suit
of armor, eat nails for breakfast. I
know how to take a punch.”
So where was this “leverage”
everyone on the left claimed she would wield?
Surrendering the fate of judicial proceedings to the Republican-majority
Senate was always how this was going to end.
She was outmaneuvered by
a stubborn McConnell and a Senate disinclined to entertain sham Articles of
Impeachment drawn up by a vicious, spiteful, lying pencil-neck on the House
Intelligence Committee and a bespectacled fat man whose pants encircle his
portly midriff just beneath his manboobs on the House Judiciary Committee.
She imprudently followed
the advice of John Dean, a convicted felon, and a vitriolic Trump-hating Harvard
law professor named Laurence Tribe who championed the farcical notion of
holding the Articles “as a tactical matter” to strengthen Chuck Schumer’s hand
in bargaining over trial rules with McConnell.
Permit me to quote Spanish
philosopher Baltasar Gracián:
“Every fool stands
convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement
the firmer their convictions.”
