It's now clear @Speaker Pelosi.

[sheshe2]

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[Deuxcents]

1. She filled in naturally, of course. She's a qualified Leader

And knows the Constitution and how government works

[sheshe2]

4. CNN is again running the full clip.

I missed the first one earlier tonight. They broke and Anderson is giving commentary right now then restart. He just said that Nancy was working the phones even as she was being evacuated. Pleads with the Sec. of the Army for help...calling everyone.

[blue neen]

2. All the while the insurrectionists are hunting Nancy down to inflict major harm to her.

Resolute and quick thinking, she kept her cool under extremely stressful circumstances.

[oasis]

3. In sharp contrast to Josh Hawley who was getting the hell out of Dodge.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. I never want to hear anyone say WOMEN ARE TOO EMOTIONAL ever again....

Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, the calm in the storm...

[sheshe2]

6. I agree x 1000!

She is also 82 years old and she was taking the youngsters to task, DOD, Sec. of the Army, Gov of VA and the Mayor of DC etc.

[betsuni]

13. +1

[sheshe2]

16. Did you get to see the full video?

If not, watch it when you can.

She, Schumer and Hoyer were all working together.

[betsuni]

23. Yes. Fantastic!

I shudder to think the chaos if our experienced Democratic leaders weren't there to take charge.

[Hekate]

7. HELL yes!

[relayerbob]

10. 100% This

[No Vested Interest]

21. Recall that she bore and raised five children before running for Congress.

Her biographer says that gave her the organizational skills to manage the members of Congress.

I noticed that her daughter Alexandria filmed the footage shown by CNN. How lucky she was with her mother on that fateful day, recording all that occurred minute by minute.

[Kev80]

22. Woman are smarter.

The Grateful Dead told us so. I concur with the Grateful Dead.

[Hekate]

8. One more reason the insurrectionists wanted to take her out of the line of POTUS succession...

…by assassination.

We are so lucky to have her.

[sheshe2]

14. Yup, they were screaming her name.

Guess that is why they wanted Pence so badly as well. Wipe out #2 #3.

Order of Presidential Succession
Vice President.
Speaker of the House.
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
Secretary of State.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary of Defense.
Attorney General.
Secretary of the Interior.


Leahy would be 4th.
Patrick J. Leahy, a Senator from the State of Vermont, to be President pro tempore of the Senate of the United States.

[brush]

18. Wasn't repug Grassley President Pro Tem then?

[sheshe2]

19. Actually, I think you are right.

Why else would he have said he would stand in for Pence if he happened not to be there that day. Makes you wonder about Grassley's role in all this. Hmmm,

I Goggled it and got Leahy's name.

I also googled to find out who was 4th. I read a book, many decades ago The Man.

4th in line and a black man becomes President
The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.

This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life.

From beginning to end, The Man is a novel of swift and tremendous drama, as President Dilman attempts to uphold his oath in the face of international crises, domestic dissension, violence, scandal, and ferocious hostility. Push comes to shove in a breathtaking climax, played out in the full glare of publicity, when the Senate of the United States meets for the first time in one hundred years to impeach the President. (

[onetexan]

26. Spot on!! K&R

[relayerbob]

9. Agreed on her role

HOwever, Trump didn't "refuse to act to save lives", he acted intentionally to threaten those lives. We, as a country and a party, really need to stop using language as if he was some senile old dude who wasn't living up to his role as President. He was the chief instigator of a coup attempt.

[onetexan]

27. He's not senile. He's a psychotic, vile, uneducated, crude mobboss dictator-wanabe

Whose lust for power & greeds means whatever means he uses will justify his end. The horrifying thing is there are millions who stupidly fall for hid con like ravenous wolves under his spell & willing to do his bidding.

[SunSeeker]

11. K & R & Retweeted!

[JoeOtterbein]

12. K n R ! Thanks for posting!

My favorite Baltimore "bad ass" native!!!!!

[sheshe2]

17. + 1000!

[stage left]

15. A great leader.

Calm and cool under pressure. We're lucky to have her.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[orleans]

24. i just went on her twitter feed

omg--she's getting trolled by a lot of magats

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Damn! Though I'm not surprised.

You know that I sometimes post clever Twitter replies on a Twitter OP and twice this week I've seen nothing but nasty insults! I tend to block such idiots, but on these Twitter threads it was pretty much everyone! I guess that means current events are getting to them, but it's depressing as hell to realize there are still so many out there.

[brer cat]

28. People who want her out because of her age should take notice.

An experienced, seasoned leader making clear-headed requests for help was exactly what was needed and Nancy delivered.

[betsuni]

29. +1

[2naSalit]

32. Indeed.

Needs to be pointed out.

[hlthe2b]

30. I've avoided saying it prior, but it is not only the R's in House that looks so damned foolish &

duplicitous. The progressive Dems who have repeatedly derided Pelosi (and tried to unseat her the past several cycles) and again going into the Fall election, look mighty damned foolish for their ageist bigotry and "selective" ignorance.

[Hotler]

31. Maybe she could walk into Garlands office and give him the look. We know that look.

The look that makes people go, "oh shit!".
Enough fucking around Garland pull the pin.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Nancy Pelosi is a boss

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[sheshe2]

34. I especially love the last one!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a hero...

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[sheshe2]

37. +1000

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. This makes me smile

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[sheshe2]

39. That is pretty powerful.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Be a Nancy

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[sheshe2]

41. This!