Speaker Pelosi: Still Worthless
I went off on Speaker Pelosi a few months back and her recent interview with Wolf “Beardy” Blitzer does nothing to convince me that I was anything but totally on target. That does not give me comfort. I’d rather be completely wrong about her but I’m not. And what’s apparent from the interview isn’t only that she’s spineless; she’s fucking incompetent. She’s adhered to the “let them dig their own grave strategy,” But they’re in the grave, Nancy. Now you’re just jumping in there with them as you show how fucking useless the Democrats are. If anything, you make the Democrats appear worse by refusing to offer any kind of real leadership. You’ve essentially given the American people two choices: either have really shitty, stubborn, unyielding leadership or no leadership at all. Thanks.
So let’s break down the interview: What did she do about the war? She didn’t stop it. She didn’t even keep it from escalating. No, she “changed the debate.” Except she didn’t. We were already having the debate. That’s why the Democrats won congress in the midterm elections. Oh, and it’s the Senate’s fault why the Democrats didn’t keep pushing to stop the war after the President vetoed the House’s bill. Way to take responsibility there, Nance.
Well why not use the “Power of the Purse” and stop funding the war? Well it turns out that the Speaker doesn’t really have that much power and even if she did, the Republicans could still bring up a bill to provide funding. How ever would the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY defeat such a bill? And hey, they’ve still provided time-lines and boundaries (even though such restrictions have absolutely no enforcement and can be ignored by the White House)! And don’t forget: there was really a turning point last week. There was the Webb Amendment. That couldn’t get past the 60-vote mark, but hey, they put it out there. Let’s give her a gold star!
She really believes that by being thwarted by the Republican minority that she’s somehow showcasing their ineptitude. But she’s the fucking enabler! At what point do the Democrats stop trying to make the Republicans look bad and try to make themselves look good? When does that happen? And what’s most sickening is that this ploy to score political points comes at the cost of American lives, American money, and American security.
And that’s what it comes down to for Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts: crippling America to hurt the Republicans. She wants to hold this administration responsible but that’s not her job. That’s the media’s job and while they may do it poorly, it’s not the job of the Democrats to try and tattle to the teacher, especially when the teacher clearly doesn’t give a shit. And if “accountability” is synonymous with punishment, then she has failed completely because at no point in the last nine months has this administration been punished for its trespasses.
With Speaker Pelosi at the helm, they never will be. While I admit that impeachment is a sticky issue, the fact that it’s “off the table” means that she’s not only given this administration Carte Blanche to continue conducting its underhanded business but she’s setting a dangerous precedent by allowing them to get away with it. What happens when future Presidents cite the Bush White House and claim “Well they got to do it!” Do you hold those Presidents “accountable” as well, Nancy?
“This is President Bush’s war; it’s Vice President Cheney’s war, and now it’s become the war of the Republicans in Congress.” are Pelosi’s last words of the interview’s first part (I shudder to think what she’ll say in part two). I can only respond with a quote from Star Wars (I’m sure Shakespeare probably says it better but I haven’t seen all his plays multiple times): “Who is more foolish: the fool or the fool who follows?”
