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Our Founding Fathers had a big advantage when establishing the governing provenance for the new nation. They had an extensive knowledge of, and an appreciation for history. They learned the lessons of history and were determined that their descendants, we, the American people, would not be doomed to repeat them. The Fathers knew that all democracies fail because they implode; they eat themselves up, guts out, because free stuff is an intoxicant. It breeds power, and power corrupts. To prevent this, the Fathers set up a three-branch governmental system that included democratic principles, but provided checks and balances to insure that one branch of the government would not become more powerful than the other two. The three branches are: the Executive branch which includes the president and his administration, the Legislative branch which includes the two houses of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representative, and the Judicial branch (the Supreme Court and the Federal judicial system), which has the last say in what legislative actions may be implemented based on the precepts of the Constitution. At least that’s how it is supposed to work.

This checks and balances form of government has served us well in keeping one branch from gaining too much power over the governmental system, but now we find ourselves in a different world. Not only different from what the Founding Fathers envisioned, or the high American ideal of Abraham Lincoln, or the vision of Thomas Jefferson, but different from anything any American has ever experienced. All three branches of government are battling intensely and openly for control of the federal government. Talk about clash of the Titans. This fight plays out every day on our T.V. screens and computer monitors. The president challenging and insulting the Congress and the news media, the Congress fighting among themselves for control of that branch, and the Supreme Court with only two types of justices left: extremely liberal, or extremely conservative. No middle ground.

This fight is for the future of this nation; this fight is for our form of government, our very way of life; this fight can determine the course of this nation for the next fifty years, and this fight is completely and totally unnecessary. The Republicans have already won this fight, but, being Republicans, they choose to argue the point among themselves. They have a majority in the U.S. Senate, a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, a conservative leaning Supreme Court and the U.S. presidency, yet they insist on constantly working on their Keystone Kops routines as though they’re expecting to place first in the Congressional Max Sennett talent extravaganza. Enough already of this self-serving well-known-article-of-bovine-digestion and get to work setting the agenda for this great nation. Or once great nation. Has any one of you heard the president’s plans for this country? These are the principles you ran your campaigns on. These are the issues which you supported, and as a result, you were elected to your offices. Now, your major focus is not on doing the job we sent you there to do, but debating on whether or not you should cancel the August recess. How does that even become an issue? If the job isn’t done, you don’t go on vacation…at least we don’t. All this, and everything everyone else writes about the problems in Congress, will never end as long as we allow people to make politics their career. They become entrenched in the Foggy Bottom Swamp to the point where the Swamp becomes their constituent, not the people who elected them. So, instead of securing the future of the republic as a strong and great nation, the Republicans will allow this opportunity to evaporate like so many others have in the past. We will become more and more like France until we implode, like Europe is imploding from the weight of their own socialist folly. One possible future is full of hope, pride and optimism. The other is full of dread, uncertainty and anarchy, and the worst thing about it? We, the people, do not get to decide.

The problems the U.S. Senate is having passing the insurance bill (it is NOT a healthcare bill), is not because of the obstructionist attitudes and behavior of the Democrats on the left. They do their worst, but even Shumer, Pelosi, Warren, et all, cannot match the damage to the Republican party that it is doing to itself.
Think about it: these people have a majority in the house, and a majority in the Senate. That should effectively trump (yes, I did it on purpose) any maneuvers by the Democrats in Congress. Moreover, the Supreme Court is majority conservative and the presidency is in Republican hands, along with a large majority of state governors and legislatures, and still, these stumble bums in the Republican party are going to screw this up. Why? Because like all Foggy Bottom denizens, they are institutionalized. They care less about working for the American people and more about protecting the fetid swamp in which they crawl and slither.
The Republican party is at the precipice of history here. They have the highly unusual ability to set a conservative agenda for this country which will continue for a generation or more, and they are, in polite terms, turning it into so much urine.
When the Democrats want to pass a bill, they come together as an organized unit. They issue their talking points and every Democrat office holder will parrot the party line. They stick to the script. They say the same things. They present to the public a unified, organized party of concern and empathy. They appear to be the party of inclusion, the party of compassion, the party of plans and goals. The Republicans in the Senate, conversely, are about as coordinated as a Chinese fire drill, but without the precision. So, the Senate Republicans, bereft of responsible leadership, will dutifully pay undying fealty to the God of the U.S. Senate and follow blindly as their liberal lemming colleagues lead them off the cliff. Unfortunately for everyone, no outstretched arms of Caulfield will be at the bottom to break their fall. Splat!
That’s the sound of the Republican congressional majority falling on its face. Splat! That’s the sound of Mitch McConnell banging his head against the wall. Splat! That’s the sound of the future of American politics if they screw this up. Splat!
So much for bipartisan politics, so much for cooperation and compassion. So much for going to Washington to serve the American people. The Republicans were sent to the Senate and House to repeal Obamacare and get this country on the right path economically and socially. They are ignoring their mandate. They are thumbing their blue noses at the rest of us. To Washington politicians, we are nothing but fools and suckers and according to their game plan, one of us is born every minute. The barbarians are at the gates, and what are our Republican elected officials doing? They are standing around waiting for the sun to clear the east wall so they can have a picnic. Splat!

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

Thomas Paine wrote those words on December 23, 1776 in his treatise, The Crisis. The cause was clear then; the stakes were high but acceptable, and patriots rose to spill their blood in the name of liberty, for as Thomas Jefferson once said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” The crisis is of a different nature this time. The cause has been muddled by decades of beltway intellectual rot, so that our democratic republic is crumbling around us like the highways and bridges of our neglected infrastructure.

Our elected officials, many of them Washington D.C. fixtures for a lifetime, have devoted themselves to maintaining, at all costs, their corrupt and self serving status quo. These are devious, calculating men and women whose oath to protect and defend the Constitution has long been cast aside in favor of lucrative lobbyist relationships. These are, privileged people who work three days a week and vote themselves automatic annual raises, while many in this country collect food stamps and go to sleep at night wondering how they will feed their children. These people are, in their own minds, American aristocracy in a democratic republic that rejected that form of society almost five hundred years ago. That’s how this country got started. Members of Congress have rights and privileges most of us only dream about. Yet they work only three days a week doing the business of the people. They have their own private dining rooms and barber shops and safe spaces, and many of them have their own private jets, yet they only work three days a week.

Add to that sad Congressional state of affairs an ex-president who has set up a command post not far from the White House, and hired and trained thousands of leftist thugs to disrupt and destroy this administration, plus a compliant and submissive mainstream news media, and you have the recipe for a Constitutional disaster. Never in the proud history of our republic has a man so ego-driven, so self absorbed, so full of himself and so weak and feckless as a chief executive worked to destroy a sitting American president, and bring down the American government. To my mind and to the minds of many other people, this behavior equals treason in the most foul terms, because it is treason committed as a conspiracy, with the aid and assistance of like-minded America haters and overstuffed petty politicians in a Congress who collectively have long passed their sell-by date.

Almost seventy million people voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I can tell you without fear of contradiction that the feckless, traitorous Barack Obama is pissing off at least 90% of us. We understand what is at stake. We understand what we have to lose, but we took the oath, too. We are veterans and police officers, active and retired. We are hunters and outdoorsmen, we can live off the land for years if we have to, and why would we choose to do that rather than knuckle under to the liberal progressives who are trying to reshape our country in their own perverted image? The answer is simple: February, 1962: “I, Rick Ainsworth, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

That oath does not carry a sell-by date.

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They hate America, they hate Americans. It only follows that they would hate President Trump. Democrats just don’t get it. Their ideology is corrupt and their methods, out of desperation, are becoming more and more violent every week. Four special elections for Congressional seats have been held since Donald Trump took office, and in each of these regional clashes, the Democrats have trumpeted that this election was a referendum on his illegitimate presidency and the voters would come out in droves to show him that Democrats still have the power to influence the actions of the Federal….blah…blah…blah. A quick peek at the scoreboard will tell the Dems all they need to know: Trump 4 – Liberals 0.

But, please, don’t anyone tell these addle-brained Soros sycophants that their world is crumbling around them. Leave them to their fantasies and pie-in-the-sky proclamations about the looming demise of a president. I see a future where members of the Democrat party perished through their own stupidity, and like the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum, we will find their frozen bodies in the rubble of their failed ideology, stuck forever in the ash covered, entrenched positions they were in when they left the realm of relevance.

Well, Vesuvius isn’t to blame this time. The Democrats will be done in by the Four Horsemen of Ineptitude, known as Indecision, Inaction, Inertia and Procrastination. Why did the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum die so horribly? They had days to prepare. The volcano shook the Earth and belched smoke and gases for days. Why didn’t the people see the signs and evacuate? Because even though they saw the signs, a volcano of that magnitude was beyond their scope of experience or comprehension. Simply stated, they could not believe it.

This is the current state of the Democrat party. They can’t accept the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election. As in 79 A.D., the signs were there for all to see and interpret. Few people predicted the Trump win over Clinton, and no Democrats thought she could lose that election. Simply stated, they could not believe it. And they still don’t and will never believe it, despite the columns of their homes collapsing in on them and the streets in front of their houses buckling, and trees on fire, people running and screaming in panic and in terror. And they ignore the signs still. Republicans are winning everywhere, Democrats are spending millions to lose key congressional seats, the Dakota Pipeline is up and running, oil prices are coming down, employment is increasing all over the country, the stock market flourishes with positive energy, and corporate CEOs are loosening the purse strings and hiring new people. These CEOs are not dummies. They pulled in their horns during the Obama administration because they had no faith in the president or the economy. Things in America are getting better every day, thanks to Trump policies. This irritates the Dems to no end, and they have nothing but contempt for the deplorables who voted for that fascist in the White House. Please don’t anyone point out the futility of their positions. They might wake up. (What is that rumbling sound, and what the hell is that smell?)

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Way back in the innards of our local newsrag, on page 37 or so, I found a story reporting that President Trump signed a bill that would lift the onerous restrictions on firing non-performers and ne’er-do-wells from the Veteran’s Administration. Hooray!

As a veteran, I applaud this bill and wonder why the mainstream news media is not making a bigger deal out of it. If this were something to benefit the immigrant communities in this country, they would make it front page news.

Just about anyone who is injured or sick can go to any emergency room and be treated without question. Not so with the VA. Veterans stand in line for weeks, months, and years to see a doctor, and when they do see a VA doctor, all he/she wants to do is give them pills. And it doesn’t even take a trip to the pharmacy; they’ll mail them to you, no questions asked. No wonder so many veterans are addicted. These are government doctors, and as anyone who has served in the military knows, land-bound, institutionalized VA hospital doctors are not the cream of the medical crop America has to offer.

If anyone in this country deserves top of the line, first class medical treatment, it is the veteran. Go visit one of the VA hospitals if you have the stomach for it. People who work there, assisting our heroes, are undermotivated in the least. These are products of our educational system, which has inflicted upon the world a legion of millennial dipshits, ill-prepared, ill-informed, ill-educated and, I’m certain, ill-conceived. Put a bunch of them together in front of computer monitors with no supervision or direction, and before you know it, the poop-slingers are in charge of the monkey house.

I saw a quote by Lt. Colonel George Goodson, USMC (Ret) which read: “A veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including his life. That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.”

The focus in this country has centered on the violent, loud and obnoxious minority groups who are terribly downtrodden and unfortunate, yet they show up at demonstrations with nice, new, professionally printed signs. These groups only want one thing from us: they want more, and they aren’t shy about demanding we give them more. They are the angry, the profane and the violent.

Decent people, and American veterans are clearly in that category, shun this nonsense in order to concentrate on what is important to their families, their jobs, their religious beliefs, and to their communities. Their values are the values that represent hardworking, patriotic Americans, and those are the values that unite us. Unfortunately, those values are in scarce supply in our liberal, sequestered palaces of higher learning known as the University, which does not teach American history. Instead, they create a narrative of biased history for the indoctrination of legions of mind-numbed, half-wit Mortimer Snerds who flock to our university campuses, eager to have their minds redirected, refreshed and revitalized. They come out of freshman orientation with that thousand yard stare, and that gaping mouth, and things only go downhill from there. Stepford wives? That concept has got nothing on our university system.

If these schools teach nothing else about American history, they should at least touch on the many personal sacrifices made by Americans who served their country. They are a big reason why this nation stretches from sea to shining sea. They helped to build the nation these snot-nosed little poindexters take for granted. And if anyone in our society deserves our attention and respect, it is the American veteran. I am a veteran. I never served in combat, thank God, but I think I can speak for all veterans when I say, if it comes down to either your attention or your respect, we’ll take the respect, thank you very much.

 

In my opinion, the main stream news media and the Congressional black caucus deserve neither President Trump’s attention nor his concern for their welfare. Why should he care about anything they think? They hate him and demonstrate that hate every time the opportunity falls into their laps. Think about it: at every White House press briefing, these so-called journalists (bah) yell at the press secretary and won’t wait for an answer before yelling some more. They shout inane, nonsensical questions about things that are not of main concern to our republic or its citizens. And then, regardless of the answers they receive, they go back to their little cubicles and write whatever they want, as long as it is critical of the Trump administration. Nothing is out of bounds. Not his children, his family, his religion or his person. They are not doing the job their profession calls for: informing the American people of news happenings and occurrences and letting us determine for ourselves if they are good or bad for us. No. The MSM, broadcast and cable, will decide for us, and give us only the news that supports that hateful philosophy of theirs. They do not want to do their jobs, because they see bashing the president as an easy column to write, thus reliving themselves of any respect or responsibility for their craft. And relieve themselves they do. Just take a look at some of their rantings. I guarantee you will want to wash your hands.

The Congressional Black Caucus recently turned down an invitation to meet with President Trump in the White House. In a written statement they said his policies would, “…not only devastate the communities that we represent, but also many of the communities that supported your candidacy.” This is another group of Americans, like the main stream media, which is not doing the job for its people. Moreover, they will not and have never done the job for their people. The CBC has been in existence for 46 years, and what have they done to improve the conditions of the people they claim to represent? They’ve collected a great deal of money to insure the perpetuation of their Congressional seats, but let’s look at the facts: More black people on welfare and food stamps than ever before in history. More black people unemployed than ever in history. More black people living under the poverty line than any time in history. More blacks in jail, in gangs, being raised by single mothers, more black high school dropouts than ever before…shall I go on? These members of the CBC, while making certain their own nests are comfortably carpeted, have abandoned their people. The same people they claim to love and represent. Some representation.

Both of these groups should be dealt with in the same way by the President. To the news media, let them know that the press briefings will be held twice a week, once on Friday to recap the week, and once on Monday to recap the weekend. The ‘correspondents’ will sit in their assigned seats, listen quietly to the opening statement, and then raise their hands to ask questions in an organized and efficient manner. If they do not, and continue to scream at the press secretary with asinine, nonsensical questions, all press briefings will be suspended until proper rules of deportment can be agreed upon. What are they going to do? Lambast him in the media? Call him names on network television? Attack his family in print? Show hate and contempt for him? They already do that, so why feed them the ammunition?

To the Congressional Black Caucus I would say, you do not want to meet with the President of the United States to discuss the current plight of your people? From now on, I will give you nothing. Not even the time of day. And, since you are incapable of doing so, I will work to improve the mess you’ve made out of your communities, I will see to it that your people “…in the communities you represent…” get the fair treatment and representation they deserve. And I will ignore the CBC as much as you are ignoring me. Since you have made it clear you are not my constituency, why should I listen to, or be concerned with, anything you have to say? What are you going to do? Lambaste me in the media? Call me names on network television? Attack my family in print? Show hate and contempt for me? Hello, you already do that.

That’s what I want Trump to say, and to the CBC I say, shut your big mouths and take care of the people you claim you represent, and never forget, as long as you serve in Congress, just who is Muhammad and who is the mountain.

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In Washington D.C. it is impossible not to recognize the many buildings and statues and memorials celebrating the lives of Americans long past but never forgotten. The symbols are there to remind us that the only values we can truly glean from the past are the lessons that accompany it. Such a seminal lesson is taught every day at an isolated and sorrowful sight near the National Mall. They call it the Viet Nam Memorial, but members of our generation know it simply as the Wall. The Wall represents the errors and follies of the past. That war is long gone, but it lingers still and forever will in the names on the Wall. It has fallen to us, the living, to honor these brave people with our respect and our undying gratitude, especially from those of us who were fortunate enough not to become participants in a war that made no good sense. Theirs was a war of futility, of frustration and betrayal. Their country let them down and many did not come home. Many of those who did return did not go back to the farms and towns and cities of their childhood. They returned to a new home. They do not live with their families, they do not reside in the homes where they grew up. They no longer cruise Main Street with their girlfriends or go to ballgames with their buddies. They have a new home. They have taken up permanent residence on the Wall; their names are etched and shall forever remain on a massive slab of Gabbro rock. That beautiful, horrible Wall.

 You can stand at the Wall in the quiet softness of the early D.C. morning, with trees in full bloom, and the soft breeze at your back, along that vast, beautiful expanse of lawn and grass which is the National Mall. You can hang your head in prayer at the Wall and listen closely, for the ghosts of our generation will speak to you, will share with you the horror and futility of an unwelcome combat war. You will hear the whispers of all 58,318 American men and women who perished or disappeared in that war. You will see their faces in the rice paddies and jungles of Viet Nam, reflected in that black, Gabbro Wall. You will see that faraway, thousand mile stare so common among combat soldiers. You will see all that, feel all that, but you can never know, unless you were there, what terrible, unforgettable horrors our boys encountered in the full bloom of their youth. You can weep, and your tears will fall to the Earth, where so many tears have fallen before, but they, too, will fall in vain. For those tears, and all the many millions that have been shed at the foot of the Wall, can irrigate nothing but regret. For nothing but regret can bloom in the shadow of the Wall.

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Why don’t progressive liberals get it? With all their posturing, preening, whining and crying about how the country should be run, it is amazing to me that they miss the point. Collectively and unanimously, they miss the point: IT IS THE UNION, DAMMIT! Nothing is more important than the preservation of the Union. Thousands of Americans died establishing this Union, and six hundred thousand Americans died fighting to preserve it, and the Union survived even stronger than before. Abraham Lincoln certainly got it. Thomas Jefferson got it. James Madison got it. Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, JFK, Ronald Reagan. They all got it, and Donald Trump gets it, too. Our precious Union must survive all we deign to do to it, be it in the name of extreme liberalism or in the name of extreme conservatism. We are a blessed Union of independent states come together for a common goal: The preservation of the United States of America.
Our nation, in less than two hundred and fifty years, has risen from a rag tag group of British colonies dependent on the mother country for sustenance, to become the greatest nation in the history of this Earth. From sea to shining sea. More people, from all nations, religions and customs, have become successful in America than anywhere else in the world. Common people, from horribly poor and underprivileged nations, can come here and become successful, ensuring a good life for their following generations. Descendants of those and other immigrants were dispatched out into the world more than five times in the past century to save the world from those who would rule it in their own names.
And yet, some people in this country (and around the globe) resent American exceptionalism, indeed many of them scoff at it. They want America to be just another country in the scheme of the world, nothing special, nothing exceptional, nothing inspiring. Flat, like their view of the Earth. And what if they succeed (God knows they tried hard over the last eight years), and America becomes like Venezuela, or Argentina, or worse…France? What if, thanks to the meddling and chipping away of the left, that shining city upon a hill ceases to exist? What will that do to the hopes and dreams of the rest of the world? Where will they go to explore and discover the true measure of their potential? Cuba? I think not.
An America-less world means no more hope for the future. No ambition, no thirst for knowledge, no clear view to success. No more striving to become successful. Alas, no point. What could be worse for the world than losing hope? Without hope, life has no meaning. Hope is the essence of life, it is what makes our hearts beat and our blood surge. Hope is the best possible view of the future. Hope is tangible, built with enough handles so that all people can grab hold and pull themselves aboard. Without hope there is no future. Without hope there is no past. Without hope, there is only the present. And it never changes.
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