Posted on 01/18/2019 6:20:51 AM PST by Drew68
Spare, if you will, a moments pity for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). They are not exactly enjoying the government shutdown as they might have hoped.
Pelosi had already packed her bags and boarded the Air Force bus Thursday, along with a sizable delegation of House Democratic leaders, for her overseas junket.
She and her comrades were, no doubt, looking forward to touring NATOs billion-dollar-plus new headquarters in Brussels; posing for selfies on camelback by the pyramids in Egypt; grinning for photo-ops with the troops in Afghanistan.
Then the order came from President Donald Trump to prohibit her use of government aircraft.
Fly commercial, he suggested. There is a government shutdown going on, after all.
And, as Trump noted, 800,000 federal workers will continue to go unpaid unless Democrats stay in town to negotiate.
The bus went round the block and back.
Pelosis shock must have been quite something to observe.
She is not used to being treated like this, you see. She apparently expected she could cancel (ahem, postpone) the State of the Union address due to the shutdown and then disappear abroad.
Trumps response blocking Pelosis use of the aircraft was gutsy. It was a drain the swamp moment.
But the timing was pure comedy gold. (Adam Schiff, stepping off the bus, looked like hed seen a Russian.)
In a statement, Pelosis spokesman protested that the purpose of the trip had been to affirm the United States ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance, something the president had already done earlier that day.
Her real goal was to conduct an alternative foreign policy as she did after being elected Speaker in 2007, when she paid a friendly visit to Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The Democrats briefly considered fighting President Trump over his promise that tax returns would be distributed normally under the argument that all Americans should feel pain. I haven't heard much about this since Steny Hoyer was stomping his feet over it a couple of weeks ago. I guess they considered that perhaps the optics of withholding tax returns might not be so good.
I would have put up a lot of cold, hard cash to have been witness to those elitist scumbags receiving the news.
“Have any of the faux-proles commented on the staggering Imelda Marcos-sized pile of luggage Pelosi was taking with her”
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That was probably luggage for her and her staff.
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She is unfit for the speaker position. And needs to be removed from office. This is a complete disaster. What confidence does anyone, even lefties, have in this horrid government now. The gall to jet off on an expensive pr mission while her own employees are standing in line at food banks.
There were only two names on the cart laden with bags.
Fixed it
What a great President.
The real question is who will be nominate and elect in 2024 who will do the same thing to her and people of her ilk?
JoMa
“given that she is in the mid to advanced stages of Alzheimer’s...”
You forget how consummately evil these people are. They can slow the ravages of disease as Fidel Castro did, with transfusions of children’s blood and other goolish practices.
-PJ
Yes! What a bozo he was.
Amen.
Only word I can come up with is, “winning.”
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