{"id":83902,"date":"2022-11-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83902"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:06:05","slug":"adios-au-revoir-auf-wiedersehen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83902","title":{"rendered":"Adios.  Au Revoir.  Auf Wiedersehen."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nancy Pelosi &#8211; who has been Speaker of the House for most of the time this blog has been a thing &#8211; is back to being a mere Congresswoman from San Francisco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean Phillips feted her on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Even her devoted adversaries and opponents will tell you she\u2019s among history\u2019s most remarkable and effective leaders. Books will be written, movies made, and extraordinary stories told. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H3gy4SCErP\">pic.twitter.com\/H3gy4SCErP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Dean Phillips \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepDeanPhillips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDeanPhillips\/status\/1593440197085040641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can say exactly the same thing about Francisco Franco and Pol Pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, she&#8217;s neither.   But she is cynical, opportunistic, theatrical, has a dubious relationship with the Constitution, and somehow became immeasurably wealthy while &#8220;serving&#8221; in Congress, not that that means she&#8217;s corrupt nosirreebob.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s fair to say she has certainly lowered the bar for &#8220;powerful female leaders&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Pelosi &#8211; who has been Speaker of the House for most of the time this blog has been a thing &#8211; is back to being a mere Congresswoman from San Francisco. Dean Phillips feted her on Twitter: You can say exactly the same thing about Francisco Franco and Pol Pot. No, she&#8217;s neither. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83903,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83902\/revisions\/83903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}