Author: Fritz Pettyjohn

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.”

1. 83% of blacks are absolutely certain that God exists.  No other group even approaches that number.  84% of black Christians say their religion is important in their lives.  64% of white Christians agree.  (Per David French in NRO).

2.  Reuters poll shows support for Trump among black males has gone from 11% to 22% in one week.  Thank you, Kanye West.

3.  The bicoastal elite that runs the Democratic party is bigoted against Christians.

Let’s pretend that we’re political consultants, looking for weaknesses or contradictions in the coalition that is the Democratic party.

Hmmmm.

 

There are 435 elections in November for seats in the House of Representatives.  You can spend a good part of each day reading about them, individually or en masse.  Control of the House hangs in the balance.  The chattering class is breathless in anticipation.

But regardless of who wins, the major spending decisions will still be made by the Big Five, just as it’s done in California.  And just as it was done in March, with passage of the $1.3 trillion “omni.”

The House and Senate Majority and Minority leaders will hammer out a deal with President Trump.  The other 531 members of Congress will be spectators, just like the rest of us.  It doesn’t matter a whole lot which party controls the House.  The Speaker will have more say than the House Minority Leader, it’s true, but they’ll both have a seat at the table.  To the greatest extent possible, decisions on major and divisive issues will be kicked down the road.

So when someone tries to interest you in these elections, the proper response is “What difference will they make?”

The Swamp’s power in Washington has reached the point where few elections really matter.  Regardless of the will of the voters, the same gang remains in control.

Gee, I wonder if the Framers of the Constitution foresaw such a situation, and made provision for it?  Let’s look at the Constitution.  Maybe there’s something in there that was designed to deal with a broken Congress.

In 2003 Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi stunned the world by renouncing Weapons of Mass Destruction, and inviting international inspectors to verify his decision.  Eight years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, indulging her inner Caesar, proclaimed, “We came, we saw, he died.”

Based on that precedent, no one believes L’il Kim will give up his nukes.  Premier east Asian analyst Gordon Chang begs to differ.  Always listen to what Mr. Chang has to say

Gaddafi made the mistake of trusting the Davos crowd, which included Bush II, Obama and Hillary Clinton.  He paid a high price for this foolish faith.

Kim, on the other hand, has never trusted these Davos idealists.  If he disarmed, they would still try to take him out, because of his brutal treatment of his own people.  But Trump is different.  Trump doesn’t care about how Kim governs his country.  It doesn’t pose any threat to us, so who cares?

If Kim disarms, Trump will leave him alone.  Because Kim is sure of that, he may be willing to do it.

As the President says, “We’ll see.”