Rock Brentwood wrote:
> On Jul 24, 12:40 pm, Major Debacle <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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."
Could you rephrase that in 25 words or less?
I read a few lines and what you wrote really doesn't seem worth reading.
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