House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-IllegalHairAppointment) appeared on Sunday’s 60 Minutes to discuss a wide range of topics with Lesley Stahl, most of which had to do with painting Donald Trump as an insurrectionist and Republicans as his accomplishments. After giving Stahl a breathless, faux-emotional tour of the damage her office sustained (Pelosi was more upset about a broken mirror in her office than she was about thousands of businesses destroyed during months of BLM rioting), the two sat down to chat.
While Pelosi did her best to seem like the reasonable leader protecting the Republic from crazed animals, Stahl pushed back on some of Pelosi’s assertions – to Pelosi’s chagrin. One such topic was whether Pelosi’s tone and “obstruction” cost the Democrats seats in November. Pelosi laughably claimed that characterizations of her as someone who won’t compromise aren’t true and a “tactic” used by Republicans. Stahl then asked about the COVID relief bill, which was held up for eight months by Pelosi (she is the Speaker, after all). Pelosi first said that it was the Republicans’ obstruction, but then admitted that she held it up but that it wasn’t obstruction, because “there was no respect for our heroes,” and that “nobody expects me to support something that solidifies injustice in our country.”
Pelosi then claimed that she’d never heard a member of her caucus say that the Democrats “looked like obstructionists” when discussing the tactical mistakes that led to their shellacking in November. Given Pelosi’s ability to lie with a straight face, it’s impossible to tell if she truly doesn’t remember (she is 80 years old, after all) or whether she’s just denying reality.
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