In the wake of violent pro-Hamas insurrectionists blocking streets, defacing national monuments, and raising the Palestinian flag over Washington's Union Station on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is serving notice there’s a new sheriff in town.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in our nation’s capital at the invitation of Speaker Johnson to update Congress on his nation’s war against bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists. In response to October 7th attacks on Israel when inhuman Hamas goons raped women, beheaded fathers in front of their children, and literally burned babies alive, Netanyahu unleashed a powerful military response that he has vowed will continue until Hamas has been eradicated from the face of the earth.
Wednesday’s speech to Congress made history, as Bibi Netanyahu became the only foreign leader ever to address a Joint Session for the 4th time. Given the added importance of his update on the war during a time of political upheaval here in America, this event should have been standing room only for our national legislators. But no, alleged “leaders” of the Democratic caucus boycotted the speech…including Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA,) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY,) and a variety of usual publicity hogs like Sens. Dick Durban (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA.)
Even Kamala Harris—the newly-coronated Democratic candidate for president after the ballots of 14 million primary voters were happily shredded by party leaders—was AWOL. But at least she has a compelling reason: Harris had to address the black college sorority Zeta Phi Beta Sorority at their annual Grand Boulé convention in Indianapolis. (She did fly back to D.C. just in time for a photo-op with Bibi Netanyahu, followed by stabbing him in the back by raising her thoughts about casualties in Gaza and telling a news conference “it is time to end this war.”)
So in her first encounter with a world leader since the coup against Joe Biden ham-handedly “won” her party’s nomination for her, Kamala Harris took a side in the Israel/Hamas war. The wrong side.
Meanwhile, on the streets of Washington, insurrectionists who share Harris’s unique verbal two-state policy (she’s “for” Israel but wants them to stop pursuing the terrorists) blocked streets, disrupted traffic, terrorized tourists and school children, and reveled in rampant destruction and vandalism.
At D.C.’s historic Union Station, the pro-Hamas mobs shimmied up to the roof, pulled down the American flag and set fire to it; they then hoisted the Palestinian flag on the landmark’s flagpole. They also spray-painted vile slogans on statues nearby: two of the more printable ones were “Hamas is coming” and “Zionists are bastards.” Continuing to talk out of both sides of her mouth, our Vice President later issued a statement saying “I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews.” Oh, and P.S., Netanyahu, it is time to end this war. Goodnight folks, drive safely as you leave the theater.
Countering these pathetic displays of Democratic Party appeasement of vandals and insurrectionists, House Speaker Mike Johnson is taking a refreshingly different approach. On the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with TONY PERKINS, Johnson did not mince words or try to straddle both sides.
“Those protesters not only ripped down and burned American flags off of Union Station, they also spray-painted and defaced our monuments with pro-Hamas slogans and profanity, desecrating public property. It was just outrageous,” he said. Johnson gave no brief to civil libertarians and legislators whining about the rights of demonstrators.
“It is not a First Amendment expression to destroy public property,” he added.
Incredibly, only a dozen or so miscreants were arrested in that violent rampage. Johnson has therefore directed the House Oversight Committee to open a formal investigation into Wednesday’s riots, and to determine why more people are not being punished. Godspeed in that effort.
This violence by insurrectionists was beamed around the globe by international journalists in D.C. to cover the Netanyahu address. Coupled with Joe Biden’s infirmity and obvious cognitive decline, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) declared on THIS WEEK ON THE HILL that he has “never seen things quite this dangerous” being telegraphed to America’s enemies.
“What message does this weakness send to our adversaries? It only emboldens them and increases danger to the United States,” McCaul noted.
He added that with operatives from terrorist groups like al Qaeda being allowed across the open borders promoted by the Harris/Biden administration, these are perilous times for America.
With swooning pro-Kamala reports being churned out by fawning broadcast and print reporters around the clock, one can only hope that enough Americans who are having to decide between filling their cars and putting food on their tables…between defaulting on their mortgages or taking on second—or third—jobs to make ends meet…won’t fall for the distractions and prevarications foisted upon the electorate in the roughly 100 days left until November 5th.
The choice has never been clearer. Our 45th president is either going to be a strong, battle-tested leader who has endured verbal abuse, federal government lawfare, efforts to destroy his business empire, and even a bullet in his mission to Make America Great Again….or we will elect a cackling George McGovern/John Kerry clone in a pink pantsuit.
I pray my trust in the American people to do the right thing is not misplaced.
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Tom Tradup is Vice President of Dallas-based Salem Radio Network. He also serves as Executive Producer of THIS WEEK ON THE HILL, which is heard on leading radio stations nationwide and can be seen at 10AM Eastern time Saturdays on the Salem News Channel.
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