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Does Pelosi not understand that the Speech can be given without being in the House? The speech can be given in the Senate House, The White House, on National TV, hell...it can even be given over twitter. All this is doing is making Pelosi look like an errant child....along with anyone that supports this idiocy.
Yes, Trump can try to find somewhere else which will hold enough applauding people to satisfy his ego.
Pelosi is standing up for the constitutional role of the Congress. Something Democrats failed to do under Obama and the GOP has failed to do for the past two years under Trump.
That is one of the benefits of divided government ... the opposition party suddenly remembering their duty not to look the other way during executive overreach.
In this case, the overreach from the White House is breathtaking in its dangerous potential, and whatever her motivation it is right for her to stand up against it. No, just having a speech on its own isn't "overreach", but this is part of the bigger picture of Pelosi schooling Trump on the constitutional role of Congress in holding the line against the kind of president who would paralyze a nation for a vanity project.