They unveiled Nancy Pelosi’s portrait today, Fun fact: it was painted back in 2014 but had to be put back in storage because she stayed on as Minority Leader and then Speaker.
Even John Boehner showed up and made gracious comments, sobbing as usual. I’m surprised Lauren Boebert and Marge Greene didn’t rush up and cold cock him on the spot:
It’s a nice portrait. I suspect she will one day have a statue in Statuary Hall as well. She is the most powerful woman to have ever held office in American politics and she was damned good at it. She’s wise enough to go out on a high note as well. This last session with a tiny majority she managed to keep the fractious Democratic caucus together and pass some huge, consequential legislation. We are already seeing just how skilled she was by watching the way the presumptive new Speaker struggles before he’s even sworn in. It ain’t easy.
You don’t want to read the grotesque replies to any post or article celebrating this event. The hatred for her is overwhelming. Of course we knew that:
A San Francisco police officer testified on Wednesday that he witnessed the attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband when the suspect attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer in late October.
Prosecutors at the preliminary hearing for suspect David Wayne DePape, 42, played a recording of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call during the hearing and showed video of the attack from police body cameras, USA Today reported.
“My partner said, ‘Drop the weapon’ …. He started to pull the hammer, Mr. Pelosi let go and the man lunged and hit Mr. Pelosi in the head,” San Francisco Police Officer Kyle Cagney testified on Wednesday, adding the House speaker’s husband was struck “very hard,” according to the USA Today report.
The suspect, demanding to see the House speaker, had broken into her San Francisco home and attacked her husband in an assault that had stoked fears about political violence in the United States in the days leading to the midterm elections.
San Francisco Police Sergeant Carla Hurley, who interviewed DePape on the day of the attack, testified to the hearing on Wednesday that the assailant told her he wanted to target other people too, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, actor Tom Hanks and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, CBS News reported.
I’m sure you recall that Elon Musk personally spread the right wing rumor that the whole thing had been a lover’s quarrel between the 82 year old Pelosi and the assailant. That’s who they are.
John Boehner, who is anything but a liberal, is a dinosaur. Every last one of the Republicans who put up with this garbage and cynically benefit from it are guilty. Kevin McCarthy attended as part of his formal duties as Minority Leader but he should have hung his head in shame.
Good luck Kev. I suspect you’ll be getting your own valedictory portrait sooner rather than later.
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