UNCLE JOE BIDEN HIS TIME
The latest CNN polling data indicates that just five days after his formal announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a commanding lead on his opposition. According to the latest data, Biden enjoys a 39% to 15% lead over his nearest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The next nearest rivals don’t even break into double digits, with Senator Elizabeth Warren polling at 8%, Mayor Pete Buttigieg 7%, Beto O’Rourke of Texas 6% and Senator Kamala Harris of California 5%. The rest of the field of twenty, the same size as the number of thoroughbreds who will be running in the Kentucky Derby in my hometown of Louisville this weekend, don’t even register numbers worth showing. Prior to his announcement, Biden’s lead over Sanders was 28% to 19%, so his active involvement has given him a significant bump in the polls. It has been my contention all along that Joe Biden offers the Democrats the best opportunity to oust the buffoon currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in November of 2020. Biden isn’t afraid to confront the lies, misinformation and bullying tactics Trump employs against his opponents, and CROOKED DONALD actually appears to understand this. He is already crying about the press making Biden the front runner in the field, a sure sign he is nervous about Biden being his opponent. Biden has the experience and wherewithal to navigate the political minefield that the upcoming primary process will undoubtedly reveal to all concerned, and is conservative enough in his ideology as to not scare off the moderate voters in either party who are looking for a return to the normalcy of a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people as opposed to of Trump, by Trump and for Trump that we have witnessed over the last two and a half years. The problem with the other contenders is that they are too far left of our political center. While Warren, Buttigieg and Harris all have presented meaningful policy positions on key issues like health care, education and gun regulation that could be incorporated into the eventual Democratic platform, they are viewed as too far left of center to be electable. Bernie Sanders is in essence a Socialist (the REPUBLIKANS would have a field day with him!!) and nobody knows what Beto stands for, including him. I honestly don’t believe ANY of these other candidates are viable to mainstream America, though any one of them, especially one of the women contenders, would make an excellent choice of a running mate for Joe Biden come summer of 2020. Trump is going to get his 35% base to support him no matter what he says or does as has been proven over the last couple of years. The key to the Democrats defeating him will be to appeal to those voters who voted for him in 2016 but have absolutely no desire to do so in 2020, and a centrist like Joe Biden can attract this group, as well as the mainstream of the Democratic Party. The real challenge for Biden will be to bring those on the far left of the party back into the fold while maintaining his grip on the center. This will not be easy given the current mood of a number of progressive Democrats, like those House freshmen we keep hearing too much about. At any rate, the entire process is way out of control. We are still over a year and a half away from the next election, and yet the candidates and media all behave as if the election were being held tomorrow. As we have seen in the last two plus years, a lot can happen between now and then. Trump could be found guilty of any one of a number of financial misdeeds or criminal acts between now and then, and it’s still not too late to talk about his impeachment, although it appears Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi either don’t have the stomach for it or view it as a political misstep, both positions which I reject. Trump was NOT vindicated by the Mueller report, and there are a number of ongoing financial investigations which could reveal far more damaging information to his presidency. I’m talking about his tax returns, the Deutsche Bank loans, the Trump Foundation, the Trump Inauguration Committee etc. We haven’t heard the last on ANY of these issues, despite the fact that CROOKED DONALD and his sycophants like Attorney General William (DIS)Barr, Treasury Secretary Steve (the Munchkin) Mnuchin and Senator Lindsey Graham(CRACKER) are all doing their best to make these serious allegations disappear. I believe the Democratic House will have a say in these matters as will the courts eventually. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and there is way too much smoke and way too much resistance to reveal for their NOT to be something amiss. You can take that to the (Deutsche) bank!!!! So hang on to your hats, folks, it’s going to be a long ride between now and November of 2020. As we have seen with the previous Presidential election, ANYTHING can happen, including the election of the most crooked and incompetent individual to EVER hold the office. In the meanwhile, my money is on Uncle Joe. I think he offers the country the best opportunity to rid ourselves of the current occupant of the Oval Office and return us to some degree of normalcy. His record speaks for itself, as does Trump’s. For any REAL American, the choice is a no brainer.
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WEEKEND ROAD TRIP TO ATLANTA- SNAPSHOT OF AMERICA! My wife and I took off on Thursday to visit with my daughter and her new husband in Atlanta for a few days as we hadn’t seen them since Christmas. My wife loves traveling, and in the car she wants to stop and visit every tourist attraction, roadside fruit stand or point of interest along the way. I on the other hand, traveled for over forty years in my career in sales, and as far as I’m concerned there are only two objectives involved in traveling-getting there and back as quickly and safely as possible. When you’ve seen one hotel room or bar or restaurant you’ve pretty much seen them all-it’s only a matter of degrees. At any rate, there were so many interesting observations I made in the three days we were there and the interstate travel that I thought I would share them. It turns out my weekend was a microcosm of life today in these United States, diverse, eventful and full of twists and turns. Atlanta is huge. The metropolitan area now numbers nearly six million people, making it the ninth largest metropolitan area in the nation. It encompasses approximately 134 square miles spread out over several counties now. The population is incredibly diversified with people of every nationality and ethnic group imaginable calling it home. “Wikipedia” provided the following brief summary. Atlanta is rated as a "beta(+)" world city that exerts a moderate impact on global commerce, finance, research, technology, education, media, art, and entertainment.[20] It ranks in the top twenty among world cities and 10th in the nation with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $385 billion.[21][22] Atlanta's economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include transportation, logistics, professional and business services, media operations, medical services, and information technology.[23] Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage, earning it the nickname of "the city in a forest. Revitalization of Atlanta's neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Summer Olympics, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the city's demographics, politics, aesthetics, and culture. I’d like to add a personal note here regarding Atlanta drivers-they are all INSANE!!!! If you drive eighty you’ll get run over, and lane changing maneuvers that would make any NASCAR driver proud are routine. Horn honking, tailgating (the automotive kind) and fast cars like Mercedes and BMW’s rule the roadways. I couldn’t do it myself if I had to live there!!! My daughter and her husband, an Indian immigrant who has been in the United States for approximately ten years including his college education, live in what is called Mid Town. They are near the sprawling campus of Georgia Tech, and not far from the magnificent Frederick Olmstead creation of Piedmont Park. It is a business hub, with NCR, Coca Cola and Bank of America having corporate offices located nearby. There are abundant shops and restaurants within easy walking distance of their condominium, which affords a beautiful view. These are Millennial, my daughter and her husband, and they relish the fast paced life of living right in town. Their generation has seen enough of the suburbs and the pasteurized and genteel lifestyle it has afforded their parents for several generations. They want action! My son in law is an electrical engineer and program manager for Panasonic, located in Peachtree City, a forty minute or so commute for him each way. He lived there when he first moved to Atlanta, but soon discovered a community that features more golf carts than hot cars was probably NOT the place he wanted to live. My daughter works at Drew Charter School, one of the most successful charter schools in the country and a driving force behind the incredible transformation of East Lake where it is located. Her commute is roughly only fifteen minutes from Mid Town. On Friday we visited the Coca Cola Museum. I was astounded that so much history and notoriety could be associated with a soft drink, and it is definitely an Atlanta landmark worth visiting once. That night I feasted on southern fried chicken, biscuits and greens over a couple of glasses of Woodford Reserve on the rocks, in honor of course, of my old Kentucky home and Derby week, which is now upon us. On Saturday we visited a farmers market and walked around Piedmont Park, a truly remarkable place located right in the heart of Mid Town. I have a nephew who has lived in Atlanta for a number of years, and his wedding was held in the park. We stopped to have brunch on the way back to their condo at a fashionable hotel featuring sidewalk dining. On Saturday night they indulged me and we went to Sun Trust Park to watch the Braves play baseball. The park and its amenities are truly exceptional, the same of which could not be said of the Braves, who choked away a 5-2 lead and lost to the Colorado Rockies 9-5. Atlanta sports a major league soccer team, Atlanta United; an NBA franchise in the Atlanta Hawks and of course the NFL Atlanta Falcons. They have Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Kennesaw State and of course the alumni of the University of Georgia to support on a collegiate level. Upon leaving the Braves game, one of the real issues with living in Atlanta reared its ugly head-it took us nearly an hour to get out of the parking garage as a result of the traffic. As I was laying in bed that night, around 3:30 in the morning, another one of the problems that big city living exposes occurred at a gas station directly across the street. I heard either 5 or 6 distinct pops, and it turned out that an apparent robbery gone wrong in the parking lot resulted in the shooting death of one of the perpetrators. Within minutes, dozens of first responders were on the scene. It looked like the all too familiar sight we’ve grown use to seeing involving mass shootings, but in this case it only involved one individual who actually died. I stood at the window on the eighteenth floor and watched the whole scene unfold. It was pretty disconcerting to realize that directly across from my daughter’s residence a man had just lost his life to gun violence. On Sunday, we said our good byes and headed out to return to Louisville. The trip involves I-75 to Chattanooga, I-24 to Nashville and I-65 to Louisville. Although I saw a number of Georgia State Patrol vehicles coming north, I never ONCE saw a Tennessee or Kentucky State trooper. Not one. And the Nashville area drivers don’t take a back seat to those in Atlanta, believe you me!! In Kentucky, 80 MPH plus was the base line, with a number of vehicles passing at speeds well over 90 MPH. Somehow or another it always seems the most aggressive drivers on the road always have either Michigan or Illinois license plates. (I guess that they figure they are entitled simply by virtue of the fact they have survived living in those frozen wastelands for so long!!). We saw Confederate flags flying in Tennessee and ate Zaxby’s chicken sandwiches and gassed up at a Walmart outside of Nashville. Then within twenty or so miles of Louisville, disaster struck. Several serious accidents (gee, I wonder why?!?) on I-65 northbound had traffic at a standstill for miles. Our WAZE program directed us to take an alternate route, but so did hundreds of others. After sitting in a long line of traffic for about thirty minutes or so, we finally cleared through the small town of Shepherdsville and it’s two traffic lights that had traffic backed up and were on our way again, arriving home after approximately 7 ½ hours on the road. I drove the entire way both down and back, because my wife has recently had eye surgery and also is in charge of our mighty Chihuahua Minnie, who sleeps ninety per cent of the time in the car. The fifteen hours or so behind the wheel was enough to last me for a while. Anyway, it was an interesting weekend, full of ups and downs and the joy of family. My son in law’s parents are coming from India for a visit in a couple of weeks, and I’m sure they will feel right at home in the big city.T heir hometown of Bangalore in southern India has a population of nearly eight million people! Me, I’m more of a suburban kind of guy, and for that, I issue no apologies. I’d rather listen to a lonesome train whistle in the middle of the night than car horns and gun shots and singing fraternity brothers at 3:30 in the morning!!! But then again I’m a Baby Boomer. Enough said. Hats off to those adventuresome young people who are making our cities like Atlanta vibrant and habitable once again. It’s a good thing and the diversity of the city is something that the people who are calling for closing our borders should experience for themselves instead of watching phantom caravans on FAUX NEWS!!!! Are you listening Stephen Miller?!? DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED HOUSE OR SPINELESS MAJORITY?!?
If I hear one more Democratic House or Senate member urging caution in undertaking impeachment proceeding against Trump I think I’ll puke, and that includes Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. The evidence of obstruction of justice by Trump in attempting to cover up his numerous abuses of power since becoming President laid out in the Mueller report provide MORE than sufficient grounds for beginning such proceedings in the House of Representatives, which I might remind the Democrats they now CONTROL! Do they believe for one minute that the Senate REPUBLIKANS would hesitate to pull the trigger on any of their political or ideological agendas, like changing Senate rules to allow a simple majority to confirm all of the conservative and right wing judiciary appointees which McConnell recently orchestrated? Even if the Senate were to fail to impeach on a motion from the House, all of its REPUBLIKAN members would then be on record as having voted to retain the most corrupt and incompetent President our nation has EVER suffered, and this in turn could be used as ammunition against them in 2020. I just heard one of the so called political pundits say that most Americans are not interested in the Mueller report or impeachment proceedings. I beg to differ. I believe the American people are fed up with Donald Trump and all of the drama surrounding his catastrophic term in office, from his failure to build his wall, his failure to bring immigration under control, his tax cut for the rich and corporate America, his failed foreign policy incentives and his corrupt and incompetent “CABINET OF CLOWNS”. They are sick and tired of watching Trump’s $1000.00/hr legal team, buffoons like Jay SUCKALOT and RUNAWAY BEER TRUCK Rudy Guiliani and others tell us how innocent he is when he himself decried “how FUC*ED he was" when learning Mueller had been appointed to investigate him and his campaign. They are sick and tired of sycophants like “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders and Kellyanne “C” WORD standing in front of America and the world telling one lie after another. In short, I believe the American people, save those 35% or so who for reasons completely unknown, still support the man DESPITE all of the above, would stand behind beginning impeachment proceedings against this “cancer on the Presidency”, words used by Kellyanne’s very own husband to describe her boss. Why then the hesitation by the Democratic leadership to undertake this action? Could it be that they are putting so much energy into finding a candidate who can defeat Trump in 2020 they are overlooking their Constitutional duty as the sole remaining check against Trump’s abuses of power, like the recent appointment and subsequent behavior of Attorney General William Barr in supporting Trump and defending him instead of acting like the impartial chief law enforcement officer of the land?!? If so, I say they are no better than the cowardly REPUBLIKANS like McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham “CRACKER” and Devin Nunes who have either actively supported the corruption or stood by doing nothing while Trump not only usurped their power but trashed Constitutional norms in the process. I certainly hope this is not the case. I totally support Tom Steyer’s agenda which has been calling for impeachment for months now. He’s right-the information which would be revealed during such proceedings would undoubtedly open the eyes of many people who still believe that Donald Trump is fit to be POTUS, which he is not. The REPUBLIKANS impeached Bill Clinton for far less. They didn’t hesitate for a second, knowing that even though there was little chance that the Senate would confirm impeachment, they knew that dragging him through the mud would pay political dividends, which it did. Clinton’s ability to lead was never the same after that. So let’s put away our chicken little outfits and put on our big boy pants, Democrats in the House!! The time has come to show the country what REAL leadership looks like, not the pathetic excuse of a President we have now. As one of the junior members said upon her election to the House “let’s go impeach the motherfuc*er!!!” I concur. Now is the time for men and women to stand up for their country instead of themselves. Our great nation WILL NOT survive another five plus years of Donald Trump and his henchmen. It can’t. TIME TO DITCH “RICH” MITCH VOLUME III
I first wrote these posts over a year ago, before the mid term elections. Now that those are behind us, and as we approach the 2020 election cycle, it’s time to revisit the subject of Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority leader from Kentucky, my home state. As we have seen in the time since these posts were written, McConnell has done further damage to our democratic process by a number of his actions, or lack thereof. He has once again stood by on the sidelines while Donald Trump has run roughshod over Constitutional norms and been implicated in obstruction of justice charges by the Mueller Report; McConnell recently invoked the so called “nuclear option” in the Senate in order to get his right wing conservative judges confirmed in the Senate, and will undoubtedly play a key role in blocking any attempt to impeach Trump. He also just recently announced his reelection campaign, which is why I am reposting these pieces. The NUMBER ONE priority of the national Democratic Party, aside from defeating Trump, should be to put “RICH” Mitch on the sidelines by either flipping the Senate or by defeating McConnell in 2020. In order to do so, they are going to have to step up their game considerably. It will be very difficult to defeat McConnell in a state so red it looks like Tiger’s golf shirt on Sunday, especially with all of the huge corporate donations he has pouring into his vault as a result of the preferential treatment he has afforded such special interest groups as the NRA and the coal industry. The Democrats need to put forth a SERIOUS challenger to his Senate seat, not Allison Lundergran Grimes who he crushed by over 15% points in 2014. I have suggested that perhaps John Yarmouth would be the ideal opponent, but with Democrats now in the majority in the House and Yarmouth chairing the key House Budget Committee, it is highly unlikely he would run against McConnell. However, we should also note that McConnell is extremely unpopular in his home city, hardly able to go out for dinner on Saturday night without being confronted or heckled by the political opposition. I believe he is vulnerable in the big cities of Louisville and Lexington, and the Democrats should consider this when deciding on a potential opponent to him in next year’s election. The Kentucky Democratic Party has taken a serious whuppin over the last number of years, ceding control of the Governor’s mansion as well as both Houses of the legislature to the REPUBLIKANS, led by “RICH” Mitch. It’s time to change the course of history and return him to the private sector. His shelf life has expired. RICH McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Friend of Bankers, Big Business and the 1% There is a single individual in the United States Congress who has done more damage to this country than Donald Trump could ever hope to, and he is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Aside from the fact that he has stood by silently time after time while Trump has disparaged one group after another from Blacks, Hispanics, Haitians and Africans among others, touted racist demonstrators in Charlottesville, VA as fine people, he has failed to deliver on any number of Republikan campaign promises such as the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. He has brokered the worst tax reform bill ever, one that effectively will raise taxes for the middle class while giving huge tax breaks to corporate Amerika, and now brags about how he and his party are going to “sell it to the American people” like it’s a good deal for us. The numbers suggest otherwise. McConnell, as Senate Minority Leader during the previous administration, made it his stated goal to limit President Obama’s time in office to one term-he failed. He made it his stated goal to never bring Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland up for a vote in the Senate, and succeeded. He then, thru parliamentary procedural maneuvering, insured the confirmation of Trump conservative nominee Neil Gorsuch, defying forty years of tradition and abusing the forefathers’ intended confirmation procedure called “advise and consent” to satisfy his parties political agenda. He was almost single handedly responsible for the passage of legislation which effectively ended the limits on political contributions from individuals and corporations, thereby allowing individuals like the Koch brothers to pour 700 million dollars into our last election to sway the vote to their right wing, pro business conservative agenda, to say nothing of the huge $ amounts funneled into party coffers by the Oil & Gas industry, the Pharmaceutical industry, the Banking Industry and Wall Street firms which are then utilized to pass legislation designed to increase their profits at the expense of the very workers who keep their companies running. It is a never ending cycle. The only solution to solving these issues and restoring our Congress back to the people who these politicians are supposed to represent is to sweep the floor clean of all of them! Guys like Mitch (Rich) McConnell, who have been around so long because the Democratic party can’t find a suitable candidate to oppose him thereby insuring this wimpish kid from the south end of town another six years in office. I am optimistic that come November, the grass roots movement to clean house of these Republican stooges will succeed and return Mitch back to the role he so “richly” deserves-Minority Leader. In the meanwhile, watch your backs when these guys start looking to cut our so called “entitlements” as a way of paying for the huge corporate tax cuts-Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. “RICH” MITCH McCONNELL-DESTROYER OF DEMOCRACY The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell of my home state of Kentucky finally spoke out AGAINST something CROOKED DONALD did-his absurd tariffs imposed on Europe, Canada and Mexico to protect the less than 150,000 employed in the steel and aluminum industries. These countries have retaliated against home grown products like bourbon, soybeans and other farm products by imposing their own tariffs, which would obviously be detrimental to the Commonwealth’s economy. This in turn, would be detrimental to his reelection bid scheduled for 2020. That is ALL he cares about! I was reading the other day McConnell is about to become the longest tenured Majority leader in Senate history-that fact alone should tell us all we need to know about the current and recent past history of Congress and its composition. That a totally inconspicuous bookish looking former county executive from Louisville, KY could become the most powerful politician in Washington is almost inconceivable to a guy who grew up in his home town. It is more inconceivable that he has been more responsible for the political nightmare we find ourselves in at present than ANY other individual in the past decade, Presidents included. His actions and those of his REPUBLIKAN cronies in changing campaign finance regulations, obstructing the entire agenda of Barrack Obama for eight years with the glaring exception of the passage of “Obamacare”, and in judicial appointments of right wing conservative judges who will carry out their agenda, including his unprecedented blocking of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee in order to get Neil Gorsuch appointed by President elect Trump instead have completely changed the entire political landscape in America, and I think everyone can judge for themselves the results based upon the current abysmal state of politics in our country. He has stood idly by while Trump has waged war on the poor and needy, stood by while members of CROOKED DONALD’S cabinet have continuously abused their positions with lavish and outrageous expenditures at taxpayer expense, championed the biggest tax fraud EVER perpetrated upon the American public, said nothing about the ongoing investigation into Trump and Russian collusion in the 2016 election and the subsequent cover up. He falsely claims that the “war on coal” and the loss of jobs for thousands of miners were the result of Obama’s policies when in fact it was pure economics that have destroyed coal as a viable energy source (unless you’re Donald Trump, who still champions the cause and gives false hope to those who should be retraining for another occupation instead of believing their old mining jobs will ever come back). He has sold his political influence to whatever corporate bidder is willing to add to the party coffers, including the NRA. But the one time he speaks out is when the actions of POTUS directly threaten his dream of serving for another six years beyond 2020. He could care less about the jobs Kentucky stands to lose if Trump moves forward with these tariffs (that policy changes day to day, so stay tuned!), just the fact that it could cost him votes down the road. The sad fact of life is that the Democratic Party has only ONE true candidate who stands ANY chance of retiring McConnell in 2020, and that is Congressman John Yarmouth. He is a liberal from Louisville who is independently wealthy and therefore cannot be bought and sold like “RICH” Mitch and has a strong Congressional record of achievement. He has never indicated a willingness to go head to head with McConnell, but this might be the opportunity he has been waiting for. Otherwise, the only Democratic candidate who has announced plans to run against him is a Lexington sportscaster with absolutely NO chance of winning an election against McConnell. I hope that the Democrats can mount a strong campaign in the fall and take back the House of Representatives. It is doubtful they can regain a majority in the Senate in the mid term elections, but a Democratic House would certainly act as an additional check and balance mechanism against the actions of the REPUBLIKAN party, “RICH” Mitch McConnell and CROOKED DONALD, for as long as he lasts after the impeachment proceedings commence. Too bad we can’t impeach McConnell-his leadership in the Senate has been an absolute travesty for middle class Americans. His deliberate actions to sway the political balance of power in favor of his corporate donors and those of the wealthiest Americans have helped create the biggest income gap in history, and it will only get worse the longer this insidious campaign is allowed to continue. BREAKING NEWS: SARAH “HUCKLEBERRY” SANDERS IS A LIAR!!!
One of the interesting little tidbits gleaned from the Mueller Report which was released yesterday involved White House Press Secretary Sarah “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders testimony while under oath that she had in fact lied in a press briefing regarding the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Here is what is reported today in “USA TODAY”. Take, for instance, the afternoon of May 10, 2017, when White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters that former FBI Director James Comey had been fired because he’d lost the confidence of President Trump, the Department of Justice and members of both parties in Congress. And, for good measure: “Most importantly, the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in Comey.” Sanders went on to say that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had decided “on his own” to examine Comey’s performance and then expressed his concerns to Trump about them on May 8. A reporter challenged Sanders, saying Comey, in fact, had enjoyed support from the vast majority of FBI agents. “Look,” Sanders chided the reporter, “we’ve heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things." But it was Sanders who said very different things when questioned by Mueller’s investigators about her comment. “Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from ‘countless members of the FBI’ was a ‘slip of the tongue,’” according to the report. “She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made 'in the heat of the moment' that was not founded on anything.” Hours after the report was released, Sanders appeared on Fox News but did not apologize, explaining that she merely misspoke when she used the word "countless." "I acknowledge that I had a slip of the tongue when I used the word 'countless,' but it's not untrue," she said, adding that her point at the time was that "a number of both current and former FBI agents agreed with the president. James Comey was a disgraced leaker who tried to politicize and undermine the very agency he was supposed to run." I have never liked Sarah Sanders, from the very first time I laid eyes on her. She looks like a biblical harlot with the excess of make up and her horrific hair style. After listening to her condescending and confrontational press briefings, it became readily apparent she was nothing more than another Trump sycophant who would tell any lie, put out any misinformation and generate REAL fake news in order to protect Donald Trump. I realize, especially after watching seven seasons of “THE WEST WING” that a big part of the job of Press Secretary is to protect the President and occasionally in the process in the past the truth got a little distorted. But in Sander’s case, there’s no such thing as the truth. Everything is contrived and she has been lying to the press and American people since her first day on the job!!! It’s ironic too that she claims to be a Christian like her father Mike Huckabee, another absolute piece of work (anybody remember him holding up Rowan County Kentucky Court Clerk Kim Davis’s hand in triumph on national television after she had denied a marriage certificate to a gay couple?) who is also a fraud. How can ANYBODY claim to be a Christian like her and stand in front of millions of people day after day, week after week and month after month lying in support of a man with absolutely NO MORAL COMPASS, who lies, cheats, steals and commits adultery with playmates and porn stars?!? Somebody needs to explain to me what teachings of Christianity this behavior exemplifies. The Mueller Report reveals much about how this White House operates, through lies, manipulation, misinformation and intimidation. Those who don’t tow the line are eventually shown the door, usually fired via Twitter. Those who do stay on, individuals like Sarah “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders, Kellyanne “C” WORD Conway, Betsy “CRUELLA” DeVos and Rudy “RUNAWAY BEER TRUCK” Guiliani are as crooked as Trump himself. To see Guiliani on CNN last night and listen to Conway on the White House lawn condemning those in law enforcement and the DOJ and crowing about the total exoneration of Trump was truly pathetic. Although Mueller states he couldn’t find any evidence of a criminal conspiracy to collude with the Russians, it’s very obvious his campaign did just that. Nobody in the Trump orbit or the REPUBLIKAN Congress seems a bit concerned about the fact that the Russians interfered in our democratic process and are still doing so today!!! And Mueller basically left the door wide open for Congress to exercise its Constitutional obligations by dealing with the obstruction of justice allegations, of which there are no fewer than TEN mentioned in the report. After listening to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings this morning, it’s very obvious he has a little different take on the entire subject than the Attorney General of the United State of Trump, William (DIS)Barr, whose defense of him yesterday was an absolute sh*t show of the first magnitude. Let’s also not forget the ongoing investigations by the Southern District of New York and the New York Attorney General into a myriad of other allegations involving Trump’s financial dealings, his income tax returns, his inauguration committee and the influence peddling for dollars, the security clearances granted to individuals like (HE WENT TO) Jared Kushner and I(STINK)A Trump. CROOKED DONALD’S legal troubles are far from over, and the investigations which are ongoing or forthcoming will without a shadow of a doubt reveal additional abuses of power and a pattern of criminal behavior. It’s time, as Kellyanne “C” Word Conway’s husband George said yesterday “to rid our country of this cancer that is the Trump presidency”. Those who believe otherwise and continue to support him, like the REPUBLIKANS in the House and Senate will also have their day of reckoning in 2020 when the people get rid of them just like you would bedbugs, through extermination at the ballot box, starting with Trump, McConnell and McCarthy. The nation cannot stand four more or six more years of their failed leadership and partisan agendas, which favor corporate donors and the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the rest of us. Maybe “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders should seek forgiveness from another pair of religious zealots who are also complete FRAUDS, the Pence’s!!!! At the very least she should be fired or step down from her position, because if she didn’t have any credibility before she certainly doesn’t now. I say GOOD RIDDANCE!!!! WILLIAM (DIS)BARR-ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE OF TRUMP!!
We all saw this one coming during the Senate confirmation hearings, didn’t we? That William Barr, the President’s nominee to replace his out of favor Attorney General (who did PLENTY of damage on his own, BTW!) Jeff Sessions, would end up being nothing more than another member of Donald Trump’s $1000.00/hr legal defense team, which by now has to be numbered in the dozens who have come and gone. Just another lackey like Rudy “RUNAWAY BEER TRUCK” Giuliani, brought on board to lie, deceive defer and deflect while the Mueller investigation was ongoing. Barr was brought in to finish the complete hatchet job that was done to Robert Mueller and his investigators. It was Barr who decided what to tell America in his own version of events relative to Robert Mueller’s final report a couple weeks ago to begin the process of delegitimizing whatever negative information about Trump and his associates that the report contained and by redacting whatever other information he deemed might be detrimental to Trump. Then it was he who this morning held a press conference PRIOR to the release of the redacted report in order to put further spin on the report turned over to Congress which would appear favorable to the President. It was an incredible performance, to say the least. He basically acted like he was speaking on behalf of his client, who, trust me, he was. Make no mistake about that. The man who is supposed to be the top law enforcement official in our country had obviously already sold his soul to Trump, just like the rest of the sycophants he has managed to surround himself with, compliments of the REPUBLIKAN Senate and his own appointments. The earlier victory lap and proclamations of complete exoneration will be shouted from the halls of the WORST WING and the OVAL OFFICE after Barr’s presser (buffoons like KELLYANNE "C" WORD), which I’m certain made Trump proud. But what’s going to be interesting is watching the Democratic reaction to this entire fraudulent process, one that goes back over a year ago when Barr wrote an opinion questioning the very existence of the Mueller investigation. There are plenty of circumstances detailed in Mueller’s report that point to obstruction of justice by Trump either directly or through one of his stooges. Mueller left open the possibility of pursuing these circumstances more vigorously through the House of Representatives, which could initiate impeachment proceedings if their findings confirm some of the conclusions drawn in the report linking Trump to obstruction of the investigation. The argument put forth that impeachment proceedings would be a waste of time because the REPUBLIKAN majority in the Senate would never vote to impeach Trump didn’t seem to deter REPUBLIKANS when they impeached Bill Clinton!!! And the absurd premise held by the DOJ that a sitting President cannot be indicted is utterly idiotic in its very premise-that he is above the law. To state that this was the basis for a lack of an indictment against Trump by Mueller and the DOJ is a legal issue that MUST be clarified moving forward. Otherwise, another amoral or immoral occupant of the Oval office could literally get away with murder and not be charged for it while in office. No check OR balance in this legal assumption which Barr apparently leaned heavily on in his defense of his client, Donald J. Trump. Oh, I’m sorry, I meant the Attorney General. And he isn’t supposed to have any clients now, is he?!? What I also cannot believe is the complete lack of concern that the REPUBLIKANS and Trump supporters seem to have over the fact that the Russians did INDEED interfere in our democratic process in 2016 and continue to try and do so as we speak. They also seem to forget a number of close confidants to Trump have already been indicted, sentenced and sent to prison for their criminal activities, all committed on his watch. I believe the Democrats will focus in on the attempts by Trump and his associates to interfere with the investigation through coercion or other dubious methods, and in all probability issue subpoenas to see the unredacted Mueller report or to have Mueller himself testify in front of one or more Congressional oversight committees. He’s the one who conducted the investigation, not William Barr, and he is the one who can provide straight answers to some of the many questions that will come up as a result of this probe. Trump controls the justice Department now, make no mistake about that. With McConnell and his REPUBLIKAN cronies in the Senate stacking the judiciary as fast as they can with right wing conservative judges who will uphold whatever decisions or political ideology that the right and Trump administration want, the only buffer between our democracy and a complete autocracy is the Democratic House of Representatives. It is this body which will provide the final line of defense against the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history and Trump’s assault on Constitutional norms. Let’s hope they have the courage and fortitude to fulfill their Constitutional duties as a check to a President and a Department of Justice that is totally out of control. It’s the only hope we have of surviving the reign of terror that has been Donald J. Trump’s catastrophic presidency. And William Barr should be disbarred!!!! His actions over the last few weeks have not only been utterly reprehensible, they are downright frightening!!!!! Not since JFK and his brother Bobby wielded such unholy clout and used it to their political advantage as well as to cover up the scandalous affairs being carried on by both have we seen this kind of incestuous relationship between POTUS and the ATTORNEY GENERAL. It’s very dangerous to our democracy and the rule of law. TIGER MASTERS YET ANOTHER GREEN JACKET!!!
As a sports fan, watching Tiger Woods win the Masters last Sunday was without question right up there with some of my all time greatest moments in sport, like Ali-Frazier, Green Bay vs. Dallas in the Ice Bowl, Kentucky defeating Duke in ’78 for the National Championship, Reggie Jackson hitting three home runs in a single World Series game, that sort of great. Who would have EVER believed, following what we have witnessed over the last number of years of Tiger’s health issues, personal and legal issues and his abysmal attempts at a comeback a couple of years ago where he couldn’t hit a chip shot straight, that we would witness history at Augusta, the Tiger magic once again in 2019?!? Certainly not me, who was one of many who believed he was pretty much washed up, a legend who stuck around too long like Ali. But following the spinal fusion surgery, the last gasp attempt to get himself back to playing condition, he just kept at it. Chipping and putting in his backyard, the physical rehabilitation he put in. the promise that he would be back all should have tipped us off that there was still some of that ferocious Bengal Tiger lurking beneath the surface waiting to be unleashed again. Then last fall, he actually won a tournament again. He shot competitive scores in the PGA and Open Championship. But still, winning another major and moving ever closer to Jack Nicklaus’s record of eighteen major championships seemed beyond any realistic expectations. It isn’t any longer! There can be NO argument that Tiger Woods is the greatest single athletic attraction in the world, bar none. The galleries that follow him around a course are absolutely amazing, and the people love him and his game. Following his victory Sunday which secured his FIFTH Green jacket (Nicklaus has SIX), the televised scene of him hugging his son was enough to make a grown man weep (me included), and then they showed pictures of him hugging his own father following his initial Masters victory back in 1997 which was REALLY emotional. Jim Nanz of CBS (who has THE GREATEST job in the whole wide world!!!) called it the best event he’s ever covered, and that includes Final Fours and Super Bowls. He described it on air as “the return to glory” and boy did the ratings back that statement up!! Even though the tournament tee times were moved up to early morning for the first time ever due to the threat of severe weather in the afternoon in Augusta, the CBS ratings were up 41% from last year. This is the “TIGER EFFECT” on the PGA Tour. Trust me, the list of young and coming players that challenged Woods from Saturday right through Sundays final hole were an impressive lot themselves, players like Molenari, Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka and Jason Day, to name just a few. He beat the best in the world. His experience, obviously, played a huge part in his historic win. Having played at Augusta so many times in the past, he knew exactly where NOT to hit the ball, like short on hole number 12 where four different players dunked their tee shots into Ray’s Creek, including Molenari when he had the lead. His tee shot was wide left and in the middle of the green, just exactly where it needed to be. His tee shot on hole number eighteen was hit with a three wood, NOT a driver, because he knew exactly where he needed to be to make no worse than a bogey, which assured his win. And when he had done it, the emotion with which he celebrated was epic. Not just a Tiger pump or the somewhat muted initial response after sinking the two footer to clinch another Jacket, but the honest to God fire up the crowd and celebrate wildly with his family and friends. After all it took to get back to that place, the celebrations were well deserved. So I offer heartfelt congratulations to Tiger Woods. The next two major championships, the PGA and the US Open will be played at Beth Page Black in New York and Pebble Beach in California respectively, both venues where he has previously won major championships. I’d say it would be too much to dare think he could pull off another one, but then I’d probably be proved wrong again by the greatest player of our generation, who desperately wants to pass Jack Nicklaus with NINETEEN major victories. That would indeed put him in a category all by himself. In the meanwhile, enjoy. Golf is better off with him in the limelight, and it should prove to be an interesting summer to say the least!!!! FORE!!!! BERNHARDT IS NO BRAVEHEART!!!
In any other time, in any other administration, the story of newly appointed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and the investigation into his conflicts of interest just ONE DAY after the REPUBLIKAN Senate confirmed him would be front page news. But under Donald Trump and his “CABINET OF CLOWNS”, it’s barely news at all. Bernhardt is replacing former Secretary Ryan Zinke, who resigned his office and left town under a cloud of suspicion and numerous allegations of misconduct and abuses of power. And now his replacement, a former lobbyist for the very groups and industries he is supposed to be regulating (that doesn’t raise any RED FLAGS in the Senate?!?) is under investigation by the Departments own inspector general for ethical conflicts!!! Imagine that-a member of the Trump administration under investigation for “ethical conflicts”-I thought it was a requisite for employment!! The following information regarding this amazing story of the corruption rampant in the Trump administration is taken from the Los Angeles Times. The Interior Department’s office of inspector general disclosed Monday that it has opened a formal investigation into alleged ethical conflicts by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for natural resources industries who won Senate confirmation to his post just four days ago. The disclosure came in separate letters, one to Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and another to Ron Wyden of Oregon. All had called for the investigation. In the letters, Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall said her office had received seven complaints, including those from the Senators, “from a wide assortment of complainants.” She continued, “We are continuing to gather pertinent information about the complaints and have opened an investigation to address them.” She said the office would conduct the review “as expeditiously and thoroughly as practicable.” The inspector general’s action has the air of locking the barn door after the horse has escaped. Allegations that Bernhardt has been acting in his official capacity to advance the interests of his former clients have been rife since his appointment as Deputy Secretary in 2017; he was appointed acting secretary to replace former Secretary Ryan Zinke, who left office under an ethical cloud, in January. Bernhardt was confirmed as secretary by the Senate on April 11, almost entirely along party lines, with all Republicans and three Democrats in support. (Therein lays the problem!!) Wyden noted in a statement Monday that he earlier had called for Bernhardt’s confirmation to be delayed until the ethics allegations had been thoroughly investigated. “We now have an Interior Secretary who has been on the job for one full business day and is already under investigation,” Wyden said in the emailed and tweeted statement. “With Bernhardt’s track record and the number of allegations against him, it’s no surprise.” Added Warren, “It’s about time that the Department of the Interior opened an investigation into Secretary David Bernhardt’s conflicts of interest...He should have never been confirmed to lead the department with these outstanding ethics complaints.” As my colleague Bettina Boxall and I reported earlier, Bernhardt has pursued policies and taken actions at Interior that would manifestly deliver direct benefits to former clients at the law form of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which has represented companies in the oil, gas, mining and agriculture industries. This is how Washington is run these days under Donald Trump and the REPUBLIKAN Senate. Just take a look at the “CABINET OF CLOWNS”. You’ll see the same laissez faire manner in which these various departments are run, with the so called “regulators”, many of whom came from the various organizations or interests they are supposed to be regulating. There are numerous ethical issues involving members of this Cabinet, ongoing abuses of power and in some cases ongoing investigations into either them or their respective departments. It’s a national disgrace, and believe me, we will all pay the price for these incompetent buffoons and their actions down the road. The environment, our nation’s natural resources like parks and wild lands, our education system, our transportation system, monetary and financial policies and other areas that affect each of us on a daily basis will take in some cases years to repair the damage that has already been done. And for what purpose? It’s really quite simple-policy and regulatory relief in exchange for money, specifically campaign contributions in order that these greedy power hungry individuals and their political party can maintain their grip on power and continue to plunder our nation. This has got to stop. As is the case with most other issues plaguing our once great nation, these can be resolved also very simply-at the ballot box. In order to stop the pillaging and plundering, Donald Trump must be voted out of office. Mitch McConnell and the REPUBLIKAN majority in the Senate must be ousted and flipped. It’s the ONLY way we are going to reclaim control of our government, the officials who are supposed to be running it and the policies which they implement for our benefit. Otherwise, I hesitate to think what kid of a nation my grandchildren are going to inherit. HERE COMES DA JUDGE…PETE BUTTIGIEG!
Who would have ever dreamed just a little over a decade ago an African American would be elected as President of the United States? And yet, Barrack Obama not only won the election in 2008 but also reelection in 2012 DESPITE all REPUBLIKAN efforts to derail his Presidency at every turn. Who would have thought that a Hollywood actor, a pitch man for Twenty Mule Team Borax would become President of the United States, and literally end the Cold War with the Soviet Union while surviving a would be assassin’s bullet? But Ronald Reagan did just that, and also served two terms in office. Who would have ever dreamed that a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia would bring Egypt and Israel to the peace table to sign a historic treaty? But Jimmy Carter did it. Who would have believed just a couple of years ago that a self proclaimed billionaire real estate developer/game show host would become the most controversial and talked about occupant of the Oval Office since JFK, and NOT for the right reasons? So now who’s going to believe that the gay millennial mayor of South Bend, Indiana is going to run for President of the United States against a Democratic primary field that already has more contenders than the upcoming Kentucky Derby in my home state??? I’ll believe it, because I believe our country is ready for an individual who talks about unification and has a forward looking vision for the middle class in our nation rather than one who has consistently used divisive rhetoric and actions to return us to a day gone by that REALLY wasn’t all that GREAT to start with. I chuckled when I first heard this guy declare for the primary election a few weeks back, like most everybody else. After all, we had Big Joe Biden in the wings, and Bernie burning up the campaign trail along with a cast of others two cumbersome to name. Well, guess what? Biden has proven himself to be incapable of getting out of his own way, Bernie has become so far left of center that he is a true socialist and none of the rest of the pack has distinguished themselves in ANY meaningful way. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand-none of these potential opponents to Trump has demonstrated any real charisma or fortitude of note. And then along come “Mayor” Pete (I hereafter will refuse to refer to him as “Mayor” Pete-it sounds like a children’s cartoon series on PBS in the afternoon instead of a genuine human being who seems sincerely interested in bringing our country back together again). He makes appearances on CNN, on FAUX NEWS on “Morning Joe” and all of a sudden people are beginning to pay attention. His speech yesterday to kick off his campaign was as uplifting as watching Tiger Woods win his FIFTH Green jacket and his FIFTEENTH major championship. It was so refreshing to hear someone with a positive message rather than someone with a big chip on his shoulder wanting to pick a fight if you don’t agree with his absurd policies, like the immigration catastrophe he and whiz kid Stephen (the KILLER) Miller have created all by themselves. A day without Trump is a day to be savored indeed, like a fine wine and a good cigar. At any rate, back to Pete Buttigieg (pronounced budha judge). Buttigieg, 37, is a former Navy intelligence officer who has been mayor of South Bend for eight years. He’s risen in the early 2020 polls as he positions his campaign as a way to move past the partisan battles of Washington and the internal squabbles of the bruising 2016 Democratic primary. A Rhodes Scholar and a Christian who speaks seven languages, his campaign is rooted in his fluency in a particular dialect: the language of the overlooked Midwestern voter. His announcement speech was light on policy: he didn’t mention Medicare for All or raising taxes. Instead, Buttigieg organized his message around three pillars—freedom, security and democracy—as he sought to reframe progressive issues like reproductive rights and climate change in ways that connect with Midwestern conservatives. Buttigieg describes abortion rights as a matter of freedom, climate change as a question of security, gerrymandering as a question of democracy. When he talked about climate change, Buttigieg didn’t endorse the Green New Deal (an idea he once called “the right beginning”), but instead echoed President Barack Obama’s frustration with Republican inaction. “You don’t like our plan?” he said. “Fine. Show us yours!” Most of all, Buttigieg returned throughout his speech to the idea of generational change. He cast the election as a choice between America’s future and its past. “Such a moment calls for hopeful and audacious voices from communities like ours,” he said. “And yes, it calls for a new generation of leadership.” Buttigieg is the first serious presidential contender who is openly gay, and the atmosphere around his speech was infused with the exuberance and anguish that has characterized the recent history of the LGBTQ rights movement. I have watched Joe Scarborough and Mika on “Morning Joe” for quite some time now, and aside from their disdain for Donald Trump, which I enthusiastically endorse, I have never seen them talk in such a positive vein about a candidate. I think the rest of the Democratic voters should start taking this man and his message more seriously as we move closer to the primaries next year. He is the perfect foil for Trump, the anti Christ of my generation, the Baby Boomers. While many of my generation, especially the privileged wealthy white males, will look down their noses at this man, his religious beliefs and his sexuality and the millennial in general, I say give them a chance. They certainly couldn’t do much more damage than has already been done by my generation of "BABY BOMBERS"!!!! Just take a look around-infrastructure crumbling, total political gridlock in Washington, gun violence unchecked, health care and an educational system which nobody can afford anymore and are either broken down or corrupted, women’s rights and civil rights rolled back like it was 1954 again, the list of monumental failures is endless. Something has to change or our country will cease to exist as we have known it for the last two hundred and forty three years. Why not start with our first Millennial President? It might even encourage them to get out and vote. The only way things are going to change is to change the ones who hold the power. Start with Trump and Mitch McConnell and work your way down the list-VOTE THEM OUT IN 2020!!!! THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING!!!
There has been ongoing speculation for quite sometime now that Donald Trump is suffering from serious mental issues, perhaps dementia or worse yet, genuine honest to God insanity!!! If any of his previous words or actions gave pause, such as his bizarre behavior after meeting with Putin in Helsinki, his constant lies and misstatements to support his political or personal economic agendas, his failed negotiations and love affair with Kim Jong-un, the madman dictator of North Korea, his overlooking the Saudi Crown Prince’s direct involvement in the murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist, his complete narcissism, his adulterous affairs and abuse of women, his racist tendencies and now comes the most bizarre action yet-his threats to turn the immigrants at the border, legal AND illegal, loose on the so called “sanctuary cities” such as San Francisco. I can just see Stephen (the KILLER) Miller standing behind the curtain pulling the levers on this policy-which is designed in part to punish Trump’s political enemies as well as further escalate an immigration crisis that his own policies have set in motion. It’s a proposal so far removed from anything anybody in the White House has ever proposed it even seems extreme by Trumpian standards, which are pretty FUC*ING extreme as it is! But this?!? I truly believe the man has lost his mind. Perhaps it’s because of the campaign promise he made to the 35% or so who he calls his base which he cannot deliver on, the building of the border wall that Mexico was going to pay for. The flow of immigrants into the United States through our southern border HAS NEVER BEEN HIGHER!!! Woman and children have been separated and put in cages and innocent children have DIED as a result of his failed policies. He has sent the United States military to the border. He is threatening to shut down the southern border altogether. Then he fires his Homeland Security Secretary and turns the policy making decisions over to Miller and (HE WENT TO) Jared Kushner, which is like turning the hen house over to the foxes. So now we have a proposal like this. Where and when the insanity will end is anybody’s guess. The Democrats seem unwilling to pursue the only logical choice they have available to them to remove this lunatic from office, impeachment. The ridiculous number of declared presidential candidates to oppose him continues to swell and to date there have been few indications if any of a serious contender to knock him out of the box. The REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate has given him free reign to do as he pleases, his appointed Attorney General is basically on his personal payroll and he has a “CABINET OF CLOWNS” intent on tearing apart the very environment in which we live, the educational opportunities our children or grandchildren will be afforded and perpetuation of the continually growing gap between the wealthy and those of us who are struggling to make ends meet. Corporate America receives the biggest tax break in American history, and instead of sharing the wealth with employees they use the additional revenue to buy back their own stock shares. We have trade wars ongoing with our largest trading partners. Our decades old geo political alliances are being torn asunder by a group of complete amateurs. Trump’s idea of Middle East peace is giving everything to Israel, appeasing the murderous Saudi regime for the sake of selling military hardware and continually attacking Iran. Oh, and BTW, (HE WENT TO) Jared Kushner is spearheading these efforts you’ll be happy to know. The man is a true jack of the diplomatic trade!!! Like “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo, another complete failure in his diplomatic efforts with regard to N Korea as well as the Middle East. But none of these items get Trump’s 24/7 attention like immigration, the border wall, and keeping people of other nations OUT OF AMERICA altogether. It’s an issue he learned during the 2016 campaign is bound to get the rednecks in his base fired up and to the polls, and he is intent on riding this pony all the way to November of 2020. Here are Trump’s comments in case you haven’t heard them: "Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities," Trump said. "The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy –- so this should make them very happy!" he tweeted. So here we have the President of the United States threatening to use immigrants as pawns in his political vendetta against Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives. He seems particularly incensed about California’s immigration policies and cities like San Francisco and San Jose. They have essentially thumbed their noses at his racist immigration policies, and now he wants to punish them for it. Politically, his policies have been catastrophic for the REPUBLIKAN party, including his government shutdown he caused when he didn’t get Congressional approval of funding. The mid term elections were a disaster, with REPUBLIKANS losing control of the House of Representatives. But from Mitch McConnell down the line, they refuse to stand up to him for fear of his tweet storms or his base. History will NOT be kind to those who stood by and watched Donald Trump and his henchmen dismantle our democracy. And make NO mistake, that is exactly what he is doing, day by day, week by week and month by month. There are those who will say that his actions are justified as a result of the continuous attacks on him and his administration and its policies since the day he took office, but this is utter nonsense. Barrack Obama was under attack by REPUBLIKANS for eight years as were his policies, but he never resorted to such dangerous and unconstitutional measures to attack his political opponents. I believe, in all seriousness, that our President, Donald J. Trump, is mentally unstable as his actions demonstrate, and the longer we wait to remove him from office the greater danger we are all in and the greater peril our democracy is in. Just take a look at what’s going on and it’s hard NOT to come to the same conclusion. |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |