{"id":598,"date":"2019-03-12T04:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:17:48","slug":"nothing-to-be-done-for-it-nancy-wants-to-surrender-and-beat-the-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Nothing To Be Done For It – Nancy wants to surrender and beat the traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 11th<\/sup> 2019<\/i><\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi once again demonstrated today the utter worthlessness of centrist Democrats when she said, \u201cImpeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there\u2019s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don\u2019t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. He\u2019s just not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi, do you not think TRUMP is dividing the country? Saying that impeaching the motherfucker would divide the country is like saying we shouldn\u2019t let a skunk wander into one of those gawdawful pig factories because it would make the place smell bad. Trump is ripping the country to shreds, and as Republicans make utter disgraces of themselves going along with it, Democratic centrists are nearly as bad, looking woeful and sighing, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to be done for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi doesn\u2019t want to jump on the \u201cImpeach the motherfucker\u201d bandwagon, and I get that. She has to appear fair and willing to hear Trump\u2019s side of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to be done for it.\u201d The line is from Samuel Beckett\u2019s paean to existential despair, \u201cWaiting for Godot.\u201d (Godot is pronounced \u2018Goddo\u2019 for those of you who didn\u2019t get the joke.) In the play, Vladimir (no relation to Trump\u2019s Vladimir) is trying, without luck, to pull off one of his boots. His companion, Estragon, is watching him struggle, and ruminating on the hopelessness of hope and the hope of hopelessness, or words to that effect, and concludes, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to be done for it.\u201d And at that moment, the boot pops right off.<\/p>\n

Beckett was being a smartass when he had Estragon say that.<\/p>\n

The Dems say it with no sense of irony.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe mustn\u2019t put up a fight. We mustn\u2019t shout, or make demands, or punish wrongdoers. We might upset the sort of idiot who thinks fighting for what is right is exactly equal to fighting for what is wrong, like Trump and his minions are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a defeated, placatory attitude that delights Trump and his fascists, and disgusts people who vote Democratic on the basis that someone has to oppose Trump.<\/p>\n

Pelosi should have said something like, \u201cI want to see what Mueller\u2019s office and the various House and Senate committees come up with. They have to make a good case for impeachment. If they cannot, then I won\u2019t consider it a viable option, because I\u2019m not Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde, and won\u2019t impeach a man just because he\u2019s a pig.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, if there is a solid case, we\u2019ll come after him with everything we\u2019ve got, and paint every newspaper and media outlet with our evidence, and god help any Republican who dares to stand in our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

One big problem that undermines that is the last time she was offered that option, she ran for her life, taking impeachment (of Bush, Cheney and other war criminals) right off the table. So even if she had given a better answer, I would be suspicious. Like most centrist Dems, she doesn\u2019t seem to know how to fight, doesn\u2019t want to fight, and is scared to death that Fox News would convince the country she\u2019s being mean to that nice Mister Trump.<\/p>\n

When she realized she might face an intraparty challenge for the speakership last December, she said, \u201cWe have to wait and see what happens with the Mueller report. We shouldn\u2019t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn\u2019t avoid impeachment for a political reason. So we\u2019ll just have to see how it comes,\u201d Now it sounds like she\u2019s backpedelling on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just not worth it.\u201d Pelosi, do you understand that\u2019s been a favorite phrase of people backing down from a fight for centuries? It\u2019s right up there with \u201cToo proud to fight\u201d as an excuse for not getting your fur up and showing some teeth. Given your background on punishing Republicans for criminal actions, you\u2019ve just sent a huge lightning bolt of doubt and uncertainty through the Democratic Party, many of whom were cultivating a hope you would bring this fight to Trump and his criminal cabal.<\/p>\n

Now, somewhere in your political calculations, you probably realize that by showing weakness now, you are probably encouraging Democrats who are willing to \u2018impeach the motherfucker\u2019 to walk away from the party, along with millions of voters, many of whom have tepidly supported your decades-long line of conciliatory centrist who promise to work well with the fascists. At some point, you might have even wondered how much damage it might do in the next election.<\/p>\n

If we can\u2019t raise the gumption to challenge Trump now, there\u2019s a pretty good chance there won\u2019t be a \u2018next election.\u2019 You won\u2019t have to worry about damage to the party through bad optics from your utterly imaginary centrist voters because the whole fucking country will be trashed, and \u2018opposition parties\u2019 will have gone the way of the Weimar Republic.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll just close with a reworking of a speech some English bloke, facing someone even more duplicitous and vicious than Trump, said back some 75 years ago: \u201c…we shall <\/b><\/i>surrender <\/b><\/i>on the seas and oceans, we shall <\/b><\/i>surrender <\/b><\/i>with growing confidence <\/b><\/i>we can out<\/b><\/i>r<\/b><\/i>un our adversaries<\/b><\/i>, we shall defend our <\/b><\/i>optics<\/b><\/i>, whatever the cost may be. We shall <\/b><\/i>surrender<\/b><\/i> on the beaches, we shall <\/b><\/i>surrender<\/b><\/i> on the landing grounds, we shall <\/b><\/i>surrender <\/b><\/i>in the fields and in the streets, we shall <\/b><\/i>surrender <\/b><\/i>in the hills; we shall never <\/b><\/i>fight<\/b><\/i>,\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

You deserve Vladimir\u2019s boot, Pelosi. The Vladimir that owns your President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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