Pelosi Comments On Shutdown During Interview

By
Mark Stevens
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s latest CNN appearance was supposed to be a show of strength — a rallying cry for Democrats amid the ongoing Schumer shutdown. Instead, it showcased exactly why the party’s leadership is in dire need of a reboot. Pelosi, now in her 80s and clinging to relevance through a ceremonial “Speaker Emerita” title, struggled through a defensive, contradictory, and at times surreal interview that left more questions than answers — particularly when it came to defending a political candidate whose toxicity is now impossible to ignore.

Let’s start with the shutdown. Pelosi attempted to blame Republicans for the current impasse, parroting a narrative that House conservatives are sabotaging the government. But CNN, to its credit, didn’t let her get away with it. Host Dana Bash clarified that the continuing resolution (CR) offered by the GOP is, in fact, clean. It maintains Biden-era spending levels. It extends funding for seven weeks. It contains no poison pills. It’s a straightforward attempt to buy time to work out the remaining appropriations bills — the exact process Democrats used to defend when they were in power. Pelosi’s insistence that this wasn’t a clean CR was not only misleading, it was visibly unconvincing.


Why the opposition, then? Because Democrats are demanding a spending spree on their pet projects, including $1.5 trillion in expanded Obamacare subsidies, Medicaid for illegal immigrants, and, yes, ongoing taxpayer funding for National Public Radio. That’s what’s at stake in this shutdown — not government operations, but the preservation of progressive entitlements and political patronage.

But perhaps the most jaw-dropping moment came when Pelosi was asked about Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones — a man now under intense scrutiny after disturbing messages surfaced in which he appeared to wish for the death of his political enemies and their children, hoping tragedy would change their minds on gun control. Even in the face of these deeply alarming revelations, Pelosi chose to defend him. “On balance,” she said, “he’s a better person to be attorney general.”


Let that sink in.

Here is a man who expressed fantasies about political assassination, who has publicly and privately demonstrated contempt for police officers and even hinted at a desire for them to be harmed, and Pelosi’s defense is that he’s the better option — because he wears the right jersey. No condemnation. No concern. No reflection. Just blind party loyalty.

If a Republican candidate had been exposed for sending even one message wishing death upon their political rivals or their families, the media would be in full-blown meltdown. Editorial boards would be demanding resignations. Activists would be blocking roads. But for Jay Jones, the silence from the Left has been deafening — and Pelosi’s shrugging response only confirms that this is not about principle. It’s about power.


At a time when Democrats claim to be the party of “decency” and “norms,” they are defending a man who tramples both. And Pelosi’s performance on CNN — weak, muddled, and shockingly indifferent to the extremism within her own ranks — only underscores how far the party has fallen from the high ground it so often claims to hold.

This shutdown didn’t need to happen. Republicans put forward a clean bill. Democrats tanked it, hoping to extract massive concessions on spending. And when pressed on the growing radicalism within their own party, their most senior leader responded not with leadership, but with excuses.

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