Pierce: Nancy Pelosi Savaged House Republicans While Sending Off the Articles of Impeachment

[babylonsister]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30536913/nancy-pelosi-lev-parnas-kevin-mccarthy-impeachment-articles/


Nancy Pelosi Savaged House Republicans While Sending Off the Articles of Impeachment
The Speaker just happened to mention Lev Parnas, who "was recently photographed with the Republican leader."
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 15, 2020


Madame Speaker closed out the short and modest debate over whether the House of Representatives would send the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate—Spoiler: They did.—by unburdening herself as regards the Republican minority, and Madame Speaker came with the goods. Rep. Doug Collins, the braying jackass of an auctioneer from the House Judiciary Committee, went off into the izonkosphere again recently by saying that Democrats were "in love with terrorists," for which he had to apologize. Pelosi made a point of thanking Collins for the mea culpa he’d tendered for his "ridiculous remarks," thereby reminding everyone that Collins is a ridiculous figure. But then she got down to business.

Responding to remarks by House Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy, which had addressed everything but the matter at hand, Pelosi referred to the evidence released on Tuesday regarding Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani’s old running buddy, who, Pelosi noted, "was recently photographed with the Republican leader." Then, regarding a particularly piquant piece of that evidence, Pelosi went long.

The president considered [congressional funds] his private ATM machine I guess and said he could say to the president he could make, "do me a favor." Do me a favor? Do you paint houses, too? What is this, do me a favor?

And yes, in case you were wondering, and as proof of her current pop culture bona fides, the Speaker of the House just inferred that the President* of the United States might just be the equivalent of a mob boss.

However delightful those moments might have been, along came Susan Collins later Wednesday afternoon to burnish her reputation as the wettest wet blanket in the Senate.

I wonder why the House did not put that into the record and it’s only now being revealed. Well, doesn’t that suggest that the House did an incomplete job then?

It is not possible that the senator is this dumb. The House didn’t add the Parnas evidence into the record until this week because a court hadn’t allowed its release until this week.

What I think is that Collins thought she had a good thing going with her do-si-do about leading a group of Republicans who might just vote to allow witnesses, which would have given her some good-government cover in a trial she felt would end in acquittal anyway. This is consonant with her entire political career, which has been demonstrated to be utterly useless in the face of a lawless president*. Now, though, a flood of evidence demonstrating the president*'s guilt is inundating the Congress and the news, and it threatens to sweep away Collins’s careful middling of her obvious constitutional duties, and she doesn’t like it very much. Enough with Susan Collins. I mean, god almighty, enough.

Oh, and Lev Parnas stopped by to chat with kindly Doc Maddow on the electric teevee.

Shit’s getting real.

[mcar]

1. Kick!

[CatWoman]

2. and rec

[dewsgirl]

3. Her speech was brilliant.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. It's implied, not inferred

Pelosi implied that Trump is a mob boss; by understanding her implication, you correctly inferred her meaning.

[Botany]

5. Do you paint houses too?

Thermonuclear shark

[wnylib]

9. I like the alliteration that comes out of this.

POTUS, a paper hanging house painter pal of Putin.

[wnylib]

10. Say it fast and it could replace Peter Piper.

[OMGWTF]

18. With toilet paper on his shoe.

[wnylib]

19. Works even bettrr in Spanish

papel en el zapato

(Paper on the shoe)

[Hekate]

6. BRILLIANT! Thank you Charlie Pierce and Speaker Pelosi!

[leftieNanner]

7. I don't think she was implying with her "house painting" remark

that The Orange One was a Mob Boss. I think she meant that he was a lowly hit man. He's too stupid to be a Boss.

[wnylib]

20. agree

[Amaryllis]

8. Check out expressions of Nadler and Schiff:

Don't mess with us.

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[Eyeball_Kid]

12. Nadler looks like Trump's Grim Reaper. n/t

[DFW]

11. The only thing that amazes me about Collins

....is that she thinks that ANYONE is falling for her "moderate, concerned" routine anymore.

[Eyeball_Kid]

13. Political animals can't wait to bite when cornered. n/t

[babylonsister]

14. I don't think so given the backlash she got from

her wimpy response to Kavanaugh.

[DFW]

21. Except for one minor detail

She has gotten away with it EVERY time. Who will convince her that it won't work once again, when she has gotten re-elected again and again and again, despite the fact that EVERYONE knows she will not change her tactics?

[lillypaddle]

15. Speaker Pelosi

is kickass.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Donald Trump is going to Court in the Senate

The brass knuckles, incoherent, lying administration is going to assemble a team to defend Trump in his Senate impeachment trial.

My point is you wouldn't turn to these guys for expertise about anything!

[warmfeet]

17. Real shit coming down.

I don't think the repiggies are ready for prime time.