There seems to be some question if and when Little Donnie Will give the State of the Union address and where. Luckily, I have obtained an advance copy which I will share with you .
"My fellow Americans and particularly you low information voters who are susceptible to bullshit. Stated simply, the the state of the union is that it is partially shut down and generally not functioning. This is because Congress, or at least the House of Representatives, have the temerity not too yield to one of my tantrums. Because I cannot do much to that mean woman in charge of the House, I am going to punish the entire country but particularly federal workers as most of them are Democrats anyway. I am obtaining protection from the Senate and particularly Mitch McConnell who will not allow any of the legislation passed by the house to come to a vote in the Senate where it might be passed thus causing me the embarrassment of having to veto it. But important parts of the government are certainly working just fine. I have all kinds of lackeys at the White House and have no problem getting late hour cheeseburgers. Moreover, I still have a helicopter and a great big jet plane, although they will not let me replace the United States of America decal with one that says Trump. Moreover,Melania still has the use of Government airplanes in her ever more frequent trips to get away from me. The economy is doing great. I know this because I am getting all kinds of revenue from my hotels and resorts, particularly by foreign leaders who wish to suck up to me. Some people are complaining about something called an emolument but I don't even know what that is. I have of course signed Paul Ryan's tax plan. I don't know exactly what was in it but I do know that it certainly lowered my taxes as well as those of my rich friends. What could be wrong with that? Some of these people with fancy economic degrees are saying that that tax cuts will not improve growth over any long period, talking about something called marginal consumption rates. They are also complaining about large deficits. Well, so what? I'm getting mine now. Our foreign-policy remains right on track. I have been able to demonstrate to our long-term allies that they cannot have trust or confidence in the United States. It's about time these freeloaders did something on their own. Meanwhile, I have close personal friendships with various totalitarian rulers of countries like North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia and now Turkey. I had a great conversation with Erdogen who said he would take care of Isis, which I have personally defeated anyway. General Mattis quit but he was kind of a pain in the butt anyway. More and more I am surrounded by advisers who don't pretend to have knowledge or information but instead tell me I am right. What a great bunch of guys. In conclusion, all you have to know about the state of the union is that I am in charge. If that doesn't cause you to feel comfort and security I can't imagine what would. Now, I am going back to the White House for a well-deserved snack of KFC, Cheeseburgers and a large pizza. Good night.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
Declare an Emergency Donnie
For the moment, Donnie has chosen not to declare an emergency. However, his decisions have a remarkably short half-life and began to decay immediately. In fact, there is an emergency but it is not the fabricated crisis on the southern border. Our emergency is that we have an ignorant incompetent delusional buffoon as president. But I digress.
If I do the mental equivalent in these circumstances of a double backflip with three twists, I can envision an optimistic result. Should Donnie declare an emergency and state that he is going to build a wall, that should allow his handlers on the Fox network to declare he has powerfully defeated the cowardly and unpatriotic Democrats and will build a wall as promised. That would allow Donnie to tell Mitch McConnell that he will sign legislation getting the government open and running again.
And Of course there will be litigation filed claiming that Donnie has exceeded his Powers under the 1976 act. Assuming that litigation rolls along, we will determine whether the federal courts are willing to look at the substance of the claims constituting an emergency or whether they will give extreme deference to presidential executive orders. There has been an increasing tendency of presidents to claim ever broader executive powers. During the George W. Bush administration W's Iago, Dick Cheney, or was it Cheney the dick, and his lawyer David Addison advanced the concept of a unitary presidency with broad executive powers. One of the results was the a large number of" signing orders". It is a fair statement that subsequent presidents became enamored of broad executive power. Typically, the political party whose man is not the president claims the current occupant is exceeding executive powers and that party whose man is occupying the White House finds it in their heart to approve broad executive power.
Perhaps if the courts were to rule that Trump's flimsy arguments were sufficient to invoke emergency powers, Congress might find the courage to repeal the 76 act and maybe the War Powers Act as well.
What the hell, a guy can dream. Before I forget, Mitch McConnell is a truly despicable jerk.
If I do the mental equivalent in these circumstances of a double backflip with three twists, I can envision an optimistic result. Should Donnie declare an emergency and state that he is going to build a wall, that should allow his handlers on the Fox network to declare he has powerfully defeated the cowardly and unpatriotic Democrats and will build a wall as promised. That would allow Donnie to tell Mitch McConnell that he will sign legislation getting the government open and running again.
And Of course there will be litigation filed claiming that Donnie has exceeded his Powers under the 1976 act. Assuming that litigation rolls along, we will determine whether the federal courts are willing to look at the substance of the claims constituting an emergency or whether they will give extreme deference to presidential executive orders. There has been an increasing tendency of presidents to claim ever broader executive powers. During the George W. Bush administration W's Iago, Dick Cheney, or was it Cheney the dick, and his lawyer David Addison advanced the concept of a unitary presidency with broad executive powers. One of the results was the a large number of" signing orders". It is a fair statement that subsequent presidents became enamored of broad executive power. Typically, the political party whose man is not the president claims the current occupant is exceeding executive powers and that party whose man is occupying the White House finds it in their heart to approve broad executive power.
Perhaps if the courts were to rule that Trump's flimsy arguments were sufficient to invoke emergency powers, Congress might find the courage to repeal the 76 act and maybe the War Powers Act as well.
What the hell, a guy can dream. Before I forget, Mitch McConnell is a truly despicable jerk.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Democrats, concentrate on beating trump
The most important chore the Democrats have is beating Trump in 2020. So far, the polls on Democrat Front runners to challenge Trump in 2020 are off the mark. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke are the wrong choices. Beto might be a good vice president candidate but not the right person for the top job.
Democrats can beat Trump if they can win the majority of Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin. They need a candidate who can when the disaffected workers in those states. It is true that Bernie Sanders in Elizabeth Warren have messages that should play well there but so did Hillary Clinton. She did a lousy job of delivering her message. Bernie Sanders is too extreme and he will be labeled a socialist. That is not what those Midwesterners want. Elizabeth Warren is simply not a likable and does not really speak the language of the Midwest. By far the most likely candidate, and one who is not getting much attention is Sen. Sherrod Brown from Ohio. His economic policies– Anti-free-trade, anti-NAFTA and pro social welfare programs is what those Midwesterners want. Trump talked a good game but didn't deliver. His tax cuts went to the wealthy and his job creation bullshit never happened.
The Democrats need to focus on winning the election and not on whom they like the best themselves. They lost in 2016 by screwing up in the Midwest. They can't afford to do it again.
Democrats can beat Trump if they can win the majority of Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin. They need a candidate who can when the disaffected workers in those states. It is true that Bernie Sanders in Elizabeth Warren have messages that should play well there but so did Hillary Clinton. She did a lousy job of delivering her message. Bernie Sanders is too extreme and he will be labeled a socialist. That is not what those Midwesterners want. Elizabeth Warren is simply not a likable and does not really speak the language of the Midwest. By far the most likely candidate, and one who is not getting much attention is Sen. Sherrod Brown from Ohio. His economic policies– Anti-free-trade, anti-NAFTA and pro social welfare programs is what those Midwesterners want. Trump talked a good game but didn't deliver. His tax cuts went to the wealthy and his job creation bullshit never happened.
The Democrats need to focus on winning the election and not on whom they like the best themselves. They lost in 2016 by screwing up in the Midwest. They can't afford to do it again.
Monday, December 24, 2018
A different kind of president
Donnies apologists often seek to explain away his stupid actions and remarks, which are endless by saying" he is a different kind of Pres.". They are of course correct. We have never had such an ignorant, incompetent, lying and probably delusional president. In the past few days he has reached new heights of stupidity and incompetence by announcing a troop withdrawal from Syria and probably Afghanistan and petulantly refusing to sign a continuing budget resolution. With respect to the latter, he obviously told House and Senate Republicans he would sign it but abruptly changed mind when criticized by Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram and the leaders of the so-called House" freedom Caucus".
This was an opportunity for the traditional leaders of the Republican Party to reclaim ownership of the House and Senate and probably the party as well. They needed to pass what Trump had previously agreed to, send it to the White House and tell Donnie that should he veto it it would be passed over his veto. They also should've told him that if he continued to act in such a deranged manner he was going to have nothing but problems with Congress, including the republican Senate majority and would never be reelected.. Of course they did nothing of the kind but meekly rolled over. Luckily, the Democrats in the Senate refused to do so. Had they, Donnie would continue to believe he can do anything he wants.
Perhaps our major problem is that the president has wide-ranging, often unfettered power in foreign affairs. Lord only knows what will do next. It seems from reporting that his Syrian decision was largely influenced by his phone call with Erdogen, certainly a person who wishes the US well.
So the current situation is that trumps domestic follies are largely controlled by the radical right and his foreign-policy is largely influenced by our enemies, whom he appears to think are his best buddies, to the detriment of the US and our traditional allies.
Merry Christmas.
This was an opportunity for the traditional leaders of the Republican Party to reclaim ownership of the House and Senate and probably the party as well. They needed to pass what Trump had previously agreed to, send it to the White House and tell Donnie that should he veto it it would be passed over his veto. They also should've told him that if he continued to act in such a deranged manner he was going to have nothing but problems with Congress, including the republican Senate majority and would never be reelected.. Of course they did nothing of the kind but meekly rolled over. Luckily, the Democrats in the Senate refused to do so. Had they, Donnie would continue to believe he can do anything he wants.
Perhaps our major problem is that the president has wide-ranging, often unfettered power in foreign affairs. Lord only knows what will do next. It seems from reporting that his Syrian decision was largely influenced by his phone call with Erdogen, certainly a person who wishes the US well.
So the current situation is that trumps domestic follies are largely controlled by the radical right and his foreign-policy is largely influenced by our enemies, whom he appears to think are his best buddies, to the detriment of the US and our traditional allies.
Merry Christmas.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
More dangerous than Trump
Many decades ago George Orwell wrote a great essay called olitics and the English language. It demonstrated how politicians use language to obfuscate and mistate their strategies and intentions. He later wrote the novel 1984 showing what happens when leaders in control simply mistate fax and lie. Now we have of course Donald Trump who seems incapable of not lying. But with him it seems obvious so why does he have a acceptance and approval of Republicans in general. Well some or die hard Republicans and would support him in all cases. Others have been called low information voters referring to a tendency of many to not dig into facts. But what we clearly have now is misinformation voters. These are voters who get their "facts and information" from duplicitous sources. One is of course trump but another is FOXNews, our current version of Pravda, and probably the worst is the Internet in which invented facts cascade through blogs and websites gaining currency has a ricochet through cyberspace. There becomes an exists an alternative reality that is obviously quite persuasive period
One of the great purveyors of deception is the radical libertarian right exemplified by the Koch brothers and their organizations and those aligned with them such as the Club for Growth which should be more accurately named the Club for Greed. They promote and sponsor organizations with highly deceptive names such as the" Americans for Prosperity". Now that sounds pretty good but what are their real aims? If they truly disclosed their goals it would be called Plutocrats and Kleptocrats seeking to eliminate social security, Medicaid ,Medicare ,operation Headstart, SNAP and any other social welfare program. Ultimately, they wish to reduce the federal government to an organization that focuses almost entirely on national defense and privatize everything else including such organizations as the Center for Disease Control, the national Institute of Health, The highway fund or any other program that could be privatized which in their mind is practically everything. They preached the notion that the best thing a voter could do for the nation is pay less taxes. This is a pretty easy sell. They have embarked on an ambitious program backed by enormous wealth and resources to achieve this. Part of this is controlling large parts of universities to spread the gospel. The best description I know of of this program is" Democracy in Chains" by Nancy McLean. Because of the vast resources they have in their deceptive programs they are much more dangerous then Donald Trump who is a transparent buffoon and whose presence on the stage is transitory. The republican party is pretty much in thrall to this movement. Traditional conservatives such as George will, Rick Scott, Steven Schmidt and others have left the party. The Republican Party is no longer conservative in the traditional sense. It is merely a group of professional politicians willing to work for the highest bidder. These things, not Donald Trump, are the real dangers to the republic.
One of the great purveyors of deception is the radical libertarian right exemplified by the Koch brothers and their organizations and those aligned with them such as the Club for Growth which should be more accurately named the Club for Greed. They promote and sponsor organizations with highly deceptive names such as the" Americans for Prosperity". Now that sounds pretty good but what are their real aims? If they truly disclosed their goals it would be called Plutocrats and Kleptocrats seeking to eliminate social security, Medicaid ,Medicare ,operation Headstart, SNAP and any other social welfare program. Ultimately, they wish to reduce the federal government to an organization that focuses almost entirely on national defense and privatize everything else including such organizations as the Center for Disease Control, the national Institute of Health, The highway fund or any other program that could be privatized which in their mind is practically everything. They preached the notion that the best thing a voter could do for the nation is pay less taxes. This is a pretty easy sell. They have embarked on an ambitious program backed by enormous wealth and resources to achieve this. Part of this is controlling large parts of universities to spread the gospel. The best description I know of of this program is" Democracy in Chains" by Nancy McLean. Because of the vast resources they have in their deceptive programs they are much more dangerous then Donald Trump who is a transparent buffoon and whose presence on the stage is transitory. The republican party is pretty much in thrall to this movement. Traditional conservatives such as George will, Rick Scott, Steven Schmidt and others have left the party. The Republican Party is no longer conservative in the traditional sense. It is merely a group of professional politicians willing to work for the highest bidder. These things, not Donald Trump, are the real dangers to the republic.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Doin the White House shuffle
Things are uncomfortable these days at the old White House. Little Donny is clearly in an aggravated and petulant mood. Apparently someone told him that losing 40 seats and control of the House of Representatives was not a nearly one hundred percent victory and some have even suggested it's primarily his fault for being such a bozo as president. Also, he was not shown the defference he desires in Europe and in fact was dressed down byMacron. So, in his usual fashion trump is casting about who to blame and fire. His first Target is apparently Homeland security secretary Kristjen Nielsen. She hasn't been using the term" invasion" and also has an annoying tendency to explain to little Donnie about laws which prevent him from doing that which he wishes. Obviously, she has to go. Rumors are also circulating about Gen. Kelly whose tenure has been tenuous for sometime. You may remember Kelly once called our fearless leader either a moron or an idiot. Donnie doesn't want anybody that perceptive around .
Rumor has it that Kelly may be replaced buy either Jared Kushner or Littler Donnie. As Donnie explained, the cloud of the Mueller investigation is not hanging over these two crown Princess because Whitaker has told him that he will shut down the Mueller investigation. Donnie hastened to sav" strike that", I wasn't supposed to talk about Whitaker. Jared apparently has time on his hands as he has already brought peace to the Middle East and reorganized the federal government as well as becoming the BFF of the Saudi crown prince. Also, interior Sec. Ryan Zinke and commerce secretary Wilbur -the- talking- horse Ross also may be on the short list of the to be departed. It may be a race to see whether they are fired first or indicted first.
Meanwhile, the First Trophy Wife is demanding that deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardle be cashiered. Apparently Mira complained about seats on the plane when what's her name went to Africa all by herself. You may recall that while she was there she met actual African people but didn't stay long because the shopping was terrible. First trophy wife was said to state that Mira did not deserve the honor of being in the White House. As she told her confidantes, she had to agree to have sex with Little Donnie before she got the honor of being there and didn't see why other women got off so easily. Of course, the first trophy wife has now been replaced in the presidential bed by refuse from McDonald's and Burger King.
The American people breathlessly awake the next move by our buffoon in chief.
Rumor has it that Kelly may be replaced buy either Jared Kushner or Littler Donnie. As Donnie explained, the cloud of the Mueller investigation is not hanging over these two crown Princess because Whitaker has told him that he will shut down the Mueller investigation. Donnie hastened to sav" strike that", I wasn't supposed to talk about Whitaker. Jared apparently has time on his hands as he has already brought peace to the Middle East and reorganized the federal government as well as becoming the BFF of the Saudi crown prince. Also, interior Sec. Ryan Zinke and commerce secretary Wilbur -the- talking- horse Ross also may be on the short list of the to be departed. It may be a race to see whether they are fired first or indicted first.
Meanwhile, the First Trophy Wife is demanding that deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardle be cashiered. Apparently Mira complained about seats on the plane when what's her name went to Africa all by herself. You may recall that while she was there she met actual African people but didn't stay long because the shopping was terrible. First trophy wife was said to state that Mira did not deserve the honor of being in the White House. As she told her confidantes, she had to agree to have sex with Little Donnie before she got the honor of being there and didn't see why other women got off so easily. Of course, the first trophy wife has now been replaced in the presidential bed by refuse from McDonald's and Burger King.
The American people breathlessly awake the next move by our buffoon in chief.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Bad hair day or bone spurs?
Donald Trump really shouldn't go to Europe. He makes a fool of himself and his done it again. He couldn't attend a ceremony honoring first world war casualties added military Battlefield Cemetery because of bad weather which cost him not to ride in his helicopter. He couldn't walk with the other heads of state to a ceremony because of" security issues". I am pretty certain the problem was that rainy weather causes him to have bad hair days. It is also possible that dampness causes his bone spurs to ache. You may recall those bone spurs prohibited him from serving in the military during the Vietnam conflict, even though he badly wanted to participate. He was in pain, could hardly play golf and tennis.
Trump also criticized the forest service for not preventing urban fires in California. Gifford Pinchot, and probably Teddy Roosevelt, are turning over in their graves .
Meanwhile, Trump's erratic behavior and delusions march onward. His claim of victory in the by elections is reminiscent of George W. Bush's claim of "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
But his approval rating among Republicans still remains at high. Work harder Democrats.
Trump also criticized the forest service for not preventing urban fires in California. Gifford Pinchot, and probably Teddy Roosevelt, are turning over in their graves .
Meanwhile, Trump's erratic behavior and delusions march onward. His claim of victory in the by elections is reminiscent of George W. Bush's claim of "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
But his approval rating among Republicans still remains at high. Work harder Democrats.
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