OPINION:
In the two weeks since President Biden’s uneven performance in the first presidential debate, congressional Democrats have been talking almost nonstop, albeit mostly off the record because most of them are cowards, about how best to force our duly elected president either from office, or from his perch as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, or (preferably) both.
It has gotten so ridiculous that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, now well into her own combat with impending decay and mortality, recently cleared her throat like she was the queen of America and harrumphed that she hoped Mr. Biden — who has been remarkably consistent and emphatic about his intention to remain both president and presumptive Democratic nominee — would reconsider his unwillingness to be the victim of a bloodless coup at the hands of his former colleagues.
While that was going on, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse — a Democrat mostly known for belonging to not one but two all-White beach clubs or sailing clubs or whatever sort of clubs White folks have up in Rhode Island — asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Justice Clarence Thomas and his various activities, focused mostly on how often he votes in ways contrary to the preferences of Mr. Whitehouse. It is probably pure happenstance that Justice Thomas is, of course, Black.
Just to fill out the dance card, while all of this was going on, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who represents parts of Queens and the Bronx in New York City but did most of her growing up in Westchester County (where she went by the street name of “Sandy”) — submitted articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Samuel A. Alito for failing to disclose some gifts and, again, not voting in accord with the congresswoman’s preferences.
For those who have trouble remembering, a couple of years ago, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, from Brooklyn, actually threatened Supreme Court justices with violence.
What is it with these New Yorkers?
All of this — trying to run a coup on a sitting president, attempting to remove the (mostly elected) nominee of a political party, threatening judges, ginning up bogus articles of impeachment, using the media to intimidate the Supreme Court — not to mention encouraging mobs to set up shop outside of the homes of justices — indicate that the legislators in question may not understand the concept of separate and coequal branches of the federal government as well as they should.
The Constitution set up a regime in which Congress can’t get rid of a judge or president they don’t like unless the judge or the president has broken the law. You would think members of Congress, who literally take a vow to uphold the Constitution each time they are elected, would know that. But I guess not.
The indifference of congressional Democrats to democratic norms and constitutional imperatives also exposes the fraud that is “defending democracy.” It would be better for the country if the congressional Democrats were more concerned about defending the republic and the Constitution — which they have sworn to uphold — than they are about propagating the nonsense about defending democracy.
• Michael McKenna is a contributing editor at The Washington Times and co-host of the podcast “The Unregulated.”
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