If you bought into the impeachment political theatre of a somber and serious constitutional crisis, you are a fool. It’s never been about the Constitution, and more a partisan circus. Capped off by Nancy Pelosi, literally, in gold and silver.
But it’s not every day you get to impeach a president so to celebrate, San Fran Nan, whose district includes epidemic homelessness and a poop map, presented souvenirs. Commemorative pens, on silver platters. Embossed with her signature, and capped with gold.
Solemn and somber or garish and elitist.
Pelosi handed them out to rabid members of her party, smiling, laughing, and (more or less) exemplifying everything about the ruling class that got Trump elected in the first place.
Clueless, tone-deaf, and self-obsessed with the power and politics, not the people, whose hard-earned dollars they waste without (at least in her case) fear of electoral recourse.
Not everyone, even on the left, thought it was a good idea.
“We are used to seeing signing ceremonies handing out pens at moments of celebration,” CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash said on the network. But she added that “the House Speaker has bent over backward to say publicly and privately this is a somber, this is not a time for celebration.”
Creating a path to impeachment has been at the top of the list since election day. Since before Rashida Tlaib shouted “let’s impeach the MF-r. That wasn’t something she made up on her own. It was a caucus wide priority from day one. The celebratory pens are just more proof, which Mitch McConnell framed perfectly.
“This final display neatly distilled the House’s entire process into one perfect visual,” McConnell said of the black pens emblazoned in gold with Pelosi’s signature, that “literally came in on silver platters.”
“It was a transparently partisan performance from beginning to end,” he said.
Are they planning to auction a few off as fundraising gimmicks? There are plenty of deep-pocketed leftists who would drop a large dime to own one. But beware of knockoffs. China is probably cranking out fakes as we write this. Or maybe we’ll see late-night infomercials for commemorative replica impeachment pens.
Maybe we should make them and sell them? And just like the originals, they inevitably “blow up” and leave a permanent stain on your somber impeachment shroud.
| WaPo