Tea leaves and tea parties

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

By R.T. Cox

I don’t like Nancy Pelosi. She is a power hungry person with a hugely naïve donut hole in her own perceptions. Pelosi is largely the reason that she will not be the Speaker of the House in 12 months.  Why?

Pelosi larded up the healthcare bills with bunches of extremely liberal provisions, way more than an aware person would have expected either: (a) the U.S. Senate or (b) the public, to accept. This forced the Senate into a confrontational debate which ended unexpectedly when Massachusettselected a virulent anti-Pelosi new Senator (actually the electorate was more virulent than Senator Brown, an interestingly alert mid-road populist whose political instincts eclipse Pelosi’s).

I conclude that a Senatorial 60-vote filibuster-proof supermajority is much more a political liability than a political asset. If you have the absolute duty to carry the baby and you stumble … comes absolute failure.

Not a fan of horror movies, I don’t have the right image at hand, but Pelosi led her over-confident House majority into a giant trap which only arrogant self-confidence would allow. Oh, I have it ... the spider trap scene in Lord of the Rings. She allowed her bill to be so extreme that the Senate couldn’t handle it, which led to delay, which finally forced the President to burn a huge amount of political capital to drive through an enormously unpopular bill.

Timing is important; this is a spectacular example of screwed up timing. The dunce cap is for creating the now-inevitable huge GOP surge in the polls this November, a one-term presidency, and an opening for Sarah Palin to become a dominant force in politics. Pelosi misread the tea leaves. Now we have tea parties. JHW
This opinion, edited for space, originally appeared on Wyofile.com.
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