"Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners." Eric Thomas, Motivational Speaker
November 6, 2019
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
It was a sensational story.
Two weeks ago House Republicans finally got off their duffs and "stormed" Shifty Schiff's secret Impeachment Interrogation Room.
And they did it to support the president.
That's something new for Republicans.
Sure, they could have done it lots of other times, like when they had the House, the Senate and the White House.
But they didn't.
It's the way a certain type of "Republican" plays the game.
Sen. Mitt Romney, former Speaker Paul Ryan and the late Sen. John McCain never would, and never did, support the president.
The same way Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Merkowsi (R-AK), and other Pseudo-Democrats do not support him.
That could pose problems in the event of a Senate Impeachment trial. But better to take a "Glass half-full," and "Better late than never," stance. So, we'll say storming the SCIF facility was a bold and good move.
But it wasn't the story.
The real story was the man walking down the stairs of the Capitol Building, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.
He was limping, but he kept walking. And after multiple surgeries, and rehabilitation, it was a miracle he could walk.
Scalise was shot in June 2017, during a Republican baseball practice.
Later he described his path back to health as "rebuilding Humpty Dumpty," because there was "a lot of damage inside" that his surgeons had to fix.
There was.
Scalise was shot by James Hodgkinson. A Bernie supporter. A Conservative-Trump hater, according to CNN's review of Hodgkinson's Facebook profile.
But that's not talked about very much in the media.
Just as Sen. Rand Paul's brutal 2017 attack by his neighbor wasn't reported with much sympathy.
The senator was left with six broken ribs and bruises to his lungs, injuries which required removal of part of his lung in 2019.
It is the attack that prompted the senator's wife to sleep with a gun under her pillow.
The neighbor, Rene Boucher, and his attorney denied that Boucher's Democrat/Socialist views played any part in it. But, that didn't matter, because Boucher's political views weren't introduced in the media coverage.
Like the violent attack on Conservative reporter, Andy Ngo.
Ngo, whose immigrant parents escaped a South Vietnamese labor camp, and fled to the U.S. in 1978, was injured in an attack by Antifa activists in Portland, Oregon.
The masked attackers threw a cement-laced "Milkshake" at him, causing a brain bleed, and, like Scalise and Paul, resulting in injuries that will plague these Conservatives for the rest of their lives.
The real story should be about the courage it takes to be a Conservative today, in an environment that makes it dangerous to affix a Trump bumper sticker to your car, wear a MAGA hat, or fly a Trump 2020 flag.
Because you know what will happen.
But the violence routinely exhibited by members of the Left isn't something the media talks about.
Why would they?
And more insidious than the overt threats of violence, are the implied threats of punishment.
"Testify that there was a Trump quid pro quo with Ukraine, or else" it is urged, and diplomat Gordon Sondland capitulated, reversing his prior testimony.
"Don't worry. Be happy. Interview with the FBI without an attorney," former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told Gen. Michael Flynn, "then plead guilty to lying to the FBI. Or else."
But more insidious than the violence, actual and implied, is the real miscarriage of justice that one sees on TV, on Monday nights.
On Dancing With the Stars.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is annoying the DWTS judges and host by staying in the competition, to the point where they want to change the rules.
It's what Libs do when they can't win any other way.
Host Tom Bergeron made Spicer unwelcome right out of the gate, and lost a lot of respect, and viewers, in doing so.
And despite Bergeron's insistence that he had hoped the new show "could be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate," when the show's new season was announced on Good Morning America, Bergeron took a cheap shot at Spicer.
"The nice thing," he said, "is that Sean will be in charge of assessing audience size," snidely referring to a Trump Inauguration crowd-size controversy.
This is a tough crowd, something Queer Eye star and DWTS contestant Karomo Brown soon learned when he called Spicer "a good guy."
His kids got death threats. And he had to apologize.
Despite all of this, Spicer, admittedly a little lumpy, and not the best dancer in the world, has remained cheerful and respectful.
Just like the guy he used to work for. Another guy who doesn't give up, no matter what garbage they throw at him.
Which goes to prove that hanging in there is the best revenge.
Especially when the "audience at home" keeps voting for you.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.