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The countdown has begun. The much reviled President Trump, most people will agree, is due to vacate the White House by January 20, 2021, shortly after Joe Biden is sworn into office.
A little more than two weeks before Trump’s pending eviction, the following headline
appeared on Tuesday, January 5 below the fold on the front page of the Hartford
Courant: “’A
Real Attack On Democracy’: Sen. Murphy condemns Trump-backed effort to overturn
Biden’s victory.”
The story is stuffed with quotes from both Connecticut’s
U.S. Senators, Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, identified in the story as “one
of Donald Trump’s sharpest critics throughout Trump’s presidency,” a
considerable understatement.
“Throughout the Trump administration,” Courant reporter
Eliza Fawcett tells us, “which draws to a close on Jan. 20, Murphy and his
colleague Sen. Richard Blumenthal have been vocal critics of Trump. Both were
strong proponents of the Congressional investigation into Trump’s July 2019
call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (sic), which was at the
center of Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives last year. Trump
was subsequently acquitted in the Senate.”
Actually, there were a few “centers” to the nearly four year
attempt by Democrats, Blumenthal and Murphy prominent among them, to invalidate the 2016 presidential election in which Trump defeated Democrat presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton.
Neither Blumenthal nor Murphy have characterized that
attempt as an “assault on democracy,” possibly because they vigorously supported
the failed attempt, which lasted the entire length of the Trump presidency and
was centered in a false “dossier” concocted by former British Spy Christopher
Steele working in concert with the Democrat National Committee. The dossier was
deployed in a secret FISA court hearing to launch the extensive investigation of
possible “collusion,” not found, between Trump and agents of Russian President
Vladimir Putin. During the whole of the Trump administration, his frenetic Democrat opponents have got into the bad habit of discharging their own political sins upon politically convenient scapegoats.
But why, at this remove, beat dead horses? And that is the
question, isn’t it?
Why are Blumenthal and Murphy beating a dead horse, Trump, so
soon before the soon to be ex-president is due to leave office? Purely as a
practical matter, any conversation Trump has had with fellow Republicans concerning
possible fraud in the 2020 presidential election is, most political watchers
will agree, highly unlikely to overthrow the Biden election. Murphy and
Blumenthal and the Courant reporter all agree on this point. Therefore, to characterize
the call as “a real attack on democracy” is, some cooler heads may conclude, a
bit overblown.
Here is Murphy in full stride in the Courant story:
“In a live Facebook conversation with constituents Monday
evening, Murphy emphasized that President Trump and Republicans in Congress are
behind ‘this attempt to overthrow democracy.’
“’It is not just a stain on American democracy but a body
blow that could prove ultimately fatal,’ Murphy said, predicting fraudulent
challenges to future elections may be successful.
“’’This will be the most significant attempt to end American
democracy, to end the ability of voters to chose (sic) the President of the
United States, in our nation’s history,’ Murphy said, noting that debate on
Electoral College objections filed by Republicans will likely last though the
night on Wednesday.”
After all his rhetorical huffing and puffing, Murphy
subverts his own improbable claims. “It is not possible,’ he continues, “that
Joe Biden is not going to be sworn in as president. This effort will fail. Joe
Biden won this election and it wasn’t close. President Trump has tried to rob
him of that mandate... The damage to our democracy is really serious.
“Voters have to remove from office people who hate
democracy. We’ve got to run a campaign against these people.”
Well then, if it is “not possible that Joe Biden is not
going to be sworn in as president,” and if the presumed effort to topple the
pillars of the republic “will fail” – as indeed it will -- we then must conclude
that this
attempt to overthrow democracy in the United States is not a serious attempt to overthrow
democracy in the United States.
The effort may be an attempt to: 1) acquire data in legal discovery
proceedings to explore the fault lines of a faulty election process, or 2) to
convince voters in Georgia not to deliver the U.S. Senate to Democrats in a contested
runoff election. But all this is politics as usual, hardly a sinister or even
serious effort to permanently damage small “r” republican government across the
United States.
If the two U.S. Senators from Connecticut wish to denounce instances
of democracy under attack by an overbearing chief executive, they might look
closer to home.
Over the past 10 months, Governor Ned Lamont, with an assist
from Coronavirus, has all but abolished two of the three branches of democratic
government in Connecticut – the legislative and judicial branches – leaving him
governing alone in the manner of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” of France best known
for his quip, rendered in English – “I am the state.”
Comments
Most all of the Junior Senators statements are simply to grandstand and never seems to accomplish anything for his constituency.
Clearly, Murphy tends to ride other Senators coattails than attempting to write legislation of his own and spends the majority of his time on Social Media badmouthing anything not in keeping with his party and spreading partisan propaganda to keep the Socialist Democratic faithful believing.
It is unfortunate that these same people have no idea that their actions or, for a better term inactions are allowing these inept incompetents free reign to completely destroy of our way of life and undermine our Constitution.
Perhaps someday the people of Connecticut will finally realize that these so called Public Servants are actually subversives working toward that destruction and the establishment of a Socialist/Communist state.
And its working, even our Governor has put himself above the Constitutional Law of the state and will no doubt be taking another six months of dictatorial power in February as no one seems to be interested in standing in his way.
Inaction, complacency, laziness, call it what you will but if we continue in this way we will completely lose any hope of bringing our state back to where it once was.
Forty five years of one party power has decimated this once great state and it continues its steady decline into oblivion.
Beware. when democrats accuse someone of misdeeds or corruption as least half of it is to try and cover up their lies, corruption and lawlessness.
The role these 2 reprobates played in the impeachment is disgraceful and deserves scorn.