Michael Hume

There is a reason dishonest hack Josh Gerstein did not include WH Counsel Will Scharf's full comments about the founders. Instead, Gerstein went for a pathetic dunk in a lame attempt to score political points with incoming House Democrat leadership. Take off the jersey, Josh. There is a world of difference between what Scharf actually said and what Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia said about being motivated by "gay" "pettiness." Here's the full clip and transcript from Scharf: "It brings home that, you know, we, we do lionize our founders, we should. They were truly great men, and we live in their shadow, but they were still men. The thing I like the most about, you know, Brookhiser’s Gouverneur Morris biography is it really personalizes him. I mean, Gouverneur Morris, incredible attorney, incredible American patriot, an early abolitionist, I mean, just a really great man, also a famed womanizer who was proud of the story, probably apocryphal, circulated about him, that he wore a peg leg because he had mangled his leg jumping out of one of his paramour’s windows late at night. I think it was actually a carriage accident, but the fact that Gouverneur Morris was sort of amused by this and let it sort of stand out there tells you about the, the, you know, what a character he was. You read Madison’s notes on the federal convention, these were brilliant, brilliant people, but there’s also just a degree of, of sort of pettiness and interpersonal dynamics that comes through as well.Luther Martin of Maryland, who is on the wrong side of just about everything historically, was a noted anti-federalist, but was considered one of the truly great attorneys of the early republic. You know, Luther Martin argues the Maryland side in McCulloch v. Maryland, he defends Aaron Burr at his treason trial, defends Samuel Chase at his impeachment trial, which is one of the most interesting moments in early American history to me. Luther Martin at one point stands up and gives, I think, like an eight-hour speech at the federal convention, and Madison records it in basically a paragraph and a half. It’s like, at this point, Luther Martin stood up in discourse at some length, and nobody listened to him, which I’m guessing is not what actually happened.But these were two men who were clearly on opposite sides of things and, and didn’t have much, much of that personal rapport, you know, between them.But it really just brings home that, you know, the political fights that we have today, the nature of government today, you know, things can seem, you know, very hostile, very difficult. But we’ve lived through times like that in American history before, and that was certainly the case in the founding era."