Ruth's Report: How crazy is Nancy Pelosi?

Is it just me or is the inept Speaker of the House dangerously unhinged? From THE GRIO:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to rule out the option of impeaching President Donald Trump or Attorney General William Barr if Trump attempts to push through a Supreme Court nominee following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

She would try to impeach a president over a Supreme Court nomination?

Ms. Pelosi is nuts, she has truly lost it. You do not try to impeach a president for carrying out their constitutionally mandated duties. She is nuts. She needs to be removed from office. She is completely unhinged.

And how nuts is she?

Less than a year ago, she tried to impeach him. That did not work out in her favor. But now, right before an election, she thinks she can try to impeach him for carrying out his duties and that people will side with her?

She is out of control and out of her mind.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, September 21, 2020. The passing of a Supreme Court Justice should be the start of several different conversations.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden just can't stop lying. No, 200 million people around the world have not died fro m coronavirus. If he meant in the US, that's even worse. Yaron Steinbuch (NEW YORK POST) points out, ''As of early Monday, the US death toll from the coronavirus stands at 199,512. The total number of reported cases in the country is about 6.8 million, according to the latest figures."

Joe's dazed and confused -- over and over again. Friday, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away following her long battle with cancer. Joe bungled things so badly, he was being mocked as "sleepy Joe" by Australia's SKY NEWS.

While Joe meandered in his befuddled manner, it was left to Jane Fonda to lay down a marker on Friday calling for Senate Democrats to fight back against any effort to replace RBG before the election. Sunday, Joe spoke again and it was more lies. Daniel Dale (CNN) explains:

Biden argued that it would be inappropriate for him to release a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees, as Trump did during the 2016 campaign and did again this month.

Biden also claimed that the Trump campaign had not asked him to release such a list until after Ginsburg died.

"We can't keep rewriting history, scrambling norms, ignoring our cherished system of checks and balances. That includes this whole business of releasing a list of potential nominees that I would put forward. They're now saying, after they -- after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, they said, 'Biden should release his list.' It's no wonder the Trump campaign asked that I release the list only after she passed away. It's a game for them. It's a play to gin up emotions and anger," he said.

Facts First: This is just wrong. The Trump campaign and Trump himself had repeatedly said prior to Ginsburg's death that Biden should release a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees.

When Trump released his latest list on September 9, the Trump campaign's statement said in its title that "Biden must do the same." The campaign repeated the demand for a Biden list in a statement on September 17, the day before Ginsburg died.

Trump had previously issued the same demand himself. In an August 24 speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump said, "I'm demanding, actually, a list: let Biden put up a list of the judges he's going to appoint." And in a June 22 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said, "You ought to ask a guy like a Biden or ask his campaign: give a list of judges, see where they stand on pro-life, see where they stand on it."

Dale also notes that Joe claimed the Court would have no session between now and election day. Wrong. The Court goes back into session on October 5th. What's October 5th? FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER -- you know, the title of the hit 1978 Broadway play that became a 1981 film starring Jill Clayburgh as the first female Supreme Court Justice. She was Golden Globe nominated for the role and the film's title is such because, every year, that's when the Court kicks off its term -- on the first Monday of October. Somehow, in all his years working in DC, Joe missed that fact?

On RBG, she should have retired many years ago. Her health was such that, no, she was not giving the job all that she could. (I say that as someone battling cancer myself.) And in the last four years, she did several things that cheapened her image and the Court's image. As a sitting Justice, it is not her job to offer her personal opinions in interviews about issues that will come before the Court. Nor was it her job to offer her take on a presidential candidate.

She was indulged and coddled by a cult that found this behavior charming. It was not charming. It was damaging to the Court and when some future conservative Justice does the same, you can be sure that many who cheered RGB on with this nonsense will finally grasp why some things are just not done. She set a precedent -- and not in a good way.

She has also left the nation in chaos and that should not be forgotten either. Time and again, the egos on these public servants is repulsive. We need mandatory retirement -- we need it for the Court and we need it for the Senate. (The two-year terms of House members allows the voters to have a quick response should they need to retire someone.) She knew she had cancer. She knew about this round of cancer when Barack Obama started his first term as president. She should have retired then or in his second term.

To have her granddaughter announce that RBG would want everyone to wait until after the election to select a new judge? Who the hell cares what she wanted? She didn't do what she was supposed to -- retire when she couldn't function at a high level.

See "Ruth Badger Ginsburg (Ava and C.I.)" for more on RBG's passing. And note, she wasn't hit by a truck, she died of natural causes after a lengthy illness. She should have retired years ago.

Joe shouldn't be running for the presidency. The editorial board of THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL notes Joe's latest flip-flop:

Joe Biden needs to win Pennsylvania, so he’s changed his position on fracking.

In late August, the Democratic presidential nominee emerged from his basement and traveled to the Keystone State. He sought to assure voters there that a Biden administration wouldn’t threaten the fracking industry. Fracking, which is a method of extracting oil and natural gas from shale rock, is a vital part of the state’s economy. A study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that outlawing fracking would eliminate 600,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone.

“I am not banning fracking,” Biden said. “Let me say that again: I am not banning fracking.”

That’s a John Kerry-level flip flop from the position he took repeatedly during the Democratic primary. Many Democratic voters want to eliminate oil and natural gas production under the guise of addressing global warming. Mr. Biden repeatedly told those voters that he agreed with them.

During a debate last year, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Mr. Biden if “there would be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?”

“We would make sure it’s eliminated,” Mr. Biden said.

He can't be trusted. Nor apparently can the prime minister of Iraq. A former member of the press himself, Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been getting easy press in the last days for two arrests on corruption -- but they're minor arrests and they are meaningless. If you're not grasping how meaningless, Deena Kamel (THE NATIONAL) reports:

State-owned Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) appointed Salem Chalabi as chairman and president as the lender proceeds with a three-year expansion plan to diversify its operations.

Mr Chalabi, a Yale University graduate, will replace Faisal Al Haimus with immediate effect following the directive of Iraqi prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Trade Bank of Iraq said in a statement on Sunday.

"I look forward to implementing a strategy that will allow TBI to achieve sustainable growth and continue building on the strong and solid foundations laid by the bank in the past years," Mr Chalabi said. "We will continue to ... develop the bank’s operations to support our country’s economic development."

Mr Chalabi brings to the role years of experience in business development, strategic planning and forming Iraqi government policies, including involvement in drafting the new Iraqi constitution after 2003. He was appointed General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes against Humanity in 2004 and worked as an adviser to former Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Oh, Deena, there's more honesty in the opening paragraph of his WIKIPEDIA page:

Salem Chalabi (aka "Sam Challabi") (born 1963, in Baghdad) is an Iraq-born, British- and American-educated lawyer. He was appointed as the first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, set up in 2003 to try Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime for crimes against humanity. His appointment, by an order signed by Paul Bremer, the head of the occupation authority,^[1] was widely criticized for perceived nepotism (his uncle, Ahmed Chalabi, was critically involved in the US-led war against Iraq and Hussein) and he himself lacked any significant trial experience (he was a corporate securities lawyer). He was ultimately dropped from the Tribunal after an arrest warrant was issued for investigation into his role in the murder of a director-general of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance who was investigating Chalabi family properties acquired in Iraq; the charge was ultimately dismissed citing lack of evidence.

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