[American Thinker] - Professor Jonathan Turley of Georgetown University Law School wrote in The Hill of the Speaker’s State of the Union behavior, "Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum and civility that the nation could use now more than ever." He also described her with the words "petty," "distempered," and "inappropriate." She failed to introduce the President properly, and then was particularly out of line when she tore up his speech after grimacing and showing petulant expressions throughout the President’s speech.
Turley asserted that she should resign from office as the Speaker as her breaches of decorum at the State of Union were the worst of all those he has criticized over the years. For Turley, it is important because decorum is a kind of unifying glue. It is the fallback M.O., the detachment whereby differences of person and policy are transcended in our republic. He might just as well have called for the entire Democrat caucus to resign and be replaced by people of honor and integrity. It is at that point that the analysis seems to fade into fantasy.
Sadly, at this time in history, Turley’s view is a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. Instead of decorum being the way unity is maintained as in the past, decorum now serves mainly as a mask covering a profound dislocation, a profound disunity. Her lack of decorum and the unconscionable, implacable hostility of the Democrats of the House and Senate reveals the extreme political animosity that presently afflicts our country.
We are faced with an incredible disunity, so intense that no appearance of unity in the form of decorum can cover it up. The grim face of that disunity appeared at the State of the Union address, and was most visible in the egregious behavior of Speaker Pelosi.
The Dems should also dispense with the American Flag at the nominating convention - use the ISIS flag or Palestinian or Hamas one or the old Soviet flag
also, they should perform a late term abortion live and broadcast it on the big screen
its the only way people will know what they really stand for
Posted by: lord garth ||
02/11/2020 6:24 Comments ||
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#2
I didn't realize they stood for anything at all.
#6
I dont watch TV. But I went on youtube a few days later to see what the SOTU looked like this year and all through the speech her behavior was shocking. She has NO class, what so ever. Sje was embarrassing to watch.
#10
" We're lucky she didn't strip,"
John, please don't ever say that again. It's going to take years of therapy to get that image out of my head.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
02/11/2020 18:08 Comments ||
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JQC - I had the same impression, that she was drunk. She had very little motor control and seemed to be reeling. It was like watching a Carol Burnett episode.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Ilhan Omar has been accused of marrying her brother, a serious allegation. But even more serious is the allegation that by so doing, she may have appropriated Alabama culture.
"Ilhan Omar is a disgrace to our country since she married her---hey, wait a minute, that's our thing!" said one man in Alabama. "Stop appropriating Southern culture!"
"Appropriating 👏 Alabama 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 OK 👏!" wrote one social justice advocacy group on Twitter. "Not only do Southerners have to contend with non-Southerners saying 'y'all' and drinking sweet tea, but now their marital practices are being colonialized by cis POC women."
Omar was also spotted driving a 1969 Dodge Charger with a confederate flag on the top.
[The Hill] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday the U.S. still needs an Equal Rights Amendment, days before the House is set to decide whether to remove the deadline to ratify the amendment.
Ginsburg spoke at a Georgetown Law School event Monday almost 100 years after women voted in their first presidential election. The justice mentioned how the National Women’s Party viewed the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote as "the beginning" after courts interpreted the amendment to only apply to voting rights.
"Their idea was the 19th Amendment was the beginning, but women should have equality in all fields of human endeavor, so we needed an Equal Rights Amendment," she said. "And I think, at least in my view, we still do."
She said the U.S. would be "more perfect" if "our fundamental instrument of government" included a statement designating men and women of equal citizenship statures.
"My notion was I would like to show my granddaughters that the equal citizenship stature of men and women is a fundamental human right," she said. "It should be right up there with free speech freedom of religion and discrimination based on race, national origin."
Ginsburg’s comments come as the House plans to vote on legislation to get rid of the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on Friday. The vote was scheduled after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment last month, decades after the deadline.
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has hinted he isn’t in support of the amendment.
In other words, House Democrats are posturing for the rubes again — it’ll never get past the Senate even if the thing hadn’t expired long since.But if it really is that important to the Democrats, they can try starting the whole thing from scratch, either in both houses of Congress or a Constitutional convention of the states, just like they did the first time.
#5
It failed. It failed as the Founders intended the process to work. Instead of accepting the intent of their work, you have been twisting and mangling the 14th Amendment to achieve what was Constitutionally rejected. That's why we are now in social turmoil with all sorts of 'rights' proclaimed by so many self identified special interest groups and perversions. Get your f'ing finger out of social engineering the culture.
#6
I think her notions of equality were best demonstrated in the decision concerning the Virginia Military Institute. In the penultimate paragraph she expounds at somewhat purple length about having never seen, read, heard of anything so grossly unfair as excluding women from the Institute.
But it is her final paragraph that shines a beacon on the intellect of this harridan who incidentally once advocated looking to 'other countries such as Zimbabwe for legal guidance'. Yes, the final paragraph is where she warns there could be something even worse than excluding women.
What pray tell could that be? Why, obviously it would be admitting women and then expecting them to perform the same tasks as their male counterparts to the same standards. THAT is what she considers equality. One might have to don the chem suit and actually plumb the depths of 'The View' to find this Quaker Oats level of mental acuity.
#8
I am often, these days, reminded of one of the locutions of an old respected Democrat in the Senate about the dangers inherent in "defining deviancy down."
I figure that DPM has to be rotating in his grave at almost warp speed by now.
#9
Equal Rights Amendment? When I first heard that many years ago I started laughing. The first step would be declaring all, repeat all gender specific law null and void. For example: what happens when all of the divorce, child custody, et cetera case law get tossed into the shredder? What about conscription? The differences in sentencing between male and female criminals. The list seems endless...
No, "Some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell, and the ERA was a hypocritical power grab by some groups from the onset. If "Judge" Ruth Bader Ginsburg worships at that altar she lies when she claims to be an impartial jurist.
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[American Thinker] - Professor Jonathan Turley of Georgetown University Law School wrote in The Hill of the Speaker’s State of the Union behavior, "Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum and civility that the nation could use now more than ever." He also described her with the words "petty," "distempered," and "inappropriate." She failed to introduce the President properly, and then was particularly out of line when she tore up his speech after grimacing and showing petulant expressions throughout the President’s speech.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Ilhan Omar has been accused of marrying her brother, a serious allegation. But even more serious is the allegation that by so doing, she may have appropriated Alabama culture.
