December 19, 2013
When Pericles spoke people said “How well he speaks”.
When Demosthenes spoke people said
“LET US MARCH”

A short History of Rhetoric – not Sophistry - as political speech is enclosed.

Free men speak with free tongues.
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
We few, we happy few…
Give me liberty or give me death.
Congress shall make no law…
Four score and seven years ago…
Never has so much been owed by so many to so few.
A date that will live in infamy.
We will pay any price, bear any burden…
The eagle has landed.
Tear down this Wall.

25 centuries. Inspire. Arouse. Agitate. It is true that Ideas Have Consequence but someone must give voice to them. “God wills it” and “I will not recant” turned the Western world upside down.

Comes now Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, nee D’Alessandro of the odiously corrupt Baltimore D’Alessandro’s, and former Speaker of the House

Whatever else she may be there are 2 undeniable facts:

For 2 years she was 2 steps away from being President of the United States and she is the poster girl for septuagenarian shrews. We outlawed Bills of Attainder in 1789. If we hadn’t her father would be disinterred every year for a flogging to atone for a civic corruption so foul its stench covers 2 centuries. She would have an afternoon of the strapado prior to having a scarlet C branded on her forehead. She would then be sent to a French Knocking Shoppe run by Somali pirates.

“Embrace the suck”

She chose those words to rally support for an unpopular budget bill. In a building where giants have thundered, in a building where free people have governed themselves successfully for 2 centuries, our political language and its supporting culture have descended to the obscene.

She is this year’s example of a “Trousered Ape”.

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