Another Day That Will Live in Infamy

 

January 7, 2021

 

The culmination of four years of refusing to carry out their sworn responsibility to be a check on the President of the United States led legislators to hide from their own constituents, when rioters stormed the Capitol building yesterday.

I don’t care how appalled members of the legislature claim to be. They could have stopped this nonsense years ago by refusing to support, and to connive at, the overturning of the Constitution of the United States by the president. It was apparent that the president needed those checks and balances, and they refused to do what they were there for: check him.

Political ambition led them to support actions that they knew ranged from the detrimental to the deranged.

You’ve already read enough political commentary and analysis about this, so I don’t need to go into it now. But I hope that every legislator who contributed to this debacle is removed from office; and I wouldn’t mind if many of them went to jail for inciting insurrection, sedition, and whatever other legal terms apply. 

(Unlike Josh Hawley, I am not a lawyer, so I don’t know the technical terms. But he, at least, would know what he was being tried for, even though he pretends to be completely clueless as to how the Constitution works.) 

They could even share jail cells with the rioters, so that they could get to know their supporters personally. 

Boy, would I love to see that!