William Southold, The Southold Report
This was a totally unscripted encounter, and an entirely fortuitous happenstance that allows me to bring it to you. In fact, it was a CNS office “water cooler” moment that brought it to my attention early this morning. I apologize for the long setup, but here it is:
One of our CNS interns, she didn’t want me to use her name, told us one of our reporters, and he certainly didn’t want me to use his name, had asked her to stake out a Senate hallway for him while he ducked into the restroom. He had heard that, due to intersecting schedules, there was a chance for an unplanned encounter between Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi. Sure enough, that’s exactly what happened, and here’s what our intern told us she observed, and overheard.
First, Mitch McConnell was coming from a press brief where he had just announced he will be scheduling a vote on the Green New Deal, in his view a radical left proposal to address “all sorts of kookie Liberal nonsense”. He had told the press that he looked forward to getting everybody on the record about it (he-he).
McConnell seemed very pleased with himself, and, perhaps savoring the moment, was still wearing what some have described as a “serious smirk”.
Ms. Pelosi, coming up the hall followed by her own gaggle of press trying to keep up with her, giving them no new information about the border wall compromise, our intern said, had her typical “poker face” on.
McConnell and Pelosi found themselves face to face.
“Nancy,” McConnell exclaimed with his smirk now turning to a wide smile, “here to talk to your Senate colleagues about the Green New Deal?” His wide smile snapped back to a smirk.
“Mitch,” our intern overheard her say, as she stood not 3 feet from both of them. “President Trump sure is a wily old fox, isn’t he, the way he’s going to find all this new money for his wall?”
“Well, he certainly is an original,” McConnell responded.
“Yes,” she agreed. “He’s giving us whole new ways to think about the government. I’ve got members licking their chops to get into that “moving money around thing” the president seems to like so much. (Ms. Pelosi emphasized her point with air quotes.) My members can’t wait to support a Democratic President, using her executive action, in funneling money away from all those unnecessary military expenditures. They can hardly wait!”
This was said, our intern reported, with a very tight smile. It seemed to wipe the smirk right off McConnell’s face.
So, there you have it. Our intern (and I am sure a reporter in waiting) with perhaps her very first scoop.
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