Author: Fritz Pettyjohn

In college we spoke Big Al talk, and one of the terms we used was PB, for perfect being. On the Cal campus, PB’s were most commonly seen on fraternity row.  A PB is perfect in every way.  When a PB would come out of his fraternity house, he’d look all around, to see if anyone was looking at him, admiring his perfection.

The Bush and Romney families were PB’s, and Romney lost the presidential election of 2012 because he was a PB.  Blue collar whites despise PB’s, and refuse to vote for them.  These guys wouldn’t vote for Obama, but they also would not vote for Romney.  If they had turned up at the polls six years ago, Romney would have squeaked out a victory, the same way Trump did in 2016.

In 2014 or so I was an avid follower of Nate Silver’s website, 538.com.  The data provided there showed the path to victory for a Republican.  Get blue collar whites to vote for you, and you can win.  Trump saw the same thing.  The man knows polls.

The Great Republican Presidential Field of 2016 had a few PB’s in it, including, of course, Jeb!  Trump beat all these people because there isn’t an ounce of PB in him.  He’s a flawed man, and those white working guys could identify with him.

Ronald Reagan was not a PB because he was a genuinely humble man.  Trump’s not a PB for entirely different reasons.

CNN is featuring a column by renowned attorney Peter Zeidenberg (Z), and I should have known better, but I read it.   Since I broke some ribs a couple weeks ago, I try not to laugh, because it hurts.  When I finished reading this piece, I was practically rolling on the floor,  it was so funny.

Z lists his credentials in his byline, and they’re impressive.  He spent 17 years as a prosecutor at the Justice Department, and was Deputy Special Counsel in the persecution of poor old Scooter Libby, who was recently pardoned by President Trump.  He’s now a criminal lawyer, specializing in the defense of white collar crime.  I’m guessing, but I’ll bet he bills at $500 an hour.

Since he’s a lawyer, who passed the bar exam, Z’s IQ is almost  certainly above 100.  But you’d never know that from reading his essay.  This man lacks any understanding of the first sentence in Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution.  I’m sure he’s read it a couple times, but it was obviously over his head.

What he doesn’t mention in his byline is that he was lead trial counsel in United States vs. Safavian.  He obtained a conviction, but the U. S. Court of Appeals repudiated his tactics and reversed it.

I doubt Z was born this stupid.  It took three years of law school, and 17 years in the Justice Department, to reach the depths of ignorance he displays.

 

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows

Are proud and implacable passionate foes

 

Judge T. S. Eliis III’s grandfather was probably named after the author of that verse, T. S. Elliot.  Pekes and Pollicles, as everyone knows, are Republicans and Democrats.  As a judge, Ellis is neither.

But like all judges, he’s familiar with Article VI of the Constitution, which states, “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby. . .”

Judge Ellis also knows that the Constitution trumps the law, and that Section 1 of Article II vests the sole and exclusive power of the Executive in the Office of the President.

He’s ordered Mueller to produce, within two weeks, the “scope memo” which is the source of Mueller’s authority.   Unless I misread my man, Judge Ellis will then order Mueller to cease and desist his investigation, since the scope of authority purportedly granted him is unconstitutionally broad.

Judge Ellis’ order will remain in effect until overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  This Court has a higher percentage of Democrat-appointed Judges than the “nutty 9th”, so Mueller will have a fair audience.  Then, of course, it goes to the Supremes, where Mr. Mueller can expect to be schooled in the law.

Trump doesn’t need to fire these Grand Inquisitors.  Let Judge Ellis deal with them.

 

If you answered yes, please go this link.  It will make you think again.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence to pass the bar examination, so you rarely meet a lawyer who is a complete moron.  Based on my experience, an IQ of 100 is the bare minimum required.

This, of course, is half of humanity.  But don’t tell that to the priest on the bench, decked out in his black robe, who will decide your case.  He would take it as an affront.