Stuck In The Middle

Clowns to the left of me, jokers on the right. ~ Stealers Wheel

Is it just me or has everybody lost their cotton picking minds?


Maybe not. It just seems there is a lot of anger and rage out there and I'm not just talking about the Washington Nationals dugout, who had their annual somebody yells at somebody else event last week. (Baseball joke, sorry)

Everybody is flipping everyone else off. I haven't seen anything like this since the late 60's and early 70's when I was growing up. Back then, you had people called Yippies, who were sort of like Hippies except they were more likely to blow up a building for the cause of peace.

Let's start with our Democratic friends.

A few weeks ago, President Orange nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy on The Supreme Court.

In my always humble opinion, picking Supreme Court justices seems like the one thing the President does very well. Kavanaugh is more than qualified to sit on the Supreme Court and there is no reason not to confirm him.

Yet the Democrats responded as if this was the Apocalypse.

This is not a new strategy for the Democrats.  They did it in 1987 when President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Almost immediately, legal scholar Edward (Ted) Kennedy went to the Senate floor and said this:


"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens and men will drive Oldsmobiles off of a one-lane bridges and into a pond and will escape leaving young female acquaintances  to drown and never be prosecuted for it."**

Kennedy's salvo worked and Bork was prevented from sitting on The Supreme Court. A few years later, Clarence Thomas was nominated by first President Bush to the Court.  Instead of focusing on what qualifications Thomas might/might not have, Democrats brought forth somebody named Anita Hill who said Thoams said the words "pubic hair" in front of her and this constituted sexual harassment. Then the next year Democrats nominate for President, Bill Clinton: the Arkansas governor and I-Thelta-Thi fraternity member.


Democrats have a scorch earth policy when it comes to Republican court nominees.  The reason for this is Democrats apparently feel Roe vs Wade is sacrosanct. In 25 years, Democrats have gone from an abortion stance of  "safe, legal, and rare" to "Yay abortions-let's have more!"  

The President seems to have gone out of his way to do things that rile up the Democrats.  During the immigration issue a month ago, I noticed this:

1. The left was complaining that the "no tolerance" immigration policy separated parents from children.

2.  Then it was noted that the "no tolerance" immigration policy separated mothers from their infants.

3.  Then it was noted that the  "no tolerance" immigration policy "literally" had nursing babies separated from their mother's breasts and some of these moms were hot and male ICE agents were staring at the exposed bosoms.

I will say it wasn't The President's best moment. Even Southern Baptists were criticising the policy, although, I was never too sure how it differed from the policy of the Obama administration. All I know is I saw at least a billion Tweets about nursing babies being ripped off of their mother's breast (I never saw a picture or video of this) I was glad the President reversed course so nursing moms could still cross the border illegally.

Last week, the President met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The President acts like he doesn't know Putin was, in the past, the head of the KGB. (Of course, the President would respond, "I know he was the head of the GKB, BKG, or whatever. Believe me, I know").  For a guy who always acts so tough and engaged, he is remarkably passive when it comes to Putin.


So the President spent the rest of the week trying to explain his performance at a joint news conference with Putin. None of his explanations really made any sense. But, it was just a part of the daily drama of the Trump administration.

I have to give Rush Limbaugh credit. He did his best to make chicken salad out of the chicken feed of the joint news conference. By the end of the week, pro-Trump forces had created strategic memes to share on Facebook using the theme: Well, you know. Obama.

I'm just one of those people that's kind of worn out by the news.  I don't see Trump as an existential threat to anything except hairspray. But sometimes it seems like he doesn't do his homework and he's trying to bluff his way into a sell. It might be a part of The President's supposed 3-D chess strategy where he is out thinking everybody to fall into his trap, but I don't see it.

The Democrats see every freaking thing as THE WORST THING EVER. Does anybody really think Brett Kavanaugh is a threat to the United States?  Of course not. The Democrats like to show out because that's what they do best.

So our job is to applaud the President when he does something right, criticise him when he doesn't.

Guess what, he doesn't do everything wrong. If you told the average Democrat in 2014 that the Republican nominee was going to be pro-Gay Marriage, they would have thought their job of taking over the Republican party was complete.

He doesn't do everything right either. But I think you know that.

**This is an actual quote from Kennedy. Except the parts about Oldsmobiles driving off of bridges.