Stay home, Dems, and count your losses
The scores of Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Trump's inauguration must be wondering how, despite their valiant snobbery, Donald Trump became President Trump anyway.
Did these lawmakers not realize that, though they may ignore him, nothing they pass in Congress can become law without Trump's signature? These legislators may as well boycott the Capitol, since that is where the sausage is made. Stuffing sausages must surely be an unpleasant undertaking for anyone who cannot bear to see, hear, or speak evil - let alone watch Trump take the oath of office.
Let's hope that these lawmakers - among them Illinois' Gutierrez, Quigley and Lipinski - decide to stay home till next Christmas, to rest their sensibilities from all the sniveling of the past week. They could use the time to commiserate with their favorite constituents, those infamous "snowflakes" wrapped (as Churchill would say) in buttercups inside a Victorian lady's vapors.
Or they could join yet another protest march, following Barack Obama as he pulls his red wagon toward the sunset. In the wagon: a Chelsea Manning doll (G.I. Joe dressed as Barbie); expired placebos and an overhyped panacea from ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges; sand from the Syrian desert, its red line barely noticeable against the wagon's paint; and, blowing invisibly in the wind, ten trillion vanished U.S. dollars, the sum total of Obama's fiscal accomplishment - debt.
Stay home, Democrats. Count the number of legislative and executive seats your party has lost since 2008 (upward of 1,100). Console yourselves with how many bureaucrats and leftist judges Obama has installed in government (multiple thousands). Binge-watch Meryl Streep's cinematic oeuvre. The media remains full of alarmists and apologists. There is no God, and Trump does not exist. Lock the door after you. And please, please don't follow anyone on Twitter.
Alexander Lee
West Chicago