Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Historians of the future, huddled around their goose-fat lamps in muddy woolen cloaks, may cite this as the month that the Kardashian Dreamland formerly known as “The USA” finally lost its collective mind.
Submitted for your approval, as the late, great Rod Serling (senator from The Twilight Zone) used to say: this week’s Russia-Russia-Russia hearing on Capital Hill. I caught the final hour of this circus when freshman senator Kamala Harris (D – Cal) was hectoring Attorney General Jeff Sessions about his “contact with Russian Officials” and had to be reprimanded by the chair for her rude behavior.
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Note: it’s now deemed illicit for US government officials to talk to Russian diplomats. I wonder what would happen if government officials in other lands decided that it was improper to talk with US diplomats. The Democratic Party seems to be building a case that the world would be better off without diplomats cluttering up each other’s capital cities. Hey hey, ho ho, Di-plo-macy has got to go! Now that’s a most progressive idea! Apparently, AG Sessions riled Senator Harris by pointing out that the Soviet Union collapsed nearly thirty years ago.
Next up was Senator Mark Warner (D – Va), Vice-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who grilled Sessions about Russia’s electronic warfare capability. Say what? First of all, wouldn’t Senator Warner find more enlightenment on the subject by calling the Secretary of Defense, or the top military brass, or the NSA Director to the witness table? Does he know where the duties of the US Attorney General begin and end?
Secondly, Is there anybody in this country with an IQ above room temperature who thinks that the USA is not similarly disposed to carry out electronic warfare? Or that all the advanced nations of the world are not toying with internet intrusions into each other’s cyber space? Perhaps this is a manifestation of the political neurosis called American Exceptionalism, the idea that we’re so unlike people in other lands that they might as well be space aliens. (A sweet idea for a new Twilight Zone episode.)
All this idiocy suggests that the Russia meme is losing its mojo and the forces dedicate to dump Trump might have to look elsewhere for some legal ground to stand on. For the moment, they’re veering into the darkling woods where obstruction of justice lives, a Blair Witch Project of politics, where any old assemblage of broken twigs is a sure sign of the lurking beast — but perhaps that’s exactly where witch-hunting takes you.
Personally, I still believe they’ll run him over with the 25th Amendment, which allows for simple removal of a batshit incompetent executive without the pain-in-the-ass rigmarole of due process. You just get a consensus of the highest officials in the land to agree that guy has to go, and they get him gone, and, in this case, you get yourself Mike Pence, a tranny-like Church-Lady with a hard-on for the Koch Brothers. That’ll get the country great fast, I’m sure.
Then, of course, there was the gunning down of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others on a Virginia ballfield by a disgruntled Bernie Sanders fan, of all things. Is it hyperbole to say that this incident had the tone of a first shot in a new civil war? Even the hysterical elements over at CNN rushed to put out the very brushfires they had been kindling by broadcasting the Thursday night news against the backdrop of the annual congressional charity baseball gamed held at the Washington Nationals ballpark — as if the sore-beset people of this dissolute land might be stirred from their anomie by the comforting sound of wood on horsehide. Summer’s not quite officially here yet, but who feels like dancing in the streets? It’s more like wanting to hide behind the nearest trash can.
Kamala Harris was the worst California AG in history and should have been disbarred, at minimum.
She is a total joke as a US Senator, although in good company with “Senators” Al Franken, Chuck Schumer, and others.
Not long ago it was an expectation that members of Congress would be decent in their behavior, and this expectation was higher with respect to their fellow members and ex-members. AG Sessions is not only a current senior executive branch official, but also recently out of the Senate. It is extraordinary that a senator would be so inappropriate towards him.
Shortly before the first US Civil War there was open fighting in the Capitol. I expect that to happen again in the near future.
And, if I remember correctly, a shooting causing death – the shooter got away scott-free, not even a trial (may not have even been charged or arrested).
The possibility that Senator Kamala Harris of CA will be on the ticket for President in 2020 is very real and likely.
Could it be that Trump was used to put Pence in place ?
I have questioned him as VP for similar reasons since it was announced. If he actually tries to get too much of what he was elected to do accomplished, they have the perfect garden variety Israel-first type social conservative neocon waiting in the wings. Pretty much like giving Bush II another shot at the WH.
“Personally, I still believe they’ll run him over with the 25th Amendment, which allows for simple removal of a batshit incompetent executive without the pain-in-the-ass rigmarole of due process.”
Well Kunt, Obama was the perfect candidate for the 25th Amendment and CONgress didn’t bother.
All of this bullshit is agenda driven, from the RINO’s like Ryan and McConnell, the bureaucrats and staffers who leak and obstruct, to the academics and media who propagandize and confuse.
To expect logic or good faith actions is to expect the pig to fly while the horse sings “up, up, and away”.
The left’s problem is ‘bait and switch’. They can’t just keep changing the grounds for impeachment every few months. Special prosecutors move slowly because they are all career bureaucrats and like to be in the news too. We are already 1/8 of the way through Trumps term and Muellar is just hiring his staff. The only person he’s interviewed is his friend Comey. He’ll likely be fired or have to resign himself.
Trump maybe forced to immunize himself by granting pardons to every senior person he has spoken too since his election. It would still likely be fewer pardons and commutations than Clinton or Obama issued and the Democrats would fume but that is all they could do.
There is no need for the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. Impeachment and conviction is purely political (not judicial). Congress (both houses) can simply make up anything they want (for the practical reason that the process is unreviewable).
Russia and obstruction are simply a means to keep counting votes for impeachment. When they find 25 Republican Congressman in the House and 18 Republican Senators in the Senate to vote for impeachment and conviction, they will take the vote and get it done. Everything we see, the endless faux outrage in the news, the fake news, the provoked violence, etc. is to find the 43 votes. That’s the story.