Nancy pelosi lame duck8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The House is moving forward with War Powers Resolution limiting the President’s military actions regarding Iran. Unfortunately, her base didn’t get the memo since most of them went into their bomb shelters waiting for Iranian nuclear weapons to strike any minute now. But instead of changing the subject, she decided to play politics with a symbolic resolution to score points with her base. The Iranian “retaliation” for the killing of terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani was nothing more than a fireworks display so they could lie to their people about being tough guys showing the weak Americans they won’t be bullied. She took everyone in her caucus with her as they started echoing the same concerns. Her second big mistake was to go down the path of assuming we were going to war with Iran. Under the Clinton precedent, the Senate would allow both the House impeachment managers and Trump’s lawyers to make their case, with questions from the Senate to follow. McConnell, on the other hand, had to take only a short break from confirming judges to inform the House that the Senate would treat the impeachment of Donald Trump the same way it treated the impeachment of Bill Clinton - with a rules package that passed 100-0 in 1998. Nadler and Schiff both argued that Trump’s tenure in office constituted a national emergency, and that the only way to save the republic from another stolen election was to move quickly. In the process, however, Pelosi destroyed the Democrats’ justification for rushing impeachment in the first place. The only way to mitigate the damage was to undertake a ham-fisted effort to attack the Senate trial and dampen, or perhaps circumvent, that inevitable moment. She didn’t want the president to be able tell voters that he had been exonerated by Senate. My working theory is this: Pelosi realized that impeachment was a mistake. Pelosi’s Embarrassing Impeachment Blunder Nobody’s quite sure what she hoped to accomplish by holding onto them, but there are theories. She had momentum after the House voted in favor of impeachment, then she squandered that momentum for some reason. Even some of her closest allies are getting antsy about her holding onto the Articles of Impeachment with no path to leverage them for any more political fodder. And when President Trump wins reelection, she’ll lose the gavel for a second time. They’ve tried her way once before and it resulted in her losing the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and the White House in 2016. In about one year, we will likely see her handing it to Representative Kevin McCarthy, but even if the GOP doesn’t retake the majority in the House, she’ll be handing it to a different Democrat. She made three critical errors this week that will likely cost her the gavel she cherishes. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s political fate is sealed. Subscribe for free to the America First Report newsletter. ![]()
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