I remember the day back in 1979 that Lucy promised that she would never pull back the football again, if Charlie Brown recovered from his injuries. He did, of course, and over the years that followed, Lucy pulled it back every time. Charlie Brown believed her every time. For Charlie Brown, kicking they ball was his be all and end all, but he never did get to kick it. Now I would never compare the mild mannered Charlie Brown with the vile bully, Donald Trump. But like Charlie, Trump has a "football". His be all and end all is putting on a big show, in which he gets to appear supremely important. And just as he was drooling over the SOTU, Nancy Pelosi became Lucy.
House Democrats on Wednesday were making plans to undermine President Trump at his Jan. 29 State of the Union address. Just past 8:30 a.m., the leadership’s communications arm sent an email to lawmakers urging them to bring furloughed federal workers or other “message-related” guests to the nationally televised event.
Unknown to most of her caucus, however, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had decided on a more confrontational approach.
Addressing a closed-door meeting of House Democrats, the speaker read a letter she had just sent to Trump asking him to either postpone the speech until the federal government reopens or deliver the text in writing, citing security concerns.
Surprised Democratic lawmakers cheered their leader’s rationale: If the government stays shut down, Pelosi would deprive Trump of the spotlight he craves. To a president especially sensitive to acts of disrespect — and one with a hearty appetite for pomp and circumstance — the so-called unvitation was not merely a power play. It was a calculated personal slight… [emphasis added]
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Kudos to Nancy! Here are some more details.
On the other hand, what if Stormy gets to kick the balls?
RESIST!!
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This is the ultimate “Heads I win, Tails you lose” scenario, isn’t it. If Speaker Pelosi is Lucy, she is a very adult Lucy with adult goals far beyond embarrassing a bullying Charlie Brown. In fact, although the WaPo describes it as a personal slight (and I guarantee Donny Two-Scoops takes it that way), I suspect that if she gave that any thought at all it was as a matter of necessity.
How about Pelosi for President??
You go Stormy!!!
How about McConnell for weasel of the year?
Yes, what the Orange Grifter wants more than anything is adulation, and then some more, as his emptiness is bottomless. So, I’ve got this video going in my mind, wherein Nancy pulls the football and Ogreputz falls on his most ample ass, while his wig stuff exits stage left.
This is a caterpillar of the flannel moth, one of eleven species in the Megalopygidae family, native to Peru. But I like to think of it as “Hell Toupée.” It stings painfully, BTW.
Eventually the public is going to have enough. Already there have been protests against tRump’s asinine shutdown (my apologies to the world’s donkey population). There need to be more protests, more hell-raising. I keep finding petitions calling for an end to the shutdown, which I sign and then submit to Care2. Keep contacting your Senators and demand that they vote to end the shutdown without tRump’s Maginot Line of a wall!
dt doesn’t deserve to emanate his sotu message, he’ll spout all his lies, etc. Not on Ms. Nancy’s watch.
Madame Speaker did this with style and grace. She’s my new Ninja Warrior!!
If Charlie Brown represents Trump, and Lucy represents Speaker Pelosi … then I’m loving this scene!
I’m curious what Twitler’s response will be (besides pulling the rug out from the bipartisan group of Congress critters that was headed to NATO by canceling their access to government plane).
He’s probably not wild about delivering it from the Oval Office since his first try at it was a total failure. Don’t know if Mitch McTurtle would accommodate him w/ an invite to the Senate to do it. I have my doubts.
He’d love to do it in front of one his rabid MAGA rallies – but if he did, I doubt the networks would cover it.
To use one of his favorite quotes, “We’ll see what happens.”
Our Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi is my hero. Keep up the great work.
Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi…you go girl! She is my hero too. tRump is being very vindictive and needs to be put in his proper place now….That’s in prison.I honestly hope that the idiot doesn’t plan on doing his speech. I don’t want to hear his lies or see his flipping face.
Yup, Nancy became Lucy and pulled the ball right from under Drumf.
Unfortunately I read this some 12 hours later and the vindictive 2-year-old has turned the table on her again and on many others, including the military. But what would he care.
I’m sure that by the time anyone gets to read this here, Drumpf will have retaliated again, possibly endangering even more American lives as he divulges top secret plans in his tweets.
Anything to avoid the new headlines such as the ne I just saw coming in and am going to give my full attention now: Donald Trump ordered opinion polls be rigged, former lawyer Michael Cohen says. It’s Friday, so Rachel Maddow will have something to say about this tonight and I’m looking forward to your posting, TomCat.
Trump did not realize how powerful Nancy is!
WTG Nancy Pelosi!!! ?