Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, speaks during the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Capitol Building in Washington DC, December 4, 2019. (Forest Service photo by Tanya Flores)
Media driven ceremonies usually are centered on big, happy legislation.
And yes, with many pens, as Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ. (A smiling Pelosi passed out golden taxpayer-funded pens as souvenirs.)
Lyndon B. Johnson liked clutching bunches of them in his thick, meaty fist and handing them out personally.
But the impeachment of a president is a grave and unhappy event. It’s not celebratory. Enacting triumphalism was shallow and looked like a tell.
Why pens, why not a scalp?
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