Nancy's Constituency

Nancy Pelosi, the geriatric, overly wealthy and entitled minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, has responded to President Trump's initial immigration proposal, the one with 70 points worth of things he wants to have in a resultant bill.

We all know the president, and we all know that this is his initial posture, hoping to get as much as possible of what is in his points put into a bill that the House and Senate can actually pass and put on his desk.  It's called an initial offer", and lots can get done -- including the border wall -- especially as long as border security is nailed down before going on to dealing with the illegals already here.

That, of course, doesn't seem to faze Mrs. Pelosi.  She and her good friend Chuck Schumer, made a bizarre statement. "The administration can't be serious about compromise or helping the Dreamers if they begin with a list that is anathema to the Dreamers, to the immigrant community and to the vast majority of Americans [sic].  We told the president at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the DREAM Act, but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable. This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise.  The list includes the wall, which was explicitly ruled out of the negotiations. If the president was serious about protecting the Dreamers, his staff has not made a good faith effort to do so."

So, one has to ask, what exactly is her constituency?

Nancy Pelosi represents a severely leftist district in California, but as minority leader she also has to represent the entire Democrat Party and Democrat voters as well, many of whom are not nearly as leftist as her district.  And lots of those people are not too thrilled with the idea that they have to pay, through their tax dollars, for illegal aliens who get more benefits than they themselves do.

She actually included in her statement that the "vast majority" of Americans saw President Trump's proposal as "anathema."  Who exactly was that?  It's hard to imagine that any of those who voted for him think the proposal is "anathema"; it is the core of what he ran on, and he is now the president (and Nancy Pelosi's party now leads nothing in Washington).  It's also easy to imagine that a lot of Democrat voters also see some things in the proposal that are worthy of discussion, or at least don't see it as "anathema."

But Nancy Pelosi is so frigging out of touch with the country, the one she only flies over, that she likely believes what she said.  I have no idea what the real constituency is that she thinks she has outside her district, but the USA is ready to have actual immigration reform on the table and debated in Congress, something that did not happen when her side had Congress, the White House, and a filibuster-proof Senate.

Look, we know what's up.  She can't possibly allow this president to be seen as leading, let alone to be driving an issue; that would grant him legitimacy.  And it is incredibly disingenuous to try to claim that the "vast majority of America" thinks anything other than that President Trump's proposal is a reasonable start, a start at something she should have led herself in 2009.

But Nancy does not hear what she only flies over.

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