History is the cataloging of major events and the human action which brought them to fruition. History unfolds for us and the world every day.The war in Ukraine has led
he is threatening to punish them for participating in the committee. if he goes ahead and strips them from the committee assignments, do you expect speaker pelosi would reinstate that? i suspect she will. i know penancy pelosi very well. if there is a patriot, she is one. not a summer patriot or sunshine patriot. a real patriot who stands by this country irrespective of what the conditions might be. what wie see here is kevin mccarthy and others being what thomas payne called sunshine patriots. they are all for things going their way. the moment a challenge is come, they retreat behind the shadow of donald trump in this instance. in otther instances, they find others to stay away from the truth. i want to ask you while i
state department witnesses. confessions, admissions, witnesses, video, we have everything but dna. what else do you need? you need the courage of esther. the constitution does vest the president with certain powers. but not the power to lie. not the power to obstruct. not the power to cheat our democracy. not the power to threaten our national security. there is no question that the president has abused his power. if we allow this, look the other way, say it s just politics, what are we telling other nations about the rule of law? what are we saying about our democracy? what are we showing our children if we cower to bully with a bully pulpit? during the darkest days of revolution thomas payne wrote these are the times that try men s souls. the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. to my republican enclosings
crisis, he wrote it on december 23, 1776. and george washington and other founders have credited thomas payne among others but payne in particular. we re giving the intellectual and the patriotic founding for our movement for independence. here s what he said in part. these are the times that try men s souls. summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. he that stand bias it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. yet we have this consolation with us, that the heart of the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. it is dearness only that gives everything its value. heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods and it would be strange indeed if