The insanity continues…
There is delusional and then there is the crackpot idea that Nancy Pelosi could become the nation’s first female president.
Yet this is exactly what the once venerable Washington Post is suggesting in the latest example of how the paper has become little more than Pravda on the Potomac.
As the house organ of the anti-Trump resistance and a notorious mouthpiece for the CIA, the Jeff Bezos owned WaPo may have outdone itself this time with a whacky article on how the 79-year-old impeachment maven could end up in the Oval Office.
But it would be the equivalent of hitting the lottery form the dementia-addled top Democrat as it would take the removal of BOTH President Trump and Vice President Pence from office or the TOTAL reversal of that 2016 election that the media never accepted.
Perspective: President Pelosi? It could happen. https://t.co/cV22HjVcyv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 30, 2019
According to the WaPo, “Predident Pelosi? It Could Happen”:
What happens when a Democratic speaker of the House – third in line to the presidency, according to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 – is suddenly thrust into the Oval Office, succeeding a Republican president and vice president who resign, embroiled in scandal?
Such a scenario is attracting attention – #PresidentPelosi was trending on social media after last week’s announcement of an impeachment inquiry – even though it may seem far-fetched that President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence would be forced from office over abuse of power related to the administration’s dealings with Ukraine or other misdeeds.
This was a more urgent question in the fall of 1973. On Oct. 10, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned, pleading nolo contendere to charges of tax evasion. Ten days later, President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in what is widely known as the Saturday Night Massacre. As hearings began in the Senate and the House on the nomination of Agnew’s successor, Gerald Ford, questions swirled about the possibility that Democratic House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Okla., might assume the presidency.
The column is heavy on Watergate which the paper has been milking for the better part of five decades since it was a serious news organization and not a propaganda rag for the Beltway elite.
Way back when crusading WaPo reporter Carl Bernstein was a dashing young man who was played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie “All The President’s Men.”
But Bernstein is now a pathetic corpse who is propped up on CNN to spew Depp State talking points and Bob Woodward has slinked off to obscurity after his big book on Trump landed with a thud last year when the greatly overhyped “Fear” was dead on arrival.
That Pelosi could become president is at least theoretically possible but laughable and considering her inability to string together three coherent sentences at her age, were she to somehow win that lottery she’d immediately be a candidate for removal under the 25th Amendment.
But there is a method to the WaPo’s madness – one of the column’s authors Adam Frankel is identified as “a former senior speechwriter to President Barack Obama” and therefore has spent years imbibing Dear Leader’s Kool-Aid.
Following Trump’s inauguration, the paper changed it’s slogan to the ominous “Democracy Dies In Darkness” which sounds like the tagline of a Batman movie but the news died at the WaPo long ago where bullshit flourishes.