Impeach Trump, and Then What?
I get it that a lot of Democrats can get audiences to jump out of their chairs and clap like trained seals by claiming they’re going to impeach the President. In fact, Rep. Maxine Waters will probably soon be signing a recording contract to do a rap version of “Impeach 45!”
I get it that a lot of Democrats can get audiences to jump out of their chairs and clap like trained seals by claiming they’re going to impeach the president. In fact, Rep. Maxine Waters will probably soon be signing a recording contract to do a rap version of “Impeach 45!”
Not to be left in the dust, her pinheaded colleagues Al Green and my own congressman, Brad Sherman, whose head so closely resembles a pin he could take his rightful place in an old-fashioned freak show, might sign on as backup singers; the House version of the Supremes backing up Diana Ross.
But even if the Democrats could persuade the appropriate number of Republican legislators to commit political hari-kari by evicting Donald Trump from the White House, would they really be happy to see him replaced by Mike Pence, who is not only more conservative than Donald Trump but has a squeaky-clean image and probably doesn’t even know how to tweet?
Because I get the New American, I am privy to the scores they give House and Senate members. The editors decide what is the appropriate conservative response to various issues and then tote up the votes of all 535 legislators and rate their conservatism.
The built-in problems are, one, that you have to accept their decisions as to what constitutes true conservatism, and, two, they give equal value to all 10 issues under consideration.
In case you’re curious, the only one who scored 100% in the Senate was Rand Paul, which might at least explain why he was attacked and had his ribs busted by a left-wing zealot. In the House, Tom Massie of Kentucky and Walter Jones of North Carolina also scored 100%.
The only zeros in either body were achieved by Sen, Bill Nelson of Florida and Mark Warner of Virginia. The highest score by a Democrat was North Dakota’s Sen. Heidi Heitkamp with 30%. The lowest score by a Republican was, predictably, Maine’s Susan Collins, with 20%.
The problem I have is that two of my favorite politicians, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, scored only 60%, but Jeff Flake of Arizona scored 70%. Which just goes to show that, as with other polls, the results can be determined by the questions asked and by those interpreting the responses.
To me, the most puzzling aspect of my research was that there are a dozen states that are represented in the Senate by both a Democrat and a Republican. I understand how states can have a mix of Democrats and Republicans in the House. Big cities tend to elect Democrats, rural and suburban areas tend to favor Republicans. But, for reasons I can’t pretend to fathom, the voters in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin have elected senators in statewide elections who essentially cancel out each other’s votes.
Ivanka Trump decided to weigh in on the Roy Moore election by stating that she had no reason to doubt the allegations made against the man by his victims. I wonder if she has the same blind faith in the allegations of women who allege they were victimized by her father,
It was also a question that frequently crossed my mind when Chelsea Clinton would laud her father as a champion of women.
In California, there’s legislation pending that would compel pro-life doctors and groups to propose abortions as an alternative to their clients. It struck me as akin to forcing A.A. groups to provide liquor at its meetings. It could lead to situations where someone would stand up and announce: “I’m Burt P and I haven’t had a drink in the past 15 seconds.”
Not too surprisingly, the ACLU, which has gotten rich defending the free speech rights of Nazis, Communists and Maxine Waters to spout vile nonsense, refuses to defend those who defend the inalienable rights of the unborn.
Missouri, the show-me state, can boast a state attorney general named Josh Hawley. He has decided to investigate Google, which is very likely, in the words of Tucker Carlson, “the most powerful company in the history of the world,” for possible violations of consumer protection and anti-trust laws.
David going up against Goliath had nothing on young Mr. Hawley. I understand he intends to run for the Senate next year. Too bad Jimmy Stewart isn’t still around to star in the title role of “Mr. Hawley Goes to Washington.”
Russ Mothershed, the pride of Knoxville, TN, sent me a collection of paradoxes. As is my custom, I mined the best ones for your amusement.
(1) Isn’t it weird that in America, our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don’t?
(2) How can the federal government ask U.S. citizens to pay back student loans when illegal aliens are receiving a free education?
(3) Only in America are legal citizens labeled “racists” and “Nazis” but illegal aliens are called “Dreamers.”
(4) Liberals say, “If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it’s worth it.” Well, then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn’t that be worth it?
(5) I can’t quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country but consider it punishment to be sent back there.
(6) The Constitution: It doesn’t need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread.
(7) William F. Buckley said: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view, and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view.”
(8) Joseph Sobran said: “‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer.”
(9) Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but some people still insist the last one was due to climate change.
In late 2016, Paul Krugman, writing in the NY Times, gazed into his crystal ball and confidently predicted the stock market would crash because of Donald Trump’s election.
A year later, the stock market continues to reach record highs. It seems to me that it’s about time that a bunch of big Swedes showed up at Krugman’s New York City apartment and made him return the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics.
But, then, I always thought that awards should never be bestowed but merely loaned. That way if, say, Laurence Olivier went on to stink up the screen in “The Jazz Singer,” “Inchon,” “Marathon Man,” “The Betsy,” “The Boys from Brazil” and “Clash of the Titans,” he would have to give back the Oscar they gave him for “Hamlet,” which, by the way, he didn’t deserve in the first place.
