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August 16, 2008 - 4:00 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-16 21:47:17

Wrthcard:
“Nancy Pelosi represents Dot-Com and Silicon Valley billionaires. Do you honestly think she wants to allow her constituent billionaires to lose part of their wealth just so some other group can get rich? Or even modestly wealthy?”

The Leftie citizenry of San Francisco provides many more votes than the Dot-Com and Silicon Valley billionaires (or any other collection of billionaires, for that matter). Pelosi needs votes. Any votes will do, so long as they are within her district and can be counted (honestly or not). She can throw every billionaire’s vote to the sharks and still keep winning, especially since she is the senior member of the House with a majority behind her.

There are two ways to unseat her. One is to find her guilty of so great a crime that even the Left wants her jailed. (Such a crime may not exist, unless it is admitting that conservativism is not necessarily evil.) The other is to turn Congress far enough to the Right that Pelosi is marginalized and can be defeated in a primary challenge. (Hence my earlier assertion that one of the Constitution’s biggest flaws is allowing the Houses of Congress to write their own rules of order.)