Saturday, January 11, 2020

The “Master Legislator” And The Agony Of Defeat

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.”

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