Some guy on Facebook who calls me “Davey” gave me hell last week.
It was over a column I wrote about “the vociferous minority” that cussed at Rep. Harriet Hageman and gave her the finger at a town hall meeting in Laramie.
(Hey, even my parents didn't call me Davey.)
And another guy on Facebook had a bone to pick over my mere mention of our $36 trillion national debt. He called me Davey too.
Worse, he called President Trump my “cuddle buddy.”
Most hurtful was a woman who wrote this:
“I feel like this man belongs in this group – Dull Men's and Women's Group. He's so boring he's mad at the world for not being as interesting as dry chicken. Hope that helps. Have a day.”
(Ouch. Now that's gonna leave a bruise.)
Back to the first guy who took me to task. He wrote this:
“Aww, poor Davey. You were silent on the violent J6 crowd, but this ruffles your partisan feathers. Your hypocrisy is ridiculous.”
Silent?
I looked up the column I wrote for Cowboy State Daily on Jan. 20, 2021, headlined, “Still think 2021 will be better?” Turns out I wasn't silent about January 6th at all.
“How much damage can hordes of rioters swarming into the U.S. Capitol cause?” I asked in the lead sentence. “Untold damage. Damage that will last for years.
“And the damage of lending a full head steam to the liberals who will soon be in control of both houses of Congress and the White House. We sure didn't need this.”
I was right about that. The lead story in the Wall Street Journal the day after the riot wasn't the two Senate seats won by Democrats in a special election a day earlier in Georgia. That story was below the fold.
On top of the page was a story depicting rioters running through the halls of Congress, causing the loss of five lives (see below), taking pictures of themselves acting like fools in the presiding officer's chair in the Senate and at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk, trashing offices, attacking Capitol police, and dishonoring the tens of millions of voters who supported Donald Trump.
The number of deaths was inaccurate in some media reports. While we were told five people died as a result of the riot, it turned out only one person died, Ashli Babbitt. She was a demonstrator (and veteran) shot by a Capitol Police officer as she came through a window. Other deaths attributed to the rioting were police officers, one who died the next day from an unrelated medical condition, and several who took their own lives in coming days.
I was flat wrong that Donald Trump's political career could never survive the Capitol rioting, even though he called for supporters to go to the Capitol and demonstrate “peacefully.” I didn't foresee the total mess Joe Biden would make of his presidency, and how the American people would welcome Trump back in 2024.
I was correct in writing this about the Capitol riot: “What a gift to the liberals. All summer we heard that, no matter how much mayhem we witnessed, the mobs in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington and Kenosha were 'largely peaceful demonstrations.' The benefit of the doubt, in our vastly-liberal media, was bestowed on gatherings in which people died, buildings were torched, cars were burned, businesses were looted, and police officers were attacked with rocks, frozen water bottles, and industrial-grade fireworks.
“And yet, have you heard the media describe the vast majority of those on hand to support Trump last week described as peaceful demonstrators? I haven't.”
Far from remaining silent on January 6th, I finished the column with this:
“Terrible damage was done to the interests of those who simply want a less-intrusive government, less debt, fewer regulations, reasonable taxes, and a country our kids can grow up in that bears any resemblance at all to the country we inherited.”
The good news in all this?
While the vociferous minority gave Harriet Hageman hell in recent town hall meetings, the American voters put Trump back in the White House, the border has already been secured, massive waste is being exposed and cut, and there's a new sheriff in town named Donald Trump.
I rest my case, Your Honor.
