January 7th, 2022
My Dear America:
On the day after January 6th, 2022 I finally watched the incredibly moving speech that President Joe Biden gave yesterday morning while standing in the Capitol Rotunda one year to the day after the violent and disgusting attack on the heart of Democracy in America that was engineered by Donald Trump and his Goon Squad. I had seen comments on Facebook and Twitter identifying the Biden Speech as either one of the best speeches that President Biden had ever given or simply the BEST SPEECH THAT JOE BIDEN HAD EVER GIVEN. Either way Joe B. gave an outstanding speech that will go down in history as one of the best speeches ever given by a President in defense of Democracy in America.
Although President Biden has made clear in other speeches who he has blamed for last year's violent assault on the Capitol he made it crystal clear in this speech without mentioning Donald Trump by name that his "Predecessor" was to blame for not only the Capitol Riot but also for other improper and possibly illegal attempts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration by weaponizing "THE BIG LIE" which falsely claimed that Trump had won the 2020 Presidential Election. In his speech Biden addressed Trump's claims point by point and made it clear that Trump's claim to have won the 2020 Election was total Bullshit.
As is usually the case, some Right Wing Media Outlets found Mr. Biden's speech lacking but these same outlets seem to find everything about President Biden lacking, yet find everything about Donald Trump to be wonderful. It is perplexing to me that it is the case that in today's America a CERTIFIED LOSER like Donald Trump can still exercise so much power and influence over so many Americans. I don't understand it. I will never understand it. Whatever happened to Common Sense in the Republican Party
I woke up too late yesterday to see the Biden Speech live but the online word was that it was terrific so I tried to find a rebroadcast of it on television. I only found certain short clips of Biden's Speech yesterday but I did luck in on C-Span's coverage of an event that was taking place in the afternoon yesterday afternoon at the Capitol. That event was an interesting and enlightening exchange of ideas between Historians John Meacham and Doris Kearns Goodwin hosted by the Chief Librarian of Congress. These two interesting Writers had much to say about last January Sixth and other important events in the History of America. I didn't realize it at the time but the spread out audience that was sitting there in the Capitol listening to Goodwin and Meacham were primarily Democratic members of Congress. Along with the members of Congress in the audience, I found out later, were, along with Liz Cheney (The Only Republican Member of Congress willing to show up for this particular January 6th Commemoration),was her Dad, Dick Cheney and the parents of Brian Sicknick, the brave Capitol Policeman who was killed as the result of his injuries sustained on January 6th of last year while defending the Capitol from the Trump Mob.
Following the Meacham and Kearns Goodwin Exchange the same group of primarily Democratic members of Congress lined up to take turns relating their individual tales of terror that they experienced on January 6th, 2021. It was highly disturbing to hear what these True Patriots endured last January. It was particularly galling to recognize that those people who denigrated and disfigured the Capitol building the year before and claimed to be "patriots" and "Blue Lives Matter" supporters beat the living daylights out of the brave men and women in blue who were charged with defending the Capitol. Certainly those people entering the Capitol were not Patriots but Criminals who were either too Dumb or too Twisted by Trump Logic to recognize how they were being used as pawns by the Former President.
Last Year despite the substantial damage done to the Police defending the Capitol, the Capitol building itself and to American Democracy, the Genuinely Brave Patriotic Members of the Congress with the cooperation of the Vice President, who had been threatened with Hanging by the Trump Mob earlier in the day, returned on the evening of January 6th, 2021 and did their jobs. Of Course the Republican Legislators tasked with preventing Joe Biden from being Certified by the Congress did their best to disrupt the Certification but in the end the real Patriots in Congress won out and Joe Biden was Certified as the incoming President of The United States. Thank God.
A Prayer Vigil featuring mainly Democratic members of Congress and the Senate also took place on the Capitol Steps on the evening of January 6th, 2022. CNN also featured a Moving Remembrance Special featuring members of Congress, their families and their staffs discussing their experiences on January 6th, 2021.
One thing that was noticeably missing from all of these remembrances of January 6th, 2021 was the participation of Republican Members of Congress and Senators.
It was almost as if the only members of Congress running for their lives on January 6th last year were Democrats. Certainly that was not the case. On January 6th, 2021 all members of Congress and their staffs were threatened.
Congressional Republicans may be faking Amnesia in 2022 but in January of last year they also were running for cover along with their Democratic Colleagues.
It seems to me as though the time has come for Republicans to recognize what damage they are doing to America by sticking with Donald Trump and his Big Lie any longer. Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are leading not only the Republican Party but the entire nation to the brink of destruction by not calling out the former President for being the Emperor who has no clothes and Certainly No Integrity.
Republicans need to wake up and realize that following the insanity of Donald Trump will eventually destroy them and their party and possibly the entire country. What good will it be for Republicans if they maintain their power only with the permanent loss of their integrity and their good name.
The time has come for Republicans to recognize what most of us have known for a long time. And That is:
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Republicans can and do in many cases believe in many of the same things that are being advocated in the Build Back Better Program that will soon be voted on by the Congress.
I have a dream today that on a day that will be coming soon not one but a bunch of Republican Legislators will realize that they have had it with Donald Trump and are no longer going to follow a Madman over a Political Cliff but are going to instead follow their consciences and vote "Yes" for "Build Back Better."
Yes, People I have a dream today that Truth will no longer be shunned in the Republican Party and that Integrity will make a Comeback.
Yes, I have a Dream today.
I certainly hope that my dream comes true and that it comes true in time to save Democracy in America from complete Destruction.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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