Pardon me for Livin’

Posted on by Fritz Pettyjohn

Now Democratic wise man Rep. James Clyburn supports a pardon for Trump. This is the man who decided, on behalf of the Democratic party, to overlook all of Biden’s inadequacies and give him the 2020 nomination. When he speaks, Democrats listen.

A Trump pardon would set the stage for Kamala to pardon Joe. Let’s put all the lawfare behind us. Let’s stop criminalizing our political opponents. Let’s make a clean break from the tawdry past, and turn the page to a better, more tolerant political culture.

Turning the page is not excusing or justifying malfeasance in office. The Department of Justice, and the FBI need a thorough overhaul. But don’t start trying to throw everyone in jail. Take their pensions, their power, and their reputations, for sure. But let’s not descend into the banana republics where losing an election means going to jail.

Lyndon Johnson was as crooked as they come. He and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley probably stole the 1960 Presidential election from Nixon. But when Nixon succeeded Johnson in the presidency, he didn’t try to have him prosecuted. That may have served justice, but it wouldn’t have been in the national interest.

Ford’s pardon of Nixon was in the national intertest. The humiliation of resignation was enough punishment for Nixon’s crimes.

If Biden resigns, he puts himself in the same league with Nixon. It’s a disgrace, a permanent stain on his historical reputation. At his age, that’s enough.

The pardon power is the power of Christian forgiveness. Heading into Christmas, it would be fitting.

Pardon me, Kamala (part 2)

Posted on by Fritz Pettyjohn

Back in July I thought Biden might resign, and have Kamala pardon the whole Biden crime family after the election. That way, she could campaign from out of the White House, as President Kamala Harris, the first woman President. I could picture her at the debates, being addressed as Madame President. She’d have to appoint her Vice President (remember Vice President Rockefeller?) That would be big news for weeks. Her appointment would require hearings, and a vote in both houses of Congress. Meanwhile Kamala is redecorating the White House, giving it that special “woman”s touch”. New curtains, for sure. There would be portraits of Obama everywhere. I could see it all.

Wrong!

But now Biden can resign, and Kamala can issue him a big blanket pardon, just like Hunter just got from his dad. She owes this to Joe. Just ask Jill Biden. It would look a little fishy, but Ford got away with pardoning Nixon, under similar circumstances. Just read President Ford’s Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon.

If Biden resigns soon, the pardon can be issued six weeks from now, on her way out the White House door. That’s the way Clinton pardoned Marc Rich. Clinton did it for Marc Rich’s money, which found its way to the criminal syndicate known as the Clinton Foundation.

Kamala can pardon Joe from purely patriotic motives. Trump is rabidly vindictive, and his minions at DoJ and the FBI will do his bidding. And he wants to have Biden indicted, just like he was. What a circus!

In order to spare the nation this long national nightmare, Kamala will issue the pardon. At great personal sacrifice, she will put the welfare of the nation ahead of her own political self-interest.

Or not. It would probably help her get the 2028 presidential nomination. Everybody’s a winner!

God bless America!

The Great Red Wave and Article V

Posted on by Fritz Pettyjohn

The inflection point, the moment things really started to turn around, was in October of 2013. That’s when Obamacare was introduced to the American people. Politically, it was catastrophic for the Democrats. A policy they’d been pushing since Truman actually went into effect and began to impact people’s lives. And people were pissed. They’d been told, repeatedly, that if they liked their health insurance, they could keep it. But that was always a lie,

When I saw all this happen, I decided to get back into politics after a 13 break. I figured things were going turn to around, and a lot of things might be possible. A red wave was coming, maybe big enough to enact an Article V amendment!

I was 68 years old, but figured I still had some gas left in the tank. I started a blog at ReaganProject.com, and did an internet search for an Article V movement. Any Article V movement. I found the Convention of States project (CoS), called them up, and they explained their proposal.

I told them that it would never work. You don’t combine three controversial proposals into one package and try to pass them all at one fell swoop. Politics doesn’t work that way. There are different majorities for all three ideas, but they don’t correspond to each other. This isn’t the way majorities are assembled.

So I did a little research, and found out Lew Uhler, an 80-year-old Reagan veteran in Sacramento, was still pushing a balanced budget amendment. I’d last seen Lew in Orlando at an ALEC meeting 24 years earlier, when I was in the Alaska legislature, and was pushing a term limits amendment. Here Lew was, still growing strong.

He had Mark Meckler, the head of CoS, along with his wife, over to his office. They lived just up the road in the foothills. Lew asked him to explain where he came up with the three ideas, (balanced budget, term limits, and cutting back the federal government). Meckler said he just asked the people who came to his Tea Party events, and these were the most popular ideas.

This is a stupid and sloppy way to put together a political initiative. It’s not how you draft a proposal that you try to pass in a state legislature. But it’s a good way to raise money, and that was Meckler’s principal goal. He’d learned how to raise money online for the Tea Party Patriots, which he co-founded. Naturally enough, Meckler has found his three-headed idea a tough sell. He’s raised and spent a fortune (taking a nice bite out for himself, thank you very much) to get around half the states he needs. These are the low hanging fruit, and he has little hope of getting any further.

It’s a waste of money, but it’s worse than that. Meckler actively seeks to undermine and destroy any rival Article V organization. He’s a snake. Other proposals are a threat to his. His whole operation is kept going so that Meckler can continue in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.

But things are about to change, fairly quickly. Meckler’s scam will soon be exposed, and he’ll need to find another line of work.

I’ve been at this a long time (since 1983, actually), and I’ve never felt better about our chances. The wave hasn’t crested. An Article V Convention will be called. And I will live to see it.

Ron DeSantis is a Tea Party Guy

Posted on by Fritz Pettyjohn

In 2011 DeSantis wrote a Tea Party manifesto, which he called “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers”

Politically, he lays it all out, including an embrace of Article V.

Personally, he doesn’t say a word. He wrote this book as preparation for his first run for elective office, for Congress, in 2012. But it’s not a campaign book. No biography in it at all

That’s the weakness, and the strength of Ron DeSantis.

I like him because I like really smart people. But he lacks political skills, or so it seems to me from afar. I hope I’m wrong. He’s got another run for President in him, and I want to do all I can for him.