Maxine’s Words Come Back To Haunt Her

Let’s go back in time a little bit, shall we? How about six years ago. Donald Trump was the President of the United States, and he was doing an admirable job. The economy was humming along nicely. People of all races, creeds, colors, religions, and even sexual orientations were working. Unemployment was at record low levels. Trump had succeeded in putting “America first”, much to the chagrin of some of our allies who really wanted America to pay for their foibles.

So, what did the prissy little Maxine Waters have to say about it all? Besides screaming, “Impeach 45” anytime there were cameras near her, she demanded that her supporters harass Donald Trump, and those that worked for him any time they saw them. She wanted her minions to follow these folks to the bank, the grocery store, the dry cleaners, and scream constantly at them.

My how the times have changed!

Six years later, the shoe seems to be on the other foot. Nowadays, Maxine is the one that seems to be getting the people following her, and calling her out. And she doesn’t like it one bit! Her comment was, “As a member of Congress, when people, you know, who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one of them even confronted me in a restaurant. And they don’t say racist things, but what they say is they don’t like something I said, they don’t like a position that I took, but you know that, you know, if you were not black, you would not be approached that way.”

She played the race card.

And of course, video of that comment took off and became viral on X after her tirade. Apparently, it’s OK for us regular folks to go after Republicans in power, but as a “member of Congress”, you are racist if you disagree with someone that is black, or certainly a long time member of the House of Representatives! That’s unforgivable.

The hypocrisy here is about as loud as it can get. Maxine doesn’t like it when she’s called out for her uber-leftist views and racist comments. But she’s alright if Donald Trump and his staff feel that the heat. First off, let’s be clear, questioning someone’s policies, or their stance on an issue is not necessarily racist. It happens all the time to members of both parties, and race doesn’t play a part in probably 99% of it. I’m sure there are some folks out there that are indeed racist, but that’s not the overwhelming minority of what we’re talking about. I’m sure those are isolated examples. And I have no idea how Maxine Waters can determine that someone “evidently had a racist attitude”, or whether they just didn’t like her position on an issue.

The mere fact that she was about as unprofessional and rude as a politician could get toward Trump and his staff is not lost on the fact that anytime someone disagreed with her, it was because of race. Maybe SHE was the one that was racist when she was attacking Trump. Did anyone ever think about that?

The good news in all of this is, Maxine Waters is 85 years old. She doesn’t have much time left on this earth, so we don’t have to put up with her for long. And I’d say that if she were black, white, brown, red, yellow, or green. The color of her skin doesn’t matter. When you’re an idiot, it transcends race.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Can There BE A Fair Election?

When I look at all of the shenanigans the Democrats have pulled over the past four years, trying to insure that Donald Trump doesn’t get a second term as president, it makes me really wonder to what lengths they will go to in order to achieve that end.

Having said that, I will tell you that I’m really sure that seeing them pull the impeachments, the media blitz, the lies, and now the lawfare on Trump, having people disrupt the voting come November through several different means in order to deny Trump a victory, regardless what the polls say, may indeed come into play.

And when you look at a new poll from Heartland Institute, and Rasmussen, it bears witness to it. 28% of those folks polled said that they would commit voter fraud in order to help their side win come November. That’s almost three in ten voters! And there were several things they said they could do to destroy the integrity of the election: voting in multiple states; destroying mail-in ballots of friends or family members; paying or offering rewards to fellow voters; deliberately providing incorrect information about the place, time, or date associated with casting a ballot; and/or altering candidate selections on mail-in ballots.

I found that to be quite shocking to say the least. Now, to be fair, I have always said that yes, there probably was voter fraud in the 2020 election. However, I didn’t see (nor did the courts) any proof that would suggest that there was enough of it to overturn the election from Trump to Biden. I know that some of you doubt that and probably will go to your grave believing the election was stolen, just like Democrats who will believe forever that the Republicans stole the 2000 election when George W. Bush beat Al Gore by 500 or so votes.

But to hear that upwards of 44 million Americans may be inclined to commit voter fraud this far ahead of the election? That’s downright scary! And by the way, these weren’t just Democrats saying they would violate the law. This was Republicans as well.

One of the easier ways to commit voter fraud is through the mail-in ballots. When you don’t have a physical person at a physical voting station, with ID in hand to check against the voters’ roles, and you’re relying on a signature that is rarely if ever checked, and you hear of stories of bags of votes that were “found” in a closet somewhere that show up only after the election is over, and the race isn’t going the way the person wants it to, it makes you wonder.

There are a ton of countries around the world that have banned the use of mail-in ballots unless the person is living abroad or serving in the armed services. Some 47% of the world’s countries have such a law. And it’s a law that needs to be implemented here. Mail-in ballots are the easiest to defraud, and the easiest to manipulate. That’s why they should be banned.

I’ve often decried the need for a change in our election process. It should be one day, no more. It should be held on a federal holiday so everyone is able to vote. There should only be mail-in voting or early voting allowed for people that are living out of the country, or service in the military. And everyone should have to show an ID. Once you’ve voted, you get your thumb dipped in a vat of purple dye that takes two weeks to wear off. That will solve most of the problems with election fraud.

To even think that a third of Americans, regardless of party would consider committing this offense is beyond reason. And to that end, Congress should stiffen the penalty of voter fraud to life imprisonment without the chance for parole. Period. If we can’t trust our electoral process, we have no right remaining a country.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Democrats’ “Half-Truths”

The more I look into Joe Biden, the more I can truthfully say he is a liar, undisputed and wholly. But as far as the Democrats themselves go, it’s not so much that they are lying about various points. It’s that they weave the truth into their narrative. The fact is, it’s not that they lie. It’s that they don’t include the WHOLE truth.

Here are some examples. Let’s take the border situation. Joe Biden and all of these libs are talking about how Republicans only want to use the border as a campaign issue and that’s why they didn’t pass the “bi-partisan” immigration bill that Republican James Lankford (R-OK), and Independent Kirsten Sinema (I-AZ) both sat in on and negotiated. They say that it’s the biggest reform bill in decades (true), and that it solves the border problem (false). What they don’t tell you is that the bill only really kicks in after 5,000 illegals show up each day at a legitimate border crossing. Then they are turned away and sent back to Mexico to wait for their asylum hearing. What they also don’t tell you is that those eleven million illegals that are already here would have been put on a path to citizenship. But you didn’t hear them say any of those things. And Lankford and Sinema aren’t talking about those points either.

Let’s take a look at the “Inflation Reduction Act” that Joe Biden is so proud of. First of all, it’s name is totally misleading because it really doesn’t reduce inflation at all. They get away with it because it is going to shift jobs from the current energy field (oil and gas) to renewable energy (which hasn’t been proven to be even close to as reliable as oil and gas are). It deals with Green New Deal repackaged under a different and totally inappropriate name, just so Americans wouldn’t call Congress and complain. If it had been called the “Green New Deal Act”, it never would have passed.

And let’s look at the “Infrastructure Bill”. Now, if I were to ask you to describe what’s included as “infrastructure”, what would you say? Most people of sane mind would say roads, bridges, railways, maybe airports and some would include the power grid. I’m fine with that. Unfortunately, only about 24% of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill actually goes toward those things. That means that about $900 billion is going to Biden climate change projects, such as renewable energy and EV’s which the automakers are all backing away from because of poor sales. They don’t tell you that up front, do they? They make you THINK that the infrastructure is crumbling, which is true. But they don’t tell you that only a small portion of the bill is covering those items. The rest is a boondoggle.

Joe Biden talks about “Student Loan Forgiveness”, but he never mentions the fact that you and I are going to be the ones that pay that debt off. It’s not being forgiven. It’s being transferred from the people that took out the loans so they could major in Women’s Studies and Art History, and never get jobs that would allow them to pay it back (or what Lou Holtz would call “a bad choice”). Instead, they pull the wool over your eyes and say that these hard-working Americans are struggling to pay the debt that they need to, and can’t afford housing or food. They also don’t tell you the “forgiveness” doesn’t address the real problem, which is that the cost of a college degree goes up three to four times faster than the inflation rate. There’s nothing in the program that tells colleges and universities to lower their tuition in the first place, which, along with no-job-majors, is the real cause here.

And America is finally starting to wake up to the fact that Democrats are pulling this stunt over and over and over again. Sooner or later, this redefining of words, and calling things what they aren’t is going to come back to bite the Dems’ right on the backside. And it’s going to hurt!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Do YOU Have a Non-Compete?

If you do, you may be interested to know that you may be just about four scant months away from having it dissolved. The Federal Trade Commission has just decided, on a 3-2 vote to make non-competes illegal. Well, at least at this point in time.

Non-competes stop workers from taking their knowledge of a business, including trade secrets and leaving to work at a competing firm for a period of time. It’s been commonplace in a lot of different industries, including the one I came from, media. Typically, had I chose to leave my radio station and cross the street to a competitor’s station, I would have had to sit out for anywhere from six months to a year in order to go on the air over there (or in some cases even sell for them).

I didn’t work under a non-compete in my radio world job, but I did when I went to an advertising agency for a time. What was interesting was that that particular agency didn’t say I couldn’t go to work for another ad agency in the market. What they had me sign was a non-compete saying I wouldn’t contact any of my clients for a period of a year. And when I left, what I found interesting was that most of my clients either called me to figure out a way around the non-compete, or called the agency and cancelled their business with them.

Its understandable that a company wants to maintain a competitive advantage over a rival in the marketplace. And to do that, they employ non-competes. However, it does seem to hamstring the employees, or keep them tied to a job they no longer want to work at because in order to stay in the same industry, they’d basically have to move (at the very least), or be unemployed for a period of time.

And the reason that the vote was 3-2 and not unanimous was because the two members of the FTC that dissented said that they felt there were changes needed to the non-compete agreements alright, but that Congress never gave the FTC the right to issue such a rule in the first place. Congress has basically agreed with the two that dissented.

The Senate has bills that have been trying to work their way through their body. The Workforce Mobility Act, which is wending it’s way through the Senate is a bi-partisan bill. There is also the Freedom To Compete Act, which is again, bi-partisan.

Business leaders have sworn a court fight to the FTC’s ruling which takes place 120 days after being published in the Federal Register, and stops all companies from issuing non-competes as a condition of hiring someone, and gets rid of most of the non-competes that are in force. The only ones that can stay in force are for senior executives. Some 30,000,000 workers are currently under non-competes, about 18% of the workplace.

So, regardless how you feel about them, it seems like this is going to be a long, uphill battle for the FTC. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out, and whether or not the Senate can pass it’s bills in time to negate the lawsuits.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Schumer Just Doesn’t Learn From The Past

Democrat Majority Leader, Chuckles Schumer (D-NY) made one big mistake that is going to cost his party big time in the future. And it’s for the very simple reason that he was in the Senate when another Democrat Majority Leader made a stupid, bonehead move that ended up costing Democrats the majority on the Supreme Court.

I’m talking about what I refer to as the Harry Reid Rule. You’ll remember back when Reid was the Majority Leader, and Bobo Obama was having a hard time getting his liberal federal judge appointments passed because the Senate required 60 votes to approve the nomination. Reid saw the answer to that problem to lower the number of votes need to approve “non-Supreme Court Justice appointments” to 51. And it worked. Obama was able to get a slew of liberal federal justices approved.

But there was a problem that Reid nor Obama realized. By doing that, they forgot that at some point, the Republicans would probably be in charge of the Senate. And the 51 vote rule would be in place. So, while under the old rule, the GOP couldn’t pass judicial appointments, under the new rule they could. And it made it much easier for Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to toss in the Supreme Court Justice nominations in the new rule. And so, now you have a 6-3 Conservative Supreme Court.

Well, the same thing is going to happen to Chuckles Schumer and the Democrats. Only this time, it’s over impeachment. When Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas was impeached by the Republican House of Representatives for failing to do his job, Schumer went to work to protect his buddy. Instead of going through a drawn out trial that would have exposed Mayorkas’ lies to the world even more-so than had already been exposed, and forcing Democrats to basically say that lying isn’t a “high crime or misdemeanor”, Schumer decided to call for a Point of Order.

Now, Point of Order is a Roberts’ Rules thing. Basically, it interrupts whatever else is going on at the moment because you’re not following the rules correctly. Schumer’s gambit was that the whole impeachment, where you are supposed to be judged on whether or not you were guilty of said high crime or misdemeanor, was unconstitutional because the charges never were elevated to that point. And, using a simple majority in the vote, his Point of Order was accepted by the Democrat controlled Senate, and the whole process came to an end.

What that caused was yet another problem up the road for the Dems. The next time there is a Democrat controlled House and a Republican controlled Senate, and let’s say Trump beats Biden in November…and the House impeaches Trump for a third time, the Republicans in the Senate, using the precedent set by Schumer, can call the impeachment unconstitutional, use a Point of Order, and a 51 vote majority to toss out the impeachment. In effect, using an impeachment when you have a Senate in control by the party being impeached just ceased to be an outcome, regardless how serious the charge. If 51 Senators go along with the Point of Order motion, it doesn’t matter what the charge is, or how serious it is, an impeachment won’t happen.

And once again, at some point in the future, because you know it will happen, Democrats will once again, have egg all over their face and not be able to do anything about it except cry. They were the ones that screwed themselves.

Had they actually gone through with the trial in the Senate with Mayorkas, there were never the votes to convict him, and as Trump did twice, and Clinton and Andrew Johnson did once, they all skated, not able to get to the two-thirds majority necessary to convict. Instead, you just destroyed the impeachment process and weakened the House of Representatives. It will end up biting Democrats more than the GOP. Because if you look at who has controlled the House in the last, say 50 years or so, Democrats have controlled it for 30 years, Republicans for 20.

It’s just one more example of the Democrats not wanting to play ball under the existing rules, but making up their own rules to gain an advantage. And in most cases, it’s an advantage that turns against them up the road. Such stupidity!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Johnson’s Big Gamble

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a big gamble on Saturday. He put three bills up for a vote to deal with the aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. All three passed by a wide margin, despite the House Freedom Caucus complaint that nothing was in any of the bills that dealt with the southern border. That’s the reason Marjorie Taylor Greene was so upset.

Aid to Israel passed with a vote of 360-58; Taiwan’s aid passed 385-34, and the Ukraine aid package passed 311-112. All three were sent to the Senate late Saturday to be voted on this next week.

But the bills weren’t without controversy. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to add an amendment to the Ukraine bill that said anyone that voted for it, would volunteer for duty in Ukraine. It failed 351-71. MTG is still waffling on whether or not to make good on her promise to try and oust Mike Johnson from the Speaker’s chair. She filed the motion last week, but Donald Trump has tried to tamp down the rhetoric by saying he supports Johnson.

What wasn’t in the bills is what caused the House Freedom Caucus to rebel, the elimination of any extra funds for the southern border and to slow the stream of illegals pouring into the country. The HFC decided a long time ago that any money that dealt with aid to Israel, Ukraine, or Taiwan needed to also include money for more border security. But that’s a rather nebulous term, and what the Biden administration defines as “border security” is hiring more judges and paper pushers to fill out asylum claims. The Republicans in the HFC are wanting actual border security that stops the flow of illegals into the country.

So what happened to the fourth bill in the package…the Tik Tok bill? Well, it wasn’t sent through as a separate bill, but was added on to the aid packaged. Tik Tok has now nine months to find a buyer for it’s company that doesn’t include any Chinese investment (instead of the six months that was in the last bill the House passed). Joe Biden can extend that period by 90 days if he feels there is movement being made toward a sale. If no sale is reached within that time frame, Tik Tok will not be allowed to be downloaded on any US based app store, or hosted on any US based servers, basically shutting it down in this country.

If that were to happen, the popular app would most likely go to court citing a First Amendment violation. But I’m thinking that in this day and age, when it gets to the Supreme Court, and if the government attorneys use the logic that national security needs to trump freedom of speech in this arena, they probably are going to get the ban. After all, 34 of 50 states have banned Tik Tok on state-owned devices, so it’s impact has been lessened a little already. This ban, however would extend past governmentally owned devices and would outright ban the app altogether.

Biden has promised to sign all of the aid packages as soon as he gets it. The odds of the Senate trying to strip out the Tik Tok ban from the aid packages are nil.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

The Mayorkas Fiasco

Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas could very well go down in history as the worst cabinet secretary in this nation’s history. Certainly he would qualify as one of the most corrupt. He has lied to Congress repeatedly over the past four years, telling them over and over again that the situation at the southern border is “a challenge”, but it wasn’t until April 10th that he actually admitted that it was “a crisis”. Now, how does something go from just a challenge to a full-blown crisis? There are basically two ways.

The first way is that whatever is causing the situation as a challenge grows and grows and keeps getting worse and worse. The second way is that you do nothing about it being a challenge, and it blossoms into a crisis because you’ve done nothing. Mayorkas and the Biden administration have fallen into the second category.

As Mayorkas faced an impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader, Chuckles Schumer got a “point of order” passed that basically said that the articles of impeachment were unconstitutional. It passed along party lines.

First and foremost, let’s make very clear what we are dealing with here. Alejandro Mayorkas is a sorry excuse for a cabinet member. I don’t know the man, so I can’t say he’s a sorry excuse for a person, but I can say he is a pathological liar that doesn’t care about anything other than himself. That he has demonstrated in his numerous testimonies before Congress. So, we’re not dealing with a “Trump-style impeachment” here where the guy didn’t do anything wrong, and will get exonerated in the Senate. We’re dealing with a guy that has indeed lied to Congress, which according to 18 U.S.C. § 1001, is a federal crime which carries a penalty of five years in prison.

So, just to be clear, we are dealing with a situation where we have a cabinet member of the federal government who has lied to Congress, and that can easily be proven in a court of law. But is it right to impeach the guy and send him to the Senate for trial?

In my opinion, the answer is no. And the reason is simple. You’ve gone through the investigation phase in the House of Representatives. You’ve interviewed witnesses and taken testimony from dozens of people. And you’ve had a vote in committee, and on the House floor, which all passed and all took up valuable time and resources. Now you’re going to send it to the Senate who slapped it down without actually hearing anything more than a reading of the charges. The whole impeachment scenario led to the same thing that happened the last three times it’s been tried…nothing happens, and it’s been a waste of time and money.

Instead what the House should have done is arrest Mayorkas on the charge of lying to Congress, hold him in the Congressional jail (yes, there is one), and file charges that he’s lied and Congress tells the Department of Justice to either pursue the charges vigorously, or they get no further funding until they do. That means that Mayorkas would have to stand trial, and if found guilty would be sent to jail for up to five years.

Now, I realize that’s easy for me to say, and very difficult for anyone in DC to actually pull the trigger on. See, I would have no problem arresting a Congressman or Senator, and certainly not a member of the cabinet if they indeed committed a violation of federal law. In fact, it probably should be done a lot more than it is. And yes, it’s a serious offense that needs to be dealt with, but impeachment is not the way to go about it, especially if you don’t have the votes to convict the person in the Senate.

Let’s stop all the crap about impeaching people from the other side of the aisle. If they’ve broken the law, arrest them and force the DOJ to bring them to trial. Congress has the purse strings, and can certainly make that threat. It’s time we stop this mindless crap and do the business of the country.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Biden Still Has A Problem With Student Loan Debt

Currently in this country, there are 43 million people that have an outstanding student loan debt totaling about $1.6 trillion. Joe Biden has put out yet another proposal to try and buy the votes of those owing money, hoping to win their votes six months up the road.

It’s a bumpy road for Biden for the very least.

The proposal would cancel $20,000 in interest for roughly 25 million people who have exceeded the amount they have initially borrowed. This is because the interest has accumulated while they neglected to make payments, or while the payments were halted during the pandemic. For single borrowers, if they make less than $120,000 a year, or married couples earning less than $240,000 a year, who are enrolled in a repayment plan that is means tested, can apply to have their interest forgiven. And, those with high interest debts, who have had their loans for at least 20 years, as well as those that haven’t already applied to have debt relief, are going to be eligible to have some or all of their debt forgiven. Well, forgiven isn’t the right word. The debt is still there. It just gets transferred to the rest of us taxpayers, many of whom had to pay our own student loans off and never got squat from the government.

Ah, but there’s the rub. Only Congress can pass and implement taxes. The president doesn’t have the ability to do that, so to transfer debt to the nation’s taxpayers is basically implementing a new tax. And while the Supreme Court rejected an earlier attempt by Biden to erase some $400 billion in student debt last summer, he’s at it again. He changed his angle of attack a little bit, citing that the Secretary of Education has the right through the 1965 Higher Education Act to “compromise, waive, or release federal student loans”. And while that may be true, and that part of it may not enter into the argument (since Congress passed it), it doesn’t allow for the Secretary of Education to transfer the debt to the taxpayers. And this one is headed to court.

Of course, Biden is hoping that the courts, being over-burdened aren’t going to hear the case until after the election. And if he wins, he accomplished his goal of getting the youth vote. If he loses, it’s not going to matter to him anyway. Promise broken, so what? Are you going to sue him because the courts decided he couldn’t do it and it was unconstitutional?

Frankly, I don’t see how this is going to help Biden much. He can only try to lower and eliminate the debt. He can’t actually do it because the first thing those opposed to it will do is get an injunction against cancelling or transferring any debt until after the courts have heard all of the arguments, and appeals which will most assuredly happen. And while we’re talking about 30 million people, how many of the other 300 million people that are going to have the debt sloughed off on them are not going to vote for Biden because of this added tax burden? It’s a stupid plan from the beginning and flies in the face of fiscal responsibility. Anyone that backs this (other than those seeking a free release from their obligations), should just plain be ashamed of themselves!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

The Crystal Ball Is BACK!

Imagine my surprise when the UPS guy rang my doorbell and had a package for me yesterday! I couldn’t believe it! I wasn’t expecting anything. But there it was. My crystal ball, which had been broken beyond repair (or so I thought) was restored! The shop sent it back to me overnight because they knew I relied on it so heavily!

So, here is the test to see how well it works!

First thing I saw was Trump facing off against Biden this November. Oh, it’s a nasty campaign season. The two are calling each other the worst president we’ve ever had. And while Trump attacks what Biden has done in office, Biden basically says that Trump is evil. And in the end… Trump beats Biden with 312 Electoral College votes.

The next thing saw was Trump smiling and appearing in front of hundreds of microphones. He was standing outside a courthouse. Apparently, he had been found guilty in a couple of his trials, but had those guilty findings reversed on appeal. The decision that Letitia James and that socialist judge, Arthur Engoron got appealed and thrown out. The fine violated the 8th Amendment, and Engoron was slapped on the wrist for declaring Trump guilty before the trial ever started.

Then what to my wondering eyes should appear? Hunter Biden. He was being led away in handcuffs after the gun charges and the tax charges stuck. He’s to serve three years in prison on the gun charge, and had to pay a $25 million fine on the tax charges. At least he can still do business in the state of New York!

Then I saw the Capitol building in Washington, DC. It was painted red, white, and blue. The Senate was red, the dome was white, and the House of Representatives was blue. I took this to mean that the Republicans won back the Senate, but lost the House in November. That’s really not a big surprise. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-La) had a terrible time trying to wrangle the cats that make up the Republican majority. It was so razor thin, and the GOP is terrible at leading in that body, they can never agree on anything. So, with Trump winning the White House back, he’ll be impeached at least two more times. But with the Senate being safely in Republican hands, it won’t go anywhere. And that lead to another surprising, but equally pleasing detail…

There are two Justices on the Supreme Court that are going to be stepping down in the next year or two. Justice Clarance Thomas will leave the high court after 27 years. And, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is going to be forced to leave the high court for health reasons. That means that Donald Trump is going to become the president with the third most nominations, and the most in recent times (both George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt had a total of eight nominations), with five. That’s right…Donald Trump will have appointed a majority of the US Supreme Court. And how do you think that will play with the left?

I put away the crystal ball after that. I don’t want to wear it out on the first day! So, until next time…

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Do I Owe Fetterman An Apology?

I never really thought that Mehmet Oz would make a great Senator when he ran against Lt. Governor, John Fetterman in 2022. It was a close fight, but I thought at the time you’d have the lesser of two evils. On one hand, you’ve got a TV personality who’s credibility had been called into question several times over some of his medical beliefs. And on the other hand you had a guy that was going through stroke recovery that couldn’t even get his name right during the debates. It was so bad he had to have extra time, and separate rules just to debate Oz.

But I think I owe John Fetterman an apology.

I was pretty hard on the guy back in the 2022 midterms. I thought his dress and deportment matched his intelligence. And that appears not to be the case. Fetterman has come out against K-baby Harris and her comments regarding Gaza and a cease-fire. He’s been against Joe Biden and his attempts to tamper the whole Israeli/Hamas war and tell Israel to allow a cease fire. He’s sounding more like Joe Manchin on some issues than a guy that can’t hardly speak his own name.

I mean, I actually agree with him on a some of his stances. If I were taking a survey on how I would feel about Fetterman these days, it would probably mirror the way I’ve changed on Kirsten Sinema. When she got elected I thought she was this uber-leftist that was half a step from being a full-fledged socialist. And nothing could be further from the truth. No, I wouldn’t vote for her necessarily, as she’s still too liberal for me. But she took a strong stand on the border, against illegals coming into this country, and that’s a big deal here in the desert. And she’s stood with Manchin on not allowing the filibuster to go by the wayside, stopping the Democrats in the Senate from making yet another huge mistake that would hurt them up the road.

Fetterman is in that same boat. He’s turned out to be somewhat of a moderate. Now, I wouldn’t ever vote for the guy, but I can’t say I disagree with him on all issues either. He’s not afraid to go against Joe Biden, or Chuckles Schumer when it comes to something he believes in. And his arguments in those instances makes sense.

Don’t get me wrong. I would certainly hope that the Pennsylvania Republicans find a decent candidate (Oz wasn’t) and run him or her against Fetterman in 2028. I’d much rather see a conservative in a Senate seat than a moderate. But I’d also rather see a moderate in the Senate seat than a out and out Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren clone.

So, John Fetterman, if I’ve offended you over the past year and some months since you joined the Senate, I apologize. Just don’t go radical on us!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!