Denise McAllister is a
cultural and political commentator for The Federalist, Real Clear Politics, and
Hot Air. Today she posted a piece at PJ Media entitled, “Martin
Luther King Jr. Tells Us To Take Personal Responsibility, Not Blame Others”.
One paragraph stood
out: “Rage roams our streets looking for those to blame, always searching for
fuel to maintain its fire. And there is always plenty to find in this fallen
and imperfect world. Bitterness never fails to find a broken promise, a
thoughtless word, a failed policy, or a lingering disappointment on which to
feed.”
Enter Maxine Waters
(D-CA), John Lewis (D-GA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
who have announced they will skip President Trump’s State of the Union address
on January 30.
Waters marked MLK Day
on Twitter by suggesting the civil rights icon would have advocated for the
impeachment of President Trump were he still alive today.
If MLK was alive today, he'd be marching not only for civil rights & protecting voting rights, but to urge Members of Congress to accept their responsibility to save the U.S. from a dangerous man who has no respect for our Constitution & no concern for strengthening our democracy— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) January 15, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have encouraged every responsible human being to march for justice, to march for peace, and most of all, to march for the impeachment of Donald Trump. #ThankYouMLK50— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) January 15, 2018
Jonathan Turley, a nationally
recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from
constitutional law to legal theory to tort law appeared on Fox’s The Story with Martha McCallum. He noted that
legislators do not need to be present for the SOTU and neither does the
President. He may merely deliver a
written statement to the Speaker of the House.
“Having said that, it’s
a long tradition. The members have to
distinguish between the officeholder and the office,” Turley said. “It’s not about them. People are really upset with their
government.” Turley called attending the
address an “institutional responsibility.”
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