February 4, 2022: "No Idea More Un-American"

2/4/22: The Biden administration continues to crush it in terms of jobs. In January, another 467,000 Americans went back to work. 

Even more impressive: figures for November (249,000 to 647,000) and December (199,000 to 510,000) were revised upward. Once the final numbers for December are finalized (they’re subject to revision one more time), we will know the total. As it stands, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in just one year  Team Biden has seen 6,612,000 jobs added to the U.S. economy. 

The Labor Participation rate has also improved, to 62.2 percent, as more workers come off the sidelines. Unemployment ticked up to 4 percent, still down from 6.4 percent the day Trump vacated the White House. 

Very much unwillingly.

 

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“Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.” 

Former Vice President Mike Pence

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THE JOBS NEWS was welcome, but one unemployed American continues to dominate the political scenery. Namely, unemployed former president Donald J. Trump. 

Today the Republican National Committee showed again that virtually the entire GOP is afraid of the Orange God of Mar-a-Lago. They proved it by censuring the only two members of the party brave enough to sit on the House Select Panel investigating the attack on Capitol Hill. 

In the Trumplican Party up is now down, yellow and blue no longer make green, Rep. Lauren Boebert is a role model for morons, and those who rioted in Washington D.C. thirteen months ago were “engaged in legitimate political discourse.” 

The RNC censure reads:

 

Whereas, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes, therefore, be it resolved, That the Republican National Committee hereby formally censures Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and shall immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic, and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference.

 

You’d almost think Cheney and Kinzinger stirred up the mob or plotted to have the U.S. military seize the voting machines in states where the vote went against Trump. But no. That was then-President Don.

 

Rep. Kinzinger responded forcefully:

 

I’ve been a member of the Republican Party long before Donald Trump entered the field. My values and core beliefs remain the same and have not wavered. I’m a conservative who believes in truth, freedom, and upholding the Constitution of the United States.

 

Rather than focus their efforts on how to help the American people, my fellow Republicans have chosen to censure two lifelong Members of their party who were simply upholding their oaths of office. They’ve allowed conspiracies and toxic tribalism [to] hinder their ability to see clear-eyed.

 

My efforts will continue to be focused on standing up for truth and working to fight the political matrix that’s led us to this point.

 

I felt compelled, out of respect, to tweet in response: “As a former Marine, sir, I would rather fight in a foxhole with you than rely on a thousand Trumps in a real battle.”

 

(I could have said a “million Trumps,” because no Trump has ever put on a uniform and gone to battle for this nation.)

 

Rep. Cheney also replied, posting a video of the violent insurrectionists attacking the Capitol.

 

 

“Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience.”

 

You don’t have to be a liberal blogger to be appalled by what the GOP has come to since Trump grabbed the party by the gonads. You just have to be a decent human being. The last decent man to run for president under the Republican banner, Sen. Mitt Romney, was painfully blunt. “Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience,” he tweeted, “who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.”

 

That left the final word to Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, who he had attacked earlier this week. Trump insisted Pence could have overturned the results of the 2020 election.

 

This afternoon, in a speech to the Federalist Society, the man who served the Orange God for four years replied:

 

I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.

 

Yet, that is the very goal towards which Trump has been steering his party, and to which he was pushing the federal government, in the wake of his humiliating defeat at the hands of “Sleepy Joe” Biden.

 

For Loser Donald the truth hurt. It hurt him to his narcissistic orange-toner, bad-combover core.

 

To assuage that pain, Trump was ready and willing (and had a plan on how to  do it) to cripple this nation in the end. For now, we can take solace, knowing there are good Republicans left. For the sake of generations to come we must pray they regain control of the soul of the party.

 

 

POSTSCRIPT - COWARDS: GOP “leaders” chose, generally, not to comment on Trump’s claim that his vice president could have magically made the election results disappear. (Pence noted that Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t do it in 2024 either, should necessity arise. Nor could have Vice President Biden have changed the electoral outcome in 2016, had he and Mr. Obama been so inclined.)

 

When members of the free press inquired this week, mum was the word for GOP poltroons. Did House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wish to comment? Could Pence have played king-maker? McCarthy had rather not. Perhaps House Minority Whip Steve Scalise would like a word with reporters? Nope. Then why not Rep. Elise Stefanik, head of the House Republican Conference? Surely, she’d want to take a stan…

 

Okay. Not her, either.