The Sunday talk shows are flooded with Republican politicians who are agog with the idea that there is a giant red tsunami that will sweep large numbers of Democrats out of both the House and the Senate. This would give the House gavel back to Republicans and end the 50/50 stalemate in the Senate. And while the Republicans are basking in the glow of what has yet to happen, we hear Democrats lament their party’s policies that could very well lead to that red tsunami. As the lamenting grows, one Dem seems totally cool and confident that the mid-term elections will not be a wipe out for the Dems --- Nancy Pelosi!
Anyone watching Nancy on the Sunday talk shows would have to be taken with her cool demeanor and confidence in her predictions for the mid-terms. Why would that be? Why isn’t she nervous like the rest of her caucus? We all know that Nancy is the consummate politician. She knows how to count votes and she knows “when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em” … and all signs say that she is not foldin’. So, we must ask ourselves – What does Nancy know that she is not even sharing with the rest of her caucus … at least not yet?
Could it be the January 6th Select Committee and its anticipated findings, conclusions and recommendations? Let me expand on that thought at the risk of being labeled a conspiracy theorist. We have all seen the efforts that this so called Select Committee is going through to gather as much derogatory information on Republicans of all stripes, but most especially politicians that may have participated in some small way on January 6th, even as small as passing a text message or making a call to the White House on that day.
Any other time, we would blow it off as politics as usual; but this time, I think there is an ambush being planned. An October surprise, if you will – the target is House and Senate Republicans who are running for re-election and in some cases election. We had a glimpse through the “Looking Glass” this past week when an article was published about the efforts of a small group of far-left activists in the State of Maryland who are trying to get one of the Republican candidates running for the office of Governor ineligible to run for office … ever again. His sin was attending the Trump rally in DC on Jan 6th. The weapon of choice for this attack by activists - the United States Constitution! Specifically, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The website Constitution Annotated tells us that Section 3 states: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
So, let’s connect the dots:
· With the help of Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger, two Republicans that should be ashamed of themselves, the Jan 6th Select Committee continues to gather information about the “insurrection.”
· Sec.3 in part – “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, … who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same …”
· The word “insurrection” is a key element in how this ambush is crafted because the 14th Amendment specifically states: “… shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same …” We have been told over and over again that Jan 6th was an insurrection – an attack on our democracy. And while others have characterized it as a riot, the Jan 6th Committee classifies it as an insurrection.
· Nancy Pelosi will at the time and place of her choosing, announce that any member of Congress who the Jan 6th Committee has collected information on regarding their connection to the President, to the White House, to the lawful assembly or to the Capital Hill riots, tenuous as it might be, are to be declared insurrectionists and by her decree as the Speaker of the House, they are in violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and ineligible to run for re-election or, in some cases, election to Congress.
“Bolderdash!” you say. That amendment was added to the Constitution to prevent 1) those who were in Congress before the outbreak of the Civil War and who sided with the south and 2) those who were southern sympathizers and might seek election after the War … from running for or holding office. And you would be correct – annenbergclassroom.org tells us: Both Sections 3 and 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment affected persons who waged war against the Union during the Civil War and the obligations of those states who had been part of the Confederacy.
Stay with me here … Since the adoption of this amendment, its application faded over time and the intent of Section 3 has never been tested in court. However, you can be assured that if Pelosi thinks that its application can be enforced today, she will not shrink from declaring it so! If Pelosi announces that the Constitution states clearly that those (Republican) politicians who the Committee says are ineligible to ever hold elective office again is the outcome … Well, the only recourse for those politicians would be the courts
and if their grievances are slow rolled, they could be removed from the ballot before the general election in November. It would be a monumental mistake to think that Nancy Pelosi would not do this to preserve the political power of the Democrat Party.
Nancy Pelosi has already declared that the Jan 6th Committee is above the law. In full cooperation with that precept, Rep. Adam Kinzinger told ABC News … "it’s possible" some of his GOP colleagues in Congress are responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but added he's not ready to "go to that point" yet, because he wants to "let the facts dictate it." The Illinois Republican also revealed that the committee investigating the insurrection is not ruling out issuing subpoenas for sitting members of Congress.” Liz Cheney made her position clear when she told the New York Times: “We owe it to the American people to investigate everything that led up to, and transpired on, Jan. 6,” she said in a statement. “We will not be deterred by threats or attempted obstruction, and we will not rest until our task is complete.” That includes reading the text messages and phone conversations of at least 11 sitting members of Congress – all Republicans.
As the work of this sham committee drones on in secret, we have seen these activities come to pass. Members of Congress, former members of the Administration, state election officials – to date some 550 “witnesses” have been hauled before this tribunal with the singular effort to disqualify Donald Trump from running for office ever again … and quite possibly, to disqualify every sitting and aspiring politician who might have been in Washington that fateful day.
Make no mistake --- there is an ambush waiting in the months ahead. Nancy Pelosi is one of the most sinister and despicable politicians to ever hold the office of Speaker of the House. Her confidence in predicting the outcome of the 2022 elections can only come from the fact that she has carefully crafted an ambush of the Republican political apparatus and the Republicans don’t even see it coming.
Republicans would be better served spending a little less time telling the American public how they are going to sweep the 2022 elections and spending more time paying attention to what the most evil woman to ever serve as the Speaker of the House of representatives is planning for their October surprise.
Marc, another out-of-the-box perspective from you! I was thinking/hoping Pelosi's apparently undue confidence in Dem successes in 2022 was a result of a trait she seems to share with Sleepy Joe -- that is, a quickly-advancing state of "brain freeze" and the ability only to mouth what she wants to see happen, not what people want to actually happen. However, she is indeed also a long-time cold-blooded lizard, so it's very plausible that those Nov midterms may just be the next "fly" she's stalking while camouflaged by the media's (complicit?) inattention. Very in-character for her... one can only hope/pray for an event that freezes her plans in mid-slurp or way before. God Bless and Save America.
I whole heartedly agree with you Marc. Pelosi needs to be stopped from her "insurection".