Have you ever been on a roller coaster and as it climbs to the top for its descent, you wonder if this is really where you want to be. I suspect that is how Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is feeling right now.<\/p>\n
Yesterday The New York Sun<\/a> posted an editorial about a recent remark by Speaker Pelosi.<\/p>\n The editorial notes:<\/p>\n Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s suggestion that President Trump emulate President Nixon and resign is, in our opinion, a shocking d\u00e9marche unworthy of her office. And a glimpse into the predicament of the Democrats, who, though they began beating the drums for impeachment more than three years ago, still don\u2019t seem to know what charges to lay against the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mrs. Pelosi hauled out Nixon in her interview on the Columbia Broadcasting System, where Margaret Brennan asked the speaker whether the President would get, \u201cas he says,\u201d to \u201cconfront his accuser.\u201d The question was met with a slippery evasion that began with Mrs. Pelosi snapping, \u201cWhat do you mean confront his accuser? Confront the whistleblower?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPresumably, that\u2019s what he means,\u201d Ms. Brennan said.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWell,\u201d Mrs. Pelosi huffed, \u201cI will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Then again, too, Mr. Trump wasn\u2019t asking to intimidate the whistleblower. He has been pointing out that he\u2019s being brought up for impeachment on a complaint by a person he has been, in the resulting proceedings, unable to confront. That, it seems to the President and to millions of other Americans, ourselves included, to be crosswise with the spirit of the Rights Bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n The editorial concludes:<\/p>\n In the case of President Trump, though, no committee of the House, let alone the House itself, has voted out a single charge. When Ms. Brennan asked the Speaker whether \u201cbribery\u201d would be one of the charges, Mrs. Pelosi retorted, \u201cI have no idea.\u201d Then she said: \u201cWell, there\u2019s not even a decision made to impeach the president. This is a finding of fact, unfolding of the truth. And then a decision will be made.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n So the Speaker of the House goes on national television to suggest that President Trump resign without disclosing whether the President is likely to be impeached or what the charges would be. It\u2019s just Democratic Party demagoguery pure and simple, and soon people are going to start asking why Mrs. Pelosi is such an all-fired hurry to run the president out of office without a trial in the Senate at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaker Pelosi wants President Trump to resign so that she and her cohorts don’t have to prove that the President did anything wrong. This statement is totally inappropriate in a representative republic. It also goes totally against the rights guaranteed to American citizens in the Bill of Rights. This kind of political railroading by politicians in power is probably part of the reason the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution. After reading her comments, I truly believe that Speaker Pelosi is in the position of a person on a roller coaster climbing to the top and wondering if she has made the right decision. Like that person, she knows that it is too late to get off now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever been on a roller coaster and as it climbs to the top for its descent, you wonder if this is really where you want to be. I suspect that is how Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi … Continue reading