Boy, THAT quote didn’t age well…

House Democratic Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (MA) joined Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (CA), and Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu (CA) for a press conference in May of 2023 that began with Clark declaring, “It is Democrats who’ve been the adults in the room. It is Democrats who’ve prioritized Americans over political gamesmanship.”

Last night I rewatched “All the President’s Men.” I was struck by how similar Nixon’s attempts to cripple potential Democratic Party challengers resembled the various unethical measures taken by President Obama’s minions and President Biden’s puppeteers to bury Donald Trump, but that’s a different topic. What I was immediately impressed with was how an archival film of Nixon’s State of the Union Address in 1972 showed the entire audience consisting of both parties of both houses of Congress rising and applauding the President as he entered the chamber. They did this because Nixon, as divisive and loathed as he was by the American Left, was the goddamn President of the United States, had been elected by the American people, and it was every member of Congress’s duty to show the office due respect.

And it still is. Today’s Democrats (and, tragically, their Trump Deranged supporters), however, choose to behave like spit-ball shooting grade-schoolers, debasing the nation and its institutions in the process. Jonathan Turley said yesterday that when he was a House leadership page, every member of the House of Representatives would have voted to censure a Congressman who behaved like Al Green, because, quite simply, his disgusting conduct deserved condemnation and it was crucial for Congress to insist of standards of decorum. Today’s Democratic House members saluted Green as a martyr, and behaved like the student protesters of the Sixties. You know, adults.

Here are a few other notable examples of Democrats and their anti-Trump cult followers behaving like adults in the past few days:

• Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX, currently being promoted as a rising (and exciting!) leader of the Democratic Party, participated in the “24-Hour State of the People Marathon,”  a protest event designed to counter the President’s address to Congress earlier this week. (Why wasn’t it called the “24-Hour Joint Address to the People”?) In one segment, Crockett said, “As they have decided to go after immigrants and things like that, and they’ve said, ‘Oh, they’ve taken your black job, they’ve taken your black jobs. Not really, they are obviously jobs that they want us to go back to, such as work in the fields, alright? Those immigrants that come into our country, they work the fields, something that we ain’t done in a long time. And clearly, he is trying to make us go back to the fields.”

Gee, good point Congresswoman!

• In the same event, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)—you know, the genius who expressed fear that Guam might flip over because there are too many U.S. troops and military equipment there?—added, regarding the Trump administration plan to shut down the Dept. of Education, “It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to Black people. It puts us back to when America was ‘great,’ and we were picking cotton and doing the productivity that they’re putting my Latino brothers and sisters who migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it anymore. But they would have us back, confined to doing that kind of work.” 

What age group would that logic appeal to, I wonder?

• Over at The View—a news show, according to ABC—the adult lawyer on the panel (Sunny Hostin), while asserting that all the Democrats in the joint session should have followed the example of adulthood provide by Rep. Green, said, “Representative Green gave them the example, the Democrats are not meeting the moment. It is very clear that Medicaid is on the table, it is very clear that Social Security is on the table, it is very clear that people will die. The Baby Boomers, the civil rights generation, they knew what to do. They knew how to fight and die for their rights. This generation of Congress, they are not meeting the moment. This is an existential threat! They should be ashamed of themselves. They all should’ve walked out with him!” The obscure Democratic Senator who delivered the party’s rebuttal to the President’s speech also claimed that the Republican want to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits. There is no evidence that this is true (although it should be); admittedly I have trouble with adult reasoning, but I’m guessing that the Adults in the Room equate DOGE trying to address Social Security and Mediacre waste and fraud as “cutting benefits.”

I can’t wait until I grow up and am capable of such analysis.

• Over at the academia side of the Axis, adult professor Professor Basil Smikle of Columbia University  attacked DOGE on MSNBC by sayng,

“There are people who are charged with trying to find savings. So yes, it’s an attack on government, but it’s also an attack on this government. What I mean by that is it’s an attack on this government that used to be headed by a black man.  It’s an attack on this government that almost elected a black woman to the highest office in the land.”

Smikle is a lecturer of international and public affairs at the Ivy League college, and clearly, I do not have the adult intellectual training to comprehend his analysis. DOGE is racist because it is trying to identify wasted money in a nation that once elected a black man as President and almost elected an idi…sorry, a black woman as President? Wow, that’s too intellectual and mature for me: I just don’t get it.

Adults.

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Sources: Red State; Daily Caller; Victory Girls