Couple of quick thoughts in some current headlines; okay one
story has been in the news for it seems years now.
All I can say is the Democrats still cannot force the issue
with impeachment. If they bring impeachment charges in the House and let
McConnell destroy the whole thing in the Senate they are only giving Trump an
extraordinary amount of ammunition for 2020. McConnell will do everything in
his power to keep the Senate from convicting Trump. So until you hear 67
Senators or maybe even a bit more say they will vote for conviction so
McConnell doesn’t have a choice, I would stay away from impeachment. I know some
will say we have to do it and hold the Senate accountable, but losing hurts the
Democrats in more ways than one.
They will need some real hard ugly undeniable evidence to
bring it to the Senate. I have said before and I will say again, stick to the
issues and force Trump into an area he can’t survive by making him come up with
real policy not slogans. The more Trump has to actually speak on coherent
issues, the more his followers have a chance to see he is a fraud. There is
still enough on the fence that are rational people. He falters and they realize
he isn’t what they thought. There will still be many followers no matter what,
but if he falls into the 30+% approval rating going into 2020 he will get
crazier and crazier with what he says and scare off enough people that some
Republicans will begin to back away. I still think there is a bunch of
Republicans on a power trip trying to wrestle complete power away from the
people, whether Trump is leading or is their visible engine the best thing to
do is to expose him for the fraud he is to his followers. The best way to do
that is get Trump keep speaking on the issues he knows nothing.
Letting him use slogans on hot button issues is not the game
the Democrats want to play. Then again, they are clueless.
And speaking of fraud, what is going on with this wall being
built in Sunland Park, New Mexico. I am of the humble opinion that they are
building this wall section to get more donations. They must know in the long
run this is going to fail. Way too many local regulations, state laws,
politicians, environmental groups, and flat out desert for them to even begin
to put any reasonable semblance of a wall up.
This whole venture will produce nothing more than a
deteriorating eyesore in a couple of years. A bunch of random manmade pollution
thrown out into the desert that has absolutely no purpose.
Who is going to maintain what does get built? How many
landowners are really going to want this on their land? How well is this being
constructed since they are throwing this up so fast? What kind of legal battles
will go on for years in the courts? And how many illegal immigrants will walk
around what is built or wait and bust through it as it begins to crumble? Are
the builders guaranteeing anything? This is an absurd waste of time and
resources, yet I feel they will spend years convincing people to send them more
money as they “fight” their legal battles, put up a wall here and there to look
like they are accomplishing something, and spouting some nonsense about being
productive Americans that care about our country. And they will get lots of
noise press from the alt right internet sites and the infamous cadre of Fox
News nighttime talking heads. Yeah, everyone that is against the wall is
against America will be one of the drumbeats of insanity we will have to endure
for a while. Sometimes I feel there is a deep state of these individuals trying
their best to flush the Constitution down the drain because of their complete
lack of morals and human decency.
Don’t get me wrong I believe we need stronger immigration
policy. This wall in whatever shape form or fashion being developed is not the
answer. We need our Congress to come up with real policy that has teeth and
fixes some of the real problems we have with our ports of entry. Manpower is
one answer, technology is another, and more streamline immigration categories
may be another, a random wall in the desert shouldn’t be on the drawing board,
much less left in the hands of private citizens with whatever crazy agenda
they have going.
The NBA Finals began tonight and the anticipated destruction
of the Raptors hasn’t happened yet. The Raptors hold a ten point lead with just
over 8 minutes in the fourth, but Lowry just committed his fifth foul. Can
Toronto find enough to survive the next few minutes with him on the bench and
still keep Golden State at arm’s length? Let’s hope the Raptors can make this a
good Finals. I do not care who wins as long as the games are good.
Then there is the possibility that getting beat in Game one
will be one giant wake up call for GS. We will see.
Cheers
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