THE UNHINGED PRESIDENT

Chris Wallace and Charles Krauthammer have joined George Will as my least favored media talking heads. There are several others—like Bernie Goldberg, often seen on Bill O’Reilly’s Factor show, that belong on a growing list of people who want us to believe they are SHOCKED! – SHOCKED! - at Trump’s post-election behavior. It’s as though they believed a magic switch would be thrown and Trump would begin behaving exactly as all politicians (particularly Presidents) have done for at least the past twenty-four years. More illustrative of the Potomac intelligentsia is their pronouncement of doom upon this administration because (Gasp!) they don’t follow the accepted protocol in their handling of ANYTHING. Obviously, Trump hasn’t a clue.

Does it take more than a little hubris to assume that a man who has amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune, has managed to establish and prove up many highly successful and lucrative businesses, and has also defeated the best and brightest presidential candidates that either party could array against him—this man is somehow so stupid that he doesn’t know how to deal with obstacles, many of them manufactured, that the secularists place in his path?

A Change.org petition being circulated by mental health professionals asserts President Trump is ‘unfit to serve’! 24,000 signatures have been garnered thus far.

To the mental health professionals and those of the enlightened media who have informed us President Trump is ‘unhinged’, is it fair to ask what evidence you would cite to illustrate your point? If it is his behaviors that you deem irrational, perhaps you could provide us with a definition of ‘rational’, and tell us whether that definition is applicable to all members of the human race? For instance, is it rational for a man in his late 50s or 60s to throw a chair across the floor of a crowded gymnasium? I cannot see Dean Smith, Roy Williams, or Bill Self doing anything so rash, but a highly successful college basketball coach named Bobby Knight did exactly that—and remained a winning coach for several years thereafter! Rational behavior? If that behavior accomplishes the goal that you are seeking, perhaps it is not so irrational for you. You would not expect a Caspar Milquetoast to smash a 250-pound hulking bully in the mouth with his fist; that would be the epitome of irrational behavior. But for Arnold Schwarzenegger to take such action might be a more sensible, even ‘rational’ response to provocation.

I don’t like Donald Trump; haven’t liked him since he first announced his candidacy. He is crude, rude, and perfectly willing to destroy the reputation and career of an opponent to obtain his ends. I truly believe that Dale Carnegie, author of the book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, might well have wanted to punch him in the nose.

Anyone who expected Donald Trump to behave exactly as each—indeed, ANY—of the past Presidents has to be smoking some of that funny tobacco. Donald Trump is not George Bush. There are even fewer similarities between Trump and Barack Obama. Trump is Trump. For good or ill, he is going to do things in the ways that have proved, I think you would agree, fairly successful for him in the past. To do otherwise would be foolish, don’t you think? Why exchange the thoroughbred you have ridden to stunning victories, for the old grey mare proven time and again to be slow afoot, often finishing last?

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
--Henry David Thoreau: Walden

 Some of the actions he will take during his presidency are going to be applauded by many who are looking for change in America. Some of the things he does will cause many to wince in fear and disgust. But if you are surprised that he is who he is, then you have definitely not been paying attention.

Trump was not elected to win the approval of the media and politicians. He was chosen because he promised to bring a little sanity back to politics; to do things that are in the best interests of America, for a change; to repeal and replace Obamacare, to restore some American pride, to rebuild our faltering military, to solve the immigration problems, to cut taxes and to restore jobs. Everything the immediate past president did accomplished the exact opposite of those ends. America wanted a change. It is as simple as that. Perhaps the media and politicians of both parties will be the last to comprehend that message.

Criticize him if you must. He is NEVER going to be the kinder, gentler president you want him to be. He is always going to be egocentric, thin-skinned, and tone deaf. Maddeningly so, perhaps. But as long as he is making a bonafide effort to restore American leadership, pride and a sense of moral responsibility, anyone who is a genuine conservative should stop and think before giving the secularists too much assistance in trying to destroy our President.

By the way, where are the Democrat opposite numbers of John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Marco Rubio, and Susan Collins? The only Democrat Senator to EVER oppose Obama in any way was Joe Manchin of West Virginia—and that was muted opposition to Obama’s stance on coal. Are the secularists convictions more strongly held than those of conservatives? Interesting . . . 

Important Decisions! 

Bill D. Brown

 

What an important time for our nation!  HUGE decisions ahead for our leaders! 

On the one hand, we are facing a critical decision in the Republican party as to whether to de-fund the Affordable Care Act (Talk about a misnomer!).  The moderate Republicans don’t want to precipitate a government-wide shutdown, because when they did that several years ago, in the Clinton era, they were crucified in the press, and it cost them dearly in the next election.  On the other side of this issue are the Tea Party Republicans who assert that they are only forbidding funding of Obamacare; the Democrats can fund every other government function—just zero funds for Obamacare.  If the Democrats choose to shut down all government functions, let them go ahead and do that.  But maybe the back-alley media won’t like us! 

This is a very important issue. 

Then there is the decision as to what to do about Syria’s use of sarin gas on its own people.  Use of this nerve agent reportedly resulted in over 1400 deaths.  Terrible.  Horrible.  But over the last two years of this civil war, more than 100,000 Syrians have been shot, decapitated, raped, mutilated, bombed and strafed.  What was President Obama’s reaction to those deaths? 

Silence.  

Oh, he murmured a few platitudes about it being wrong—sort of on the order of Jesse Jackson remarking that the killing of that Australian athlete by three young punks in Duncan, Oklahoma is “frowned upon”.   Real outrage! 

But a year or so ago, our fearless president, speaking off the teleprompter, said he would consider Syrian use of chemical weapons to be “crossing a red line”.  In other words, this would bring down the wrath of American military might upon them.   

They used gas.   

What did President Obama do? 

Nothing. 

Oh, he promised we would give small arms to the forces fighting against Assad.  He didn’t.

 

Shall I review the Progressives record on “selling wolf tickets”?  The term, “selling wolf tickets” is a phrase used by inmates in our penitentiaries, and in plain English, here is what it means: When you tell someone you are going to knock him on his ass—you just sold a wolf ticket (like someone telling another, “I’m the Big Bad Wolf!”) 

The person who says, “Don’t tell me you are going to knock me on my ass unless you are prepared to back it up—because I’m going to make you prove that you are tough enough to do it!”  You would say that guy BOUGHT one of those “wolf tickets”.  Progressives are great sellers of wolf tickets.

 

What I am going to recount here goes back a ways, but it helps to explain why the United States is considered a paper, toothless tiger by most of our allies and enemies:

 

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton promised that those who were responsible would be hunted down and punished.  One blind Sheik went to prison.

 

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U S Military personnel, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.  They weren’t.

 

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and wounded 200 military people, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.  They were not.

 

When the bombing of U S Embassies in Africa occurred in 1998, killing 224 and injuring more than 5,000, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.  They weren’t.

 

Had Clinton kept ANY of his promises, perhaps 9/11/would never have occurred. 

Let’s consider now some of the promises President Obama has made:

 

Those in the IRS who abused their power and broke the law to slow-walk permits for Tea Party Patriots to obtain tax-free status for their support groups, “Will not be tolerated.  We will get to the bottom of this and prosecute wrong-doers.”  None found to date.

 

“We’ll find out who is responsible for all those guns being sold to Mexican Drug Cartel members, and they will be punished to the full extent of the law.”  But Attorney General Eric Holder is still in office, and not one ATF supervisor has been charged.

 

“We will hunt down those responsible for the terrorist attack on Benghazi (No, Obama wouldn’t say it like that, would he?) and bring them to justice”.  They have not arrested or killed a single person.  Not even Hillary Clinton, who was more responsible for the four American deaths that occurred in Benghazi than anyone other than the terrorists who actually carried out the attack.

 

Now, President Obama wants the cover of Congressional approval for “a limited attack”, a “shot across the bow” to show Syria we are serious when we tell them they must not use chemical weapons.  He’s saying, “Trust me.  I’ll follow the advice of my Secretary of State ( thrice-wounded Vietnam veteran John Kerry) and my Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a confused former Republican (or is he a confused current Republican? No matter—he is confused.) We know how to handle these situations! You can count on us!” 

Wolf ticket, anyone? 

It’s football season, and perhaps that is why this deal Obama is attempting to pull off with the Congress reminds me of Lucy trying to convince Charlie Brown one more time that she will hold the football for him to kick, and will not pull it away from him at the last moment as she has every time in the past.  I promise I will not do it again, Charlie Brown! 

What makes this scenario even more frightening, I fear that we have a Charlie Brown Congress!