January 20, 2019 By Clarice Feldman
Saturday was National Popcorn Day, but I’ve been nibbling on popcorn all week as Nancy Pelosi learned a lesson about presidential power and the media was gut checked by the special prosecutor. I haven’t had this much fun since election night 2016.
While she might have thought otherwise, the power of the Commander-in-Chief is far greater than that of the Speaker of the House, and the humiliating way this was brought home to the Congressional equivalent of Maerose Prizzi (h/t Michael Walsh) was something.
She anticipated that she and her posse of cronies and their families (reports of a ninety-some entourage in all) would hop a military plane for a free trip to Brussels, Afghanistan, and Egypt, doubtless with fawning media coverage, leaving the president to sit alone in the White House hoping fruitlessly they’d toddle in there to negotiate an end to the shutdown.
Reports vary as to whether she was on the tarmac or on her way there when the President cancelled the flight as incompatible during a shutdown when federal workers were not being paid and illegal aliens were continuing to invade...............
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