Commentary
THE PETTY, VINDICTIVE Democrats in the House of Representatives, joined by 10 RINOs, disgracefully voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for “incitement to riot” related to the breach of the Capitol building last week. All while ignoring the worse riots in Portland, Seattle, Minnesota and Kenosha, cities under Democrat control. There will be no trial before his leaving office.
ACCOUNTABILITY – I found it interesting Wednesday how much the Democrats in the House have suddenly become interested in accountability. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with her obsession with impeaching President Trump – “he must pay” – she sent Rep. James McGovern, chairman of the House Rules Committee to the floor to drum up support. As he doled out a minute here, 45 seconds there, for his fellow Dems to speak, the word “accountable” was often repeated.
I WAS REMINDED how some of those same leftists had absolutely no interest in determining the accountability of those Obama-Biden administration Deep Staters in the DOJ and FBI who attempted to undermine the Trump presidency.
With that still a vivid memory, McGovern had the audacity to accuse President Trump of staging a coup on the Capitol last week.
Prior to the 2020 presidential election, accountability was also the farthest from their minds when it came to the role of Joe Biden in the questionable operations of his brother, James, and son Hunter in China. That accountability is still in question as the senior Biden is about to assume the presidency. That’s unacceptable.
As I desperately controlled myself while listening to the sanctimonious House members refer to their “good friend across the aisle,” Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stepped to the microphone to heap praise on Republican Liz Cheney, for announcing that she would be crossing over to vote for the president’s impeachment, and recalling how he served in the House with her father, Dick Cheney.
“(President Trump) summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” claimed Liz Cheney. Did she really believe that, or was she just getting back at the president for earlier lumping her in with those weak representatives of the House?
Strange bedfellows? Liz Cheney has been no fan of Biden, and it was Dick Cheney, who told a national television audience in 2010 that “Obama and Biden campaigned from one end of the country to the other for two years criticizing our Iraq policy. If they had their way, if we ‘d followed the policies they pursued from the outset or advocated from the outset, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Baghdad today.”
SPEAKING OF THE HOUSE – On Tuesday evening, I watched as the members pathetically wasted their time voting on a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president, knowing that he had already sent Nancy Pelosi a letter refusing to do so. In his concluding paragraph, he wrote:
I urge you and every member of Congress to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment. Work with us to lower the temperature and unite our country as we prepare to inaugurate President-elect Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. I pledge to you that I will continue to do my part to work in good faith with the incoming administration to ensure an orderly transition of power. So help me God.”
In just a week, President Trump will be leaving the White House; clearly having accomplished more than any of the 12 presidents in my adult lifetime.
Where Do We Go From Here?
“A house divided against itself cannot stand,” – Abraham Lincoln
Reportedly, 52 percent of Americans favor removing the president from office, compared to 45 percent who oppose it, with 89 percent Democrats in support and 87 percent of Republicans in opposition.
Let’s face it, our nation is pretty much evenly divided, and the Democrats recognize that Biden’s pledge for unity is going nowhere. They are scared to death that the 75 to 80 million Americans will continue to support the president. The left knows that President Trump has successfully changed the Republican party to be the party of the middle class, with increasing supporters from the African-American and Latino communities, long ignored by the left.
The future of Trumpism will depend largely on public sentiment. Will they blame him for the breach of the Capitol by a fraction of unruly protestors who got out of hand? For that matter, will they hold him responsible for the Democrat victory in Georgia, because he chose to focus on the rigged election?
I continue to be optimistic that those voters – 56 percent – who felt better off since President Trump entered office, won’t throw him under the bus. He kept his promises. He succeeded where his predecessors, Republican and Democrat, failed.
He went about changing Washington in business-like fashion, and that’s why the establishment wants him out. Today and 2024.
The left is making a big mistake if they think Trump supporters haven’t heard what is being said about them as irredeemably racist, sexist, homophobic, and bigoted insurrectionists and seditionists.
“With public sentiment, nothing can fail,” he said, “without it, nothing can succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t believe Trump supporters want to return to “small ball,” the agendas of Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Ninety-one percent of those who voted for Trump in 2020 would do so again according to pollster Frank Luntz.
In future commentaries, I will outline my thoughts on the future of the Republican Party.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
