The left is always in high dudgeon. After the Mueller soap opera, the hue and cry was ” no one is above the law.” The no one referenced is the President. Natch.
What about those millions of illegal residents and the “sanctuary” groupies, including legislators who advocate and abet breaking immigration laws?
I guess they are beneath the law…..rsk
I am beginning to think that Congress is very appropriately named “The Lower House.”
In the latest brouhaha President Trump tweeted that “progressive Democrat congresswomen “should “go back” to their countries of origin to fix the corruption plaguing those nations before they lecture the United States.
If the President’s tweet was lame, Pelosi’s response was more so. She swiftly responded that the issue proved that the President wants to “make America white again.”
The “squad” Ilhan Omar, Ayana Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are the only four Democrats in the House who voted against the border funding bill who provocatively denounce the Democrats who voted for it. Their public remarks are anti-Trump, anti-cauliflower (Cortez) anti-Israel and Jews and not so veiled primary threats against more establishment Democrats. This occasioned critical comments from Nancy Pelosi. The response? Pelosi is a racist.
Racism…. that’s the new meme in the lower House.
On Sunday the intelligence-light Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D- New Mexico District 3) and recently named Assistant House Speaker, was asked about immigration, and Trump, and the hostilities between Pelosi and the squad, and he mentioned racism against “people of color” in all his answers.
And now the squad is invoking the other persistent meme…. impeachment for racism…A new low for the lower house..rsk
In 1969 my husband and I bought a pre-revolutionary house. While a kitchen and plumbing and electricity were obviously added, the original structure, inside and out were intact. After one really harsh Connecticut winter when I contemplated certain restorations and changes, my late husband, the finest and most thoughtful person told me. “We must be cautious about changes…. we are not only owners…. we are custodians of a bit of history.”
His words echo when we celebrate patriotism and legacy in America. We are the custodians of the democracy crafted by our extraordinary founders. Some changes are always necessary and flaws must be fixed by discussion and legislation, but the basic tenets of our freedom and the right to vote and the laws that provide homeland security must always be guarded and protected, and they are being vigorously challenged.
The right to dissent is both a privilege and an obligation of our custody of democracy. But, there is no right to threaten and beat journalists; there is no right to censor those with whom we disagree; there is no right to assume power and challenge the legitimacy of an election by violence and libel; there is no right to threaten national security by demanding open borders and giving sanctuary to those who break the law.
My rather gloomy mood was lifted by the President’s speech and military displays on July 4th, when I saw thousands upon thousands of Americans who braved the blistering heat waving our flag and cheering for America and our defense forces.
They are the custodians of democracy. May patriotism always prevail….rsk
In 1776, this magnificent document was crafted…..
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Read it all: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
Have a glorious and proud Independence Day!!!! rsk
The compliant and biased media lobbed no real questions on present defense or foreign policy and cagily deflected serious questions on national security and immigration.
Again, these tyros want to be Commander in Chief?….rsk
Did you notice that any real discussions on national defense, foreign policy, China, North Korea, Russia, the Middle East and other “hot spots” were absent at last night’s debate?
These blatheroons want to be President? rsk
I just spent delightful days in the Brandywine Valley driving through the beautiful countryside. Included were visits to the Brandywine River museum which features paintings by three generations of the Wyeth family and their acolytes, the magnificent American antique furniture and woodland gardens of the former home of Henry Francis Du Pont- Winterthur Museum, and Longwood Gardens which defies description with one thousand acres of woodlands, flower gardens, ancient specimen trees of every variety, fountains, water gardens and a Conservatory that is dazzling with its almost endless displays of plants, trees and flowers.
All of the foregoing were a sampling of the generosity and public spirit of the Du Pont family, whose largess contributed and continues to contribute to conservation and restoration and maintenance of American historical treasures.
It also evoked a personal recollection of the Du Ponts. My husband’s brother in law was a very accomplished PhD in chemistry who worked for Du Pont de Nemours in Wilmington in the 1950s. It was bruited that a Jew could sooner become President of America than a president of Du Pont. At the time there were many institutions and academies with anti-Semitic policies so I did not pay too much attention.
Years later in 1974, I heard that expression again about anti-Semitism at Du Pont at a dinner sponsored by the Weizmann Institute of Israel. It was repeated with much humor by the guest of honor Irving Saul Shapiro who was the first non-Du Pont family member to be appointed CEO of the company in 1973 where he remained until 1981.
That is what I love about this country. Injustice and prejudice towards minorities and women have been overturned by the principles of democracy and not by thugs like Antifa and so-called “justice warriors.” God truly shed his grace on America the beautiful…..rsk
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/is_stacey_abrams_being_groomed_for_higher_office.html
The practice of opposing a party rebuttal to the president’s State of the Union speech was started in 1966, when Republicans Senator Everett Dirksen and Rep. Gerald Ford responded to Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union on television.
Since then, it has become an annual event.
Until 2019, all previous responses were delivered by contemporary senators, representatives, or governors.
Since 2011, there have been two responses — one in English and one in Spanish. And here I was, under the illusion that English is our national language.
So how did Stacey Abrams, an ungracious loser with no national elective office, become the Democrats’ choice to deliver a response? Now, that is quite a strange break from tradition.
Who is pulling her strings?
Abrams has a meager political résumé. She served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017 until she became the Democratic Party’s nominee for Georgia’s gubernatorial election in 2018.
She wrote many novels under the name Selena Montgomery. The titles — Reckless, The Art of Desire, and Hidden Sins — evoke romance and mystery, but the reviews attribute them to her interest in social and economic policies. Oh, well. CONTINUE AT SITE
The treaty of Nanking in 1842 ceded Hong Kong to the British at the end of the Opium War. It was given to them in perpetuity but in 1898 the British pledged to give Hong Kong back in 1997 signing a 99 year lease.
In 1984 Prime Minister Thatcher’s reluctance to return Hong Kong- a bustling, successful mercantile nation with an extremely popular British governor named Christ Patten- was overcome by Deng Xiaoping’s promises of retaining Hong Kong’s autonomy.
Was it naivete or duplicity? Only a few years later in 1989 the massacre of Tiananmen occurred but did not temper the zeal to appease China by ceding Hong Kong.
When the withdrawal was implemented on June 30th, 1997 Great Britain further betrayed its former colony, by refusing entry permits to citizens of Hong Kong, rendering them prisoners to mainland China’s tyranny. The citizens of Hong Kong were rightly outraged.
And as soon as Patten left, he was vilified by Beijing as a “Whore of a thousand years.”
The rest as we see now is the legacy of western appeasement of Communist China.
Taiwan beware! rsk
I reflect on the heroism of those who have been drafted or who volunteer to fight for nation and freedom.
Hannah Senesh was one of 37 Jews from Mandatory Palestine parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Senesh was arrested at the Hungarian border, then imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission to the Nazis. She was executed by firing squad November 7, 1944 five months after D-Day.
She wrote these words in a poem found decades after her death:
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.
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