{"id":804030,"date":"2020-02-10T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378845"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:30:00","slug":"opinion-morgan-liddick-what-a-week-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-morgan-liddick-what-a-week-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Morgan Liddick: What a week in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another week, another primary. At least the past week was exciting. And informative.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s Iowa Democratic caucuses showed us quite clearly why most Democratic politicians go gaga for presidential candidates\u2019 promises to offer some form of \u201cfree health care.\u201d They can\u2019t count past one, or they can\u2019t analyze numbers larger than the number of people in a room, divided by 12. Whatever the root cause, the delay in announcing results in a selection process in which fewer than 200,000 citizens participated was an impressive display of dyscalculia and disorganization<\/a>. This is the party you want to trust with your health care? With the national economy? Really?<\/p>\n

Tuesday showed the country what a masterful political speech could be. President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union message was unremittingly positive and upbeat, with clear goals for the nation in fields that matter for the future<\/a>: cybernetics, space explorations, pure research, infrastructure development, educational excellence and the like. The impeachment farce?  Nowhere to be seen. The mad Democratic campaign against him? Unmentioned.<\/p>\n

Tuesday also showed the true nature of Democratic leadership where Trump is concerned. Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s public petulance and comminution of her copy of the president\u2019s speech<\/a> was a fine example of the virulent hatred that infuses every action her party takes these days. It was truly revelatory, as were her later attempts to make the whole sordid business Trump\u2019s fault. It was a class act, no mistake.<\/p>\n

Wednesday saw Trump\u2019s acquittal of the rushed impeachment fabricated by House Democrats.  This was accompanied by unseemly celebration on the part of the White House, which should have treated the Senate\u2019s action with much more seriousness. After all, the latest in a series of attempted coups engineered by Washington bureaucrats, Democratic politicians and their stenographic pool in the media had just been thwarted. It needed far more serious treatment than it received Wednesday or thereafter. This sort of spiteful foolishness needs to be put to bed; the republic is too high a price to pay for wounded egos and bruised pride. Are you listening, Chuck? Mitt?<\/p>\n

Friday saw the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals drag the Democrats\u2019 misuse of the Constitution\u2019s \u201cemoluments clause\u201d against the president into the street and beat it senseless. No, not because of the constitutional meaning of \u201cemolument,\u201d but because this is a political, not a judicial, question that must be settled by voters not judges<\/a>. And Friday had more and better revelations still.<\/p>\n

For the 15 people still interested enough \u2014 and with strong enough a stomach \u2014 to watch, the New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate took place Friday. It was an excursion to another reality: same planet, perhaps, but a different dimension.<\/p>\n

According to Bernie Sanders, all of \u201c\u2026 American society is racist from top to bottom<\/a>.\u201d Most other candidates agreed to a greater or lesser degree. Among the \u201cgreater\u201d faction was Tom Steyer, who promised as president to establish a commission to \u201cexplore the 400 years of American History\u201d and \u201cestablish new narratives\u201d because new narratives create new policies<\/a>.  At least half the candidates said that reparations should be part of those new policies, so if you\u2019re white, you\u2019re going to get clipped to allow the Democratic Party to shower money on others, no matter where anyone arrived from or when. But they won\u2019t write checks to individuals. Instead, look for a proliferation of government programs run by petty bureaucrats to tell 60% of Americans that they\u2019re evil and the rest that they deserve what Democrats promise to give them, to be funded by that productive but evil majority. It\u2019s more pandering, vote-buying and division based on skin color, but no one is surprised to hear that sort of talk from the party of Pelosi and AOC any longer. It has become their habitual patter.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, the party\u2019s chief and obsessive goal was also on full display. Past Democratic presidential candidates spoke of putting the country back to work or defeating the pestilence of totalitarianism or even eradicating poverty \u2014 however ill-considered that effort turned out to be. But today\u2019s Democratic candidates bend their entire will to a single fixed objective: to erase the 2016 presidential election and bury the man who won, together with his family. It\u2019s not a good look, but Democratic presidential candidates seem to think it\u2019s a winning one. Nine months and the American electorate will tell if they are right.<\/p>\n

Mark me down as a \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan Liddick\u2019s column \u201cOn Your Right\u201d publishes Tuesdays in the Summit Daily News. Liddick spent 27 years working for the U.S. Foreign Service, primarily living abroad. He also spent 12 years teaching U.S. history and Western civilization at community colleges in Colorado and Texas. He lived in Summit County as recently as 2015. Contact him at <\/em>mcliddick@hotmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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