I despair, truly, I despair

Regular readers will know that, despite my occasional side-swipes, I have an instinctive and deep affection for America.  Thus, watching it slowly but surely sinking into a swamp of disgusting, amoral, hysterical madness is more than somewhat depressing.  Of course, there is an instinctive tendency to point the finger at Trump who, far from setting a good example, deliberately hurls petrol on any fire he spots.  Even so, there are rules and laws to deal with any aberrant behaviour by a President should he infringe them.  To date, and I do not claim any special knowledge of the American constitution, I have not seen or heard anything from him that would stand up in a court to an accusation of unconstitutional behaviour.  Aggravating - yes, infuriating - yes, unwise - yes again, but not a breech of the law of the land.  And, I should add quickly, there have also been examples of shrewd political decision-making.

Then, and this is where it gets truly depressing, you have to look to the opposition.  The Democratic party as we knew it no longer exists.  Just as our own Labour party, with its truly honourable history of decency and good intentions, has been captured by a gang of fanatics and turned into a vicious sect, so the Democratic party 'over there' has suffered the same fate.  Its few sound, sensible voices have been drowned out by a Left-wing cacophony of mindless stupidity and malevolence aimed at the brain-dead or the juvenile who are frequently the same people!  At the same time, and this is truly evil, they take every possible opportunity to stoke the fires of racial antipathy which, if it continues, is likely to produce a disastrous conflagration - disastrous, that is, for all Americans, black, white or brown.

This is all summed up in one particularly disgusting, and I would suggest also criminal, act by a senior White House official who has penned an anonymous, and therefore cowardly beyond description, report claiming that he/she and others employed in the service of their country at the White House are actively sabotaging the elected President's orders.  As David French puts it with spot on exactitude at the NRO:

If you’re actively defying the president to pursue your own preferred policies, you’re subverting an American presidential election. If you’re withholding from the American people actual hard evidence of presidential unfitness, then you’re placing your own career before your country. If you’re lying or badly exaggerating the facts for the thrill of constant media contact or the approval of your peers, then you’re just despicable.

[…]

So here’s what you have to do: You have to identify yourself. You have to state the basis of your claims, name the cabinet members who “whispered” about removing the president, and state the reasons for their alarm. If what you say is true, the American people need to know. You need to tell them, and you need to do it not in a television interview or the pages of the Times, but in Congress, under oath, in front of the nation.

Yes, this will be hard. But if you truly believe the president is unfit, basic patriotism demands nothing less.

I only saw bits and pieces, thank God, of the opening of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  What a disgusting pantomime it was courtesy, or do I mean 'discourtesy', of the Democratic Senators.  Knowing they had no chance of tripping up the Judge, they did their very best (worst) to close down the proceedings by reducing it to a shouty, disorganised demo of the very worst kind.  I do hope as many Americans as possible watched the proceedings to see and judge this bunch of undemocratic hooligans at work!  Of course, at least three of them were very much more concerned with gaining support, publicity and contributions to their efforts to win the Democratic nomination for the next Presidential election than they were about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh takes his seat.  I can only hope that when he gets there he does indeed strike down the evil Roe v. Wade ruling which has blighted American society for decades.

Sorry to be so depressing but I do believe in sharing my misery and grumpiness - no need to thank me!

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

AMERICA IS NOT IN A “PROTRACTED CRISIS,” THE LEFT IS IN A PROTRACTED TANTRUM. So wrote the Instapundit this morning.

We are having an increase in volume in the never ending war between Order and Chaos. Donald Trump won thanks to us 'Deplorables'. For once in the 162 year old history of the GOP, we nominated a man that went against the expected norms, and he won. Also against all previous norms, he fights with the first punch and counter punches if necessary. Very un GOPish.

Meantime, the Democratic party...that my wife and half our family belonged to...died. It is now becoming 'progressive' meaning Socialist, and the few honorable Liberals left are dwindling in number and energy from the pounding they take from the 'progressive' wing.

At the same time, half the GOP is reduced to smelling salts and fainting sofas because they are accustomed to looking 'honorable' as they roll over to the opposition. Their backbones are slithering along the floor looking for a fence to climb on. They don't like an outsider like Trump coming in and succeeding where entrenched 'experts' once reigned supreme in approved failure.

[Whitewall]

PS to above, my wife wanted it made clear she left the Dem party officially in 1984 and has never regretted it.

Robert

[David Duff]

Whiters, would that be about the time she came under the influence of older, wiser man?

(For God's sake, don't show her that comment!)

[Whitewall]

David, don't worry! The 'wiser' part would enrage her for some reason?

[Timbo]

I do hope that Bob hasn’t had an accident or something. I would have expected him to have been all over this.

[Bob]

Thanks for the concern, Timbo. I'm only on vacation and will probably take an occasional break from playing the straight man here as relaxation.

Actually, I'm worried for Britain. Not only do you have 1930's-style Labour dinosaurs, you have a group of "conservative" Tories that make the Marx Brothers seem like they had a sanity clause. Here's their negotiations with the EU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk