Hoping Pelosi’s arson is at end

OPINION:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a proud political arsonist — as long as the fire serves as a partisan political device (“Pelosi pledges to hold up infrastructure bill, as Portman says Senate is nearing a deal,” Web, July 25). She assembles Republican kindling by disdaining bipartisan appeals on a standalone infrastructure bill; spreads accelerant by claiming that physical infrastructure must be supplemented by trillions in human infrastructure; lights the fuse with loud protestations against reasonable legislation and then dances amidst charred Republican remains.

Of course, sometimes the arsonist is careless and burns herself. Perhaps her jeremiad against everything Republican and rational will ignite a backfire and spark a change to minority status after the midterms.

 

PAUL BLOUSTEIN

Cincinnati