Friday, February 07, 2020

Contempt Writ Large -- For the U.S. Constitution
To the Congress of the United States:
Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow citizens:
Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible results. Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again! America's enemies are on the run, America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright.
The years of economic decay are over. The days of our country being used, taken advantage of, and even scorned by other nations are long behind us. Gone too are the broken promises, jobless recoveries, tired platitudes, and constant excuses for the depletion of American wealth, power, and prestige.In just 3 short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline, and we have rejected the downsizing of America's destiny. We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back! I am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been. Our military is completely rebuilt, with its power being unmatched anywhere in the world -- and it is not even close. Our borders are secure. Our families are flourishing. Our values are renewed. Our pride is restored. And for all these reasons, I say to the people of our great country, and to the Members of Congress before me: The State of our Union is stronger than ever before! The vision I will lay out this evening demonstrates how we are building the world's most prosperous and inclusive society -- one where every citizen can join in America's unparalleled success, and where every community can take part in America's extraordinary rise.    U.S. President Donald Trump
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi extended her hand. President of the United States Donald Trump kept his by his side. Ms.Pelosi's gesture a mockery of civility and of institutional ceremony. Mr.Trump's a wholly human reaction to the fomenter of a highly controversial movement to remove the man from public office as the duly elected President of the United States of America whom a majority of U.S. citizens voted into that office.
 
This is a man whose human characteristics and personality are not endowed with the best that human nature can achieve. He is endowed with elements of human nature that run contrary to social decorum and decency. He is a braggart whose truth is not that of reality but of egoistic function. His verities are his alone, and his perceptions owe more to the shady side of the street than that which the bright aura of sunlight reveals. A cranky bully and a venal blackguard.
 
A legitimately elected president of the most powerful, prestigious, influential country of the world. Whose election success as a Republican president resulted in a Democratic revolt which translated immediately to its vast civic supporters mounting an unheard-of public resistance in the form of marches, demonstrations, accusations and refusals to regard the man whom a majority of their fellow citizens felt epitomized the best candidate for the office. By rejecting that choice they chose to insult the electorate and to damn their Republic's constitution.

Through the medium of one imagined conspiracy after another the stringently partisan Democrats invented reasons why this man should be deposed, removed from office, charging him not merely with improprieties but with betrayal of American values and verities, of consorting with the 'enemy', of illegally plotting to gain the presidency, of corrupting politics, of disrupting American institutions for his own accommodation. President Trump appeared by many of his actions to bolster some of those claims.

His term of office runs to the fall of 2020, when a general election is slated for November, and he plans to run for the same office again, while the Democrats, disappointed that none of their previous accusations held up under scrutiny, manufactured another that they planned to use to remove him from office and invalidate his intentions to achieve another four-year presidential term. The Democratic Party has distinguished itself latterly in hysterics and a hard swing to the left.

Their impeachment effort to remove Donald Trump from office and relieve the United States of his governmental presence in the White House in favour of installing a presumably interim caretaker government until the November election failed. Joe Biden, running for the Democratic presidential candidate for the general election, appears to be taking the brunt of the public's suspicion of his and his son's misuse of his vice-presidential office for personal enrichment.
Who are the 2020 US Democratic presidential candidates?
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate [File: Saul Loeb/AFP]
In lock-step with the outrageous behaviour of too many of her party's youth wing, along with the yank-to-the-left of candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who advocate for an America that would become even more dysfunctional than it currently is, Speaker Pelosi outdid herself in a pique of contemptuously vile behaviour unbefitting an intelligent, civil member of Congress whose influence and integrity has been suborned by members of a youthful clique whose vindictive hatred for the America they represent is venomous.
 
Perhaps what is most infuriating to these inveterate plotters is the reality that most of the President's claims of success are borne out by the solid economic state, low unemployment, larger visibility on the world stage albeit on the President's terms, a more robust military to offset any challenges that appear on the horizon, and a recent poll that places the President's approval rating at 49 percent. His firm control of the government appears on the surface, confirmed. Whether the chaos underlying it is as real as the media portray it to be, another matter altogether.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempts to shake hands with President Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempts to shake hands with President Trump at the start of the State of the Union address on Tuesday.  (Getty Images)
 

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posted by Pieface @ Friday, February 07, 2020

Friday, December 20, 2019

Well, Then -- Impeached!

"I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequalled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history."
"The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation or jurisprudence. They include no crimes no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever. You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!"
U.S. President Donald Trump
Evangelical magazine Christianity Today has called for Trump to removed from office
Mark Galli wrote in Christianity Today: ‘We believe the impeachment hearings have made it absolutely clear, in a way the Mueller investigation did not, that President Trump has abused his authority.’ Photograph: Michael Reynolds/POOL/EPA

Unprecedented? Yes, surely. The election to the presidency of the United States of America of a vain, pompous oaf, an ignoramus, a coarse, undiplomatic misogynist was most certainly unprecedented and it is fair to say that while his supporters, legion as they were to elect this man were absolutely delighted, the rest of the world was amazed and bemused. But here's the truth of the matter. The Republic of the United States of America is a democracy. And as a democracy proud of its traditions and its heritage, and chafing under the administrations that preceded Mr. Trump's accession to power, elected the man they wanted to sit in the Oval Office.

While the world held its breath, it gradually became acclimatized to its new suspenseful collegiality with a brusque, critical imperialist with an admiration for dictators and tyrants who well knew that his office and his nation would not permit one in him. Those Americans who did not vote for Mr. Trump and chose instead the Democratic candidate whose own failings as a political leader of distinction became starkly evident throughout the course of the election campaign, raged and ranted and led feminist marches determined to bring down the extremely flawed man who was their president.

Mr. Trump's tenure so far has been one of unprecedented suspense in attempts to anticipate what his next moves might be, impacting not only on his country but the world stage at large. His critics detest him and mostly with very good reason. His supporters are delighted with him and for their own good reasons. He is no one's image of an accomplished politician widely respected whose words and actions give cause for admiration and trust. But he is, withal, the President of the United States of America.

He won office as fairly as any other candidate ever did. The accusations of Russian interference in the election represented a hysterical denial of the truth, that the Democratic Party lost the election fairly; the majority of Americans failed to appreciate their progressive qualities that lent themselves as much as did the Republicans' agenda, to further widening the gap between the haves and have-nots in America. The have-nots have the day. They have their president, one of the haves who incites admiration from followers because he scorns the elite in Washington.

Don’t delay.
Don’t delay. Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The virago-politician that is Nancy Pelosi was scorned by Donald Trump as a has-been, a poor political leader, a foolish prod by a foolish man who now sees the damage that can be done by a woman scorned. Above all, the spectacle of a President of the United States who occupies a seat in the order of world politics that reflects that imperfect as he is, he is still the most powerful man on the planet, but brought low temporarily by the viral, nauseating hatred of half of the people he governs.

When the Russia-interference accusations failed to be proven, desperation turned Democrats' attention to Ukraine, where the inference was that funding would be released to Ukraine for arms to defend itself from Russia with the cooperation of an investigation into a potential 2020-election rival's son's connections with his father and his corrupt financial links in Ukraine. Obama, Biden, Trump and Pelosi.Trump, as atrocious as his persona is, is being accused of using his office in a manner quite similar to that of his predecessors.

The Democrats have shamed America. Democrats themselves, however, have no shame. They have shamed the very democracy they claim to uphold and to venerate. Democracy brought Trump to the presidency. The succeeding election would tell whether Americans continue to support the man they brought to Washington to 'clean up the Aegean stables'. And then what will they all wallow in? Mr. Trump takes little comfort in Ms. Pelosi praying for him.

This too shall pass.

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posted by Pieface @ Friday, December 20, 2019

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