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Double-Teaming
This is the
first time I’ve ever posted a Civic Duty column in tandem with one of my
partner Don Day’s remarkable cartoon strips, but the Comey firing deserves all
the attention we can bring to bear. It is the high dirty water mark in a brief
presidency chockablock with sleaze, lying, conflicts, and general ugliness not
seen since the dying gasps of the Nixon administration.
Donald Trump
is something of a miracle worker of dark deeds. He has managed in a little over
one hundred days to bring the nation to a critical point in its constitutional
history that took Dick Nixon in all his paranoid majesty the better part of two
terms to arrive at. Things are faster now, more eyes are out there. For every
Woodward or Bernstein there are a hundred – a thousand? – investigative
personae churning the Internet and leaping with their findings onto the eternal
awareness of the social media. Still, Trump is so clueless and blatantly
without a vestige of political awareness that he is a giant fish in a rapidly
shrinking barrel to be shot at by anyone with an inclination and those ranks
are increasing by the moment. Check out the most dismal poll numbers in history.
And they’re before Comey. The next polls could actually put Trump in the
twenties.
Now, of
course, where on Thomas Jefferson’s green earth do we go from here? Right now,
Donald Trump is in a very small room with a very small number of henchpeople
and the walls are slowly closing. Too slowly. The vast array of cowards that
make up the Republican party will not do the right thing until it is indelibly
clear that this president is going to scuttle whatever remnants of their sorry
careers remain after his first – and only – term, if he lasts that long.
The
reckoning for this disgrace to the founding principles of our nation could be
coming sooner than later. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was reportedly
furious with the administration’s attempt to lay the blame for the deciding straw to fire
Comey on his three-page memo and requested to address the Senate Intelligence
Committee behind closed doors. There is no way his testimony can put the Trump
rationale to fire the FBI director in a favorable light.
Also, next
week, Comey himself is slated to testify before the committee. Trump, in firing
him, said that he asked the director three times point black if he was under
investigation and was told, he says, he was not. This has all the earmarks of
typical delusional Trump lie and Comey is sure to be asked about the
president’s assertion during his testimony. His reply could go a long way
towards laying to final rest any doubts
about Donald Trump’s honesty.
Meanwhile,
putting the Comey issue aside – as difficult as that is at this juncture –
Republican lawmakers on break are being pilloried from all side by constituents
enraged at the criminal health plan that they pushed through before adjourning.
When these cowards see what their blind party allegiance has wrought in terms
of their precious political survival, many scales will be removed from many
heretofore blind eyes in terms of the viability of keeping their shaky wagons
hitched to Donald Trump’s rapidly dimming star.
Stay tuned.
As they say on the streets that most of our politicians have very little real knowledge of: paybacks are a
motherfucker.
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