Hanukkah begins tomorrow. Recently I have given some deference to people who want me to say Merry Christmas. It seems only fitting to give the same deference to people who are observing Hanukkah, particularly in these troubled times. We may not be of the same faith, but we are of the same family – the family of human kind. Happy Hanukkah!
And, “Happy Holidays!” to all. Let us come together to celebrate each other as a family.
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
What Happened to Lindsey Graham?
I happened to be on a college campus the other day and overheard two undergraduates discussing Lindsey Graham. With the brashness of youth they stated their conjecture about him in terms generally favored by low brow Trump chumps, which is to say that some of you may be offended:
“Lindsey Graham has lost more than his mind,” one student said. “He has now become Trump's eunuch.”
“Oh, I know,” the other agreed. “And since becoming a eunuch poor Lindsey is finding it much easier to stick his head up his ass!”
“Lindsey Graham has lost more than his mind,” one student said. “He has now become Trump's eunuch.”
“Oh, I know,” the other agreed. “And since becoming a eunuch poor Lindsey is finding it much easier to stick his head up his ass!”
Echo The Sounds Of Defiance! The Republican defiance of law and reason is the result of a disgraceful intellectual and moral bankruptcy that lets the cowards justify in their own minds their refusal to honor the oath they took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States because the threat is coming from a President who is a member of their Republican Party!
Thursday, December 5, 2019
The GOP Offers Projection Not Protection
The Republicans are still at it, and it is not pretty, logical or real. As in previous hearings, they began their defense of the indefensible by trying to throw sand in the gears. The absurd points of order, motions and calls for roll call votes they are using to delay and drag out the hearings only emphasizes the fact that there is no defense for the impeachable offenses Trump has and is committing. The Republicans are also screaming witch hunt and calling the impeachment proceedings a partisan attempt to avoid having to run against Trump in 2020. They apparently have not read the polls showing the leading Democratic Party candidates beating Trump and the recent elections showing suburban women leaving the Republican Party in droves. Their counsel at the hearings, Paul Taylor, even invoked Watergate, deceptively claiming that, unlike now, the impeachment of Nixon was bipartisan. Sorry Mr. Taylor but Republicans then as now denied everything Nixon did and called the Senate Hearings and later the impeachment hearings partisan shams designed to overthrow a duly elected President, and they did so even though the evidence against Nixon was overwhelming! The impeachment of Richard Nixon became bipartisan only after the smoking gun tape made any further defense so untenable that Republicans could not even claim it was a bad joke! So when the Republicans call this impeachment process partisan what they really mean is that they refuse to protect this country and its constitution from a lawless, incompetent and corrupt Republican president. Contrary to what Republicans want you to believe most Democrats are not gleeful over the thought of impeaching Donald Trump. What most of us feel is relief over the fact that our legislators are finally keeping their oath to defend and protect the constitution! And we hope that will make a difference even though we know it is highly unlikely that the Republicans in the senate will display anything other than the moral and intellectual bankruptcy that prevents them from defending the constitution in accordance with the oath of office they took.
The Republicans also claim the Democrats are ignoring the facts. Talk about projection! Do those idiots think we cannot read or that we have lost the life experiences and common sense that tell us what someone with immense power means when he says: “I would like you to do us a favor though.” And what about all the testimony from Sondland, and the conversation where Trump is overheard asking Sondland if Zelenski was going to do the investigation. Not to mention Mulvaney admitting that Trump did demand a quid pro quo of Zelenski or all of Rudy Giuliani's absurd statements and confessions. Just look at the Intelligence Committee's Report and the evidence it cites. The evidence is overwhelming! It is not the Democrats who are ignoring facts it is the Republicans.
The experts the Democrats called to testify did a good job. They were Constitutional Law Professors Pamela Karlan of Stanford, Noah Feldman of Harvard, and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina. As someone who has spent a good part of his life studying history, I really enjoyed their testimony about our founding fathers debating the need for impeachment and about the reasons they (the framers of the constitution) gave for making impeachment a part the Constitution. Obviously impeachment was not meant to be the means for removing an unpopular president; rather is was meant to be used to remove a president who commits crimes, abuses his power, or otherwise puts his self interest ahead of the interests of this country to the detriment of this country. All of the witnesses pointed out that the evidence submitted to congress was more than sufficient to prove that Trump engaged in the criminal and/or corrupt acts alleged in the intelligence committee's report, including but not limited to Bribery, and Obstruction of Justice, as well as Contempt and Obstruction of Congress. Judging by their warnings the crimes our founding fathers would have found most odious are Trump's attempts to get foreign powers to interfere in our elections. But all of the crimes and corrupt acts cited in the Intelligence Committee's report are serious, and are precisely what impeachment was designed to remedy. Furthermore as these very knowledgeable professors pointed out, the need to impeach Trump is urgent because a large part of his corrupt and/or criminal activity involves subverting the upcoming 2020 elections! Which means that Trump is a clear and present danger to our very democracy!
By contrast the Republican expert witness, Constitutional Law Professor Jonathon Turley of George Washington Law School, said impeachment is premature. He inaccurately maintained that there was not enough evidence to prove Trump's criminal and corrupt activity at this point, and Turley insisted that congress should wait for the courts to decide whether people defying congressional subpoenas have to comply with those subpoenas. My question to Mr. Turley is: “ what do you do when the Attorney General, who heads the department that enforces Congressional subpoenas, is a soggy diaper who covers the ass of a corrupt president and hauls his water, and therefore will not enforce any subpoenas the president does not want enforced!" If Mr. Turley was a prosecutor people like Al Capone would never go to trial because of the vast and ever increasing number of rocks Mr. Turley would insist on turning over before bringing any charges against the would be defendant!
What do Mr. Turley and the other soiled diapers covering Trump's ass not understand or think we are too stupid to understand about the urgent need to stop an ongoing effort to subvert the election of 2020?
The Republicans also claim the Democrats are ignoring the facts. Talk about projection! Do those idiots think we cannot read or that we have lost the life experiences and common sense that tell us what someone with immense power means when he says: “I would like you to do us a favor though.” And what about all the testimony from Sondland, and the conversation where Trump is overheard asking Sondland if Zelenski was going to do the investigation. Not to mention Mulvaney admitting that Trump did demand a quid pro quo of Zelenski or all of Rudy Giuliani's absurd statements and confessions. Just look at the Intelligence Committee's Report and the evidence it cites. The evidence is overwhelming! It is not the Democrats who are ignoring facts it is the Republicans.
The experts the Democrats called to testify did a good job. They were Constitutional Law Professors Pamela Karlan of Stanford, Noah Feldman of Harvard, and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina. As someone who has spent a good part of his life studying history, I really enjoyed their testimony about our founding fathers debating the need for impeachment and about the reasons they (the framers of the constitution) gave for making impeachment a part the Constitution. Obviously impeachment was not meant to be the means for removing an unpopular president; rather is was meant to be used to remove a president who commits crimes, abuses his power, or otherwise puts his self interest ahead of the interests of this country to the detriment of this country. All of the witnesses pointed out that the evidence submitted to congress was more than sufficient to prove that Trump engaged in the criminal and/or corrupt acts alleged in the intelligence committee's report, including but not limited to Bribery, and Obstruction of Justice, as well as Contempt and Obstruction of Congress. Judging by their warnings the crimes our founding fathers would have found most odious are Trump's attempts to get foreign powers to interfere in our elections. But all of the crimes and corrupt acts cited in the Intelligence Committee's report are serious, and are precisely what impeachment was designed to remedy. Furthermore as these very knowledgeable professors pointed out, the need to impeach Trump is urgent because a large part of his corrupt and/or criminal activity involves subverting the upcoming 2020 elections! Which means that Trump is a clear and present danger to our very democracy!
By contrast the Republican expert witness, Constitutional Law Professor Jonathon Turley of George Washington Law School, said impeachment is premature. He inaccurately maintained that there was not enough evidence to prove Trump's criminal and corrupt activity at this point, and Turley insisted that congress should wait for the courts to decide whether people defying congressional subpoenas have to comply with those subpoenas. My question to Mr. Turley is: “ what do you do when the Attorney General, who heads the department that enforces Congressional subpoenas, is a soggy diaper who covers the ass of a corrupt president and hauls his water, and therefore will not enforce any subpoenas the president does not want enforced!" If Mr. Turley was a prosecutor people like Al Capone would never go to trial because of the vast and ever increasing number of rocks Mr. Turley would insist on turning over before bringing any charges against the would be defendant!
What do Mr. Turley and the other soiled diapers covering Trump's ass not understand or think we are too stupid to understand about the urgent need to stop an ongoing effort to subvert the election of 2020?
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