My Advice to the Speaker of
the House and to the Chairman of the Democratic Party
Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Perez:
They look like they mean business. They should. Impeachment is important business. |
It is quite clear that playing
by the rules is a losing game when your opponent does not play by the rules or
makes up their own rules as they go along.
Trump and those who support him will never play fairly; Trump, because he is an egotistical
narcissist with no deep knowledge of anything (I still doubt that he ever set
foot in either Fordham or the Wharton School), and the Republicans because they
are frightened about losing the votes of Trump’s supporters when they run
against Democrats, or even face primary challenges from the right if they dare
to speak the truth.
So what do you do in the face
of lies, delays, diversionary tactics leading into endless conspiratorial
rabbit holes, stonewalling of both witnesses and evidence, all of which I
guarantee will continue until November 3, 2020?
First: The Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives must tighten the rules, making them harder to defy. This means an immediate introduction of a formal
Bill of Impeachment, not next month or next week but today! This will be tougher for the Trumpublicans to
handle, although they will try mightily to obstruct it. A mere “inquiry into impeachment” is not
enough.
Two evil men in 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy and Counsel Roy Cohen who later became Donald Trump's mentor |
Second: All questioning of witnesses in the
impeachment proceedings must be by professional prosecutorial lawyers, like the
late Joseph Welch, who performed admirably in the McCarthy hearings in 1954. The politicians on the impeachment committee
should forget their individual agendas.
Third: The spineless Republican Senate will never
confirm the Bill of Impeachment passed on to it by the House. Nevertheless, the House impeachment hearings
will enable the voting public to learn the truth about the depth of the high
crimes and misdemeanors of which the President will be charged. The hearings must serve to get that message out! Voters will make the final decision on Election
Day, but immediate impeachment proceedings are necessary to get that
information to them and prevent it from being buried, as was the damning
information about the President and the Republican 2016 campaign provided by
the Mueller Report.
Fourth: The Democratic Party must devote its
resources to voter registration activities in those crucial States whose electoral
votes will determine the election results:
Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Arizona, Minnesota and Texas.
A dollar spent in New York or California is a dollar wasted.
A Man Not to be Trusted
The unhinged P.O.S. in the
White House has just betrayed our Kurdish allies, who sacrificed thousands of troops on the battlefield, playing a crucial role in defeating ISIS in northern Syria. Trump has dumped them to support another
autocratic leader, Turkey’s President Erdogan, who fears Kurds in Turkey will seek autonomy.
There’s a lesson here for those who think Trump is a friend of
Israel.
That friendship exists only
because there are millions of Jewish voters in the United States, including
many gullible enough to believe that to be sufficient reason to support him, an
example of which are people like casino-owner Sheldon Adelson.
Adelson |
JL
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Kitten in a Tree
A kitten can quickly climb up a tree and settle in its branches. But getting down is another story. Without help, the kitten might perish in the tree or drop to the ground fatally injuring itself. Getting to where you think you want to be is sometimes easier than getting back to where you were in the first place.
JL
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G.O.P. in the Batter's Box
When asked about the President’s
position in regard to the Ukraine ‘whistleblower’ or in regard to troop
withdrawal in northern Syria by a TV reporter from a ‘normal’ news channel,
Republicans ‘in the batter’s box’ on TV are visibly uncomfortable and seek to
change the subject (sometimes even to Hillary!) or go to some other
diversionary tactic.
But when the same
questions are posed by a Fox News reporter, they become relaxed and end up
supporting the President in one way or another. It’s like being in the batter’s
box and being pitched to by a minor league relief pitcher rather than by the
Justin Verlanders or Max Sherzers who hurl the questions, unlike Fox, on real
news channels.
Please watch Fox and you
will get an idea of the poison that has warped the judgement of millions of
Americans. (And that's why, due to the protection of the First Amendment, we're stuck with Trump in the White House. Free speech is predicated upon there being an intelligent population, which unfortunately cannot be legislated, although the tools to acquire intelligence are always available.)
JL
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