Power and Control: Democrats are Showing Us Who They Are

Conversations everywhere are all focused on the same topic: should Joe stay or should Joe go?

President Joe Biden is obviously fading – even the untrained eye can see this. However, he’s still the President, which begs the question: who is running the country right now? Dr. Jill? Susan Rice? Ron Klaim? Antony Blinken? Jeff Zients?

Democrats want you to ask not who is running the show, but why it matters. Because the number #1 priority for the Democrat Party is power and control – who is in charge is less important.

And they are ruthless about it.

Columnist Ross Douthat at The New York Times even wrote a column asking, ” Does America Need a President?”

The Globe remembers in 2010 when then-State Senator Patricia Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa), who was suffering from a then-undisclosed illness, was ordered by then-Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) to show up for a crucial vote.

She was brought to Sacramento, and in a wheel chair propped up in the press bay, and told how to vote by her husband, who was also a prominent Democrat consultant as well as her campaign manager. Some months later, after her hometown newspapers called for her to resign, it was revealed that Sen. Wiggins had an invasive disease of the brain which caused significant memory loss, and outbursts.

“Senator Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, has been witnessed making public outbursts since as far back as 2007, at events in her district and more recently, in Senate hearings,” I reported in 2010. “Both The Napa Valley Register and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, called for Wiggins to resign.”

More recently, was the aging and failing US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). For years, the declining health of Senator Feinstein was a recurring issue in California and Washington D.C. “Most notably, Feinstein faced numerous health questions in 2017 following the installation of a pacemaker and in 2020 after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg when many commentators noted health issues between the two,” the Globe reported.

The most intense questions came when recovery from shingles at her home in San Francisco took longer than expected. She temporarily left the Judiciary Committee, hoping to have an interim replacement cover for her. However, Republicans rejected the plan, forcing the Committee to only approve Judges whom members from both parties could agree on. With many potential judges held back, critical Senate votes coming up that were reliant on passage with a vote from Feinstein, and concerns growing about her health, Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) called for Feinstein to resign. At its peak, dozens of Congressional members, Senators, and leftist/liberal groups pressured Feinstein to resign.

See how it goes? Democrats just needed the votes of its loyal lawmakers, clearly too old and/or infirm to participate in the legislative process any longer. They didn’t care if someone had to prop her up for her vote.

Even Politico reported on loyal Democrats who called for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign while Obama was still President so he could appoint her successor. All these Democrats cared about was the abortion issue and Roe v. Wade getting overturned.

“With the Supreme Court poised to reverse Roe v Wade, Ginsburg’s decision not to step down during the Obama administration looms large in the estimations of some of her admirers, who see it as enabling the destruction of large parts of Ginsburg’s legacy,” Politico reported in 2022. “The unintended — but not unforeseeable — result was that Donald Trump was able to name Ginsburg’s successor, who may wind up as the fifth vote to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion-rights ruling.”

“It was an extraordinarily self-centered thing to do,” the left said of Ginsburg.

Democrats adored Ginsburg until she became inconvenient. Then they turned on her like vipers on prey. “It’s certainly hard for me, now, to think of her work and of her — and not to, these days, work up a degree of regret and anger,” says Dorothy Samuels, who authored The New York Times’ legal editorials during her 30 years on the paper’s editorial board.

For the Party which marches in lockstep like goose-stepping North Koreans, these three women became impediments to the cause.

As for the President, Democrats aren’t talking about the United States as a whole being vulnerable with Dementia-ridden Joe Biden at the helm. They aren’t concerned that the international community currently sees the U.S. as weak and unstable.

“Non sibi sed patriae,” Latin for “Not self, but country,” the phrase inscribed above the chapel doors of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, never passes the lips of a Democrat in today’s Party because it’s Party control first, then everything else.

The Party that gave the country John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, ignores his most famous words: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

It is apparent that Democrats at this point care little who President Figurehead is as long as they beat Donald Trump, and remain in charge.

Democrats like the way things are going. They want status quo. They believe their bureaucratic administrative state can take care of everything.

The calls for Joe’s ouster is more about the media – they made Joe – they gave the country President Joe Biden – which means in their minds they can take him down. What they are really mad about is the failure of their 3-year long concealment of Joe’s condition. Anyone with two eyes could see the President’s failings, regardless of claims that he was as sharp as a tack, and brilliant behind closed doors.

The leftist media got caught with their pants down. And since they have no ability for self-reflection and introspection, they are lashing out at the feeble president because they know the country is shifting, making the necessary adjustments back toward populism and administrative state upheaval.

Democrats’ egos, their hubris, pretension and vanity are preventing rational thought. The Party of predators is vulnerable and will likely lose because of their falsities and hypocrisy.

Should Joe stay or should Joe go?

Enjoy “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by English punk rock band the Clash from their album Combat Rock: