I changed my mind this morning on how I want to handle Trump’s Insurrection Day Anniversary. I don’t want to look back at Nixon and Al Gore’s concession speeches. What would really be the point since history means nothing to the Trump people. They disdain history as some sort of premeditated plot as if were written by Antifa.
When I saw Amanda recite her beautiful poem last January… I just assumed at that point both parties would grow up and think of that one line, ‘There is light…if you’re brave enough to see it.’
I assumed with the preponderence of evidence which was available… Donald Trump would either be impeached or at the very least given some sort of legal option to resign with the promise he wouldn’t be prosecuted after he left office.
In my wildest dream I couldn’t imagine there weren’t ten to twelve Republican senators who could muster this level of courage.
I was clearly wrong as only six came on board.
The GOP would have been absolved from Trump if only they’d had the courage to get rid of him right there and then.
Instead they waffled. They each calculated their own political survival odds and voted no not only to impeach, but voted no to showing any courage and honor whatsover. The six who voted yes will always be on the right side of history.
The three leaders of the GOP as a whole… Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Kevin McCarthy will forever br branded not only in American history but in world history as well.
They voted no to having the courage to do the obvious right thing for our country moving forward.
This wasn’t Nixon having some operatives breaking into a hotel. This was an attempt to overthrow an election with the singular purpose of overthrowin both the executive and judicial branches of the government.
Since we hear all this talk about there are GOP senators in private who say they want to be rid of Trump. I say bullshit. This group of gutless people should never have been elected to six year terms to hold the offices you still hold.
You simply don’t have the courage to be a United States senator. That’s why a senaotor gets a six year term…to give them an extra year of cover to make the tough votes.
The six who stood up to Donald Trump have the right to call themselves a United States Senator. The others not so much. Especially my two senators in Oklahoma…James Lankford and Jim Inhoffe.
I’ve to date called both of these ‘men’ four times apiece since they’re inability to confront Donald Trump on anything became obvious to me. I’ve requested a lunch date with them to talk about some things. So much for our two Oklahoma Profiles of Courage. I’m sending both of them this Amanda Gorman video today.
Isn’t it somewhat odd that it’s women in our government who stand up up to Trump and not the men. Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Warren, Carly Fiorina, Kamala Harris, and Nikki Haley….just to name several.
Our men in office under the GOP brand are in a several words a collection of very weak little sissy men men. That is the one thing Trump has consistently been right about since he ran for the GOP nomination in 2016…and that’s precisely why he knew he would win the GOP nomination against this collection of very weak little sissy men.
Nobody is asking you very weak little sissy men to vote yes on all the things the Dems have proposed…but just once on this issue show some strength and resolve.
Not one Howard Baker or Barry Goldwater amongst them with the political strength and courage to get his party to do the right thing at a pivotal juncture of history.
Trump knew none of them could be brave enough to fight for the right to see the light. I give Trump credit for being right about that from the start back in 2016.
So here we sit today as two countries within the same borders sitting in the dark.