Timothy Birdnow

Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Bleat, has invited Donald Trump to give his State of the Union report on February 4, one day after the Iowa Caucus.

This is interesting; first off, if Mr. Trump is guilty of the alleged crimes they have impeached him for, why invite him to the House chamber?  Trump could as easily deliver his address by letter; it's been done before. Pelosi said she is "honoring the Constitution". Right. When was the last time she cared about the Constitutionality of anything?

In fact, she disinvited Trump in 2019 when the government was "shut down" (actually, only about twenty percent of it was closed.) So why not then but now?

The conventional wisdom is that this will hurt Senate Democrats running for President in the primaries. But so what?  Pelosi has no dog in that fight. Remember, we're talking about the primaries, not the general election.

Of course, the Iowa Caucuses doesn't affect the Republicans, who are clearly going to run Trump again.

So why do it?

Not sure, but it may be that they don't want Trump speaking to the nation before the caucus so as not to hurt any of the candidates. Trump will probably  come ot corking in that SOTU, and he will probably be quite combative with the Democrats who impeached him. Pelosi probably wants to avoid any undue influence by the Orange Peril, so wants Iowa done first.

What danger is there from Trump at SOTU?  Well, it could be very damaging to one Mr. Joseph Biden of Delaware. The party clearly wants to steer clear of the radicals, and Biden is there apparent best bet. They can't afford to have Trump remind everyone that Biden is a crooked creep. So Pelosi is setting this a day after the Iowa caucus, to jumpstart his campaign.

Those are my thoughts anyway. There may be other reasons that become apparent in due course.

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