House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden may have spent their lives rising to power within the Democratic Party, but clearly somewhere back in their early days they were absent for Politics 101.
On CNN on Sunday, Pelosi did just that, charging that President Donald Trump's management of the coronavirus pandemic is costing American lives, and talking up an eventual congressional probe.
Pelosi compared Trump to Nero, the corrupt first century emperor who allowed Rome to burn - if he didn't actually instigate the fire - then blamed Christians: "As the president fiddles, people are dying," she charged.
Apparently, even the collective struggle against an unprecedented worldwide catastrophe likely to cost hundreds of thousands of lives is not enough to motivate Pelosi to withhold - even temporarily - the venom aimed at this president.
Just days ago, Biden accused Trump of "Conspiracy mongering" which "From our president is among the most reckless and ignorant moves he has made during this crisis, and there have been many. Lives hang in the balance."
As I&I's Andrew Malcolm pointed out in his most recent McClatchy column, "The teleprompter breaks down just as the man who wants access to the nuclear launch codes was going to explain why he sincerely wants to be president. Turns out, without a script, Biden couldn't really say. Here's what the candidate told the nation the other day when that happened: 'And, uh, and, and in addition to that, uh, and in addition to that, we have to, uh, make sure that we, uh, we are in a position that we are, well, lemme, lemme go to a second thing. I've spoken enough on that.'".
It is unimaginable that Pelosi would ever bring herself to express such sentiment, reminiscent of President George W. Bush and congressional Democratic leaders embracing one another when he addressed Congress after 9/11. And for Joe Biden - so far removed from the action - to take this conciliatory tack would run counter to his campaign's fundamental message that Trump is unpresidential, a menace to be shunned.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/04/02/blundering-pelosi-irrelevant-biden-fade-while-shrewd-cuomo-rises/
On CNN on Sunday, Pelosi did just that, charging that President Donald Trump's management of the coronavirus pandemic is costing American lives, and talking up an eventual congressional probe.
Pelosi compared Trump to Nero, the corrupt first century emperor who allowed Rome to burn - if he didn't actually instigate the fire - then blamed Christians: "As the president fiddles, people are dying," she charged.
Apparently, even the collective struggle against an unprecedented worldwide catastrophe likely to cost hundreds of thousands of lives is not enough to motivate Pelosi to withhold - even temporarily - the venom aimed at this president.
Just days ago, Biden accused Trump of "Conspiracy mongering" which "From our president is among the most reckless and ignorant moves he has made during this crisis, and there have been many. Lives hang in the balance."
As I&I's Andrew Malcolm pointed out in his most recent McClatchy column, "The teleprompter breaks down just as the man who wants access to the nuclear launch codes was going to explain why he sincerely wants to be president. Turns out, without a script, Biden couldn't really say. Here's what the candidate told the nation the other day when that happened: 'And, uh, and, and in addition to that, uh, and in addition to that, we have to, uh, make sure that we, uh, we are in a position that we are, well, lemme, lemme go to a second thing. I've spoken enough on that.'".
It is unimaginable that Pelosi would ever bring herself to express such sentiment, reminiscent of President George W. Bush and congressional Democratic leaders embracing one another when he addressed Congress after 9/11. And for Joe Biden - so far removed from the action - to take this conciliatory tack would run counter to his campaign's fundamental message that Trump is unpresidential, a menace to be shunned.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/04/02/blundering-pelosi-irrelevant-biden-fade-while-shrewd-cuomo-rises/
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