Skip to main content

Carrie's Wall

Carrie's Wall from Homeland
Lot's of people watch Homeland. CIA agents battling for truth, and sometimes against each other, trying to keep our nation safe. One of the most fascinating and eye catching symbols was the wall of clues that Carrie kept to try and sort things out.

So how big a wall would we need to track what's going on with Trump?

Yesterday always seems like a week or two ago these days. Information flows like it's shooting out of a fire hose. One recent change is that Trump Tweets have stopped, for now. It won't last.

Spilling intelligence secrets directly to the Russian Ambassador and Foreign Minister used to be the kind of story that would last a week or more. Not a chance. The New York Times story on Comey's memo turned the tables in a heartbeat.

The Republican stonewall in Congress has developed a few cracks now. Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania said that things are moving towards an independent investigation. Sen John McCain said “We’ve seen this movie before. I think it’s reaching the point where it’s of Watergate size and scale and a couple of other scandals that you and I have seen." Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are calling for a special prosecutor or independent commission.

Ever since the election, Republican party leadership and virtually the entire party base of voters have stood behind Trump and ignored the torrent of information. It was all just "crazy liberals." They ignored their own eyes and ears, because the only unforgivable sin in Washington is giving up power.
Maybe they need a little advice:
Above all I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. - J. Edgar Hoover 

It's a rare day when some truth ever passes Trump's lips. Not from his first days on the campaign trail through today can he resist lying about anything and everything to pump up his immense and fragile ego. Not one person can truly claim to be surprised. Every other Republican candidate called out Trump's lies and unfitness for office. No one can claim they were not warned. Yet 62,939,636 Americans voted for Trump, 46.1% of the total, and he won.

The polls say that some 87% of those voters still unequivocally support Trump. If the desire for a strongman and liar is that large among our population, our future as a democracy is indeed bleak.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Have a Nice Half Life!

Say "Hi!" to a Plutonium Pellet. You've probably heard the term "half life" before. It usually is attached to radioactive materials to tell you how long is takes to decrease it's radioactive emission to half of the starting value. It actually applies to anything that is decreased by half. Radioactive Plutonium-244 has a half life of 80.8 million years. Uranium-238 has a half life of 4.8 billion years. A Trump news story on the New York Times or Washington Post has a half life of maybe an hour theses days. They're not leaks. They're a flood. And that picture of the plutonium pellet? I've seen that same color of glowing orange a lot in the last year. We should probably just start referring to Trump as President Plutonium. Radioactive. Everything he touches suddenly turns lethal on him. Flynn, Comey, Spicer, Bannon, Priebus, not to mention Coast Guard cadets at graduation. No place is safe from him. Wants to Take Over the Tonight S...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pondering America

America's mythology lies among its spaces. Sometimes it's the open sagebrush of the Great Basin of the west. Other times it's the lush and forested Shenandoah Valley, part of the great inland valley that stretches from Canada to Georgia. Our shared heritage is of individual achievement and expansion across the land. From the founding of the colonies, through the industrial revolution and the great magnates of wealth, Americans celebrate that individual achievement. America also tends to ignore the sting of death, theft and hatred of "others" that helped make that wealth and progress possible. The myth of the individual in an open land is powerful. What powered that myh, however, was also the dedication to seek justice. To form a nation where the people decide what constitutes fairness and justice, and protects people from individuals who seek to impose their rule upon others. It's obvious that things often go two steps forward, then a step back,...
Post a Comment
Read more

It's a Hard Life for Republicans

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan People think I'm being disingenuous when I say I feel sorry for Paul Ryan. Not true. How would you like to be Speaker of the House these days? Being Speaker is the pinnacle of a legislative career. You have incredible authority. You can hand out committee assignments and chairmanships. You decide whether bills get a hearing and vote, and a lot of what they contain. You assign office space or take it away and move someone to the basement. It's just that all you really do is herd cats. Ryan can't get a major bill passed, that will make it through the Senate. The Tea Party Caucus is the Doctor No from the old James Bond film. Doctor No was a Chinese/German criminal scientist with metal hands. Somehow, that fits perfectly with the Tea Party Caucus who with their iron grip on legislation pretty much dictates what they want. Of course what they want has no chance of ever getting put into effect. Just look at the Affordable Healthcar...
Post a Comment
Read more