Wednesday, May 8, 2019

THE PUNCHING BAG 05/08/2019 SPEAKER PELOSI UNRAILED!

HORIST: Pelosi sounding like the lunatic fringe
by Larry Horist, Senior Writer
 
I guess they just cannot help themselves. The leadership of the Democratic Party - and virtually all the presidential candidates -- have gone off the rails. The Party's center of political gravity has shifted beyond the philosophic far left into the nutty paranoid extreme.
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The latest example is found in the recent comments of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She has expressed concern that if President Trump is defeated for re-election in 2020, he may just refuse to surrender power. In other words, she is suggesting that Trump would engineer a coup against an incoming Democrat President.

Such fears usually emanate from the tin-hat fringe on the extreme extremes of the political left/right continuum. The "nut cases" as they are commonly called by rational political observers. Unfortunately, these kinds of off-the-wall statements carry an unfortunate air of credibility when made by leaders who are supposed to be rational, responsible and ethical - even with their partisan biases.

Judging from the reactions on social media, a whole bunch of folks are taking what Pelosi says seriously. Either they are being duped by her supposed credibility as a prominent political leader, or there are a lot more tin-hat folks than I would have ever believed. I am personally shocked by some otherwise intelligent friends who are picking up on Pelosi's engineered fear-mongering.

Even if you are sufficiently paranoid to believe that Trump would attempt such a thing, you should be able to figure out that it would be impossible. Not improbable, but impossible. One person cannot produce a coup. It requires support from the military, the person's own ...More

 
 


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