"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do." C.S. Lewis
February 1, 2017
By: Linda Case Gibbons
First Boehner, now Schumer. Just when you thought Congressional crying was a thing of the past. It's not.
So why was Chuck Schumer crying this week?
Groundhog Day's coming up. Maybe it's about another "Chuck," the Staten Island groundhog New York City Mayor DeBlasio dropped and killed a couple of years ago.
We know it wasn't about the two people killed during President Obama's "Hometown Speech" in Chicago, or Kate Steinle, murdered in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant felon. And from what we've heard, Schumer managed to hold it together on 9/11.
No, Chuck lost it over the temporary ban the president imposed on immigration this week. Voice cracking, he broke down on camera, calling it "mean-spirited and un-American," that people were inconvenienced at airports?
Immigrants. Chuck was crying over immigrants. Not Americans.
He sounded silly, especially since, as an elected U.S. senator, he didn't mention the reason for the ban, the terrorist attacks inside our country.
But Schumer, like former President Obama, is always more concerned with sparing Muslim feelings than with saving American lives.
Schumer and company are grieving for the good old days when stuff like this used to fly, like Nancy Pelosi washing the feet of illegal immigrants at Easter.
They're grieving over the lost election, and are going through the Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief, ones experienced by the terminally ill, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
And they're stuck at "Denial" and "Anger."
Angrier by the minute, threats and violence abound, and politicians like Schumer, Hillary and John McCain do nothing to stem it.
This is the Democratic Party Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have created. It is why we have rioting in our streets, and assassination threats against our president.
The Village Voice's front page showed a photo with a crosshair focused on Trump's head, with the words, "Why not?"
A former Obama official and Soros gal, Georgetown Prof. Rosa Brooks called for a military coup to dump Trump;
A whacko schoolteacher, Payal Modi, in Dallas pretend-killed Trump during the Inauguration, shooting a water pistol at the TV, shouting "Die, die!"
She was placed on paid administrative leave, like the Colorado senior Secret Service Agent, who boasted she wouldn't take a bullet for Trump.
And students at Berkeley burned the place down to shut out Conservative, gay speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos.
This is the "opposition," with their dirty tricks. It's the only way they can get "elected."
But President Trump isn't helping things, taking care of business at record speeds. Going to work every day! It's making politicians feel guilty, and giving the White House Press Corps the bends, trying to keep up.
Unfortunately for Democrats and Obama's "Shadow Government," we finally have a grown-up in the Oval Office. Trump is "Head-of-Household-Commander-in-Chief," and is doing what any good head of household would.
He's looking over the family budget. He's cutting back here and cutting out there. He's talking to everyone. He's insisting that our "house" have a survey that sets boundaries to our property.
Taking care of business and protecting your family is not unheard of outside of Washington. But listening to people and keeping your campaign promises is, and might be intimidating to Fat Cat Democrats and Republicans.
Yes, Donald Trump's campaign and election did more than get him elected. It exposed the nation's political parties, politics and the media, to the light of day. And what was there, wasn't pretty.
Journalists using the term "Fake News," which is really just gossip, to excuse shoddy journalism;
Senators grandstanding for the benefit of constituents at Senate Confirmation Hearings;
Sixty elected Democrats boycotting their president's Inauguration;
Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee boycotting their committee's vote on two Trump cabinet nominees.
Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch said, after the nominee boycott, "I'm very disappointed in this kind of crap...Some of this because they just don't like the president."
We're disappointed, too.
But we're happy we have a strong leader in the White House, a man who isn't afraid to be strong, a man who says to Iran, "Thumb your nose at the U.S., launching missiles? This administration will impose sanctions."
"Burn down your campus, harbor illegal immigrant felons in your cities and states? Your federal funding gets cut."
And yes, Virginia, there are federal statues that demand, not allow, the president to remove federal funding from states that do not follow federal laws.
It's constitutional, and it's about time.
As Matthew McConaughey said this week, "It's time for Hollywood to embrace Trump and shake hands with the fact that Donald Trump is president."
We agree. And that goes double for every coward who dares to threaten the man We the People elected.
Alright, alright, alright.
Hold the line, America.