Grasping at Straws
The Republicans are grasping at straws which won’t be of
much use when their ship is going down in the middle of the ocean. I suspect that there might be enough patriotic
Americans among the Republicans in the Senate to go along with impeaching the
President and sending him on his way. (Only
20 are needed.) And if there are not,
the American people will do so on Nov. 3, 2020, sending the Republican Party on
their way along with him.
Realization of this is what’s causing the frantic barrage of
lies and attacks on Democrats you can find anytime on Fox News, on right-wing
internet sites and of course from the President every time he gets near a
microphone. The President’s accusing a
House Committee Chairman of “treason” and suggesting the Congressional hearings
amount to a coup d’etat wouldn’t even qualify as a script for a high school
drama club play. Once Trump’s defenders
recognize that the American public is not so stupid nor so gullible as they
believe them to be, I hope enough of them will give up on him and to save their
Party, go along with impeachment. Watch
and see.
But despite this, the 2020 election is not “in the bag” for
Democrats … although by all logic and reason, it should be. Kathleen Parker, in a recent Washington
Post column wrote that “as the late GOP chairman and ruthless political
operative Lee Atwater once told a political science student: Unless you can
sell your message in two minutes at a truck stop, it was either wrong or
wouldn’t work” Parker concludes by
saying that “for now, the Democratic Party message is still in the bottle.”
Marshall McLuhan, years ago, said that “the media IS the
message,” which I take to mean that how you say something is more important
than whatever it is you are saying. This
agrees with the Atwater quote above.
My recommendation to Democrats: Devote your efforts to voter registration
which is far more valuable a tool than the traditional Democratic strength of “preaching
to the choir.”
Rudy's Words
Rudy Guiliani, in explaining his connection in seeking
information regarding Ukrainian involvement in our affairs is quoted as saying,
“I was doing it to dig out information that exculpates my client (the
President), which is the role of a defense lawyer.” Rudy uses fancy “lawyer” words to impress us,
but let’s look at what they mean.
Guiliani uses the word “exculpate,” which can mean the
getting rid of the suspicion or appearance of guilt by his client, rather than
“exonerate” which would clearly declare his client’s innocence, not just negate
the suspicion or appearance of guilt or involvement in something unsavory. The word “culpable,” to which the word
“exculpate” relates, means “deserving of blame.” Getting rid of deserving blame for something
is not the same as the innocence which using the word “exonerate” would imply.
Why did he not use that word? My guess is that "innocence" was nowhere to be seen.
Letter to My Senators
Here is the text of an email I have sent to each of my
Republican Senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. If you have a Republican Senator, you might
do the same. I don’t know what good it does,
but they do count the letters, emails and phone calls they receive.
“I am not a Republican but I believe firmly in the
two-party system which has brought this country great leaders of both parties
in time of need.
Listening to and watching the President of the United States,
I am appalled at what his words and actions have done to the office he
holds. Normally, as provided for by the
Constitution, the American public can get rid of a president by voting him out
of office.
The vile actions of this president, however, demeaning
the co-equal Legislative branch of our government as well as dedicated public
servants in the FBI and our intelligence services and his underhanded
activities aimed at his re-election, demand that the nation not wait for
November 3, 2020 to remove him from office.
The ethics common in the lower reaches of the business community, from
which the President comes, should not be allowed to continue to besmirch the
White House and the Executive Branch of our government.
It the House of Representatives finds sufficient grounds
for passing a Bill of Impeachment, I urge you, as a Senator representing
the people of the State of Florida, to
support it, putting patriotism and the Constitution, to which you have pledged to
support in your oath of office, ahead of politics.
Your doing so would be a vote to save the nation as well
as the Republican Party.”
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