Multiple sources are reporting that GOP representatives are complaining that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not holding herself to the same security screenings that new rules hold other House Representatives to.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/537626-gop-lawmakers-call-for-pelosi-to-be-fined-over-new-screenings
If the rule applies to all Representatives--as it should--then Speaker Pelosi should comply with security screenings.
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse faces censure--or, more accurately threat of censure--for daring to criticize Donald Trump.
One of the commenters at the Fox News website wrote that Sasse has an obligation to "represent his voters," the implication that Sasse is obligated to do whatever the majority of people who voted for him want him to do, regardless of whether or not those voters are basing their desires on fears, actual knowledge, mistaken herd belief, or the evidence-free words of a cult figure like Trump.
Is that true? Is that what "leadership" looks like, or should look like?
Sen. Mitt Romney, in contrast with myth-panderer Josh Hawley, dared to counter-suggest that those working for the people tell the people the truth. The election was neither rigged, nor stolen. Judges agree--including Trump appointees. Recounts confirm--many conducted by GOP governments. Sure, there were probably a dozen cheaters here, and a few more there, and yet another small group way over there. But no fraud existed in sufficient numbers to change the outcome of the election. Former AG Bill Barr agreed.
When I was a little kid, I believed that there were monsters under my bed and in my closet. My dad came in, and not only showed me that the areas were clear of monsters, but--because I had a nagging fear that my eyes could not ameliorate--stayed with me and slept in my bed for a few hours. I can't remember how I overcame the fear, but it evaporated. I know now that it was a baseless fear. My dad certainly didn't pander to my fear just because I believed it. In gently disagreeing with me, and guiding me, my father gave me a greater sense of safety because at my core I knew that he was being truthful with me. He put in the work to comfort me in a principled, enduring way.
Sasse can best lead his fearful constituents by shining the light into dark spaces, moving along, and staying with them. He can guide his constituents out of the thrall of Trump, and back into a light-filled world in which we argue principles, such as spending priorities and roles of government, instead of ignorant fictions like "rigged, stolen election."
