Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reminded Americans on Thursday why she is such a toxic presence in Congress.
In her weekly press conference, Pelosi suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden should not debate President Donald Trump this fall. “I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States,” she added.
On one level, Pelosi was articulating the growing fear among Democrats that Biden can’t beat Trump — at least, not fairly. There was also gamesmanship involved: if Biden has to debate Trump, best to set expectations as low as possible.
But Pelosi also made clear that nearly four years into the Trump presidency, she still refuses to regard him as the legitimate, elected leader. She also thinks the voters do not deserve to see the candidates face off against one another in a public forum.
This is how Pelosi has treated the electorate, and her own party, for years. And her behavior has become worse over time.
She was first elected Speaker in 2006, the first woman ever to rise to that powerful position, in charge of the nation’s purse strings and third in line for the presidency. She and her party took Congress promising to “drain the swamp” of corruption.
But Pelosi immediately broke that promise, backing Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA) for the post of House Majority Leader, whom the Wall Street Journal described as steeped in the “culture of corruption.” (He eventually lost to Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
For two years, Pelosi regarded her job as treading water until the 2008 election, when Democrats would have the chance to take complete control of Washington. Meanwhile, she consolidated power to an unprecedented degree in the Speaker’s office.
After 2008, she pushed through unprecedented liberal legislation: the $862 billion stimulus; the $400 billion omnibus; cap-and-trade (which went nowhere in the Senate); and the ultimate left-wing dream, the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare.
The latter cost Pelosi control of the House, as outraged voters, led by the Tea Party, marched to the polls and delivered a huge Republican victory. In most other democracies, that loss would have prompted Pelosi to resign in favor of new leadership.
But not Pelosi. She was determined to maintain power. She defeated every leadership challenge — from Rep. Health Shuler (D-NC) to Tim Ryan (D-OH) — and tightened her grip on her party, hoping one day that she would seize the gavel again.
That day came in 2019, after Democrats returned to power in the House. Pelosi faced a new challenge in the form of a cohort of far-left radicals — the so-called “Squad.” She deftly negotiated for their support, promising to serve only two more terms.
Her ambition is to return to the position she and Democrats had in 2009, after Obama won. She knows that she could be the effective leader of the country, with the hapless, geriatric Joe Biden managed by a team of party fixers at the White House.
To that end, she has planted the idea that she is already “co-equal” to the president in terms of the Constitution. She has also blocked everything that anyone else has tried to do — and not just President Trump. When a bipartisan team of Senators had reached a deal on the second round of coronavirus relief, Pelosi jetted in from her luxury mansion in San Francisco, declared her contempt for the Senate’s work, and released an 1,815-page bill of special interest giveaways and partisan power grabs.
Along the way, Pelosi also impeached the president. She rushed to open the inquiry — before she had seen the evidence — then delayed the articles of impeachment for weeks. It was one of the worst and most cynical abuses of power in the sorry history of the Beltway. She could have been remembered for Obamacare; Obama himself said he was willing to lose to pass it. Instead, Pelosi will be remembered for her pursuit of power. Voters could vindicate her ambitions — or send her packing.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
Bated
Breath for Barr's Big Break By Erik Gregory and Todd Gregory
With
the reported guilty plea of Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) lawyer Kevin Clinesmith to a false statement charge as
part of John Durham's Russia Hoax investigation, true conservatives are
celebrating the much heralded arrival of Attorney General (A.G.) William (Bill)
Barr, who, we are being promised, will round up the coup-plotters with dispatch
and bring a rain ruin to the anti-Trump cabal that engaged in the illegal
spying and sting operations against the president and his associates.
And
yet...and yet..Kevin Clinesmith? Not exactly a ringleader in the
anti-Trump cabal. And what of the instigators of this audacious plot
against the president (i.e., John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Joe
Biden, or Barack Obama to name but a few)? Thus far, Barr has
indicated no intention of prosecuting anyone beyond the low-hanging fruit of
Kevin Clinesmith and even publicly issued assurances to Barack Obama and Joe Biden that they have no
criminal culpability (to say nothing of Barr's exoneration of Andrew McCabe on
Valentine's Day). Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief
John Brennan was reportedly told by Durham that he was not a target (or even a subject) of
the Russia Hoax investigation . And it appears that Durham has not
even interviewed most of the principal figures central to the Russia
Hoax. While Barr and Durham should be applauded for finally taking
some judicial action, however limited, if Kevin "little fish" Clinesmith
is their biggest catch and the true ringleaders escape unscathed, we can be
assured these serial abuses of power will escalate under a Joe en
administration.
Consequence #1 — The DOJ Will Ensure a Two-Tiered Politicized
Justice System (Exclusively Targeting Conservatives and Protecting
Progressives) : The DOJ began visibly putting its thumb on the scales of justice
in favor of fellow progressives and against conservatives during Obama's
reign. Examples are extensive, but to recap a few highlights, recall
the persecution of conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the
Sharyl Attkisson/James Rosen spy scandals and the shameless protection of
Hillary Clinton, who (along with several members of her staff) committed
multiple and flagrant felonies including lying to Congress and felony
dissemination of material classified at the highest security
levels. Out of these scandals, and more, how many progressive
Democrats were indicted and prosecuted? None. Under
Obama, the progressive DOJ was the quintessential "hometown referee"
for the Democrats. They blew the whistle on everything Republican
(including false allegations, like the Russia Hoax) and looked the other way,
every time, when Democrats committed real crimes (just ask Hillary Clinton
or Barack Obama). By some estimates, 97% of DOJ political donations went
to the Democratic Party . Republicans and conservatives, and soon even
moderates, are, or will shortly be, subject to a nearly impossible standard of
justice. With Biden's 2020 victory, the progressive Democrats will
cement their stranglehold on the DOJ, and the political persecution and
censorship of all future generations of Republicans (and, indeed, moderates) is
assured.
Consequence #2 — Escalating Federal Government Attacks against
Republicans and Conservatives : Progressive-dominated federal government
agencies will renew and escalate attacks against conservative organizations and
individuals in the confident knowledge that the politically aligned DOJ will
not hold them to account. The IRS ( dominated by left-wing ideologues ), among other
like-minded agencies (such as the CIA), under a Biden presidency, will be
emboldened to renew their attacks on Republicans and conservatives with
impunity (just as they did during the Obama years).
Consequence #3 — The Russia Hoax Investigation Will Be Dissolved
Immediately by President Biden.
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Consequence #4 — The DOJ Will Disenfranchise United States
Citizens by Enforcing Open Borders: Under Biden, the DOJ (and
the John Roberts–led Supreme Court) will use the awesome power of the law to
enforce open borders and grant amnesty to millions of illegal migrants, which
will ensure many millions of new voters for the progressive Democrats (to say
nothing of breaking the social welfare state at U.S. taxpayer
expense). T his will result in the widespread disenfranchisement of
United States citizens, whose votes will be essentially
nullified. The DOJ and Supreme Court will be all too happy to ensure
Democratic hegemony for the foreseeable future, but along with the new voters
will come criminals, gangs, smuggling, disease, and an endless supply of
illegal drugs (effectively making the United States an open toilet for the rest
of the world). The rich and happy public "self"-servants
of the DOJ and Supreme Court will not suffer the consequences of their
disastrous policies from behind their gated and secure
communities. We will.
Consequence #5 — A One-Party United States : Owing to Consequence
#4, we will live in a one-party (Democrat) country. Diversity of
thought and policy will no longer be tolerated. Those that stray
from progressive orthodoxy will be targeted for destruction by the awesome and
unchecked powers of the DOJ.
Consequence #6 — Persecution of Christians (and Rigorous
Protection of Non-Christian Faiths) : If you burn a Koran, the DOJ will arrest you
and charge you with a hate crime. If you burn a Bible, you won't
be. It's that simple, and it helps explain why the DOJ has taken no
steps to protect churches even while they are being actively targeted for
desecration during the riots. If mosques were being burned down, be
assured that the DOJ would arrive in force with guns drawn. If
churches are being burned down, the DOJ is cool with that.
Consequence #7 — Election Interference and Election Rigging Will
Be Assured in a Manner Favoring Progressive Democrat s: Mail-in voting,
already so rife with fraud, along with so-called ballot-harvesting, will be
enthusiastically supported (and enforced) by the progressive-friendly
DOJ. Progressive judges called to adjudicate these matters will invariably
side with their political allies over the rule of law. It's an open
joke that Republican voters who die often keep right on voting — as Democrats.
Conclusion : This is a pivotal moment for the A.G.'s office,
and Bill Barr needs to consider the legacy that he will be leaving future
generations. The seven consequences listed merely scratch the
surface in terms of how a progressive Democrat administration will wield the
awesome powers of the DOJ as a transformative agent to terrorize and extinguish
(conservative) political opponents and ensure permanent progressive Democrat
hegemony. Conservatives like Bill Barr, among many others, still
naïvely believe in the equal and transparent application of the rule of law, a
belief that is in no way reciprocated by their progressive Democrat colleagues
at the DOJ. To the progressive Democrat, using the awesome power of
the law to target morally inferior conservatives is a solemn obligation and
duty. Expecting a progressive Democrat to adhere to the law and
engage in fair play is a fool's errand, a fallacy, wishful thinking, hopes and
prayers. We are dealing not with reasonable liberals from several decades
ago, but instead with power-crazed progressives who believe they have a mission
and mandate to destroy the political opposition.
If
Barr hoists the white flag in abject abeyance to the Deep State (as Jeff
Sessions did), then the dirty cops will have won. Conservatives like
Bill Barr will then deserve what's coming to them, but our children and
grandchildren don't, and they will be the ones who pay the
price. They will live forever in a political prison, under the boot
of the progressive Democrat DOJ, which stands ready to strike against
law-abiding conservatives — for being conservative, or being Caucasian, or
attending a Christian church, or whatever pretext the progressive left can
think of — while simultaneously protecting progressive Democrats who abuse
conservatives. Our grandchildren will curse our memory for the
government and nation we bequeath to them and the vulnerable, weakened position
in which we have left them.
It
has been said that fortune favors the bold, and the progressive Democrats at
the DOJ, and other federal agencies, have been oh, so bold in recent years,
wielding their awesome powers of terror against the political
opposition. If Barr's "answer" to this vast progressive
offensive is Kevin Clinesmith, then the progressive Democrats will have won the
final victory. Conservatives had better begin thinking in terms of
bending knee and tending sheep in servitude to the victorious progressive
Democrats.
We shall see. If he chooses Heels-up Kamala Harris as his running mate and Trump airs
the clip of her accusing Biden of being a racist, theirs will be an
ever-imploding exercise in futility. That would be a self-inflicted
wound but fascinating – and grim in all its ramifications.
Joe Biden, the very definition of an empty suit
By Patricia McCarthy
J oe Biden has always been an empty suit, for all of his
39 years in Congress, then eight as vice president.
He demeaned himself at the Clarence Thomas
hearings in 1991 where he revealed his inner cruel nature. How he was
ever elected again after that does not speak well for his
constituents. He is a lifelong prevaricator, plagiarist and
groper of female children. He has apparently sexually assaulted an
adult woman as well. And we’ve all heard the stories of how he liked to swim nude in the presence of female secret
security agents when
he was VP. In short, the guy is a jerk, a poseur. He is
also, and has always been a racist of the worst kind, the type who believes it
is justified.
Throughout his years in Congress, he has
seen to it that both his primary and extended family members have become rich
by less than above-board means. His son Hunter is a case in
point. The list of events showing Hunter’s unethical path to
wealth is legion. If a son of Trump’s had been as corrupt as Hunter,
we would never hear the end of it. And as Robert Gates has commented , “Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign
policy issue for forty years.”
And yet, with all this baggage, this is
the man the Democratic Party has chosen as their presidential candidate to
defeat President Trump! They’ve chosen very poorly as time will most
certainly reveal.
This campaign season, for all the
hysterical vitriol displayed by the left, is nothing if not amusing as
well. Reading and watching the panicked leftists who fear a
Biden-Trump debate so much they are advising they be cancelled is entertaining
for they seem to think we don’t see through their oh-so-disingenuous
arguments. They know as well as those on the right do that Biden is
failing fast. That his rapacious wife has not called a halt to his
campaign is proof that she does not love the man; she sees him as
the avenue to her own exalted place in the power structure of D.C. She is a
sort of comic book Lady Macbeth.
As the days pass and we see the short
glimpses of Biden in his lovely patioed basement, we see a man lost in the fog
of dementia, who loses his train of thought in the middle of
sentences. He
often has no idea where he is or to whom he is speaking. He is quick
to anger if asked a question he does not like or cannot answer. He has so far acquitted himself as a
man perhaps the least qualified, tempermentally and intellectually, to be
president. He has embraced Bernie Sanders’ socialist platform
as his own, balked at condemning the BLM and Antifa violence that has
razed numerous democrat-run cities throughout the nation. He is
wobbly on defunding the police which means he is afraid to speak out against
the demands of the rioters. He is a coward.
He has even announced he will not attend
the Democrat convention in Milwaukee. Any bets on whether or not he
will debate the president? Chances are he will bow out of that
commitment as well. His handlers are surely acutely aware of his
obvious limitations by now. Even a high-tech ear piece would
not help Joe. Directions and corrections in his ear would only
confuse him further.
What is the Democrat party to
do? Well, everything they are doing. They have an
orchestrated strategy that is being implemented daily. Every leftist
appearing on television and writing at the NYT, WaPo, and throughout the online
media are doing everything in their power to convince the American
people that the U.S. is irredeemably racist, a despicable lie .
They drone on and on about how Trump has
handled the covid
pandemic poorly, another an outright lie. He has been on top of it from the
outset. (Would Biden have banned flights from China? Not a
chance; he’s owned by China.)
They are spreading the fear that Trump
will refuse to leave the White House if he loses, a ridiculous notion even from
them. They are working hard to convince every American that the
coming election will not be legitimate.
Mail-in-voting is one way to ensure
that. They plan on votes not being counted by Jan. 20 so that
Morticia Pelosi can be named temporary president. Can any of us
imagine that nightmare? That two months would give them time to
cheat/fix the results to their satisfaction or even to replace Biden, if he
were to be declared the winner, based on the 25th Amendment.
The Democrats are up to
no good, of that we can all be certain. They have never
accepted Trump’s 2016 victory and, as a result, have behaved poorly ever since , wholly without class or
grace. All the divisiveness has come from their refusal to
acknowledge their candidate lost. The pathetic Carl Bernstein,
forever trying to relive his role in Watergate, is demanding the Republicans remove Trump from office now ! What does that tell
us? That even Carl knows Biden cannot win. The question
is, will Biden remain the candidate until November 3rd? We shall
see. If he chooses Heels-up Kamala Harris as his running mate and Trump airs
the clip of her accusing Biden of being a racist, theirs will be an
ever-imploding exercise in futility. That would be a self-inflicted
wound but fascinating – and grim in all its ramifications.
The Democrat party has devolved into a
gang of thugs, as the hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr proved
beyond a reasonable doubt. There is not one with the courage to
speak up and admit that the party is broken into bits of dross, illegitimate
due to their embrace of socialism. Everything they support is in
opposition to the Constitution: illegal immigration, open borders, anti-law
enforcement, anti-military, pro-violence in our streets, hatred of both the
First and Second Amendments. They are prepared to lie, cheat and
steal to gain power and implement their plan to destroy the middle class and
turn the U.S. into Venezuela.
And they believe that Joe Biden is going
to take them where they want to go! It is not only Joe Biden who is
an empty suit. The Democratic Party has relinquished any and all
legitimacy it once had. Why and for what? Because their
criminally corrupt candidate lost in 2016, a D.C. outsider won, and they have
been in the throes of an enraged tantrum ever since. How else would they have
ended up with empty-suit Biden as their candidate? Karma?
“Life's but a
walking shadow, a poor player, Macbeth
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credit: Screen shot from
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The left’s two big albatrosses – Biden and Pelosi By Patricia McCarthy
One
has to wonder, do those on the left, including the media, actually think that
Joe Biden is a viable candidate for president? Do they not realize
that Nancy Pelosi is as senile as Joe? Like Joe, she often slurs her words,
suffers brain freezes mid-sentence and spews gibberish. Biden is life-long
corruptocrat, a known plagiarist, a pathological liar and a truly mean and evil
man. You can catch a glimpse of just how mean in the film about Clarence Thomas ; it was Biden who
grilled him mercilessly during the hearings over Anita Hill’s phony
allegations. Biden is a racist as well. Pelosi is a life-long power-mad
lunatic. She has allowed her own district to dissolve into a homeless camp
with all the attendant problems – discarded needles, feces on the streets and
sidewalks, and an ever-escalating crime wave. Smash and grab car
burglaries occur by the minute in San Feancisco and there are no consequences
for the perpetrators if caught. Like Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, Pelosi and her husband are millionaires several times
over; they’ve become rich because both have been in Congress for so many
years. They all get rich on insider information. Joe
Biden goes further; we all know he used a billion dollars in U.S. aid as
leverage to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was investigating his
son. John Kerry was in on that bit of bribery. He is as
low a form of life as Biden.
And
yet, at the moment, Biden is their candidate and Pelosi is their Speaker who
embarrasses herself every time she opens her mouth, as does
Biden. Both of them belong in a long-term care facility for the
aged. That the Democrats consider either of these pols a credit to
their party is proof of their willful blindness. Why do they not see
what everyone outside of their party can see? That these two people
are way past their sell-by date. How is Joe going to debate
President Trump? He is unable to utter a coherent sentence or answer a simple
question. Pelosi submitted a $3 trillion spending bill that is
simply a joke. Biden has vowed to pick a “woman of color” as his
running mate. Woe be unto him if he doesn’t.
As
for the left’s “believe all women” mantra, that went out the window the moment
Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault. Reade’s allegations are
infinitely more credible than Christine Blasey-Ford’s fabricated accusations
against a high school-aged Brett Kavanaugh, but Democrats are so self-unaware,
they don’t recognize their own gross hypocrisy. This time Reade is
“making it up.” See Ami Horowitz’ recent video . Blasey-Ford
most likely never met Justice Kavanaugh. Reade did work in Biden’s
office, did report his behavior and tell others at the time. But the
Dems believed Blasey-Ford and don’t believe Reade. Go
figure. Denial is a dangerous and mystifying psychological defense
mechanism and the Democrat party is in denial about the mental capacity of its
two most prominent “leaders.”
Donald
Trump has warned our federal government about the dangers China represents to
the US since the 1980s. He was right and since he took office he has
tried to rectify the horrific trade imbalance. No one can refute the
fact that China purposely unleashed the covid virus upon the world but Nancy
Pelosi calls Trump’s focus on China “a diversion.” Is she really
that clueless? Probably not, but destroying Trump is far more
important to her than protecting America. Her comments about Trump’s
use of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic are outrageous. It
is the most effective drug at the moment, used all over the world. And
Trump is not “morbidly obese” She however is morbidly botoxed and has undergone
so much plastic surgery she resembles a character from the film Death Becomes Her . She is a
ghoul in every sense of the word but the left seems not to realize
it. They celebrate how she wields her power. That is what
they admire; it’s the only thing they admire in anyone. They just
cannot abide it in a republican, especially when they were so certain Hillary
was going to win the 2016 election and they would all be in fat
city. They would have been all-powerful. They would have
had control of all the levers of power in this country. And being
the spoiled children they are, to this day they cannot accept that defeat,
especially to an outsider like Trump. They love to mock him, to call
him stupid but he has them all by the short hairs and runs rings around their
collective body of never-Trumpers.
To
be sure, Biden and Pelosi have their devoted fans who are so blinded by their
hatred of Trump and their thoroughly unwarranted hero worship of Biden and
Pelosi that they mistakenly think they are normal and healthy but both are
seriously in need of an intervention. Why Jill Biden allows Joe’s
candidacy to continue is a cruelty, a form of elder abuse. As for
Pelosi, where are her five kids telling her it is time to retire? Of
course the lady of iron will would refuse but how much longer can her infirmities
be on public display? Only time will tell but it seems pretty
likely Trump has the election in the bag. Biden is the weakest
candidate the democrat party has run since George McGovern and McGovern was a
decent man; Biden is not. As for Pelosi, her district is so
damaged, so depressed, they will likely re-elect her and keep her in office
until she is 100% wax-ready for Madame Tussaud’s.
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Showalter with use of images by Gage Skidmore , via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0, and USFWS // public domain
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