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Nancy Has A Hissy Fit

By now, the infamous images of Speaker Pelosi brazenly tearing up the contents of Trump’s state of the union address have been seen by everyone watching the farcical melodrama which is American politics.  In fact during the majority of the time that Trump was speaking, Speaker Pelosi was in his background drawing attention to herself by shuffling papers and pretending to read them as if she were grading school papers.  She was fidgeting and making faces the entire time as if she was sitting on a pie and needed to pee. She may as well have been juggling cats. Unfortunately, cameras missed the Rubik’s cube and the sudoku puzzle she was working on under the papers.

The mutual disdain that Trump and Pelosi hold for each other was obvious right from the beginning. But politics is politics. It’s standard protocol that despite the deep contempt that politicos often hold for each other, there is supposed to be a veneer of civility which is required during national addresses.  In following the path of events which have transpired over the past 3 years, that veneer of civility has been cast aside completely to reveal the naked incivility and animosity into which political discourse has devolved.

Even as the President outlined the record of accomplishments achieved over the course of his term, all of which should be regarded as praiseworthy by any objective observer, Nancy chose to draw attention to herself while she made goo goo faces behind the President.  It’s quite possible that at 80 years of age, she may be losing control over many of her bodily functions and her mind may be one of them.  She could not help but put her petulance on full display.

She’s hardly alone in her party of course.  She may be just taking a cue from some of the younger upstarts in her party who have captured the limelight with their uneducated and baleful utterances. Over the years, we’ve seen numerous Dems who have displayed their very tenuous link to logic and reality without regard to personal shame. The interminable impeachment charade, which followed the interminable  Mueller saga, which followed the interminable Kavanaugh melodrama all served to reveal the single minded goal of destroying anything Trump without regard for the destruction of their own credibility and dignity.  The real consequence is the abrogation of the duty they were elected for, which is to serve the people.

Nancy’s hissy fit serves to make clear that the political divide is quite stark. On one side of the political divide, people are implementing policies and moving the nation forward.  On the other side are those that are mainly annoyance factors on any given issue regardless of benefit to the nation.  There’s no need to pretend that meaningful discourse can be had on any issue.  On the one side is an administration that in only 3 years has turned around the fortunes of a nation, whereas the other side, many of whom have been ensconced in office for over 40 years, have failed at every major policy decision, whether domestic policy, foreign policy or fiscal policy.

It’s hopeful that we will see the re-emergence  and dominance of people working to get things done rather than those working only to get attention.  The country needs to ignore the plaintive bleats of the permanently aggrieved and bring on people with genuine intentions.  As any parent knows, sometimes you just have to let the babies cry themselves out.