Nancy Pelosi going to lead Dems to provoke the Trump

The veteran congresswoman, the elected leader of the House of Representatives, will lead the offensive against the president in the second half of his term

It's a new day in America, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, tweeted, along with a photo that portrayed her, played with hijab, at the gates of the Capitol. Rashida Tlaib, the other of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, honored her Palestinian heritage by wearing a traditional thobe. Deb Haaland, a Native American woman who has sat in Congress since yesterday, came covered with silver and turquoise jewelry and covered with moccasins, as mandated by the Pueblo Indians.

The class of 2019 is the most ethnically diverse and feminine in the more than 200 years of the institution's history. The renewal takes place mainly in the ranks of the Democratic Party, which has released its majority in the House on Thursday and comes with the democratic mandate to turn the second half of the Trump Administration into something very different from the first.


Take the reins of that new majority Nancy Pelosi, not a veteran less pioneer, who will be, for the second time in her 78 years of life, the most powerful woman elected in the United States. She was the first woman president of the Chamber (between 2007 and 2011) and is, from today, the second.

Pelosi, received on Thursday by a standing ovation from the new Democratic caucus, will be responsible for catalyzing all that fresh energy flow to effectively face Donald Trump and demonstrate to the country that the Democrats are ready to replace him in 2020. The challenges are colossal, as evidenced by the fact that Congress has taken office with the partially closed government for almost two weeks, due to the Democrats' refusal to finance the wall that Trump wants to build on the border with Mexico.

The meeting in the Crisis Room of the White House, which the president called on Wednesday to inform its leaders about the immigration policy in the Congress, ended in the foreseeable failure. The lighted and rude tone of it, according to the story of those present, suggests that the end of the crisis is not close.

The Democratic control of the House of Representatives poses serious threats to Trump. The desire to punish the president will, in all likelihood, be one of the forces shaping the new majority. The excitement was noticeable in the parliamentary committees that are preparing for the democratically relief in their leadership. Particularly in the judicial, which will preside, Jerrold Nadler, who plans to immediately introduce a bill that shields from political interference the investigation of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 elections and the possible conspiracy of Trump's environment with Moscow to take the tycoon to the White House


Pelosi will be in charge of managing the intensity of that offensive and achieving the delicate balance between the desire to overthrow Trump and the realpolitik that discourages rushing. In a television interview in the morning, Pelosi left the door open to an impeachment of the president, a possible impeachment process in the context of Mueller's investigations.



The initiative to initiate the process, which has important support among the new Democratic congressmen, corresponds exclusively to the House of Representatives. If it succeeds in the lower house, it would have to be resolved by a two-thirds majority in the Senate, where the Republicans maintain control. "We must wait and see what happens with Mueller's report," Pelosi said, with caution so as not to frustrate yearning for newcomers. "We should not promote impeachment for political reasons, but neither should we avoid it for political reasons. We'll have to wait and see how it develops. "


With the self-confidence that characterizes her, Nancy Pelosi published excerpts from her speech as the new president of the House of Representatives, before even winning the vote that would make her the third highest authority in the country. "Our democracy is reinforced with the optimism, idealism, and patriotism of this new transformative promotion," he said. Pelosi reviewed what will be priorities of its majority, such as the fight against inequalities and the middle class - "the backbone of democracy" - as well as the fight against climate change, "the existential threat of our time."