At some point, someone should tell Nancy Pelosi to stop stabbing Joe Biden, his presidency is already dead. On the day that Biden submitted his “resignation from the campaign” letter on Twitter/X, the man who sat in the Oval Office became PINO – president in name only.

Apparently, Nancy Pelosi thinks that “pino” is just wine, so she’s going back to drink at the well again and draining Joe dry of any dignity he might have had left after his debate with Donald Trump. It’s now become something of an open secret that Pelosi had a mighty big hand in shoving old Joe out the door. Biden advisor Anita Dunn has indicated that Pelosi was involved, and Biden himself even admitted it during his CBS interview.

President Biden offered some more insight into why he dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday during an interview with CBS News, and said his Democratic colleagues told him his campaign would hurt members of the party down-ballot.

“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic, you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say -why did – and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” Biden told CBS News’ Bob Costa.

Bringing up Pelosi in this case is no accident. We already knew from CNN – who reported this on July 18th – that Pelosi was pressuring Biden to drop out well before he finally did.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden could destroy Democrats’ chances of winning the House in November if he continues seeking a second term, according to four sources briefed on the call.

The president responded by pushing back, telling Pelosi he has seen polls that indicate he can win, one source said. Another one of the sources described Biden as getting defensive about the polls. At one point, Pelosi asked Mike Donilon, Biden’s longtime adviser, to get on the line to talk over the data.

Pelosi had been making the media rounds as well, giving Biden as much noncommittal support as possible, leading up to that conversation.

.@SpeakerPelosi asked about Biden's candidacy:

"I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And that's the way it is. Whatever he decides we go with." pic.twitter.com/HqaRGtv2dP

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) July 10, 2024

Pelosi ended up getting what she wanted, though she herself is historically no fan of Kamala Harris. Biden dropped out of the race on July 21st, the Democrats have circled the wagons around Kamala Harris – and now Tim Walz – and Nancy Pelosi has cemented herself as the biggest political operator since probably LBJ. Even without the Speaker’s gavel, the woman is a formidable force behind the scenes. And she’s running for reelection at age 84. Which proves, yet again, that age is a factor in Joe Biden’s obvious decline – remember, Pelosi is older than Biden – but there is likely also something else seriously wrong with him.

Does San Fran Nan feel some residual guilt about throwing her fellow octogenarian under the bus? Maybe. Or maybe she’s just angry with him for his figurative collapse on the debate stage, revealing that the jig was up, and sticking the party with Kamala Harris. Perhaps that’s why she’s still slamming old Joe, now saying that she doesn’t believe that he wrote the letter after the debates to his Democrat colleagues, which said he was staying in the race. Anyone who is paying attention to Joe’s decline knows that he doesn’t write his own letters, statements, speeches, or tweets. We even know that his letter announcing that he was dropping out was a team effort. That Nancy Pelosi is saying this out loud is just the final knife in the back.

Biden, 81, sent the missive to congressional Dems to try to put to rest any notion that he’d exit the race over widespread concerns about his mental acuity after his June 27 debate performance against GOP foe Donald Trump. Two weeks later, Biden dropped out.

“I didn’t accept the letter as anything but a letter,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told New York Times columnist Ezra Klein in an interview last week. “I mean, there are some people who are unhappy with the letter.

“Let me say it differently. Some said that some people were unhappy with the letter. I’ll put it in somebody else’s mouth. It didn’t sound like Joe Biden to me. It really didn’t,” she said.

Pelosi also has regurgitated her well-worn defense that she merely sought a winning presidential campaign, telling the New Yorker that she had “never been that impressed with [Biden’s] political operation.

“I wanted to see a campaign that could win. Because I had made a decision that I stayed in Congress to defeat what’s-his-name, because I think he is a danger to our country,” Pelosi reflected, referring to former President Donald Trump.

Now, Nancy Pelosi was never at risk of losing her own Congressional seat. But what she DID risk losing, with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, were the down-ballot races in swing districts. Democrats have a very narrow gap to bridge in order to get the majority back in the House. If Kamala Harris wins the presidency, that bodes well for Democrats regaining the House. And that is ALL that Nancy Pelosi wants. She might not be Speaker, but do you think Hakeem Jeffries has the backbone to buck her? Grandma Nancy and her clattering dentures are still in charge, controlling the House Democrat caucus like a family matriarch who is going to get her own way because she controls your inheritance. She’s had her moment in the sun as Speaker, and she is still fêted and interviewed and admired, even when she’s not. She, like Barack Obama, is content to be pulling the strings from the background now. Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain. Unless she has her fangs in your neck, as Joe Biden and his staff have learned.

If Kamala Harris loses, I wonder what dirt Nancy Pelosi will dish on her.

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