CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Last week brought forth two crazy ideas from our nation’s capital. Neither are going anywhere.
Democrats have long dreamed of statehood for Washington DC, and the two additional Democrat senators that the new state would provide. Joe Biden, who campaigned on D.C. statehood, abandoned that effort last week.
This is a basic un-learning of American history. Before the federal government was relocated to the District of Columbia, the federal seat was in New York, and then Philadelphia. While Congress was in session, an angry mob of soldiers surrounded Freedom Hall. They served in the Revolutionary War, and were owed back pay. Congress hadn’t appropriated the money yet. Members of Congress made a plea to Pennsylvania’s governor to send in the state militia and disperse the crowd. He sided with the unpaid soldiers, and refused.
It was decided from then on that the federal government would never be beholden to an individual state. A federal district would be established.
It’s breathtaking how that lesson is pushed aside in the name of congressional majorities.
And there’s the push to force Fox News out of the White House press room. Far left reporters have seized on court depositions from Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity where they testified that there was little chance of Donald Trump overturning the 2020 election, while they continued to talk on their Fox shows about election integrity issues. For this lack of journalistic integrity they want Fox News to lose its White House press credentials. The only problem is that Tucker and Sean are commentators, not reporters.
It is rich that the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post, all Hunter Biden laptop deniers, think they have standing to determine which other news outlets are credible.
Chris Conley
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