Nancy Pelosi’s Hell May Yet Be Nation’s Salvation

Dan Henninger’s WSJ piece, “Nancy Pelosi’s Hell Week” refers to trillions to be spent on vague infrastructure projects, a stalling slush fund for special interests bigger than Oscar Meyer’s pork pen and a looming federal shutdown (avoided at the 11th hour Thursday), yet suggests each of these crises are really due to one big increasingly socialistic fed government that itself is on life support.

“We’re witnessing the capital of a great nation,” he argued, “on the verge of collapsing the country into a state of long-term misgovernance.” Mr. Henninger noted how “this week’s legislative agenda in the House of Reps sounds like the to-do list of a madhouse,” culminating in the progressive House’s mad dash to add nearly $5T more debt to the out of control $28T national debt.” He worried, “it can still get worse.”

Mr. Henninger goes on to say “I told you so” when he warned in his column during the Obama era’s addiction to a nebulus Obamacare package no one had bothered to fully read, that “the US government was becoming a black hole, siphoning everything near it into a deadly inert mass.” He noted how the government’s “managerial competence” has further been exposed in recent weeks by the botched Afghan skedaddle, exploding migrant border chaos, Covid confusion & surging crime in the big cities. The proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, however, “is about the less-visible problem of designing public programs on paper that fall apart in the real world.” If Mr. Henninger is right, maybe Nancy Pelosi’s Hell Week was a needed wake up call & its unraveling is necessary to save the nation.

Davd Soul