I Beg Your Pardon?

James Clyburn has to go.

 

Yes, he's a veteran of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, he's been a capable legislator in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he's been Joe Biden's right-hand man, as well as one of Nancy Pelosi's top lieutenants, but with Biden on his way out and Pelosi no longer Speaker or House Democratic leader (aside: best wishes to Nancy Pelosi for a speedy recovery from her fall), the days of Clyburn's own political relevance are numbered, and the number is very low.  It wouldn't be as low as it is but for all of the trouble he's caused.

What trouble?  Well, when Clyburn backed President Biden's bid for re-election even when more and more Democrats called for Biden to withdraw from the 2024 campaign, he added that it was only logical that Kamala Harris become the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee because there was no way that Democrats could deny the nomination to the highest-ranking black woman in the federal government and insult black women, the most loyal base of the Democratic Party, and that she should be not only the first choice to replace Biden but the only choice.

Yeah, that worked out just fine.  

But it gets worse.  Now that Harris is a hasbeen (see my blog entry on that here),  Clyburn has suggested that, to clear the air after a toxic presidential campaign and eight years of tumult, perhaps President Biden should pardon Trump.

Pardon Trump?  Pardon me???

This is what happens when a member of the gerontocracy that runs the Democratic Party skips his meds for a day.

At least Biden is stepping down.  Why are Clyburn and Pelosi still in Congress?