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| 2016-10-28 |
| Thomas Sowell has written a column and made an argument for electing a Congress that will impeach the next POTUS and a POTUS who is impeachable. Read the article. My opinion (in yellow) follows. Feel free to comment as you like. Thomas Sowell had a column on 10/27/16 stating that we have two dangerous candidates running for President. One will be elected. Either will likely over-reach authority and violate the law as has Obama. He argued that we should elect a Congress that can keep either of these dangerous people from doing permanent damage to this country and to this generation future generations--and future generations yet unborn. Moreover, he said that we should elect a President who is "impeachable" such as Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton who, like Obama, is not impeachable due to breaking through perceived color barriers and glass ceilings.Has this election come down to electing the "most impeachable" POTUS because Congress will not do its duty? To elect a candidate to Congress who will do his duty is not an easy task for the voter. First, it is not so easy to determine who will be such a Congressman. Second, it is not so easy to hold his or her feet over the fire to make certain they don’t put Party over the good of the country. As we have seen in the Podesta emails, there is a concerted effort to keep citizens "uninformed and compliant." The echo chamber of the "bought" main stream media does its part to keep citizens uninformed and compliant with its endless propaganda. So, what are the answers to these questions? Perhaps, we should follow the British system with their votes of "no-confidence." Perhaps, we should continue pursuing "Banana Republic" policies such as unilateral POTUS treaties such as Obama brought about with the Iran nuclear agreement. Eventually, the people will revolt and turn out dictators or worse (or better depending upon your perspective). The people come out with pitchforks and the equivalent of a lynching occurs. Something like an Arab Spring occurs at a great cost. So, is that the kind of government we want? Or maybe we want a military junta every now and then to flush out the corruption. Do we want an oligarchy such as appears to be going on now whereas a small group of elite, often globalists, moneyed people run things in a kind of "shadow government" like a George Soros and as well as others, manipulating things in the background clandestinely--avoiding transparency and openness. When this occurs, our representative form of government, our Republic gets subverted and weakened. When corruption occurs, it is like a cancer, it spreads and destroys our institutions. Is that what we want? At one time, I thought Snowden and Assange were breaking the law and undermining governments. Now, after witnessing eight years of corruption and efforts to undermine the will of the people and our government by the current Executive Branch and facing the prospect of more corruption with another Clinton administration, I believe Snowden and Assange have done us a great favor by shining the light on something very sinister and evil. Perhaps, Thomas Sowell is correct and that we should vote for the lesser of two evils? Or was it the evil of two lesser? Congress, as it stands today, would have no trouble impeaching a Republican whereas impeaching a Democrat seems to be far more difficult. And who knows? We may even end up with a POTUS who has actually built something that is under cost, on schedule and within the law? |
| Posted by:JohnQC |
| #6 Great post. Seems to take down the "go-Along, get-Along" mutual admiration society we call "The Congress," then doubles back to remind us of the past 45 months. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-28 22:40 |
| #5 Lay low, stay positive and protect the bottom of the ticket. Election 2018 starts In About 6 months. Till then, we gotta hold the House. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-28 19:14 |
| #4 This is at best an insurance policy, albeit one with a piss poor company with a bad history - but is it better than no insurance at all? Whether you believe they have the backbone or not is the secondary question. But if you believe you have to vote for Trump to avoid Hillary, then by that same logic you MUST vote GOP to either enable The Donald, or cripple The Beeste. So Trump supporters, which one is it? You and your candidate spend time and effort trashing GOP congressional and senatorial candidates... Makes me wonder if you are actually on the other side. That said, Now is the time to start setting up for Primaries next cycle. Seek out, find and vet the conservatives to do to these people what was done to Cantor in safe GOP seats. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-10-28 18:27 |
| #3 The voters almost need to stay with the Pubs who are and will be in Congress in the near term. Later, things can be sorted out in the next election cycle(s). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-28 14:57 |
| #2 This battle was fought during the primaries. Now you could vote for a 100% Republican Congress, and you'll get no change whatsoever from the previous Congress because you voted for the wrong Republicans. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-10-28 13:20 |
| #1 The article by Sowell in Jewish World Review is an extended version of what appeared in our local newspaper. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-28 07:21 |