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Leaving the White House in a total mess
Thursday, December 17, 2020
I have never seen James Carville, a Democrat and political pundit, go speechless.
But the other night when he was on one of the late night talk shows he was asked what he thought about the things happening at the White House and in Congress these days. He sat there quietly for a minute or two and then he said, “I just don’t know, I just can’t figure it out.”
And I suppose that is how many of us feel these days.
When Texas filed a lawsuit to get the votes of 4 states thrown out, South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem was right there to support this stupidity. Senator Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) and Congressional Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-South Dakota) were right there with Noem while Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) finally had the courage to state the obvious: Joe Biden is President-Elect.
After Republicans made virtual asses of themselves since November 3, it was finally all over on Monday when the Electoral College named Joe Biden as the President-Elect. Someone needs to sit Noem and our Republican delegation down and teach them how to count. When one gets more votes than another, the one getting the most votes is the winner. We learned this when we voted for our class president in high school. How could our supposedly intelligent elected officials forget this?
I can remember when South Dakotans voted for the person and not the Party. I can’t imagine former Senators Tom Daschle, Jim Abdnor, Jim Abourezk, Tim Johnson or former Congressional Rep. Stephanie Herseth allowing themselves to be caught up in this mass stupidity that now rules the U. S. Congress.
The door will be hitting Donald Trump in the ass as he leaves the White House on January 20. He is so small and petty that he will not be there when Joe Biden is sworn in, but instead will be holding a rally of his own that day in an effort to show that he still matters. Well, he doesn’t. His days of fame are over and he can go back to selling real estate.
It will take President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris many years to clean up the mess Trump made of Congress and the White House. But just bringing back honesty and integrity will be a big start.
Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota) is the founder of the Native American Journalists Association and of Indian Country Today. Contact him at najournalist1@gmail.com.
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