House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s silly, sanctimonious attempt to compare herself to the founding fathers fighting a tyrannical British monarch was gratuitous and grandiose even by Washington standards.
Her speech suggests that Democrats are flailing and failing in their bid to get the American people on board the impeachment train, which will surely go off the rails in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“In signing the Declaration of Independence, our founders invoked a firm reliance on divine providence,” Pelosi said somberly. “Democrats, too, are prayerful, and we will proceed in a manner worthy of our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic, so help us God.”
God help us, indeed.
So when one of your so-called constitutional experts made a gratuitous joke at 13-year-old Barron Trump’s expense, that was worthy of your oath of office, Madam Speaker? Did you pray when that happened?
“In the course of today’s events, it becomes necessary for us to address, among other grievances, the president’s failure to faithfully execute the law,” Pelosi said, beginning her breathless address. “When crafting the Constitution, the founders feared the return of a monarchy in America. And having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospect of a king-president corrupted by foreign influence.”
Let’s take Pelosi’s comparison to the founding fathers at face value and look at that.
President Trump is a lot of things but he’s no King George III.
One of the things that the founders were upset about was taxation without representation.
Do we not have duly-elected lawmakers representing us? Sometimes we wish that weren’t the case, but we aren’t exactly under the grip of oppression right now.
Unlike the founding fathers, we have elections.
We have an election every four years to decide whether to keep our president — the founders did not have that luxury when dealing with the British monarchy, or even Parliament.
In fact the election of 2020 is just 11 months away, and voters at that time will have free will to decide whether to keep Trump or not. All they have to do is fill out a ballot. No fighting, no war required.
So Pelosi’s argument that impeachment is somehow the only means to dump Trump is complete baloney.
Americans who aren’t convinced that what Trump has done is impeachable deserve to be heard, also. These voters will make up their minds next November. And they don’t need Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff to tell them what to do.
Pelosi accusing Trump of tyranny is a little rich.
When her speakership was questioned by, among others, Rep. Seth Moulton, she squashed his effort ruthlessly. Pelosi rules with an iron fist and doesn’t tolerate dissent. Just ask Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Or ask James Rosen, the TV reporter who tried to ask Pelosi a simple question on Thursday, whether she hated Trump.
“Don’t mess with me,” she snarled, wagging her finger.
King George III couldn’t have said it better himself.