Pelosi Moderates

The Charlie Brown's football of American politics: the Democrat "Moderate". We used to call them Blue Dog Democrats or even sometimes (back in the day when they actually voted that way) Conservative or DLC Democrats. But as we know the last Blue Dog died years ago and the DLC is an acronym not for Democratic Leadership Council but Democratic Loser Committee. Like Charlie Brown, the conservative or independent minded voter (read today, a Republican who can't stomach Trump) votes for these people when they tell them during the election  campaign that they are "moderate" nay probably severely conservative in private. Therefore you can trust them to be bipartisan to vote against the party line occasionally, to ignore attempts to demonize or even criminalize the opposition and, to bring this up to date, not investigate and impeach.

But Lucy, the Democrat moderate congressperson, always takes the football, bipartisanship, away from Charlie Brown, aforesaid moderate voter, at the last minute and Charlie goes hilariously flying. Case in point: Trump Impeachment. Almost all the 31 so called moderate Dems in the House promised their constituents that they were not interested in investigation and impeachment. They just wanted to get things done, even if it meant cooperating with the GOP and that Barbarian, Donald Trump. The only thing they've done since is impeachment despite the clout they could wield to work on bettering the Nation (they represent almost twice the majority margin the Dems have in the House).

Now, we find out again their true colours on the impeachment votes. Already all but two of these people have voted for the inquiry and it looks like all but 6 at best will vote for impeachment. The reality sinks in again. These are Pelosi Democrats. It will come as no surprise to all but the most naive that these 31 have voted the way she has ordered them to do all the time. You can only fool all of the moderate voters some of the time but you can certainly make almost all "moderate" Dems vote Nancy's way all of the time, usually by threatening to withhold party funds from their campaign or to primary them. It's sadly that raw.

Ask yourself the same question that was pertinent in FISA - if this was so "unbiased" then how come everything went against Trump? Similarly, if these people were truly thinking, sensate human beings who really were allowed or wanted to think and act for themselves on the question of impeachment, than how come about half are not about to vote against it? The situation is in fact double, both partisan and intellectual. That is, if these people were bipartisan they would split naturally but also, as the issue of impeachability is one that clearly splits the nation and is highly controversial even by the most blinkered perceptions, then it goes double that these moderates should have dissented from their rabidly partisan leadership.

But no, and that is why they should simply be called Pelosi Democrats from now on. That way the voters in their districts (who I believe will turf them from their seats for their perfidy next year) will finally get Truth in Advertising. If any American voter still thinks that these 31 are moderate, they must believe the Speaker is neutral, watch too much CNN and think that AOC  should be curator of the Reagan Library.