![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Day 26 of the government shutdown.
Nancy Pelosi, a very smart, experienced politician, is being an idiot in asking President Trump to postpone the State of the Union address until after the shutdown. Under normal circumstances, this would be a perfectly reasonable request, and one likely to be honored, but it's President Diddums in the big chair, and she should know by now that he loves few things more than to be a chauvinistic, contrarian assbag to women in positions of authority. If she really wanted him to postpone, she should have exhorted him to hold it on schedule as often and urgently as possible. He would've refused for the petty spite of it, and she would have gotten what she wanted.
I suspect that she was focused on how her request would play in the media and the opportunity to curry favor with the public by presenting herself and the Democratic cohort as coolly rationally and manfully working by the traditional rules of bipartisan cooperation and within the confines of governmental mandates, but it's a lost cause. The people she is trying impress with her statesmanship are too busy trying to pay their bills with garage sales and Gofundmes, and Trump's base is too rabid to see reason and will paint this as another uppity, elitist Democrat--and a woman who doesn't know her place, to boot--trying to tell their Glorious Leader what to do.
On the more personal front, the sun put in a rare appearance after a week of gloom, so we went out today. Walmart, our favorite restaurant, and the grocery store. So now we're good until Friday, when we might see Glass. Or we might wait until Monday.
Tonight, it's finishing my book and vegging in front of the TV.
Nancy Pelosi, a very smart, experienced politician, is being an idiot in asking President Trump to postpone the State of the Union address until after the shutdown. Under normal circumstances, this would be a perfectly reasonable request, and one likely to be honored, but it's President Diddums in the big chair, and she should know by now that he loves few things more than to be a chauvinistic, contrarian assbag to women in positions of authority. If she really wanted him to postpone, she should have exhorted him to hold it on schedule as often and urgently as possible. He would've refused for the petty spite of it, and she would have gotten what she wanted.
I suspect that she was focused on how her request would play in the media and the opportunity to curry favor with the public by presenting herself and the Democratic cohort as coolly rationally and manfully working by the traditional rules of bipartisan cooperation and within the confines of governmental mandates, but it's a lost cause. The people she is trying impress with her statesmanship are too busy trying to pay their bills with garage sales and Gofundmes, and Trump's base is too rabid to see reason and will paint this as another uppity, elitist Democrat--and a woman who doesn't know her place, to boot--trying to tell their Glorious Leader what to do.
On the more personal front, the sun put in a rare appearance after a week of gloom, so we went out today. Walmart, our favorite restaurant, and the grocery store. So now we're good until Friday, when we might see Glass. Or we might wait until Monday.
Tonight, it's finishing my book and vegging in front of the TV.
Tags: