PETTINESS ON DISPLAY
Every time I think I
have seen or heard it all, something happens to blow my mind all over
again.
It has become the norm
for Members of Congress to behave in certain ways during the State of the Union
speech by the President. If the President is a Republican, the Democrats as
members of the opposition party sit on their hands during applause breaks. After
all one could not expect the opposition to approve of anything good coming out
of the other side. It is all so predictable. Even when the very security of the
country is discussed, Democrats can find no good reason to offer
congratulations to a Republican President.
I have no problem with
this childish behavior. Look at who we are dealing with. For the most part
these are people you wouldn’t even allow in your house for a meal. Let them
play their silly little games. The only message they offer is that they are
trite little people who would be more at home on a school playground than in
the halls of Congress.
Last night’s State of
the Union was no exception. It all went as planned until the very end. That’s
when the Speaker of the House, the queen of the swamp, Nancy Pelosi decided to
give pettiness a brand new meaning. In a dramatic display of disrespect, she
tore up her copy of the speech given to her by the President after his remarks.
She did it with an evil relish and a snarl on her face. She appeared to make
sure that the entire event was front and center for the cameras. I am sure that
in her tiny mind she was showing the world how disgusted she was with the whole
affair. Well guess what. She miscalculated. This whole thing is blowing up in her
face. People all across the spectrum and that includes members of her own party
were disgusted by the spectacle.
As it stands today,
those torn up pages could well find their way to the National Museum where they
would sit on display as a testament to the former party known as
Democrat.
If you are a Democrat is
this what you expect from one of your leaders? Are you okay with such an
expression of hatred for the duly elected President of the United States? If
this is all okay with you, shame on you. Shame on Nancy Pelosi. Shame on the
very few in the audience who thought this was funny. It was not.
I suspect this November,
when Trump is reelected by a landslide and the Republicans take over both
houses of Congress, that situation like Pelosi’s hissy fit might come back to
haunt them. Many current Members will be looking for new jobs. I was just at a
McDonalds. They had a sign up that they were looking for help. Don’t say I
never helped people in need.
In all my years on this
planet I never thought I would see such disrespect on display. We are better
than this. We have the right to demand better from our elected Representatives.
They are our employees. Let’s fire them and start over.
Ron Scarbro, February 5,
2020
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