Pray hard, Nancy…
(Bolds Mine)
“The president has remained curiously polite to the speaker, even as the war between the branches intensifies. His catchall description of Ms. Pelosi is a respectful one —“tough”— and he has told congressional allies that he respects Ms. Pelosi more than her predecessor, Paul D. Ryan, because of her ability to keep backbenchers from hijacking her caucus.
“Maybe he knows that I pray for him,” she shrugged. “I pray that his heart will be open for good things, to help people instead of taking babies out of the arms of their mothers, for example.”
Good luck with that, Madame Speaker.
To be fair, the Times also reports that the Speaker has at least one foot in reality.
“Ms. Pelosi laced Wednesday’s conversation with scathing descriptions of Mr. Trump’s fitness to serve as president, taking issue with his “attention span” and his “lack of knowledge of the subjects at hand” during their negotiating sessions — and saying his behavior “degrades” the country and “dishonors” the Constitution.”
But her plan to elect Democrats in swing districts take us again into LaLa land.
“Mr. Trump met this week with Ms. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders at the speaker’s request, and agreed to work on a $2 trillion package to repair the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges, sewer systems and waterworks, securing his commitment to expand broadband nationally and undertake an overhaul of the country’s antiquated power grid.
“I like the number you’ve been using, Nancy — $2 trillion,” Mr. Trump said, according to an aide who was present at the White House for the meeting. “I’ll lead on this.”
Well, yeah, he’ll work on it, that’s more than twice what President Obama was allotted to pull us out of the Great Recession.
That kinda of spending, even as most of it gets poured down GOP graft-holes, will juice the economy and the results will redound only to drump’s credit.
She has to know that. Doesn’t she?
But at least she had women’s backs…right?
“When asked whether Mr. Biden would pay a political price for his grilling of Anita F. Hill during the 1991 confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas, Ms. Pelosi shook her head in the negative and waved a hand dismissively.”
Listen, I know a lot of you will brook no criticism of the Speaker and surveying the field last year, there were not a lot of better choices for leader.
I mean Tim Ryan?
But when your leader is about to walk you off a cliff, you gotta say something.
No repercussions for Trump, in fact, a big fat stimulus check going into an election year, fretting that Trump won’t honor the election unless it’s a landslide, a nix on progressive legislation and a tacit endorsement of...Joe Biden?
And, oh yeah, a shit ton load of waster prayer.
Call me crazy, but I don’t see that as a winning formula.
See something, say something.