Newt Gingrich: a career in 2020 that would offer a choice between a profile with courage and a profile with...
Newt Gingrich: a career in 2020 that would offer a choice between a profile with courage and a profile with dishonesty
Listening to the extraordinary. speaks by Senator Susan Collins last Friday, I was surprised by the resemblance to the senators described in President John F. Kennedy's book. "Profiles in courage. "
While still a senator, Kennedy took advantage of a period in which he was recovering from back surgery to write a study of eight senators that, in his view, had been brave in doing what they thought was right, even if it cost them re-election.
"Profiles in Courage" was received with rave reviews and won the Pulitzer Prize.
If Kennedy was writing the book Today, I would have to add a chapter for Senator Collins.
Senator Collins has always done what she thought was right. I am much more conservative and many times I do not agree with her. However, I have worked on health projects and other problems with her, and she has always been careful, serious and dedicated.
When we do not agree, it has been in a tone of friendship and mutual admiration that we are both serious people trying to help the United States navigate through very difficult and complex challenges.
When I saw his speech last Friday, I felt a great admiration for his words, even more than for his final decision.
If you do not have read or guarded In his nearly one-hour speech, I encourage you to take the time to do so.
He is the personification of the Senate at its best (I write this as a former Speaker of the House of Representatives for whom praising the Senate under any circumstance is a painful prospect).
The founding fathers wanted the senators to be more distant than the representatives. They designed it so that only a third can be chosen in any year. Initially, they had senators elected by state legislatures to protect them from direct public pressure. In its early years, the Senate took this concept of isolation so seriously that they met in secret and refused to tell people how they had voted individually. In fact, they met in secret. until 1794.
The Senate has a tradition of speeches much longer than that of the House of Representatives (if you do not believe that you see the C-SPAN coverage of the two bodies for a few days). The goal was to have a solemn deliberative body that would be slower than the House of Representatives in following public opinion.
Too often, the age of televised sessions, the power of social networks, the impact of passionate and organized interest groups, and the ambition of individual senators who stand up to get attention and then run for office. Presidency (as Senator Cory Booker declares absurdly was having a "Spartacus moment") combined to break the deliberative nature of the Senate and the ability of its best members to think seriously and speak prudently.
Last week, for an hour, Senator Collins brought us back to a time when calm, reasoned logic, powerful images and deep thought controlled the floor of the Senate.
While most people will focus on their vote, I believe that for historical purposes it is even more important to look at their reason methodically and then take the case for approval or rejection by Judge Kavanaugh step by step and item by element.
Senator Collins explored the background of judicial decisions that Judge Kavanaugh has made in his years at the bank. He reported on the hours he had spent interviewing him and many other people. She described the case for and against the charges of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Again and again, Senator Collins threw light and logic where others had participated in emotional diatribes, character murders and blots. The contrast could not have been more vivid.
At the end of his speech, I was impressed by how thoughtful and methodical he had been in presenting the case and announcing that he would vote "yes".
Maine is a moderate state with a great leftist activist.
The left and anti-Kavanaugh activists had already organized a website that had raised more than $ 2 million in pledges to fund an anti-Collins candidate in 2020 if she voted for Kavanaugh. Left activists sent more than 3,000 hangers to their staff symbolizing miscarriages in an effort to emotionally pressure her to reject Kavanaugh.
Collins seems insensitive to pressure from both the right and the left. That is a value profile worth mentioning.
Now, in response to her vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh, former Obama official Susan Rice says she could compete against Collins in 2020.
I think it would be the perfect couple. Susan Rice was the designated liar sent by the Obama team to lie to the American people about the Benghazi attack and the death of four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya.
I can not imagine a clearer contrast between a profile in courage and a profile in dishonesty.
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