OBAMACARE: A SPITTING IMAGE OF V.A. DISASTER

NEWSMAX is reporting that more than 22,000 people on ObamaCare have died while waiting for medical services.  Current Medicaid waiting lists are estimated to be around 650,000 individuals, according to a Foundation for Government Accountability report, and includes states such as Ohio, where 62,118 are waiting for approval.  

And our Republican Congress couldn't... or wouldn't... get ObamaCare repealed.  

TRUMP SHUCKS AND DUCKS

Just like any other politician does when he's caught screwing the American people who elected him, Trump was quick to point the finger of blame at somebody else.  Congress made him do it.  He didn't have a choice.  He needed the military funded, so he was in a corner. 

Never mind that he had said, after it was passed by the House, that he was in favor of the Bill and would probably sign it.  Never mind that he never said one word about having his back to the wall before the Senate passed it.  Never mind that many Republicans had come out against the Bill and had, in fact, voted against it.  Never mind that he could have vetoed it and explained why, and called Congress back into session to get it straight.

Trump signed it.  He knew what he was doing when he signed it.  Like the evildoers who wrote and passed the Bill, he immediately left town after he signed it.  Evidently, just as with his predecessor, the buck stops anywhere except on the Oval Office desk. 

It was a setup, pure and simple.  And we're supposed to shut up and take it. 

I believe in supporting the man I voted for, but not when he turns his back and lies to the American people.  He's become a turncoat.  He and Ryan and McConnell have done the country a horrible disservice that I will never, ever forget.  

DISILLUSIONED IN AMERICA'S HEARTLAND

We obviously will never see a border wall.  

Kowtowing to the Democrats is more important.  

All of which means there will never be an indictment or prosecution of Obama, Clinton, or their minions.  

It's all just one big farce perpetrated on the American public.  

To hell with this government.

To hell with "Make America Great Again."

 

THESE KIDS ARE DEFINITELY NOT TO BLAME

Several high school students in Kentucky have volunteered to take down the U.S. flag everyday, fold and tuck it, and store it for the next day.  The process isn’t a school project, and a teacher didn’t ask for volunteers to do it. 

Cameron Carroll, Cara McWhirk and Jack Koontz  say it's about respect and it makes them feel proud for doing something positive for their community.

It's been many, many months since I've been able to post a blog with such a refreshing and great piece of Americanism.  

CLUELESS IN WASHINGTON

Seeing the results of the Pennsylvania Congressional election, Speaker Paul Ryan is now running around like Chicken Little, proclaiming that the Republicans had better watch out because they could lose control of the House in November.  He could very well be right.

Why?

Americans elected Trump because they are sick and tired of "business as usual" in Washington.  But, Ryan and his progressive establishment GOP good old boy cohorts, while lying that they support Trump, are doing everything possible to subvert his agenda.  They're certainly not team players to say the least.  Seeing Trump's plans are being stalled and stymied at every turn, Americans are now ready to cast them all out into oblivion.

A few of them, recognizing the handwriting could be on the wall, have already decided not to run for reelection; others are sitting on a fence praying for a miracle.  Americans are deciding that if such an incumbent won't get out of the way or change his/her ways, they simply won't vote in November and Democrats will win seats by default.

Here we are, over 17 months after Trump won the election, and these jackasses still don't get the message.  They'd rather the country go down in flames than to accept the blame.

TRUMP, GUNS AND DUE PROCESS

President Trump said Wednesday during a White House bipartisan meeting on school safety and gun violence: "I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida ... to go to court would have taken a long time. . . take the guns first, go through due process second."  Now that position has raised the backs of a lot of Republicans, the NRA and Constitutional legal scholars over the issue of "due process."  

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution each contain a Due Process Clause. The Due Process Clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the government outside the sanction of law. In other words, you can't arbitrarily deprive a citizen of his guns without giving him the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law.  Further, I don't know where in the Second Amendment it says that you have the right to bear arms only if you are mentally capable.  

That all having been said, I sure as hell don't want some nutcase like Cruz living next door to me with a room full of guns and ammo in his house.  I totally agree that he should not have had access to guns in the first place.  So, how do we reconcile all of this?  

Well, the law says that if you are a felon, you can't own or possess or even touch a gun or a bullet.  That law has withstood the Second Amendment as far as the courts are concerned.  But, being a felon is not a grey area; you either are, or you are not.  How do you determine the mental capacity and stability of an individual?  By what measurement and who makes the determination?  How are the standards to be defined?  

While we figure all of this out and enact laws to deal with the situation, does a guy like Cruz get to continue to own guns until the very moment that he pulls a trigger someplace?  Well, I definitely don't think any law enforcement officer has the right to barge into any house and seize guns; that proposition runs contrary to the very fundamentals of freedom.  But, I do think that the officer can haul the potential offender downtown and into a court, present the facts, allow the guy to defend himself, and ask the judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the loon from owning or possessing until the court can permanently rule on his ability; in the meantime, his guns and ammo could be seized and locked up.  

This method would provide "due process" and allow the authorities to temporarily seize his guns in very short order.