Poor Nancy Pelosi just can't catch a break. Just minutes after Tuesday's speech before a joint session of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she had to put out a message which included this:
"I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech – saddened by
the insult to the intelligence of the United States [as part of the negotiating nations], and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the
threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear
proliferation ..."
Now we all hate to see Nancy in tears. After all, she is one of the richest dozen congressmen in two Houses combined, and it's just terrible to see her suffer daily as she tries her best to take as much of your and my money as she can possibly get our Government to confiscate.
But really, Mrs. Pelosi. To complain about Netanyahu's condescension? To complain about an insult to the intelligence of the United States?
You could have given him lessons.
Oh, let's start with Obamacare. I believe it was then-Speaker Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi herself who, while ramming the execrable Obamacare law up the collective backsides of the very American people whose intelligence she leaps to defend, said these words:
"You'll have to pass it to see what's in it."
I believe she was smiling when she said it, the smile of someone so smug and self-righteous that she just knows she can say something as pompous and never be taken to task by a groveling press. Now, that's what I call "condescension." I can't say for sure how much she felt her intelligence was insulted Tuesday, but I can certify that when she made that comment a few years back I felt my IQ drop about fifty points.
If she is so, so defensive of the presidency as to have to defend Obama's primacy in U.S. international affairs, then how did she feel about the nobility of the presidency when Obama hustled off to Scandinavia to accept a Nobel Peace Prize -- one that was known to everyone as having been given, not for his accomplishments in his first 47 minutes in office, but as a slap to his predecessor, President George W. Bush? Is her defense of the Oval Office and its seat in the leadership of the world a new-found appreciation? Why, if she has to protect the Presidency, did she not even privately urge Obama to decline the honor politely?
An "insult to the intelligence of the United States." Yep, from the Speaker who pushed through a law and then countenanced a declaration by one of its creators that it passed due in part to "... the stupidity of the American people" (q.v. J. Gruber, Ph.D., whom she tried to claim she never heard of). She wasn't in such a rush to defend our collective American IQ when that came out, was she?
It is so, so, so past the time for the press in the USA to hold her accountable for the hypocrisy she showed Tuesday. I don't have to spend time getting into the content of the speech; you can listen to it anywhere -- the plea of the leader of a nation which is feeling the threat of an unbridled enemy, discovering that the world power best positioned to contain that enemy has a spineless leader prepared to play Neville Chamberlain to Khamenei's Hitler. You or I would do everything we could to get that message out, too.
You lost, Mrs. Pelosi. You could not defend your indefensible president on this one. You can complain all you want to, but if anyone insulted America's intelligence Tuesday, if anyone was condescending toward our nation, it was not Benjamin Netanyahu.
It was you.
Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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