Month: October 2016

The coming coronation of Hillary Clinton will be hard to take.  It almost makes you physically ill.  But it won’t kill us, so it will make us stronger.

On WADR I happened to catch clips of Senators Rubio, Portman and Toomey from their recent Senate campaign debates.  I like all of these guys, especially Marco the Natural.  What a gift he has.  He’s plenty smart enough, he just needs some seasoning.  But they were all good, and as they distanced themselves from the Sociopath they were sending a subtle message.  If Clinton wins, you’re going to want me in the Senate to hold her to account.  This message works, and I think the R’s can hold the Senate with it.

Watching these three guys was kind of inspirational.  They know the storms ahead, but they’re going to try and help the country through the next difficult four years.  Good on ’em.  This is not the time to shrink from the service of your country.  The Trump people should follow their example.  Your candidate didn’t win, but wasn’t his campaign supposed to be about something bigger than just him?  It was America first, last, and always.  There are other people besides Donald Trump who can sing that song.

It was on WADR a couple months ago that I first heard Donny Deutsch say that what Trump was doing was setting himself up to start a new television network.  I laughed it off.   That’s crazy.  Well, maybe not.  It does explain his recent behavior.  And then I ran across this piece by a blogger named Ann Barnhardt.  She argues, very persuasively, that this entire campaign has been about building the Trump brand.  It has the ring of truth about it.  Well, he’s pulling it off, and as far as Clinton in the White House goes, what does he care?  She’ll help him build his network, as he stokes the fires against her.

It’s hard not to get pissed off at this election, but the people of this country are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.  Maybe the next time they’ll pay more attention.

I’ll be in Montana next week, and I’ll have a chance to take a look at the Governor’s race.  It’s close, with Bullock over Gianforte by two, according to one poll.  This will be two weeks before the election, so it should be interesting.  Maybe I can figure out a way to help.  We want to make another run at Montana, and having the Governor in our corner will be an asset.

In 1973 Mark Felt was the number two man at the FBI, and, using the name “Deep Throat”, he leaked the dirt on Watergate to the WaPo.  Nixon had used the FBI to subvert justice, and Felt wasn’t going to let him get away with it.  If he has a political descendant, the administration of Hillary Clinton could be a short one.  She’s dirty, the FBI knows it, covered it up, and I’d wager a lot of agents are angry about it.  Julian Assange is waiting.  We will see.

I occasionally have the stomach to read a Krugman article in the NYT, and a few days ago he outlined the Clinton Agenda.  It’s pretty exciting, and bound to succeed.  He thinks she should spend more on social programs and infrastructure.  That’s it.  That’s the plan.  Why didn’t I think of that?  It’s brilliant.  Clinton has no agenda and no plan.  She’s Obama’s third term, and he’s as clueless as she is.  No legislation of any significance will be passed.  She’ll use the veto and executive orders, and issue a lot of regulations, but she won’t really accomplish anything.  She’s drunk the climate change moonshine, and will do far more harm to the economy than good.  Off the top of my head I can’t think of one thing she would do that would help economic growth.

The economy suffers from a lack of animal spirits.  More small businesses are closing than opening.  The market is stalled, and will probably nose dive if the Fed hikes rates, as it almost surely will.  When the 2018 midterms roll around, the economy won’t help the party in power, the Democrats.

Race relations in this country are bad, and seem to be getting worse.  The police are afraid to do their job, and crime is on the rise.  It would be surprising if we don’t see more inner city riots.  All it takes is one questionable police shooting.  There seems to be an increase in random violence by blacks against whites.  It’s a dangerous situation.  It’s been, what, a month since a terror attack in this country?   They were coming once a week there for a while.  Maybe these jihadis aren’t so stupid.  They were helping elect Trump, and they’re taking a time out.  After the election they’ll be back at it.  Not good for the administration in power.

I suppose the MSM doesn’t cover it much, but there is madness loose on college campuses.  Lunacy.  It just gets worse.  Normal people, conservative or liberal, look at all this stuff and shake their head.  But Clinton could never criticize them.  They’re her crowd, and she’s complicit in all their antics.  Ditto for the LGBT gang.  The whole thing is crazy, but Clinton has to cheer it on.

Illegal immigration will be encouraged by Clinton, but there may not be a wave of it.  The economy is, and will remain, too weak.  But her refusal to enforce the law will catch up to her.  And the refugees that she wants to bring to this country will have jihadists among them, and if that were exposed, and she’d be toast.

Lord knows what she’ll do overseas, but if past is prologue she’ll screw it up.  I could go on, and on, but I hope you get my drift.   All this crap is just about to hit the fan, and she’ll be standing in front of it when it hits.  As the Democratic President, she, and her party, will  bear the political responsibility.  And you’re telling me that demographics are going to get her reelected?

What a waste this year has been.  All the political events of the past two years have led up to this, the climax.  But there is none, just a balloon deflating.

But the BBA Task Force steamed all the way up to 28 States, so it wasn’t completely wasted.  And the terrain ahead looks clear.  Article V is the way to go.

One of them is the power of the purse.  Article I of the Constitution bestows that power on Congress, and, more specifically, the House of Representatives.  “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives…”   The President, or the Senate, or the Supreme Court, does not have this power.  Our mother country, Great Britain, went through a century of war, regicide, and revolution in order to establish this principle.  The precursor to our Revolution was Britain’s Glorious Revolution of 1688.  The Framers understood all this as well as anyone.  Every word, every phrase, in the Constitution is there for a reason.

Senator Mitch McConnell, after the midterms of 2014 made him the Majority Leader, immediately announced that, on behalf of Congress, he would surrender the power of the purse to President Obama.  This was necessary, in his view, in order to avoid the political damage Republicans would suffer in the event of a government shutdown.  In essence, he emasculated himself, and the result has been two years of a neutered Congress.  When McConnell unmanned himself, and the Congress, House Speaker Boehner went along meekly.

All signs point to a continuing Republican House Majority.  The NBC News poll shows Clinton up by eleven,  but the generic Congressional ballot only gives the D’s a two point margin, well within the range of a Republican majority.  This dovetails with the fact that Republican candidates for the Senate are far outperforming Trump.  The chances are improving that we’ll hold the Senate.  People understand that the Clinton criminal family will be moving back into the White House, and they want their power diminished.

Trump should do well enough in tomorrow’s debate to avoid losing in a landslide, or so it appears.  The prospect of a Clinton Presidency has a lot of people scared, and they’re holding their noses and voting for the Sociopath.  This debate is Trump’s to lose, and I don’t expect him to.  A lot of sociopaths have political skills, and he’s one of them.  And you don’t need a great deal of skill to demonstrate that the idea of electing this woman President is absurd.  Which it is, except for who she’s running against.

Paul Ryan said recently that he wants to use a Continuing Resolution, or a budget Reconciliation bill, in order to repeal Obamacare, making it not subject to filibuster.  But what if Clinton is President, and vetoes it?  Will he cave?  Or will he fight?

I think he might fight.  If the Republicans have maintained a majority in  both House and Senate, they’ll have just as much of a mandate as Clinton.  More, really.  Clinton will only have won because of Trump, and the Congressional Republicans will have won in spite of him.  Who has the mandate to govern?  Who has the Constitutional obligation to govern?  Who has the will to fight?

If he fights, and wins, he’ll set up a midterm wave election for the Republicans.  And 2020 will  be setting up quite nicely.

To the extent that Clinton gets a political honeymoon, it’ll be over by the end of summer, say late August.  So when we all get together for the Great American Eclipse of August 21st we can all sing, “The Witch is dead.”

Like millions of normal Americans, I’ll miss Wednesday’s debate.  I’m an Oakland A’s fan, and we always trade away our good players, and I get to root for them in the playoffs.  One of our favorites is Coco Crisp, and he’s now an Indian.  I’ll be watching baseball.  Go Tribe.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  —  John Adams

As we have lost our morality, we have lost our Constitution.  If Adams was right, we must recover our morality to rediscover the Constitution.  An election of a President is more than about political power.  It’s about our character as a nation, as reflected in the leader we choose.  We are not so debased as to knowingly elect a sociopath to office.  We’ve done it once before, with Clinton, but most people didn’t realize what kind of man he really was.  With Trump, the word defines him.

Trump has a disregard for the feelings of others, a lack of remorse or shame, manipulative behavior, unchecked egocentricity, and the ability to lie to achieve his goals.  Those aren’t my words.  That’s the text book definition of a sociopath.  Look it up.   If the shoe fits, wear it, and this fits Donald like a glove.

The great Italian-American Angelo Codevilla has a piece out called “After the Republic.”  Angelo’s in a panic.  He thinks the country’s going all going to hell, and Trump will look like a moderate before it’s over.  He’s wrong.  Hillary Clinton is the tide at full ebb, as low as it gets.  Her election will mark the turning of the tide, the tide against the center.  She’ll make no further progress.  The tide is running against her.

The movement begins the day after the election.  It’s a fusion of the Trump faction with the constitutional conservatives, libertarians, and religious conservatives.  A majority in this country.  In many respects, it’s Trumpism without Trump.  It’s everybody who can’t stand Clinton, because she’s corrupt and a tool of Wall Street.  That’s a lot of people.  That’s enough to take the country back.  This election was a one off, a freak.  The fire next time will be different.

I had a good talk with Loren Enns, Western Field Director of the BBA Task Force.  He was in St. George, Utah, on his way to Phoenix.  He’s been chasing down Wyoming State Legislators, trying to educate them about Article V, and the BBA.  He’s had great success, and based on his report, and his work, Wyoming looks like a slam dunk.  He’s also been in Idaho, and has lined up 22 yes votes  within the 27 member Senate Majority.  This guy’s a dervish.  Things are looking good in Arizona, and Loren will probably be there for a week, seeing the legislative leadership, and counting votes.  Then he’s got to go back to Idaho for another round up there.  He quit his job, which was a good one, to do this, and a lot of it is coming out of his own pocket.  I think of all these people, at all these think tanks, writing reports, and doing research, and having meetings, and doing whatever the hell it is they do.  And they accomplish absolutely nothing.  And one guy, Loren Enns, at great personal cost, has assured us of States 29, 30 and 31.  O. K., I’m exaggerating.  But there aren’t too many around like Loren Enns.

Co-Founder Darren set this blog up for me just about three years ago.  It was right after I decided to get back into politics, and work on the Article V BBA.  We’ve made great progress in three years, from 17 States to 28.  We just need six more.  We should get four next year, easy, and then it gets hard.  But maybe then we can get some public attention.

This election is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  It’s not the end, or the beginning, of anything.  It’s a debasement of politics, a stain on our democratic system of government, and will be remembered as the low point in the corruption of our culture.  Both candidates are roundly despised by a majority of voters, and the winner will be the one who is loathed the least.  A hell of a way to run a country, but just what the Media Hive had planned all along.  What we’ve got is what they wanted.

So Obama gets a third term, to do what?  Clean up the messes he made in his first two?  Clinton has no mandate to do anything.  She’ll only get elected because she’s not Donald Trump.  She’ll have no political honeymoon, and, unless the Democrats win the House, no accomplishments.  She and her family are so thoroughly corrupt that, once the election is over, parts of the media will turn against her.

This is exactly what happened in 1964.  Lyndon Johnson was about to be exposed by major national media as the most corrupt member of Congress.  The research had been done, the articles written.  This is all detailed in Robert Caro’s brilliant multi-volume biography.  Then Kennedy was assassinated, and all the stories were buried.  They had wanted to force him off the Democratic ticket in 1964, but when he became the  President, and the nominee, everything was put on hold.  He had to beat the Republican, so hands off.

After he was elected, and the debacle of Vietnam unfolded, the old stories, buried in 1963, started to resurface.  The scale of Lyndon Johnson’s corruption was not surpassed until Bill Clinton took office.  In 1968 Johnson knew the press had him by the balls, and he pulled out.

If Clinton is elected she will not run for a second term, in my opinion, because once she wins this election, parts of the press will turn on her.   Nobody really likes her, and everyone knows she’s a greedy shrew.  They’ll take her out just like they took out LBJ.  They’ve got a lot to work with.

So we’ll have a fresh face to deal with in 2020, and I don’t mean the idiot Kaine.  They’ll come up with somebody else to run for Obama’s fourth term, won’t they?.  They can’t be dumb enough to go with Kaine, could they?  And 2020, so I’ve read, is the year when demographics overwhelms the Republican coalition.  Very smart people have got it all figured out.  Demographics is destiny.

These people are crazy.  What do you think is going to happen in, and to, this country in the next four years?  Will our problems be solved, or will they get worse?  What will  Clinton do that Obama couldn’t?  Her term will be a political and economic disaster.   She’ll have no agenda, no mandate to lead, and no idea of what to do.  The Fed has got to start raising interest rates, they have no choice.  They’ve put it off as long as they can, so the market crash comes after the election, and can’t be blamed on Obama..

You don’t need to be a prophet to see what’s coming, and none of it’s good.  And you’re telling me that the Democrat is going to win in 2020 because of demographics?  Go back to your algorithms and quit trying to pretend that you know anything about politics.

So in the history books the election of 2016 won’t make a footnote.  It’s the least consequential election of my lifetime.  And I can’t wait for it to be over.

It’s just a prelude.