On Jul 24, 12:40=A0pm, Major Debacle <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Nine Republicans broke ranks to vote with 229 Democrats to send a single
> article of impeachment against George W Bush to the House Judiciary
> Committee for hearings. No Democrat voted against the resolution.
One of the Cable Mutants (Riley) had a body language analyst on to
discuss what was going on in Pelosi's mind when she started melting
down. Like with most things, she was way off on a lot, and missed a
lot.
Body language, in fact, is not a matter of "interpretation". For one,
it's the primary means of communication between animals and humans
(properly trained to pick up and send the appropriate signals). The
focal point is what people who work as interviewers and interrogators
refer to as micro-expressions.
These I can see clearly, as much as if you were to express the
thoughts out loud. In some cases, the person expressing them isn't
even able to get it out any other way -- essentially a bottleneck.
Pelosi was, in fact, in such a bottleneck. There were several things
she wanted to get out, and it all started coming out in a log-jam.
Number one. The excessive hand-waving, like the Emperor flailing at
the last minute after he had been thrown into the nuclear generator in
the 1983 Star Wars movie, is a gesture of helpless exasperation.
Incredibly, she was actually also nervous! She's got stage fright!
I've seen that with several other politicians. They can be at the
highest tiers in government, but once you get them in front of people
or a camera, they simply unravel. The most prominent example, in fact,
is president Bush, who shows a great deal of stage fright whenever he
goes extem****aneous.
But she was also pissed off about a couple things (which exacerbated
the nervousness).
Number one, the head shaking like steam is coming out of it and like
the whole thing is about to go nuclear -- the thought underlying this
is "get these buffoons out of office, clean out #1 and #2, and clear
the way for #3 to get in there RIGHT NOW and execute responsible
government (for a change)."
Number two, "President Bush is a LOSER who has no credibility", what
was left unsaid, "and we in Congress with an approval rating only HALF
that of the President are getting pinned for his incompetence. And now
everybody's blaming us for the fact that we can't get a damned thing
done, because with our short-of-60 majority it's either the Bush way
or the High Way."
In other words, "the Buck stops with the President, not with us and
our 10-15% approval rating making us look like EVEN WORSE losers than
the President."
Number three, was the anticipatory defensiveness, just waiting for
someone to point out to her that the body she leads has only half the
approval rating of the President ... just waiting for an excuse to
bite off anyone's head who even so much as brings that up.
Four, she got red-faced over her own incompetence -- which was what
led to the incisive retribution against someone with twice the
approval rating than the people she leads. Adding insult to injury was
her knowledge that she was going to have to stuff the whole
impeachment process into "committee". In other words, the President
basically made Pelosi his *****. What she heard is "I'm going to do
whatever the hell I want, and you're going to get on your knees,
wor****p me and show me how much you like it, Mme. Speaker. I'm going
to drive the nation to ruin and it's all going to be deemed your
fault. Thus, the completion of the Three Directives: Find 'Em, ****
'Em and Forget 'Em."
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