Whatsoever our Caesar Disgustus sayeth of another,
that he himself would be.”
----from “The Quotations of
Chairman Joe”
Observing the behaviors of our Caesar Disgustus,
comedian Bill Maher noted that his actions seem animated not by
questions of policy and judgment but by asking the simple question
“What would a dick do?” Maher then listed several policy
reverses instituted by our prime ignoramus that make no other sense.
Why call, for instance, for the return of coal? Why insist that we
once again turn to asbestos? Why reverse regulations on Monsanto
banning use of chemicals that cause brain damage to children? Why
insist that we once again put lead in bullets? Why? Because he can.
He can be a dick, and that is all he can be.
And now we find, after taking a 'victory lap' in the
aftermath of the summary of the Mueller Report, that he once again
simply cannot help himself. Crowing about the “witch hunt”, and
“presidential harassment”, he simply could not leave well enough
alone. Instead with the ink still drying on the attorney general's
four page summation, our Disgustus once again goes after the
signature Obama piece of legislation: the Affordable Care Act.
Gail Collins writing
in The New York Times observes:
“But then he took off on the worst victory lap
since—well, do remember that baseball player who celebrated his
grand slam home run by leaping in the air and fracturing a leg?”
(1) That about sums it up. He
simply cannot leave Obama alone.
The last thing
Congressional ReSCUMlickans want to do is return to the health care
fiasco. Vowing to make the ReSCUMlickans “the party of health
care”, about which he has now famously declared himself to be the
resident expert, once again our intrepid Disgustus is walking all
over himself as he lurches forth snatching defeat from the jaws of
victory.
Mitch McConnell is not
amused, basically informing the White House that they are on their
own. McConnell, who has been burned more often than he cares to
recall as one agreement after another vanished before his eyes as the
White House moved goal posts, has no stomach for this telling tRUMP
that he can deal with the House Speaker.
“Republicans in Congress began desperately leaking
the news that they had tried to talk their alleged leader out of the
idea. The Democrats were almost swooning with joy. Really, Trump
could not have made them happier if he'd announced that he planned to
unveil a new tax cut called Help for The Greedy Rich” (2)
Meanwhile the
administration has reversed position and is now backing challenges to
the constitutionality of Obamacare currently working through the
courts. This latest stratagem is reportedly the brainchild of the
White House Chief-of-staff who, with the support of other idiotlogues
in this maladministration won the day over the strenuous objections
of attorney general William Barr. Barr should have resigned.
It seems to me that we
do indeed have a constitutional question here and it is not about the
legitimacy of the ACA. It is about the failure of this
administration to faithfully execute the laws. It seems to me that
on its face the administration is bound to defend any act of congress
in the courts and failure to do so is a violation of that oath. But
then, we are in the grips of graduates of schools of law that have no
understanding of constitutional questions.
So once again, private
“Bone Spurs” quick on the heels of his Department of Education
eliminating funding for the “Special Oympics” and severe cuts in
school lunch programs and other help for the needy, picks a fight
with the weakest, most vulnerable members of society. Confronted
with real wealth and real political power Disgustus drops to his
knees like an altar boy before a priest. Then, when vespers are over
he seeks a playground and begins flogging the children.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
______________________
- Collins, Gail. “Bad Times in Trumpville” The New York Times. Thursday, March 28, 2019Page A25
- Ibid
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