Partisanship Runs Amok in the House

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.      

The U.S. House of Representatives has become of late a ghost house. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled out its reconvening on the grounds that the so-called COVID-19 pandemic has made doing so unsafe. This arrangement allows her effectively to dictate legislation, rather than allow the Congress as a whole to participate.

Another consequence has been to prevent opportunities for needed bipartisanship in response to the threats posed to our nation by the Chinese Communist Party. That effect was on display when House Republicans tried to forge a task force on China with their Democratic counterparts, only to be rebuffed.

Apparently, Speaker Pelosi and her caucus are determined to do nothing that would advance the country’s interests if it might reflect well on President Trump. Such virulent partisanship is always reprehensible. But it is unacceptable in time of war – like now.

This is Frank Gaffney.