Pelosi’s Stutters as Her Build Back Better Cheerleading Interrupted by a More Popular Slogan – Opinion

Biden’s “Build Back Better” ballyhoo isn’t popular, including with some Democrats. In fact, the most (arguably) powerful Democrat in the Senate right now, Joe Manchin, has turned his back on it, sending some of the left’s most radical elected officials into tantrums.

(READ: AOC Goes ‘Mean Girl’ on Joe Manchin With Retaliation Plan Sure to Make Cocaine Mitch Smile)

Ever the team player if that team benefits “Team Pelosi,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was out promoting the $1.2 trillion monstrosity on infrastructure spending in the safety of San Francisco. At least it was supposed be.

The most popular chant of the day isn’t safe for anyone. There’s nowhere you can run from it. You can’t hide. You will be found.

It found Pelosi.

As Pelosi was attempting to introduce San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a very loud “Let’s go, Brandon” flew in from somewhere in the ether and hit Pelosi hard enough that she began to stumble over her words. This was then followed up by a “USA” chant.

Pelosi gets tripped up by “Let’s go Brandon” chant. pic.twitter.com/jcpi3OYnZh

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) December 21, 2021

Pelosi manages to stammer out DeSaulnier’s name as a light applause from the very light crowd is drowned out by the man chanting “USA.”

Pelosi still supports the Build Back Better Plan, despite Manchin’s failure to fix it.

“This will happen. It must happen,” Pelosi said to reporters. “And we will do it as soon as we can. There are conversations that are ongoing, but we cannot walk away from this commitment.”

“We will not let this opportunity pass,” she said. “And I have confidence that Senator Manchin cares about our country and that, at some point very soon, we can take up the legislation. I’m not deterred at all.”

Bold words but likely hollow. So far Arizona Senator Kyrsten Silena has joined Manchin, making it impossible for the bill to be passed. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has mentioned that the vote next year will be done more to put Democrats who vote against it on record, which hasn’t seemed to bother either Manchin or Sinema.

My colleague Bonchie pointed out that Schumer’s move betrays the fact they don’t have any recourse.

In other words, there’s no actual strategy here. This is Schumer trying to please his far-left base. And it’s that insistence on prioritizing a small segment of the political population that put Democrats in this position in the first place. They never should have tried to enact “transformational” change in a 50-50 US Senate. It was absurd. FDR received the New Deal’s equivalent to a 75-25 Senate majority. There’s just no comparison.

Schumer wants to get as many Democrats as possible into the lifeboats. The ship is slowly sinking. Either way, this will go down as just another failure for Democrats who won’t have much in the way of momentum come midterms.

Let’s go, Brandon.