There’s Something Wrong with Our Politics

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There’s a lot I don’t understand about our current politics.

How does 1) a paper-thin majority in the House of Representatives, 2) a tie vote in the Senate, and 3) a president whose election was, to put it as charitably as possible, of doubtful legitimacy add up to a partisan government that does everything it damned well pleases without encountering any meaningful opposition?

Once upon a time, even if you were the majority party, you still had to dicker, compromise, give the opposition some of the things they wanted, You couldn’t just ignore them–as is being done now.

Another thing: the president is the chief executive. Among other things, his duty, as laid out in the Constitution, is to see that our country’s laws are enforced. Our immigration laws are statutes enacted by Congress and signed into law by various presidents. So how come China Joe gets to not only ignore those laws, but refuse to enforce them and encourage people to break them?

Is our system broken? Is that how we’ve wound up with these very strange politics? Did they repeal the Constitution when we weren’t looking?

Stolen elections have consequences, don’t they?

One of those consequences is that we completely lose control of our government.

From March 22, 2021

My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 11 (‘Republican Cowards’)

 

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I’m amazed the Republicans have the gall to hit us up for money, after the way they failed us, and continue to fail us, and failed our president.

Republican Cowards

I get tired of defending the Republican Party when people insist it’s the same damned thing as the Democrats. They say that because they confuse the people of the party with its leaders. Our leaders are, for the most part, worthless. It’s all one big happy family up on Capitol Hill, and no one goes home poor. And it’s our money that makes them rich.

Our professional political class is evil, venal, useless, corrupt, incompetent, and a disgrace to our entire country.

It very badly needs replacing.

Republican Cowards

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We were inundated this weekend with emails begging for funds for assorted Republican politicians. You know–the ones who were nowhere to be found when our president needed them. The ones who were nowhere to be found when we needed them.

And now they want our money.

The most depressing thing about this juncture of history is not the massive election fraud that has saddled us with an illegal government. Even more depressing than that is the sheer determination, by all sorts of important people, not to do their duty.

Evidence of fraud? We’ve got boxcar-loads of it. But can we find a court to look at it? Not on this planet. And even when they concede the abundant evidence of fraud, they still refuse to do anything about it! “Well, yeah, all right, there’s 200,000 fake votes in here, and the only legal remedy is to take ’em out; but that would, like, totally change the outcome of the election! And we’re not gonna do that.”

They will not do their duty.

Why not?

Because we have a professional political class; and when push comes to shove, regardless of party affiliation, they stick together. They never side with the American people.

Donald Trump was an outsider; and his great crime was that he did side with us. So he had to go! The entire political establishment united against him, threw at him every dirty trick in the book, and finally took him out.

Capitol Hill Republicans, and those supposedly “conservative” judges we were getting, were only too glad to see this president brought down. Maybe they let the Dems do all the dirty work; but they were more than willing to share in the profits of it. And heck, if it screws up our republic and puts every election under a cloud from now on… so what?

If they could somehow tear their hands away from their eyes, if they could somehow be forced to look at the evidence–what then? They could refuse to believe it. That’s what they’d probably do. Because if they did believe it, then the question becomes, “Well, what are you going to do about it?”

And they don’t know what to do about it. Granted, it’s a hard question. What to do? They don’t know. And they don’t want to have to decided. Because they’re cowards.

But what do we do, if we grant that 2020 was a fraudulent election? Hold it all over again? Let Cheatin’ Joe run again? Or simply remove the whole illegitimate Biden administration, void all his appointments and executive orders, and restore Donald Trump to the White House? Yeah, try that one on for size–Democrat riots, coast to coast. And then we’re back to hoping the rioters will go home if we give them what they want.

Republican cowardice has landed us in this trouble. Democrats rioted in Democrat cities all year long, and the GOP never said boo about it. Democrats attacked our president every day for four whole years and change, and the Republicans’ defense of him was, at best, something less than lukewarm.

And now they’re begging us for money!

Go to war and win some battles for us, sunshine. If it isn’t already too late. Don’t come back without a gunny sack full of Democrat foreskins.