Pierce: Nancy Pelosi Jabbed the President* Right in His Tender Ego

[mcar]

Nancy Pelosi Jabbed the President* Right in His Tender Ego

The Speaker has rescinded Trump's invitation to address Congress because of the shutdown.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JAN 16, 2019

From what I read in The New York Times, it appears that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not playing...

George Washington addressed a joint session of Congress but, two presidents later, Thomas Jefferson thought that too similar to the way things were done by the King of Great Britain in Parliament, so he took to sending a written message. That practice held until 1913, when Woodrow Wilson astounded the capital by delivering a speech. The one constant is that the president has to be invited to deliver the message to Congress. This president* just got himself uninvited. You can almost hear the weeping from the executive suites of the cable news outlets.

George Washington addressed a joint session of Congress but, two presidents later, Thomas Jefferson thought that too similar to the way things were done by the King of Great Britain in Parliament, so he took to sending a written message. That practice held until 1913, when Woodrow Wilson astounded the capital by delivering a speech. The one constant is that the president has to be invited to deliver the message to Congress. This president* just got himself uninvited. You can almost hear the weeping from the executive suites of the cable news outlets.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25923124/nancy-pelosi-pull-trump-state-of-the-union-invitation/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Here's the link:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25923124/nancy-pelosi-pull-trump-state-of-the-union-invitation/

[left_of_center]

2. It's not safe.

[2naSalit]

3. One thing for certain

dolt45 can't handle a woman who holds equal power in the same government that he thinks he owns, and one is able to outsmart him at every turn. He may have an aneurysm by the end of the month.

[mcar]

4. Notice he hasn't given her a silly nickname

He's afraid of her.

[2naSalit]

6. Very much so.

The worst he can come up with to show disrespect is to call her Nancy. He can't accept her title. She scares the hell out of him. She can tell him "NO" and it means "NO". That's got to be the worst thing for him to have to live with on a daily basis.

good.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Good point

Trump usually comes up with something, like Cryin' Chuck for Senator Schumer, but so far, he has refrained from calling her "Nasty Nancy" or something like that. There's a deep-seated reason for that, when it comes down to a man who is used to insulting women.

[zonkers]

11. It would be something like Naughty Nancy.

[customerserviceguy]

12. Naughty

is not an extreme enough word for Trump, if he were going to really mess with her with a nickname.

[zonkers]

13. Yeah. I was thinking he could say it like Lyyyyyyyyyin Ted.. Nauuuuuuuuughty Nansay.

[customerserviceguy]

15. Good point

His "theatre", if you will, makes timid remarks sound much worse when listening to them rather than reading them.

[zonkers]

18. You know, it is so surreal. We are sitting here, yacking about this lunatic president while he is

destroying our county doing Putin's bidding.

[customerserviceguy]

19. We have to do something

until he can be replaced in the next election.

[Honeycombe8]

22. I'm sure he has one for her. He just hasn't used it publicly yet.

He's in the honeymoon phase. Trying to appeal to her better nature and woo her. Surely she will succumb to his charms, esp. once she sees his big hands up close.

If that doesn't work, he'll move to the derogatory nickname phase.

This is new for him, having a Congress he doesn't own. So he's feeling his way. He'll get used to it and revert to his regular juvenile ways.

[mcar]

25. He may

but I really do think he's afraid of her. She's standing up to the bully.

[csziggy]

32. I suspect any nickname Dolt45 has for Speaker Pelosi would have to be bleeped on TV

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R

[customerserviceguy]

7. She's goading him

into giving that speech in person, subjecting him to the boos of her Democratic members in Congress. There will be no message to "behave yourself" and that's being done for a purpose.

It might work, but there are a couple of dangers. First, Trump's base will attach even more to him once he is attacked in this way, and there is the chance of even more irrational behavior as a result of the humiliation.

[mcar]

9. He can't give the speech in person

without her invitation, which has been withdrawn.

[customerserviceguy]

14. I was not aware

that the formal invitation has been withdrawn, it sounded just like kind of caution to me.

If Trump is smart, he will indeed do the SOTU by a written document.

[mcar]

16. But of course he's not smart

Who knows what he will do.

[customerserviceguy]

17. If he goes on live TV

it will be watchable!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Traitor tot Donald will strike out

He will try to punish everybody. The gutless GOP will cower. Moscow Mitch will continue to block anything that might lead to his own dirty deeds being uncovered.

[UTUSN]

20. "audience" is all he thinks about - whether "television audience" or "rally audience"

[DoctorJoJo]

21. What Does the Second Paragraph Add??

[mcar]

26. It's an excerpt from the NYT article

about Pelosi's letter.

[smirkymonkey]

23. All I can say is that I am just so glad that Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House.

I don't think anyone else could have handled this better than she could.

[SCVDem]

24. Donnie doesn't even read!

He's supposed to write too?

Stupid douche!

[dubyadiprecession]

27. Why do Americans go on and on about powerless King George?

Prime minister North was the one calling the shots.
The king was nothing more than a rabble rousing Limbaugh or Ingraham.

[Mariana]

33. In this instance, Jefferson would have to explain

why he decided to mention the King when he explained his decision to write rather than give a speech. He's not around to answer you, though.

[shanny]

28. Aw, MF45 won't have a captive audience

for his finger-pointing blather.

[wasupaloopa]

29. I read that he was going to use the speach to trash the Democrats. Maybe Pelosi wanted

to prevent that.

[Autumn]

30. Madam Speaker...

I love you!

[mcar]

31. She is great!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. The world awaits Trump's "State of the Union Tweet-storm"

I only hope he'll remind us of his great electoral victory and the immense throng at his inauguration. Otherwise, we might forget the grandeur of his coronation.

"The state of the union is broken, shut down, disfunctional, Just as Bannon and I planned it".