There was a very interesting Op-Ed written in the NY Times by Elizabeth Drew just yesterday posing this thought in writing.
I don’t know. It’s a tricky path for Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the Dems which will require great nuance and at some point some semblance of patriotism from around ten GOP senators in the U.S. Senate. The House should be a slam dunk. No problem. The GOP Senate might never come out and do the mea culpa they should have done nearly two years ago.
So I don’t know.
Clearly at this point Caligula should be impeached. Not because I think Mueller can prove collusion with the Russians per se, but more to the point it is clear the United States is being governed by a morally bankrupt creep who makes Nixon look like Justin Bieber. This is not who we are. This is not why the rest of the world has looked at us with envy since 1941. This is not the New World Order as the world changes into something new and different almost every day.
America is a conceptual vision. An American Dream in essence guard railed by a masterful constitution which in theory assures humans the opportunity to live a life of freedom attached with doing good things which make the world better around us. Doing things which insures the next generations have the same opportunities. The same dreams…and the same dreams for their children and grandchildren.
Can Caligula endanger all this with two more years now that the adults in Gary Cohn and Jim Mattis are no longer around to remind him he shouldn’t blow his nose on his shirt or fart during a meeting with other world leaders or grab Kellyanne Conway’s vagina in a staff meeting? Or to lie on an average of twenty times a day either on Twitter or on television. The Trump base has lowered the national bar to historically low standards for a sitting POTUS.
Because in the end that’s what you have here regardless of what ideology you embrace at the end of the day. It doesn’t matter if you’re a liberal or a conservative…. pragmatic moderate of a Dreamer. It shouldn’t and won’t matter in the end.
Because what we all have is a president who can’t tell the truth. A president who acts like a creep. A president you wouldn’t or at least shouldn’t want serving on your HOA, Little League, or School Board.
Our president is a pathological liar.
He panders to a base which in essence lost the GOP close to five hundred state legislative seats in state houses at the mid term. In two years, the one-thousand state seat houses the GOP picked up during the eight Obama years were cut in half under two years of Caligula. Nancy and Chuck may want to think this thru… two more years of Caligula and the Dems could be on the plus side of state house seats and the governor mansions. Just a thought.
I repeat…Kendra Horn won the 5th Congressional seat in Oklahoma… as a Dem.
They’ve used their Steve Bannon puppet all they can to this point. Two Supreme Court appointees. An individual and corporate tax cut which will add another $1.5 trillion to the debt the next ten years under the guise of fiscal conservatism. This is what Paul Ryan calls fiscal conservatism. Really?
But in reality Mitch McConnell has gotten everything he can get from Caligula. Like two whores who have used each other and now feel awkward in the after silence of not knowing who whored the other better. It is what it is. The current White House and Senate look more like brothels than institutions of freedom and democracy. But then again…the Greeks and Romans already did this.
So maybe Elizabeth Drew has a point or maybe she doesn’t.
Her Op-Ed lives and dies on the premise at some point around ten current GOP senators will put patriotism above political whoredom just once in showing Caligula the helicopter pad.
I hate to tell Elizabeth Drew this, but I have to in my Op-Ed of sorts on here.
Ms. Drew… I have no idea what alternative universe you’ve been living in, but there aren’t two GOP senators let alone ten who will do the right thing as far giving Donald Trump the gong.
Because in the end–it’s simple and George Will and every other honest conservative writer will agree.
Whoredom begats whoredom.