Mothers Day
If I ask anyone if they want clean air, clean water, good food for themselves and their children, they are going to say, “Sure.” If I ask anyone if they want health care for themselves and their loved ones, they’re going to say “Please.” If I ask anyone if they want to be paid fairly for their work, I can’t imagine a single person saying no. If I ask anyone if peace is better than war, everyone will answer, “Yes.”
We really are all in this together. And the two-party circus is a big part of what’s keeping us apart. Until we are free from that dividing concept, we won’t be able to have the things that we all really need.
There’s another thing we all have in common, whatever color our political clownsuit— we’ve all (so far) come from a mother. I want to take a moment to praise and thank all the mothers of the world. And the mother of us all, this living world, Mother Earth. Happy Mothers Day!
It’s a relatively quiet Mother’s Day Sunday in the news cycle, as we take a moment to celebrate the women who gave us our lives. Even the ruckus of the clown wars seems to have hit a slight pause. An intake of breath. The calm before the storm. The lights have dropped momentarily in P.R. Burn-em’s Two-Party Circus. But if you listen closely above the noisy chatter in the audience, you can hear the next acts being arranged in the three rings below.
The War Drum Clown Parade is warming up in the darkened ring on one side. You can hear the steady rumbling of jets taking off and the still-quiet rattling of sabers, though you can’t see much in the shadows.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/12/iran-is-active-threat-but-we-are-willing-to-talk-says-pompeo.html
Pompeo says the US is “readying its military tools.” Strikes me that Pompeo is the tool, here. The war-mongering hubris in statements like, “We’re willing to talk to them…” is transparent. Will any of the Clowns in Congress dare to speak out against this aggressive campaign that is an obvious distraction from the scandals surrounding the Trump Bunker?
But, Pompeo says in the Jerusalem Post, “The US isn’t aiming for war.” What a relief! We’re moving all those military armaments into place aiming for peace. Makes sense to me. Of course, with Trump’s bad aim, they may hit war by accident.
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pompeo-US-not-aiming-for-war-with-Iran-589463
In the other side ring, where the Blue Clown Fashion Show of 2020 is being arranged, climate change has become the accessory of the season. The 20 different models compete for who can carry it best. Apparently, it’s not Joe Biden. Remember, folks, Joe Biden IS soft serve ice cream. And he’s not the candidate that a climate voter could vote for.
The Dems are fighting about who is the most environment-friendly. I must say, I like these new Blue fashions. The green streak sets off the traditional colors nicely. It may be that a Blue-Green faction will form to combat the Orange clowns growing out of the Red. Here are two views of these spring-green looks.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/biden-climate-plan-1426884
So far, of all the Fashion Show contestants, there’s only one candidate for whom climate is not just an accessory. Jay Inslee has built his entire wardrobe around the environment. And he wears it well.
I might as well say it again. Jay Inslee’s plan for environmental action is real, if not yet complete. As is his experience as Governor of Washington. So far, the other candidates don’t rock the green with nearly the self-confidence and purpose that he displays.
In the center ring of the Circus, where the Trump Bunker balloon walls are rising steadily around the Orange Clown, it looks like more contempt is flying around. Now Robert Mueller won’t testify on the 15th as planned. And Nadler won’t say why.
And no one mentions getting Rod Rosenstein to testify. Could it be because he has the dirt on all the Clowns?
But the Dems are getting sick of empty cries of contempt. Why not cry “Monetary penalties!” That’s the way to hit Trumpians where they feel it the most. Can’t stab ‘em in the heart, if they got none. But the wallet? Ouch! How do you get them to pay, though?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/adam-schiff-trump-associates-fine-subpoenas
Here’s more on Republican in-fighting. Or should I say Republicans slowly working their way free of Trump’s evil grip? Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr is catching some Red Clown flak for calling Don Jr to come out of the Trump Bunker and answer a couple of questions.
“I don’t think there’s any possibility that any of those questions would change the conclusion.” Blunt added.
That’d be Senator Roy Blunt, another Repug member of the Intelligence committee. Nice to know he already knows what he doesn’t know. We’d hate to have an investigation into something we didn’t already know.
But Burr is not Blunt. And he may be a man of conscience and a man who will follow evidence, after all. Richard Burr might be one of the Red Clowns who will begin to see that the Constitution they have sworn an oath to is being re-written by the Big Orange Clown from inside his bunker.
From the side, I still believe some Republicans are not completely blinded by their Red clown outfits. Because whatever its faults, the Republican party has always stood up for the Constitution. I’m certain that, in the end, some Republicans still do.
More arguments for the rising tide of impeachment
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/10/if-constitutional-crisis-here-say-progressives-democrats-must-act-it-and-impeach
And since the birds are singing so sweetly this Mother’s Day morning, I’ll close with this one about the importance of birds in the world.
Though I’m not really a fan of the phrase “ecosystem services” I get what they mean.
Ken, Every now and then it is good to hear another view on how to proceed with impeachment. I’ve found this gal credible. She is on twitter, but I offer her blog here so you can remain twitter free!
https://terikanefield-blog.com/what-trump-wants-to-be-impeached/
Dude, I’ve been reading every counter-argument I can find! I really would like to be convinced that the Democrats aren’t digging themselves and all of us into a mass grave. Please send more, if you have them, because Kanefield was not persuasive at all.
The point I’ve been making since day one is that the only investigation that can have any effect is the investigation that takes place after the impeachment complaint is filed to the Judiciary Committee. I appreciate your source and all, but come on. This is just more Nancy Pelosi as the mind-reading-3-d-chess-player bull that’s been flying around for months now. I don’t buy a bit of it. I doubt that Nancy Pelosi plays chess at all, much less Go!
This is from The National Center for Constitutional Studies
***”A complaint requesting an impeachment investigation of that official is lodged with the House of Representatives. That request may either be general in its scope or it may delineate specific offenses; it may be requested in a petition filed by individual citizens or on the request of a single Representative, a group of Representatives, or the President.
“The request is referred to the House Judiciary Committee which forwards it to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. The Subcommittee then investigates the complaints and, if there is merit to the charges, Articles of Impeachment describing the specific offense(s) are prepared. Those Articles are forwarded to the full Judiciary Committee for a vote. If approved, the Articles are sent to the full House for a vote.
“A simple majority of the House either approves or disapproves the Articles. If disapproved, the issue is terminated. Approval, however, is, in effect, the equivalent of a grand jury indictment against that official. The approved Articles of Impeachment are then delivered to the Senate. With this action, the House’s role in an impeachment is finished.“***
The key sentence is that the Committee investigates the impeachment complaint, with the full force of law behind it. The point of my whole Moebius strip Escher clown silliness is that it is utterly silly and endless and empty to request documents and try to investigate except as part of an impeachment investigation. Look at what is happening in each of the investigations she names.
Kanefield leaves out that investigation is part of impeachment for her own and Nancy Pelosi’s convenience. Those investigations were what brought Nixon down. i.e. “An impeachment process against Richard Nixon was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res. 803, giving its Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United …” from Wikipedia (the final authority!)
I think. 🙂 Thanks for the link. Do you agree with her that more investigation is needed, before the impeachment investigation begins? If so, then what happens after more investigation?
Ken,
I’m with you basically on the do it now approach. However, I think there is *lots more* to come from various investigations that are much more persuasive that Trump accepted bribes, laundered money, endangered US interests in the process and aided and abetted crimes that he was aware of. This is the stuff that will get even Republicans mad, so I see the desire to get it out. The Dems *have* to use the power they have, but this is *only* the investigative power in the House. There is the danger of shooting your wad and once the Senate says no, having nothing to show and being at the mercy of Trump’s rhetoric. It is becoming clear that contempt and obstruction will be the norm from the administration. It is possible that impeachment proceedings could loosen that up a little – but not assured. At some point very soon SCOTUS will become involved on the various contempt charges. The circus is going to go on a little longer! Reuters reported recently that impeachment is now favored by 45% to 42% and we are still missing the most damaging charges because they are redacted or not included in Mueller’s report.
So it is frustrating sitting her waiting when you know Trump is going to start a war to further distract and solidify his position. But I’m not sure if impeachment proceedings would accelerate or delay such a war, which I see as inevitable at this point.