The Patriot Post® · Impeachment, the VA & the NFL

A very bright reader of mine wrote, calling for Obama’s impeachment. Although I share his concern for the harm the man has caused America and the world, I wouldn’t like to see the GOP once again crawl out on that very precarious limb armed only with good intentions and a chainsaw.

As I see it, it is the one sure way the Republicans can blow the midterm elections. Most people don’t want to see election results, no matter how wrong-headed they are, overturned by sore losers. As we saw in Bill Clinton’s case, he became more popular than ever when people viewed him as a martyr. And in Obama’s case, in spite of a general dislike of his policies, the split when it comes to him personally is dead-even.

For another thing, the Senate Democrats would never vote to impeach Obama, so why should the Republicans blow a very good chance of sending Harry Reid out to pasture in November? Playing Russian roulette is always a very bad idea, especially when there are bullets in every chamber.

Whereas the GOP stands to make political hay out of Benghazi, the IRS and the VA scandals, an impeachment would essentially trivialize them. If you think the non-Fox media is ignoring these matters now, you can imagine what it would be like if they had an unpopular impeachment with which to distract the loons and zombies who make up a large segment of the voting public.

I say it is far better if Obama spends his final two years as the lamest of lame ducks, devoting his time to working on his golf game and signing book deals, than being in a position to place another Kagan or Sotomayor on the Supreme Court.

What makes Obama so incredibly vile has less to do with his various policies or even his appointing the likes of Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius and Chuck Hagel, to positions of authority, but the zeal with which he has used hatred and envy to divide Americans. For nearly six years, he has done his utmost to ignite feuds between men and women, the rich and poor, whites and blacks, citizens and illegal aliens and even atheists and believers. Obama and his sock puppet sycophants claim to be pacifists at heart, but they only oppose war when it’s against America’s actual enemies in Russia, North Korea and the Islamic world.

What’s happening at the VA is shameful, but it is also inevitable. Once a federal bureaucracy is involved, the results are certain to be dreadful. It’s not because the people involved are all loathsome, but because they happen to be civil servants. As a result, they don’t feel the need to be personally responsible because they don’t share the same dread of being fired as those employed in the private sector.

That is why I second the motion that the VA should be terminated and that our military veterans should have the same health plans as members of Congress and those civil servants at the VA who apparently learned their book-keeping skills at the feet of those crooked accountants working for the Mafia.

Another solution to the problem of veterans having to wait months, even years, to receive medical treatment is for them to become criminals. I mean, you never hear of an imprisoned felon being denied healthcare, do you? Hell, convicted traitor Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning even gets to have a sex change operation, compliments of Uncle Sam. And as you may recall, Private Manning’s military service was pretty much limited to swiping state secrets.

On a related matter, someone recently sent me an email letting me know that he sympathized with those poor people who do the work that others refuse to do; are forced to trek endless miles in desert heat; are forced to live in cramped and unsanitary conditions among people who speak a foreign language; are sometimes separated from their loved ones for years at a time; and who, after all that, are expected to survive on a minimum wage. The kicker is that he was referring not to illegal aliens, but to the members of our military.

Wouldn’t it just make sense if instead of wasting $360 billion-a-year providing aid and comfort to those sneaking across our border, we spent it offering solace to our vets and to rebuilding our diminished military?

A group of retired football players are now trying to gang-tackle the NFL, claiming that they became unknowingly addicted to pain killers because their former teams made them play with injuries they didn’t even know they had. While it’s true that my interest in professional football rivals my interest in macramé, but do these mugs really expect me to believe they didn’t know they had broken bones or that it wasn’t the fear of losing those multi-million dollar contracts that had them popping pills like peanuts? They just better hope I don’t wind up on the jury.

In conclusion, I wish to atone for the many insults I have directed at felines over the years. On occasion, I have even been guilty of comparing them to the French. Now, thanks to the heroics of Tara, the bewhiskered heroine who saved the little boy who was being mauled by a large dog, I must change my ways.

Although my first instinct was to suspect that Tara, knowing about all those surveillance cameras in the neighborhood, had bribed the dog to misbehave, I have concluded that my wife has been right all along and that some cats are every bit as admirable as most dogs.

So, a toast, ladies and gentlemen, to Tara, formerly renowned as Scarlett O'Hara’s plantation, but now a cat among cats, a credit to her species.

In fact, if I had my way, Tara would be flown to our nation’s capital, where her next heroic assignment would be to clear out the scores of rodents presently nesting in the White House.