{"id":3213,"date":"2020-04-06T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/06\/nancy-pelosi-and-other-corona-meltdowns\/"},"modified":"2020-04-06T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:48:12","slug":"nancy-pelosi-and-other-corona-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/06\/nancy-pelosi-and-other-corona-meltdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi and other Corona Meltdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson lays into<\/a> Nancy Pelosi with severity, but with justice:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nancy Pelosi: <\/strong>Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party\u2019s cursus honorum<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It does not matter whether her political and ethical decline was a result of her deep pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Who cares that her paranoia arose over the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d that might align with socialist Bernie Sanders to mesmerize Democrats to march over the cliff into McGovern-like oblivion? All concede that very few octogenarians have the stamina and clarity to put in the 16-hour work-days and transcontinental travel required by a Speaker of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, all that matters is that for a nation in extremis she is now puerile, even unhinged\u2014and increasingly dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In retrospect, the public will remember how in fear and confusion she reversed course to spearhead impeachment, outsourced the task in the House of Representatives to its most incompetent and perfidious members\u2014Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)\u2014and wasted weeks of the country\u2019s precious energy and time as it was on the cusp of an epidemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pelosi then quickly weaponized the viral crisis in hopes that COVID-19 could do what Robert Mueller\u2019s dream team and impeachment had not done\u2014destroy the administration of Donald Trump before the November 2020 election. Only such an obsession explains why any sober politico would damn Trump as culpable in January for ignoring the viral dangers, while nearly a month after <\/em>his necessary and controversial travel ban of January 31\u2014that stopped perhaps 7,000 Chinese citizens entering California per day, some on direct flights from Wuhan\u2014she was doing a photo-op tour to urge the public to get out and shop in San Francisco\u2019s crowded Chinatown: \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do today is to say everything is fine here\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a crazy juxtaposition is not just politics or hypocrisy\u2014it\u2019s insanity. The night before an impeached Trump was acquitted in the Senate, and five days after Trump had controversially stopped incoming Chinese visitors, Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address before a national television audience, a level of spiteful vitriol not seen in the U.S. Congress since the years leading up to the Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Congress finally agreed to call a truce and pass a bipartisan \u201crescue bill\u201d to stave off a depression and deliver some relief to millions of unemployed, Pelosi single-handedly delayed passage to insert irrelevant progressive treats into the authorization\u2014until she was reprimanded by her own party to cease and desist.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is now, in the middle of an epidemic, insanely talking about a \u201ctruth\u201d impeachment-light commission to investigate Trump. She is absolutely clueless of the nihilistic circus that would ensue when her own previous on-the-record statements, the parasitic investment practices of U.S. senators of both parties, the bizarre behavior of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the empty January braggadocio of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Joe Biden\u2019s smearing of the Trump travel ban would be fully aired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does she have any idea that by forcing Trump to \u201cown\u201d the virus\u2014predicated on the notion of trusting in bleak but widely criticized Armageddon modeling\u2014she is greenlighting Trump to take credit for the response, especially if coronavirus proves in the end comparable to the 60 million infected, roughly 1 million hospitalized, and 15,000-60,000 dead in the prior influenza epidemics of 2009 or 2017?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is difficult to find one thing Pelosi has said or done that has not made the country worse off since the virus officially hit our shores in late January.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson lays into Nancy Pelosi with severity, but with justice: Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party\u2019s cursus … Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi and other Corona Meltdowns”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}