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“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its grateful eyes to you…” -- from Simon & Garfunkel’s classic song “Mrs. Robinson.”
Now, that was an insurrection, this one
spearheaded by what President Joe Biden labeled Democrat Party elites.
The overused word “insurrection” comes to us from the Old
French “insurreccion” or more directly from Late Latin “insurrectionem,”
meaning “a rising up.”
Only a few days before he threw in the sponge on his
reelection prospects, Biden insisted, not without reason, that he would not
withdraw from the race and that his candidacy for the presidency had been
authorized by Democrat Party primary voters. More than 14 million Democrats
cast their votes for Biden in the Democrat Party primary. No one had voted for
the “party elites” clamoring for his withdrawal from the presidential race.
The elites proceeded cautiously. Some leading Democrats –
among them U.S. Senator from New York Chuck Schumer and former U.S. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a close-to-the-throne king maker -- urged Biden to
withdraw very late in the game, others more cautiously said the decision was
“up to Biden.” U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut fell into this latter
group. Penetrating from above the dark cloud of indecision was former President
Barack Obama who, in his winning 2009 campaign for the presidency, had chosen
Biden as his Vice President.
Within the last week, the cream of the Democrat Party crop
certainly had risen up in concert against Biden’s candidacy.
Following an elite battering, Biden agreed to move out, and
the elite soon after showered the besieged Biden with lavish compliments.
A Hartford Courant Story, “Biden Drops Out Of Race,” includes
this bouquet from Blumenthal: “U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, on
Sunday called Biden ‘one of the greatest, most consequential presidents in
American history. He was the compassionate, courageous leader our country
desperately needed during a time of crisis. Over the last four years, he has
overseen the passage of immensely impactful laws that will benefit generations
of Americans,’ Blumenthal said. ‘Joe is a smart, strategic fighter who always –
always – looks out for the little guy. I am incredibly grateful for his
lifetime of service and his unwavering, steadfast commitment to the future of
our nation.’”
Other Connecticut Democrats were similarly generous in their
praise of “one of the greatest, most consequential presidents in American
history.”
Connecticut’s Junior U.S. Senator Chris Murphy was as lavish
in his praise of Biden: “Joe Biden has always put his country first. He knows
the risk Donald Trump poses to our democracy, mandating that our number one
priority must be defeating Trump this fall. I know this decision was agonizing
for him, but once again, his love of country shines through. A nation turns its
grateful eyes to Joe Biden for his world changing service and his constant
selflessness.”
Where have you gone,
Mr. President? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo, woo, woo …
Biden’s path out of the White House was charted by masterful
insurrectionists who know how to bathe stripes and wounds with flowery
flattery.
Some of the consequencews of the Biden presidency,
Republicans might have pointed out, had not the Democrat Party elite given one
of the greatest presidents in American history the heave ho, are, in no order
of importance: an ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan; a southern border
that has all but disappeared as a barrier to illegal migration; an adamantine
insistence in favor of a “two state” solution in Israel and a negotiated peace
plan well before Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, former President
Barack Obama’s bête noir, has rid the
county of terrorist Hamas elements, Houthis terrorists in Yemen, and Hezbollah
terrorists in Lebanon, all elements supported and financed by Iran; and, to cut
short a listing of Biden’s more conspicuous failures, a punishing indifference
to massive federal spending that is the
chief contributing cause of inflation.
The path forward for Biden insurrectionists was charted long
before Biden’s pitiful plea to be spared by the Democrat Party elites.
Some of the insurrectionists are supporting Biden’s
replacement choice for president, Vice President Kamala Harris. Others are not
so sure. These favor throwing the decision into the hands of delegates to the
Democrat National Convention that will convene in Chicago, Illinois from Aug.
19 through Aug. 22.
If, as some argue, Biden’s ouster had been engineered by
party bosses – a tenable assumption – why should the party bosses choose a
Democrat Party candidate for president rather than the democratically appointed
delegates to the national convention?
One cannot help but wonder what damage to the democracy will
have been caused by such back stage political maneuvering among what Biden has
called Democrat Party elites?
The murmuring among Democrat Party rank and file voters may
yet rise above the best laid plans of mice and men
in the form of a question: “You call this a democracy, do you?”
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