In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Last summer, I posted on what in early 2021 seemed to be a consensus "Götterdämmerung strategy" among the elites, whereby Speaker Pelosi, possibly expected to retire after the 2022 election, would use slim congressional majorities, plus control of the White House, to enact a massive Great Reset agenda and ignore the post-2022 consequences because, well, she'd be retired by then. I likened this to someone who, assuming the world would end on December 21, decided to run up a huge credit card bill that would never need to be repaid. I was always skeptical that this would work, but there have been only a few voices of sanity over the past year who raised the point that Pelosi had only a single-digit majority in the House, with the Senate evenly tied. Throughout the fall and winter, it became more clear that there weren't enough votes among Senate Democrats even to reach a tie on the Götterdämmerung agenda. Beyond that, House Republican leader McCarthy is announcing...