Charles Pierce:Trump Lost It in Rose Garden After His Attempted Power Play With Nancy Pelosi & Dems
Trump Lost It in the Rose Garden After His Attempted Power Play With Nancy Pelosi and the DemocratsAn update on the circus at 1600 Pennsylvania.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 22, 2019
The Cracker Factory was open for business outside the White House on Wednesday morning. Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out of a meeting with her caucus in the House and told reporters that she believed that "the president* was involved in a cover-up." Then, she and Chuck Schumer, both apparently firm believers in the power of hope over experience, went to the White House to talk about infrastructure. El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago thereupon told them he wouldn't be doing any deals while the House persists in investigating him and walked out. This might have been considered a shrewd power play, if the president* hadn't then gone out into his driveway and lost his shit entirely.
This was an "avail" of demented perfection. The man who bought off Stormy Daniels so thoroughly that his bagman is in the federal sneezer said, "I don't do cover-ups," and, against all odds, his tongue did not burn with fire. The constitutional genius with the world's greatest brain made certain to remind Democrats that, as unlikely as this sounds, one day in the far distant future—of the year, say, 1998—a Republican Congress might bring "the I-word" against a Democratic president for frivolous reasons. I mean, good lord, the Clintons came to one of his weddings. Didn't they talk? The man has a brain of tapioca.
Otherwise, the press availability was pretty much an impromptu performance of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. More talk of witch-hunts and hoaxes and a lot of yammering about how transparent he's been and a monstrous exaggeration of his alleged accomplishments. One can picture White House aides hiding under desks and skulking down back alleys in search of noonday whiskey. And, as the reports that leaked out in the immediate aftermath of the meeting revealed, the president* went somewhat berserk even by his own standards and walked out after three whole minutes. Pelosi responded at her own news conference by slipping in the Italian-Catholic version of the shiv used by Southern Belles when they say, "Bless Your Heart."
"I pray for the President of the United States and for our country," she said.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27559083/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-investigations-infrastructure-rose-garden/
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OMG. 
Said the Dems were giving him an infrastructure win that was on par with Jefferson, T Roosevelt and their infrastructure but that Dotard, basically, wasn't man enough to handle it.
That will drive him nuts. From a woman, no less.
It is trolling as an art form!
Here's the money quote:
Pelosi on Trump “taking a pass” on funding a signature infrastructure bill: “maybe it was lack of confidence on his part-he couldn’t match the greatness of the challenge.”
A work of art.
Hail, Nancy Pelosi! She was made for this moment and this brand of baby-man. 
Thank You, Nancy.. brilliantly put!
I love Nancy, she is the best!!
Thanks for posting the quote.
They came up with plans, they presented them, and Trump wimped out and yelled he's taking the ball and going home.
I just hope the media plays this right. We need to put Repub stonewalling on display. Start playing the "they are blocking the infrastructure bill to protect the tax cuts to the rich they gave out last year" card.
Hail Mary full of Grace....
"Caine Mutiny Court Martial"
We'll know the fat lady has sung when someone gets a drink tossed in their face.
Except, in the Caine Mutiny, it was because an attorney was forced to break an otherwise honorable man. There's no honor or shame in the Republicans.
This was an "avail" of demented perfection. The man who bought off Stormy Daniels so thoroughly that his bagman is in the federal sneezer said, "I don't do cover-ups," and, against all odds, his tongue did not burn with fire.
reminds me of Bill Moyers 
