James Kallstrom is a former assistant director of the FBI. He led off on Lou Dobbs’ show last night, and at the end he got a little emotional. He handed Lou a copy of the Constitution, and then read aloud Article II, Section 1, “‘The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States.’ Period. Exclamation point.”
This language is clear to anyone whose mind hasn’t been polluted by a legal education, and it’s what makes President Trump bulletproof.
Some Christian minister from Dallas was on the Lou Dobbs show last night, and called him a general in the army of evangelicals who support Trump.
I’m not an evangelical, and I’ve never been a member of any army. But I’ve quite lately learned that Lou Dobbs is, in fact, the leader of the counterresistance.
Because California voters are rabidly pro-choice, Republicans are left out in the cold. The Republican base is pro-life, and wants Republican politicians to embrace that position. It’s a no win situation.
But if Kennedy retires, Roe v. Wade will be overturned, and each state will be free to adopt its own laws on abortion. In California, I expect the pro-choice position will be enshrined in the state constitution. As such, it’s not an issue. It’s settled. A candidate’s personal position is irrelevant, unless they’re foolish enough to favor taking it out of the constitution.
That’s the theory, anyway. In California, that’s all Republicans have got.
I was disappointed that a conflict prevented Joe deGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining Trump’s legal team. But the addition of Rudy Giuliani makes up for their loss. Rudy doesn’t back off from anybody.
People may be upset that he appears to be throwing Jared Kushner to the wolves in his defense of Ivanka. But Jared’s a big boy, and he can take care of himself. Ivanka, however, is and should be off limits.
What I’d like to see is a steel cage death match between Rudy and that little twerp Rod Rosenstein. You may think that would be cruel, and you’d be right. But watching a punk like Rosenstein being chewed to ribbons is my idea of pleasure.
Keely Drukula attended the 2017 Convention of States for her employer, the Heartland Institute. We got along well, and when I went out to bait the synthetic turf protesters I brought her along as a witness. I hoped to provoke some sort of confrontation with these rent-a-demonstrators, but failed.
They were giving well rehearsed speeches, and I could tell their hearts weren’t in it. When a speaker claimed that all the commissioners to the Convention had their travel expenses paid for, I interrupted, and said I was a commissioner, and I had paid my own way. I was asked to please not interrupt their protest, and agreed.
Keely told me her father was an immigrant from communist Poland, so I could easily figure out where she was coming from. People like her dad have the zeal of converts. They’re more American than most native born.
Among her duties is the production of the Heartland Daily Podcast. I’ll be asking her to feature a dialogue between myself and Dave Guldenschuh on the Mason Amendment.
I’m hoping Heartland President and CEO Tim Huelskamp will listen. He served three terms in the House from Kansas, and chaired the Tea Party Caucus. In 2016 he was successfully primaried by a Swamp Republican.
The way it looks to me, Heartland needs a mission, and the Mason Amendment would be right up their alley. As the President likes to say, “We’ll see.”
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