There is no bigger enemy of the Constitution than Mitch McConnell and that alone makes him a traitor to the nation. McConnell as the majority leader of the Senate has repeatedly acted as a politician and not as an elected representative of the people. This was especially apparent when he refused to allow the Obama appointment of Merrick Garland to go before the Senate for an approval vote and later pushed the Kavanaugh appointment forward under similar circumstances. Now he is engaged in hiding under the Capital building seats to avoid being caught up in the mess that the idiot Trump has caused over his ridiculous wall.
McConnell knows the wall is a disaster but he refuses to confront Trump and instead of representing his constituents who are 90% against the wall he avoids confrontation with the Prez and slithers around the Senate offices like a snake under a rock.
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Republican Rep Jim Jordan of Ohio, founder of the Freedom Caucus showed up on This Week,extolling the most ridiculous defense of Trump’s “Emergency Declaration,” since Pinocchio grew a new nose. Jordan babbled about multiple caravans invading the border and a huge drug bust that actually happened, not where the wall would be but at a normal crossing point where we already have adequate security.
The problem with racist bigots like Jordan is that they have no reasonable arguments so they, like Trump, just make them up. They have discovered that Adolph Hitler’s big lie theory really works. All you need is an audience with more beer than brains.
Jordan does understand that the GOP should have passed the wall money when they had both houses of congress and the Presidency but because they didn’t he now attacks those Republicans who didn’t move ahead, without acknowledging that they didn’t move ahead because they understood we don’t need a wall.
Jordan rants that the wall represents a solution to illegal immigration, drug trafficking and just about every other ill, that affects us, except fleas. What he ignores in all this bullshit is that Homeland Security has said, illegal immigration is at a twenty year low and the DEA says drugs don’t come across the Rio Grand, but through border crossing ports of entry. Jordan, like Trump, rants about criminal violence by gangs that are coming across the border. This is refuted by government agencies that advise us that most crime in this country is committed by native-born Americans not by illegal aliens who know enough to keep a low profile. According to experts, none of the ills that Trump and this dumb clown are talking about can actually, be cured by building more wall. All this info comes from Trump’s own government.
One looks at someone like Jordan and can’t help but think; where did this thing come from? What created this strain on humanity and why? Jordan’s arguments and reasoning, or lack thereof, are so blatantly false that there is no way for him to convince any sentient being of his positions. It’s ironic that he formed something called The Freedom Caucus, as it has nothing to do with freedom for anyone other then himself and a small band of bigots and racists.
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Bill DeBlasio was on Meet the Pressthis weekend and with what might be the biggest media platform in the world he blew it. DeBlasio, instead using his post as Mayor of the most important city in the world wasted his time telling us what a progressive he was. He was too busy protecting the Progressive movement to be honest about the fact that NY Progressives like AOC and Mike Gianaris blew what might have risen to 50,000 jobs and billions in tax money. Given a chance to point our AOC’s ignorance of what a tax incentive means, DeBlasio pushed his attack on Jeff Bezos who had a deal with the city but was watching it get blown away by a bunch of unsophisticated pols that were cheerleading for a cause that didn’t actually exist. The fault of this whole disaster lies at the feet of DeBlasio and Cuomo. They allowed this insignificant minority of uninformed newcomers to the political fold to trash a deal that would have benefited the city greatly. How much did AOC and her followers help the people of this city by their actions? The answer is they didn’t help at all. The guy in public housing who looked to getting a better job at Amazon and having the resulting taxes help fix the mess created by NYCHA is now doubly screwed thanks to AOC and her ignorant co-conspirators.
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Chuck Todd on Meet the Press gave Tom Perez, the Democratic Party chairman one of the great openings for a killer line this weekend and Perez blew it. Todd asked Perez if he felt he had to discipline his potential candidates the way Reince Pribus had when Donald Trump went off the rails at the Republican debates in 2016. Perez never missed the bait. He should have stated that he wouldn’t have to do so because he didn’t have any Cro-Magnon candidates like Trump who had no idea of what constituted civilized behavior. Instead he rattled n about how he didn’t foresee any problems ahead because the field all understood that the end goal was to beat Trump. It wasn’t a big deal but it was definitely an opportunity missed. Despite that, Perez is a good man, doing a fine job and I sincerely hope my little jibe isn’t interpreted as a big knock.
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There’s a current problem and it goes way deeper than you think. As Trump stumbles through his Presidency lying, conniving, blundering, establishing a new low in Presidential behavior, it becomes clear that this may no just disappear when he is booted out of office. Trump is dong serious damage to the image of the Presidency of the United States. He has already dragged it into the gutter and now he is stomping on it.
Three stories came out last week, all of which would have made headlines for weeks under a normal President. But because Trump is such a gross fuckup, such a distiller of disaster and because the evil he does on a daily basis has so permeated the environment and the nation we don’t even notice. No matter how awful Trump acts we are inured to it.
The first story was about Michael Flynn and other White House criminals who hatched a plan to sell our nuclear technology to the Saudi’s. Such a move would inevitably lead to a nuclear war in the Middle East because as soon as Moussad learned of the transfer they would be dropping Nukes on the Saudis. This story alone, if it happened under a normal President like Bush or Obama would have the opposition party up on its hind legs and screaming for the President’s head. Panels would be formed, impeachment would be demanded and, all members of the opposition party would be demanding the President step down even as all media raged in large type print and the likes of Mitch McConnell would be making treason accusations.
But add to that the story about former FBI Director Andrew McCabe informing members of the government about his investigation of Trump’s associations with the Russians after former director Comey was fired for getting under Trump’s skin. Can you imagine the head of the FBI speaking to those same government officials about invoking the 25thAmendment for any other President in recent memory? Or how about the over 1500 lies that Trump has told on national TV just in the last month. Yes, it’s a record even for him but can you imagine something like that being all but ignored if done by any other president?
The point is that we all but ignore these actions that under a normal presidency would cause cries of calamity. Has Trump’s behavior so inured us to this kind of normally unacceptable action that even with a different president will it still be the new normal?
And that is where the real damage is. Trump will be gone in a couple of years. But will his legacy of criminality, racism, misogyny and generally disgusting behavior remain behind him? He has disgraced the White House and turned the political and diplomatic climates into the cesspool from which he emerged. His legacy will be far more destructive than anything he has actually done while in office, and that will be the real disaster.