AMAC Exclusive – By Seamus Brennan
As House Democrats brace for the impact of a Red Wave that could wash dozens of members out of office on November 8th, rumor has it that their longtime leader—Nancy Pelosi herself—has her eyes on a new prize if she is forced to surrender the gavel next year.
Pelosi is apparently hoping that, if Democrats lose their majority, Joe Biden will nominate her to become the next U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Fox Business reported. Nearly two years into the administration, the embassy post in Rome remains vacant. “Biden is holding the spot for the Speaker, sources say, which is one reason he has yet to fill the position since taking office,” said Fox’s Maria Bartiromo.
Pelosi’s desire to land in a plush retirement post—complete with a taxpayer-funded opulent Roman villa and an Italian police escort to shuttle her around Tuscany, the Dolomites, and the Amalfi Coast—is certainly understandable. We’ve long known that the Speaker enjoys the finer things in life—from her $20,000 refrigerator stocked with boutique ice cream, to her own personal vineyard in Napa Valley, to her eyebrow-raising use of full-sized Air Force jets for her cross-country flights.
Indeed, Pelosi appears to have spent a considerable amount of time auditioning for her Roman Holiday. The Speaker, who has a net worth of $120 million, has repeatedly flown off to beaches and luxurious resorts in Italy in lieu of spending time in her drug-ridden and crime-infested home district.
But however much Pelosi may covet the plum job in Italy, if Republicans win the Senate, they should make clear that Pelosi will take the helm at the Rome embassy over their dead bodies.
For Senate Republicans to give Pelosi a golden parachute to Rome would be the most egregious insult to American voters.
At one point in the not-so-distant past, representing the United States abroad was considered to be a supreme honor that required dignity, public spiritedness, statesmanship, and other civic and political virtues. The possibility of elevating Pelosi—who has done more than almost any other politician in recent memory to divide the country and turn American politics in a toxic brew of radicalism and resentment—ought to be rejected out of hand. The mere notion that Pelosi’s record entitles her to be rewarded by the American people with anything other than a swift exit from the public stage is laughable.
Over the last several years alone, Pelosi has cemented her legacy as one of the most destructive political leaders in all of American history.
As Speaker, Pelosi caved to the far-left and allowed the likes of AOC and “The Squad” to push one of America’s two major political parties into an open embrace of socialism and cultural extremism unlike anything this country has ever seen.
Moreover, Pelosi slandered a sitting president of the United States as, in effect, a Russian spy, suggesting repeatedly that Vladimir Putin and the Russians “have something” on Donald Trump. She allowed her top-lieutenant, Adam Schiff, to orchestrate one repulsive smear campaign after another. She presided over not one, but two disgraceful impeachment show trials that violated every norm of American politics for over two centuries. She gave a blank check to the January 6th Committee to make a mockery of the House’s traditions and run roughshod over the rights of American citizens (not to mention the truth). She ripped up the State of the Union Address on live television in a grotesque and apparently pre-meditated display of childish pique. And she did it all to indulge the raw hatred of her party’s most deranged partisans. The U.S. Congress may never recover from the damage Pelosi has done to its customs, its culture, and its reputation in the eyes of the American people and the world.
Perhaps even more disastrous has been Pelosi’s mortifying legislative record. Under her leadership, the Democrat Congress has brought the country to the verge of ruin. She has gleefully blocked every attempt to secure the border, enabling, over time, tens of millions of illegal aliens to walk into the country completely unchecked. She passed trillions of dollars in wasteful spending bills, jam-packed with payoffs to left-wing special interest groups—sparking the worst inflation in decades, and setting up America and the world for economic catastrophe. She allowed her party to embrace “Defunding the Police”—leading directly to a gruesome wave of violent crime. Her top legislative priority this Congress, H.R. 1, is an unconstitutional monstrosity that would ban voter ID and put federal bureaucrats in charge of every election. Pelosi has waged an open war on American democracy while posturing as its greatest defender.
This, of course, is merely Pelosi’s recent record. Over a period of decades as a top leader in the Democrat Party, she has presided over some of the worst and most damaging decisions in American history, from NAFTA, to Obamacare, to the never-ending “war on terror” and the weaponization of the federal law enforcement and intelligence apparatus against the American people.
In spite of her self-professed status as “a very devout Catholic,” Pelosi’s aggressive support for abortion-on-demand, even in the 40th week of pregnancy, would also certainly complicate a prospective ambassadorship. Not only is Rome the home of the Holy See, but Italy has just elected a new conservative Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni—who in many ways stands as a rebuke to the unchecked globalism and radical leftism Pelosi represents. Why would the United States send Pelosi, who is unrelentingly hostile to the governing philosophy the Italian public has just embraced, to be its chief representative in Italy? The United States would only do such a thing if it wished to antagonize the new Italian government—and Republicans have a duty not to let that happen.
Despite the rise of career politicians like Pelosi, America’s Founders never intended for the United States to be run by a permanent ruling class of out-of-touch partisans who serve for 18 consecutive terms in Congress, wreaking unfathomable havoc on the country while being completely insulated from the costs. Our Founders would no doubt roll over in their graves at the thought of Queen Pelosi retiring like royalty in Europe after such a career—and doing it on the American taxpayer dime.
Above all, for a newly elected Republican majority in the Senate to confirm Nancy Pelosi as Ambassador to Italy would be an affront to the millions of Americans who are set to repudiate her leadership at the ballot box less than two weeks from now.
The American public is angry—and rightly so. Republicans’ first move shouldn’t be to hand Pelosi an ambassadorship—it should be to send her a subpoena, and then to hold her accountable for the trauma and wreckage she has put the country through over the past six years.