The past is coming back to haunt Democrats as a video of then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) resurfaces while the left continues to hammer President Donald Trump for carrying out a joint strike with Israel on Iran, claiming he doesn’t have the authority to do so without getting permission from Congress. This is what happens when you don’t practice the principle of consistency. Then again, does the left practice any principles at all?
After then-President Barack Obama launched a strike on Libya in 2011 and took serious heat for it, Pelosi defended his actions and said he did not, in fact, need authorization from Congress before launching the attack. As Michael Scott so brilliantly stated, my how the turn tables.
“Madam Speaker — Madam Leader, you’re saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress on Libya?” a reporter asked Pelosi. She responded simply and articulately with a single word: “Yes.”
And just like that, Pelosi’s past statement undercuts the whining and complaining of Democrats today who are throwing a hissy-fit over the president eliminating a threat to our nation’s well-being and setting free the oppressed people of Iran. What’s really happening is a mass manifestation of Trump Derangement Syndrome, not a sincere desire to uphold the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
So either Pelosi has forgotten her previous statements on this issue—which isn’t beyond the realm of possibility, seeing as she’s now officially older than dirt—or she has changed her mind since Obama’s strike, because she now says the exact opposite about Trump’s Operation Epic Fury.