The recently re-installed Speaker of the US House of
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will be the featured speaker at the Connecticut
Democrat’s annual fundraising dinner. Pelosi is known, among other things, for
her ability to bring home the bennies, and Connecticut Democrats no doubt will
be happy to receive them – not that the state’s Democrat Party is, by any
measure, a poor waif begging for pennies on street corners.
The Annual Gathering of Democrats used to be called “The
Jefferson, Jackson, Bailey Dinner.” But Thomas Jefferson, the third President
of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, and Andrew
Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, generally regarded as the
father of the modern Democrat Party, were both booted from the marque some
years ago because both were slave owners. Jackson, in addition, displaced
Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in what later became known as “The Trail of Tears.”
Upon ejection, the Hartford Courant noted editorially that
Connecticut Democrats were well rid of the two. Their displacement left
Connecticut Party boss John Bailey as the lone survivor, and the event is now
called The John
Bailey Dinner, to be held this year on Friday, June 21 at the Hartford
Civic Center. The price of tickets range from $200, general admission, to
$1,000 for deep pocket VIPs. The counterpart money grab among Republicans is
called The Prescott Bush Dinner. Neither Bailey, the last Connecticut Democrat
Party boss, nor Bush, Connecticut’s U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1963 -- the
political scion of the Bush dynasty that produced two U.S. Presidents, father
and son George H.W. Bush and George H. Bush – owned slaves.
Pelosi is no stranger to the annual Democrat Party
gathering. As noted in Connecticut Commentary,
she made an appearance at the 2007 Jefferson, Jackson Bailey Dinner. Pelosi was
introduced by U.S Representative Rosa DeLauro, “a [U.S. Senator Chris] Dodd
protégé from the gerrymandered 3rd District, which has gone Democrat in all but
12 of the last 74 years.” DeLauro “gave a rousing speech introducing Speaker
Pelosi and congratulated her on being a woman.”
Democrats will have a good deal to celebrate at the John
Bailey Dinner. Nationally, Democrats recovered the U.S. House in the last
election, and Connecticut Democrats restored their massive majorities in the
state’s General Assembly. All the state’s constitutional officers have for
years been Democrat – perhaps most importantly the Attorney General’s office,
now commandeered by William Tong, who recently joined other Democrat Attorneys
General in suing President Donald Trump, over the muted objections of some
Republican who were unable to find in the statute that delineates the duties
and responsibilities of the office substantive language that authorizes Tong to
sue any president.
It remains an open question whether Pelosi will join
progressives in her party in a much ballyhooed impeachment of Trump, now
feeling his oats after special counsel Robert Mueller has pronounced him and
members of his administration not guilty of collusion with President of Russia
Vladimir Putin or his intelligence agents. A report from the U.S. Inspector
General that will examine a host of departures from common practice in
investigation agencies such as the FBI and the CIA will be brought to the
twitter screens soon, and U.S. Attorney General William Barr will be probing
possible political interference by anti-Trumpers in the investigative agencies.
A few days ago, Trump invested Barr with the authority to declassify “any
documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016,” according to a Fox News report, which should delight news people
whose livelihoods depend upon the uprooting of such truffles. Any distraction
from this business will be gratefully welcomed by Trump-slayers such as U.S.
Senator Dick Blumenthal, for twenty years Connecticut’s Attorney General, and
King Tong.
Pelosi, surrounded as are most politicians by their brain
trusts, has been in national politics long enough to artfully dodge the usual
questions soft-balled at her by an adoring left of center media. Neither she
nor DeLauro have been peppered with questions concerning their
big-business-personal-gains loops. DeLauro shuttles her excess campaign funds
to the Democrat National Campaign Committee, in return for which her husband
and political co-conspirator, Stan Greenberg, pollster and counsellor to Democrat Party stars, is showered with
lucrative business contracts; and in much the same way Pelosi has been able to
keep her husband in bennies.
This kind of political corruption is usually winked at by
newspapers and media outlets that employ so called “investigative journalists”
for decorative purposes only.
In any case, Connecticut is a political “safe space” for
Pelosi – always has been, always will be. If she were Trump, political
do-gooders would be whispering impeachment, and someone would want to put a
jeweler’s eye to her personal finances. She very likely will bring her Trump
drum with her to the Bailey Dinner. It’s impossible to imagine her huddling
with DeLauro and discussing ways to transport illegal “undocumented workers”
from southern over-loaded borders to Connecticut’s sanctuary cities. Lord knows,
there are a sufficient number of near-empty “Fast Track” buses in the state to get the job done.
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