Our churning guts scream out “impeach the $%#%&^**&&-er now, but our savvy four star general is telling her officers to hold back and make sure every tactical decision supports the ulitmate strategy.
While today’s Daily Beast title said “Pelosi to Impatient Dems: We’ve Got Trump on the Ropes” there’s no actual quote that has her saying this but this is her message.
Is Nancy Pelosi the Muhammad Ali in the ring fighting Trump’s boxer hero and role model Michael Tyson? This is from “Trump's strategic planning inspiration: Mike Tyson:”
When a frustrated adviser once tried to convince President Trump to consider a strategic plan, the president launched into a story about his friend Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.
What he's saying: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth," Trump said, echoing a famous Tyson quote.
I had asked the adviser whether Trump ever expressed frustration that his West Wing lacked enough of a plan for the crises ahead.
- "He gets frustrated when there is a plan," the adviser said. "He’s not a guy who likes a plan. ... There’s an animosity towards planning, and there’s a desire to pick fights that have nothing to do with us."
Trump used the Tyson quote as evidence that detailed strategic plans are pointless and said, in the adviser’s recollection, "We’ve just gotta fight every day and that’s how we win." Read article
Trump is behaving like he’s on the ropes as the well publicized commentaries about his insane garden party following his storming of of his meeting with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Steney Hoyer demonstrates. For example, this from Dana Milbank: “People often describe him as ‘unraveling,’ but that implies he was once fully knitted. Whatever his mental starting point, those seeking the method in Trump’s madness lately have encountered less of the former and more of the latter. Dana Milbank, Trump is tranparently mad.”
After yesterday Democratic strategy meeting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the party may “look back and realize it did vanishingly little at a political crisis point” while according to the Daily Beast “ others encouraged lawmakers to trust Pelosi’s more deliberate process.”
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) was one of the first to push for Trump’s impeachment but in his statement he minimizes the political accumen that made elvated her to her position as next in line to the presidency after the vice president when he said “she made her argument, it’s an argument.”
Of course there “is an argument,” but the ultimate question ordinary Democrats like us with no vote on the matter have to ask ourselves is it merely another argument or is it an argument made by someone with a track record of making winning decisions?
Before you weigh in with your opinion consider this from The Daily Beast:
Shortly after she’d left a fiery White House meeting, during which the president had threatened to stop working with her on all legislative matters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was asked to speculate why she, more than others, seemed to fluster President Trump.
“He recognizes the unity of our caucus and that is a very big deal,” she told the crowd at the Center for American Progress’ annual Ideas Festival. “I think he sees the fact that we are united as something he has to contend with, to deal with… That unity gives me leverage.”