Nancy Pelosi emblematic of constitutional ignoramuses
She has learned nothing after serving 36 years in Congress sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is currently serving her 36th year in Congress. She served as House Speaker from 2007-2011 and from 2019-2023. As a condition to holding office as a Representative, Ms. Pelosi was required to swear to support the Constitution of the United States under Article VI.
During her long years of congressional service, the Executive Branch has taken a wrecking ball to the Constitution creating the greatest, enduring constitutional crisis since the Civil War: unconstitutional, trillion-dollar, pointless, presidential wars in violation of the Declare War Clause; executive agreements substituted for treaties requiring Senate ratification; diversion of billions of dollars appropriated for one purpose to a different purpose; defiance of hundreds of congressional subpoenas or requests for information indispensable to exposing executive corruption, lawlessness, or maladministration; substitution of executive orders or agency rules for statutes enacted by Congress; warrantless surveillance of “not-yet-guilty” Americans to assemble “Big Brother” dossiers in violation of the Fourth Amendment right to be let alone; appointments of White House Czars superintending Cabinet officers without Senate confirmation; playing prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner to kill any person anywhere on the planet based on secret, unsubstantiated speculation that the target could be a national security threat now or in the future with no accountability to Congress, the courts, or the American people—the very definition of tyranny; and, President Donald Trump’s attempted murder of Vice President Mike Pence to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power pursuant to the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act using words to his frenzied mob indistinguishable from British King Henry II’s about Thomas Becket, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
As the Constitution was dismantled brick by brick through a combination of presidential usurpation and congressional abdication, Congresswoman and Speaker Ms. Pelosi spent the lion’s share of her time fund raising and boosting Democratic candidates. The obliteration of the Constitution in plain view as elaborated above was denied even a cameo appearance in her public statements.
Her opportunistic mindset was betrayed in 2006 when she was House Speaker-designate and after revelations that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were complicit in the crimes of torture against Al Qaeda suspects, i.e., waterboarding, and had torpedoed the Fourth Amendment with dragnet warrantless electronic surveillance of every American. As reported by the New York Times on November 8, 2006, Ms. Pelosi volunteered, “I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.” Her ulterior motive—to fortify Democratic chances to win the White House in 2008 because impeachment had fallen into disrepute over President Bill Clinton and Monicagate.
Speaker Pelosi grudgingly acceded to two anemic impeachments of Mr. Trump. The impeachment articles were but the a tiny fraction of Trump’s constitutional derelictions to avoid condemning presidential subversions of the Constitution of the same sort when a Democrat occupied the White House.
Ms. Pelosi is featured in today’s Washington Post, “Nancy Pelosi untethered: the former speaker revels in her new freedom,” by Paul Kane. It is not surprising that the word “Constitution” is nowhere to be found. She is hosting former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder in San Francisco on Friday for high-dollar donors. Her response, “I get my tasks and I do them. We’ll do well.”
As the Constitution is burning, elected first responder Ms. Pelosi is AWOL raising money from Democratic fat cats.
She is passing on her constitutional cluelessness as a mentor to young lawmakers.
Nancy Pelosi does not read books, only newspapers and crossword puzzles, but that’s better than Sarah Palin’s witlessness.
Ms. Pelosi is a synecdoche for the complete intellectual collapse of politics in the United States more destructive than the Twin Towers destroyed on 9/11. We are ruled by intellectual and moral pygmies who would have sided with King George III in the American Revolution. They are the Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla, and Maximinus Thrax of the Roman Empire.
The sun is setting on the United States.
You are not wrong. The West is going all the way down to Hell.