Friends, it didn't come as a complete surprise when the House of Representatives expelled George Santos from its ranks last week, but it is more than a little troubling, given the fact that his trial hasn't even begun. The disturbing precedent this precipitate action sets is one of the topics that Brian and I cover on this week's Newsmaker Show. Others include: DJT's ongoing strength in the polls, the life and legacy of Henry Kissinger, the fallout from the DeSantis-Newsom debate, the looming (?) impeachment of Joe Biden, and the escalating establishment crusade against Elon Musk and Twitter.
When we turn to This Day in History, we talk about the many violations of democratic norms throughout American history, including in the case of the (coerced) passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the birth of the Irish Free State, the alarming tumult in America in the late 1960s, and the cultural significance of the Washington Monument.
That's right: even the Father of Our Country advises you to tune in to this week's Newsmaker Show! Under the circumstances, it would be positively un-American to refuse...
Dr Waddy frm Jack: All dems and some GOP voted for Santos' removal . What an apt example of the difference between the parties. Had a de m been similarly tasked, all dems would have voted to acquit, such is the discipline of their incipiently totalitarian throng. Some GOP still vainly think it meet to cooperate with these antiamerican leftist enthralled automatons. Principles are very nice, yes, but they are blithely disdained by those who are long since resolved to work the "fundamental transformation" of our unforgiveably imperfect land, by ANY means. America must determine to be as nasty and expeditious as they are or they will institutionalize the "any means" they will have employed to take consummate power.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Cynicism was very quick to compromise The Age of Aquarius. Those who sojourned in the smoky dreaminess of the 1967"Summer of Love" in San Francisco, were given to stealing groceries to satisfy their regretable mundane needs. The real bad asses, slavering over the naivete of the "Flower Children", moved in with dispatch and turned Greenwich Village and Haight Asbury into very conventional crime ridden areas." Their Satanic Majesties" The Stones, wilted when they beheld the true evil of the Hell's Angels they employed, with tragic presumptuousness, as " security" at Altamont. Strike one for the radical faction which so infested my boomer generation.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I never thought of Kissinger as having been a key factor in our Cold War victory. You supported that view well. Realpolitik
ReplyDeletemay have been a hard but necessary road. Wonder what Kissinger thought of the Ukraine War? A little realpolitik, painfully acknowledging Russia's vital national security interest in Ukraine, would do well just now.
Ah, don't be so sure, Jack! The Dems are quite capable of stabbing their own confederates in the back...but they would only do so in the greater interests of the party/movement. Sleepy Joe may someday find out for himself just how conditional the love of his party comrades can be...
ReplyDeleteI'm not entirely sure of Kissinger's views on Ukraine, which seem to have evolved over time, but here is evidence that he has supported Ukraine's (swift) accession into NATO...a policy with which you and I vehemently disagree!
https://www.economist.com/kissinger-highlights