House Republicans, before public impeachment Hearings even begin, have already tipped their hand, revealing that they have no witnesses to call or any documents to provide that can dispute in any way, shape or form the facts concerning the Oval Office Outlaw’s (“OOO”) impeachable and illegal conduct: his extortion and the use of bribery to demand that Ukraine president Zelensky either come up with dirt on Joe Biden, one of the OOO’s political rivals in 2020 presidential election, or lose the vital military aid already approved by Congress necessary for the Ukrainian defense in their current hot war with Russia; that the OOO’s corrupt administration concealed evidence of the illegal scheme by moving a transcript to a secret server; and that the Outlaw in Chief illegally threatened and continues to threaten the Whistleblower who brought these crimes to the attention of the House Intelligence Committee and to the general public at large. 
 
Indeed, the RepugnantOnes have already admitted all of these facts. 
 
As The Washington Post reported this week: 
 
“House Republicans sent Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) a list of witnesses they want to testify in the impeachment inquiry, including former vice president Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the anonymous whistleblower who filed the initial complaint against President Trump. ...
 
Schiff is likely to reject many, if not all, of the witnesses from the Republicans’ wish list.
 
Hunter Biden lacks any direct knowledge of anything that occurred in the Trump White House, and hence he cannot rebut evidence of Trump’s demand that Ukraine interfere with our election. By Republicans’ own admission, the whistleblower lacks first-hand knowledge of events. (“Witnesses who testified out of public view have corroborated the crux of the case against Trump — that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals — so the Democrats see no need for the whistleblower, who heard the story secondhand, to testify. Three career State Department officials are returning next week for the public hearings.”)
 
It is more than obvious and that the only thing that the RepugnantOnes have no facts on their side. All they can offer in defense of the indefensible and lawless acts committed by the OOO, are distractions, stunts to generate claims of unfairness, and gimmicks to threaten the life and career of the whistleblower. It’s remarkable, actually, that they will probably stipulate to every fact about which the witnesses wills testify under oath during the televised public hearings next week.
 
Republicans, truly behaving as RepugantOnes, have not disputing Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony. In fact, when Vindman testified two weeks ago that, in the July 25 call, “there was no doubt” our criminal president made a demand of the Ukrainian president to initiate an investigation of a U.S. citizen, a “deliverable” to help his presidential reelection, the president’s far-right propaganda wing went into full smear mode, with the likes of such traitors as Laura Ingraham intimating that Vindman--a Purple Heart winner who was wounded while serving our country in the war in Iraq—must be a traitor to our country, since he immigrated to our country with his family when he was three-years-old. Despite the likes of Fox News and other anti-American outlets doing their best to smear a war hero, there are apparently no witnesses that the RepugnantOnes can call to contradict Vindman’s testimony and none to dispute it was of such concern that Vindman went to John Eisenberg, the top national security lawyer in the White House.
 
Additionally, the RepugnantOnes apparently have no evidence to contradict the testimony of Fiona Hill, who served as a top Russia adviser to the White House. She testified that former national security adviser John Bolton, in a meeting following an exchange between U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, and Ukrainian officials that made explicit that any White House meeting was conditioned on an announcement of an investigation into the Bidens, “basically said — in fact, he directly said: ‘Rudy Giuliani is a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up.’ He did make it clear that he didn’t feel that there was anything that he could personally do about this.” 
 
In other words, the national security adviser knew hijacking foreign policy for the Oval Office Outlaw’s political gain was wrong and likely illegal.
 
Likewise, the RepugnantOnes have no evidence whatsoever, to dispute or undermine Vindman’s testimony that the Office of Management and Budget put a hold on funds appropriated by Congress to Ukraine, an action contrary to U.S. policy, injurious to Ukraine and a function of the OOO-Giuliani campaign smear operation.
 
Republicans have no evidence to dispute Hill’s complete debunking of the nutty conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Republicans have no evidence to dispute that Giuliani and his cronies obtained the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, the competent and respected U.S. envoy to Kyiv. Republicans have yet to disprove evidence that Sondland, Giuliani and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney were acting as agents of the president.
 
The Republicans, being ads repugnant as they can be, also cannot dispute the testimony of George Kentthat “POTUS wanted nothing less than President Zelensky to go to microphone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton.” 
 
Republicans cannot produce evidence to contradict Kent’s conclusion that “Mr. Giuliani, at that point, had been carrying on a campaign for several months full of lies and incorrect information” against Yovanovitch, or was dispatched by the Outlaw in Chief to obtain dirt on Biden.
 
In demanding irrelevant witnesses and continuing their campaign of intimidation against the whistleblower, the RepugnantOnes threaten to make the entire proceeding a three-ring circus, something House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff will try his very best to prevent. 
 
Despite what circus atmosphere may prevail, given that Repugnant Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio will be doing somersaults throughout the hearings that will be televised on this coming Wednesday and Friday, it would behoove the public watching that Republicans will be stipulating to all of the facts presented by all of the witnesses that Schiff summons. 
 
The public would be well served to remember that there is no factual defense to Articles of Impeachment that would include bribery, extortion and obstruction of justice. As they should be keenly aware that the Repugnant Party is quite happy protecting the president who solicited a bribe, extorted another nation in attempting to subvert our next presidential election, endangered U.S. national security interests, all the while attempting to intimidate witnesses and cover his tracks.
 
In other words, our lawless president has a lawless party, who has aided and abetted all of his crimes every step of the way. Not only must the OOO be impeached, all of the RepugnantOnes have earned removal from office as well.

​The Tyrant in Chief (TIC) continues unabated in his assault on all of our democratic institutions and on our Constitution, even as the House of Representatives draws ever closer to impeaching him for his many High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Even as he does so, a slim majority of Americans now approve not only of the impeachment inquiry but also of his removal from office. What is disconcerting to me, however, is that 40% of the country still supports the TIC from being removed. Once public impeachment hearings begin soon, and as more of the damning facts regarding the TIC’s criminal and obstructionist behavior become more widely known, one can only hope that public support for him will continue to erode even among what remains of his ardent supporters. 
 
Hopefully at least 20 Rethuglican Senators will come to their senses and vote to remove the Kremlin-installed Tyrant concluding the Impeachment Trial in the Senate. That way, the justice system (if it still exists) can begin indicting him for all of the various crimes he committed before and after entering the Oval Office. 
 
We can only hope.
 
On the line is democracy itself, not only our own democracy but that of all democracies throughout the world. If the House impeaches and our Senators fail to convict, the Senate will be authorizing the worst kind of tyrannical, fascist, authoritarian behavior imaginable. It will mark the end of the line for the United States of America, as we know it. Approving the behavior of such a corrupt administration will lead us into a hellish unknown. It is not merely the Tyrant in Chief that we will fail to rid ourselves of as a people. It will be a rubber stamp for all the lawless leaders that will follow after him. Kiss democracy goodbye. Kiss our Constitution goodbye.
 
The last vestige of hope—given that our lawless TIC has already shown us that he is not above soliciting, even requiring, the help of foreign governments to subvert our next (and perhaps our last) presidential election—will be the vote that occurs on a year from today, November 3, 2020. 
 
We must hope that enough Americans will turn out to vote in such numbers that cannot be messed with or refuted, throwing out the tyrannical bum and all of the Rethuglican scum who appear to be just as much a part of the Kremlin-supported crime syndicate that has successfully taken over our federal government as our Putin-appointed president.
 
It will be up to the American people, ultimately. 
 
We are the only ones that can save our country. We must either make our will known in sufficient numbers during the impeachment process itself, such that enough Senate Rethuglicans find their courage to vote for the Orange Demon removal from power, or we must do so on a year from today, November 3, 2020, by throwing the outlaw out on his ass, along with all of the Rethuglicans who have aided, abetted, encouraged and knowingly gone along with his blatant attacks on our democracy and our Constitution.
 
Either way, a public reckoning is coming. Either we will stand in numbers too large to ignore, en masse during the Impeachment Trial or next November 3, or we will not. 
 
If we act decisively as patriotic Americans and take a stand against tyranny, just as our nation’s founder once did, we can save ourselves, and begin anew. But should enough of us choose to ignore the fate that awaits us on November 3 of next year, should we fail to act as patriots and stand, to protest, to call our Representatives and our Senators and make our feelings known, should we fail to take action and vote, we will have no one but ourselves to blame when we lose everything: our power, our right to vote, our freedom. 
 
Consider for just a moment what will happen to our country if, after the Tyrant in Chief is impeached by the House, as he surely will be, Senators fail to do their constitutional duty and remove him from office; then imagine a presidential campaign in which the tyrant receives the illegal aid and support from foreign nations which he has already and publicly sought and illegally solicited; now imagine that through the help of Kremlin, Ukranian, Iranian, North Korean and Chinese corruption at our polls and throughout the election, with no paper trail to prove the inherent dishonesty of the vote count, the Tyrant is shown as the winner; and lastly imagine, what the Tyrant will do to our Constitutional process in his next term. Will he proclaim himself Dear Leader and end future elections as we know them? Will he remain in office until his death? Will he appoint on his deathbed, that Ivanka will succeed him as president? Having succeeded in disarming all constitutional checks and balances, how will anyone stop him? Would anyone? Could anyone?
 
Let that all sink in. 
 
That’s dystopian reality may well be on the ballot a year from today, if the Tyrant is not removed or forced to resign. Think about it: November 3, 2020. It’s only a year away, but it is more than enough time to lose the fight, to end democracy once and for all, and to welcome in a brand new age of Oligarchs ruling the world. 
 
We still have a year. But one year only. During the coming year we must all do more than hope. Collectively, all patriotic Americans must rise up and act. Now, this year, before it is too late.
 

​Previous administrations could be trusted when taking controversial steps, but not this administration. When, for example, this current and lawless administration forces its Department of Injustice—with  the president’s toady Bill Barf at the helm—to probe the origins of an investigation into Russia’s attack on the 2016 election — one must presume ill will and illegality.
 
The Mob Boss in Chief’s interactions with Ukraine illustrate how he operates. According to Max Boot’s editorial today in the Washington Post, “There is now overwhelming evidence — not least from the president’s own mouth — that he held up military aid to Ukraine and a meeting with Ukraine’s president over a demand that Ukraine manufacture dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and information clearing Russia of 2016 hacking. This would be not just an impeachable offense but, as Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia argues, an attempt to solicit a bribe in violation of federal law. But wait — there’s a second layer of corruption too! Trump delegated Ukraine policy to his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, who was trying to drum up business in Ukraine with two shady characters who have now been arrested. Giuliani’s own business practices are under investigation by federal prosecutors.”
 
Our president has surrounded himself by felons from the beginning (i.e., his previous personal attorney, his first national security adviser, his former campaign chairman, and his former deputy campaign chairman, as well as his adviser George Papalopolous), and his longtime associate Roger Stone awaits trial. And by now it should seem quite obvious that many more of our criminal president’s associates will also be spending time in prison as well. Indeed, the crime spree committed by this administration makes the Nixon administration appear saintly.
 
Clearly #45 lied about his payments to an alleged mistress in apparent violation of campaign finance laws; engaged in pervasive obstruction of justice to stymie an investigation into his campaign links with Russia; lied on average over 20 times a dayduring his entire tenure as our Liar in Chief; and he even falsified a weather map to prove his prediction of a hurricane hitting in Alabama was right, when in fact it was incorrect.
 
Given such an unethical, and even illegal, track record of the current president’s past conduct, and now that the DOJ’s investigation of the investigators (looking into the origin’s of the Russia investigation) has been deemed criminal in nature, how can anyone possibly assume that it is all above board and on the up-and-up?
 
As a reminder, Mueller’s special counsel investigation resulted in 34 indictments and seven convictions along with the release of a report, showing without question that Russia interfered in our 2016 Election to benefit the Orange Monster in the White House. Essentially, he was installed as Putin’s puppet, and I fear, given our Attorney General’s past and current behavior, that Barr too was and is on the Kremlin’s payroll. 
 
Despite the unequivocal and overwhelming evidence presented in the Mueller Report that Russian interfered in 2016, and also the findings of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s nearly three-year investigation proving the same thing, the OM continues to insist that Russia’s attack on the 2016 election was a “hoax.”
 

Meanwhile, AG Barf has been flying around the world pressing foreign governments to help what is clearly an effort to substantiate Trump’s insane theory that a server in Ukraine will somehow show that Russia was framed for the attack. 
 
Now, as the impeachment inquiry into our current president’s illegal behavior continues to gather steam, the Justice Department’s probe has been elevated to a criminal investigation — potentially allowing for the smearing of some of the OM’s severest critics. How timely and how convenient!
 
As Max Boot commented in his column today, “Trump claims that the probe will uncover “really bad things.” But Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the widely respected ranking Democrat of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tweeted: “Senate Intel is wrapping up a three-year bipartisan investigation, and we’ve found nothing remotely justifying this.”
 
I wish I could give the current administration the benefit of the doubt. But I simply can’t. No objective observer could. The onus is on the administration to show otherwise. That’s hard to do given that you can’t believe a single word that the liar in chief and his dishonest aides say.
 

Max Boot ends his opinion piece by saying, “When you can have no faith that the president is acting in the public interest — when, in fact, you have good cause to believe the opposite — it’s time to impeach and remove, because the president has lost all credibility and hence his ability to carry out the duties of his office.”
 
I could not agree more.

​Our country’s Criminal in Chief—who now commits impeachable offenses on a daily if not hourly basis, will hopefully be removed through the impeachment process. But let’s not hold our breath that we can count on even 20 Republican Senators to vote to convict the felon at the helm of their party. Sycophants all, they have thus far sided with the felon at the head of their party and with his crime boss, Vladimir Putin, taking sides against America and our democracy. Hence, we can expect that they will probably choose to go down with the rest of the GOP, drowning with the rest of the Republican Rats on the ghost ship of the president and his criminal administration. Though one does see some cracks in the wall developing among some Republican Senators. 
 
It seems that the Turd in Chief upset at least some Republicans with his signing on to Putin’s orders to betray the Kurds. Something about his coddling up with Putin and Erdogan in a three-way kiss, made some Republican stomachs turn. I can’t imagine why they should be surprised, since it has been obvious for the last three years that our president is owned and operated by the Kremlin, and that he MUST do Putin’s bidding or risk ruin. Clearly, the Turdster feels no allegiance even to his own party, much less to his country: He has only one objective and that is to look after himself alone. Indeed, he would throw his own kids under the bus to save himself, and all of Washington knew and accepted this as a fact years ago. Though a majority of the Republicans in the House and Senate were shocked and dismayed by the Idiot in Chief’s decision, as were all of his generals and military advisers, let’s not bank on the Republicans making the right call when it comes to impeaching the felon.
 
Should our first illegitimate president survive impeachment and remain in office, it will be up to us as American citizens to vote him out of office. A new Justice Department, once the traitorous Bill Barf is removed, can and will indict the ex-president for the hordes of felonies he committed both prior to and during the heinous days of his rampantly destructive presidency. 
 
Even then, it will be up to us to set things right again, even with a new president at the helm, to remove the stain and stench of the most criminal and corrupt administration in the history of America. But some things may never be able to be put right again.
 
The Kurds now know, as does every other nation in the world, that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its word. No ally will ever trust us again. And why should they? When America has proved itself so corrupt and inane and morally unhinged to elect a leader like the criminal in chief in the first place, why should they? When they have watched most of America’s institutions do little to nothing to stop this tyrant, and let him trash the constitution for three years, why should they? 
 
It is not only our current president, who I have said before is merely a puppet for Putin, who must be called out, but also all those on the far-right who joined with him in his anti-American, pro-Russian agenda, including the far-right media who continue to do their best to support the subversion of our Constitution. The Felon in Chief could not have succeeded in his task of turning Washington over to the control of the Kremlin without the support of a good number of the American people, the Republican party at large, the NRA, Fox News and all the rest. They all need to be cast out socially and called out as repugnant by all those who still have a conscience.
 
Once the tyrant is removed, we are going to need a full cleansing of the entire American political system, rife with corruption and dark money from head to toe. It all stinks to high heaven. As does the mob mentality in the Republican Party and the current White House. And the legalized bribery known as lobbying. As does the corrupt opinion by the US Supreme Court (“the best High Court that corporate money could buy”) on the Citizens United matter, which opened the floodgates to dark money, not only from within our country but from every corrupt foreign player that Republicans could find. Indeed, as citizens we are going to have to scrub down the financial records of every single Representative and Senator, and any and all, from either party, who have accepted dark money from foreign sources, have to be removed, publicly shamed and scorned. 
 
As I said in my last posting, it should be more than obvious at this point that the entire Republican party and its so-called “base” has sold out their souls and sold out America to the highest bidder, in this case, Vladimir Putin. Having made this pact with the Russian Devil, to retain their absolute power over the majority of their fellow Americans, they all need to be called out for the traitors that they are. 
 
Now that Mick Mulvaney gave a press conference to confess to the nation the high crimes and misdemeanors that he and the White House and this felonious president committed out in the open, the fact that the House will impeach the Outlaw in Chief is without doubt. We can probably expect the House Vote to impeach coming either before Thanksgiving or no later than before the Christmas break. 
 
What remains in doubt though, is whether or not there are enough Republican Senators who will save the nation, do the right thing, and vote the bastard out of office. If they can’t or won’t do their constitutional duty and uphold their oaths of office, then they, like the criminal administration and the felonious leader they represent, should be tossed to the curb in November 2020. As I have said before, let a cry rise up to Heaven from all corners of our land on Election Day next year: “Throw all of the bums out!” 
 
Only then can we begin to clean out and clean up the mess.

​Not only does our incompetent and unfailingly lawless president—the worst in our country’s history—demand an immediate impeachment and quick removal from office, anyone who defends this president’s actions or refuses to vote him out forthwith, are as much or more an enemy to our nation, to our flag and to our Republic for which it stands, as their Dear Leader is. 
 
Like the heinous Criminal in Chief—who now commits impeachable offenses on a daily, if not hourly, basis and in the clear light of day—those who support him and abide by his corruption and untold abuses of power, need to be removed as quickly as possible themselves, either through impeachment or through voting all of them out at the ballot box in November 2020.  
 
The president, merely a puppet for Putin, and all those on the far-right who apparently have joined the anti-American, pro-Russian forces, along with the far-right media who support and encourage the ongoing subversion of our Constitution, are a clear and present danger to our democracy. 
 
It should be more than obvious at this point that the entire Republican party and its so-called “base” has sold out their souls and sold out America to the highest bidder, in this case, Vladimir Putin. Having made this pact with the Russian Devil, to retain their absolute power over the majority of their fellow Americans, they all need to be called out for the traitors that they are. 
 
Up to now, most Republicans—and it is no surprise given the utter cowardice shown by those holding office both in the House and Senate—have refused to take a stand against their president or to rebuke him in any way. For the most part, all we hear is. At last today, a few of these traitors to America dared to show their faces on the Sunday morning news shows. Ron Johnson, the vile and twisted Senator from Wisconsin, began spinning so hard on Meet the Pressthat his head literally seemed to spin off of his head. Indeed, the Senator of Slime gave a fairly accurate impression of Linda Blair in The Exorcist, as he trove of lies flew out of his mouth like green bile. Given that Senator Johnson is obviously possessed by an evil far more wicked than any demon supposedly possessing Linda Blair in the movie, it was not that surprising. Drowning in and even regurgitating from the same fever swamp that Republicans happily created in America with the damning help of the Fox News Channel and other Satan incarnates like Rupert Murdoch and the now-rotting-in-Hell Roger “Lucifer” Ailes, they have lost all touch with reality.
 
All that the few Repugnant Republican Puppets can do to protect their Putin-appointed president, now that they are daring to poke their heads out of whatever hellacious holes they were hiding in for the last two weeks, is spout lies, invective, what-about-isms, and treachery. If it was not crystal clear before now that the current president and his rabid Republican party are set on destroying our country, and that their agenda is evil and diabolical, it was made more than obvious today by Senator Johnson’s illiterate, incoherent babbling as he sat twitching about in his chair on Meet the Press, possessed by madness if not worse, as his head spun round and round and round, and words vomited from his mouth like venom from a poisonous snake.
 
It seems more than clear now that the Republicans, who continue to follow Putin’s Puppet while praising his treachery to our nation, have brought about the very same American carnage that the Reptile in Chief spoke about during his inaugural address to the nation. 
 
It has only been two-and-three-quarter years since #45 gave that address, but it feels like a few centuries. In that time, the Mobster in Chief has managed to corrupt almost all of our federal government, turning most of it into his own personal crime syndicate, turning our Department of Justice into Bill Barf’s Department of Injustice—the first place the president goes to protect oneself from criminal prosecutions up the ying-yang. He had turned our State Department into his personal investigation service, and converted our Department of Treasury into his own personal Defender against charges of federal tax fraud and tax evasion. And he has done his very best, very much with the able assistance of Mitch McConnell, subverted our judicial branch, including the U.S. Supreme Court, into his own personal Defenders for himself and the Republican party itself.
 
Who would have thought that a nation as strong as ours, built on such solid principles of democracy, could be brought to its knees by a treacherous and illegitimate president and his cronies at Fox News and within the fever swamps of the ruins of the Republican party? But they have accomplished all of this and far more in less than three years. 
 
Of course, they had a great deal of help from the American people’s indifference to voting, as well as from the subversion of Moscow’s authoritarian regime, as from the media’s insistence on covering the Hillary Clinton email story as though that were the most important story of corruption in our country’s history. Indeed, while the media was hell-bent on presenting Republican lies as fact and covered the non-story, the Republicans were colluding with Russia, and the NRA was sucking illegal laundered money from the Kremlin into Republican coffers. Mueller already pointed out most of this, but again the media ignored most of these facts, as did the American people. Which brings us now to the precipice.
 
Now that the president publicly confessed and provided evidence of his collusion with yet another foreign power to subvert our electoral process again in 2020 and to further betray our nation, now that he colluded with China out in the open, promising to favor them in trade negotiations in exchange for their providing the same political favors against his potential political opponent in the next election, and did so on the lawn of the White House, as the whole world watched on television, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have gone forward quickly with a formal impeachment process. They must proceed to impeach Cult#45, as he is a clear and present danger not only to our democracy and to our nation’s very existence, but he is also quite obviously a clear and present danger to the entire world.
 
As I pointed out in my blog post last Sunday, whenever you hear our current president accuse others of some crime, he is always projecting onto them the sins that he knows he has committed himself. Hence, when he speaks about the treason being committed against our country he is merely referring to the many sins that he is fully aware that he and his followers have committed against our country. 
 
 
No doubt, the House will impeach the Criminal in Chief. What remains in doubt though, is whether or not there are enough Republican Senators who give a rat’s ass about saving our democracy from a Tyrannical Emperor that they will do the right thing and vote the bastard out of office. Given their gutless record thus far, one has to question whether there are 18 Republican Senators who still have possession of their own souls? 
 
Regardless, any gutless, spineless boot-spittle who refuses to vote to impeach and remove this president from office, must be removed from office themselves by the American people. Let a cry rise up to Heaven from all corners of our land: “If they won’t stand up to corruption, throw all of the bums out!” And, as a new nation under God, indivisible, we can form a more perfect union, of, by and for the people. 

As I said in my last posting on Sunday, September 22, 2019, our lawless president and his utterly corrupt administration—the worst in the entire history of America—required an adequate response from the US House of Representatives as a check and a balance on his ongoing and blatant attack on the U.S. Constitution. 
 
FINALLY, the House Democrats as led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, have launched a long overdue Formal Impeachment Inquiry, to take on and take down our Felon in Chief. 
 
Up to now—and it is no surprise given their utter cowardice from Republicans both in the House and Senate—have refused to take a stand against their president or to rebuke him in any way. Instead, all we hear is silence from the Republican cowards in both the Senate and the House. 
 
Until this last week, when the president himself publicly confessed and provided evidence of his collusion with yet another foreign power to subvert and betray our electoral process and our nation, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats finally gave Cult#45 the formal impeachment process he has utterly been begging for the entire time of his Godforsaken presidency. Now, at long last, we have a serious impeachment process endorsed by the Speaker that will bring forth the many High Crimes and Misdemeanors that this lawless and criminal president has committed.
 
Make no mistake, whenever you hear our current president accuse others of some crime he is always projecting onto them the sins that he knows very well he has committed himself. Hence, when he spoke recently about spies in the White House who had acted as traitors, he was only projecting his own consciousness of guilt as to his own acts of treachery onto the few innocent and patriotic Americans who work in the White House. 
 
Make no mistake, the president in his infinite stupidity turned over the smoking gun of his treachery and of his acts betraying the nation, when he surrendered the detailed notes of his July 29thphone call with Ukraine President Zellensky, in which our Outlaw and Mob Boss in Chief then bribed, coerced and attempted to extort a foreign country to do his a personal favor, i.e., to illegally manufacture dirt on the president’s political opponent to then interfere and influence our 2020 election. This was the second time we know of that our outlaw president not only invited but encouraged and even begged for help from a foreign power to interfere in a presidential election and to help him win. The first time he committed this crime was in the lead up to the illegitimate 2016 election. Indeed, it was only one day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified to these facts before Congress that our Idiot in Chief was at it again, this time extorting and bribing Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden or risk losing their military aid to defend themselves in their ongoing war against Russia. 
 
This was a clear violation of federal campaign finance laws. It was also an act of extortion and bribery. And it was an act of treason, putting our national security at risk for his own personal desires. Indeed, this is the very definition of a High Crime and Misdemeanor as defined in the Constitution. It speaks of Bribery, Betrayal of Country, Betrayal of the Constitution and the president’s oath of office to defend our Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.  This was an act so treacherous and anti-American that our Founders would, had they encountered such betrayal by a president in their own time, they would not only called for his immediate impeachment and removal from office, but also for his public hanging. 
 
Indeed, go back and read Hamilton and Jefferson and Madison on their views of Impeachment, and you will begin to realize that our current president presents a clear and present danger to our national security and to the very safety of our nation. In truth, to preserve and protect our Constitution and our fragile Democracy the patriotic Dems had no other choice but to act, and to begin a swift and steady process to remove the president as quickly as possible. America cannot and will not be safe until he is removed from power. Then he must face indictments that will probably rise to hundreds if not thousand of charges of illegality against him.
 
The president’s own admissions to guilt in this crime against the entire nation will no doubt lead to the House voting for several Articles of Impeachment. No doubt the president will either be removed from office or he will resign as Nixon was forced to do.  Either way, once the Orange Outlaw is impeached, the House Democrats will have a long list of potential crimes as committed by all those who aided and abetted hiss crimes, including so many despicable Republican members of Congress (I’m thinking of you, Devin Nunes, and also of you, Jim Jordan, and of you Matt Gaitz!). Already, the president has already implicated most of his appointees in the White House and in his cabinet has having aided and abetted in his absolute subversion of the Constitution. They are all as guilty as he is in both defiling their oaths to our Constitution as well as the Rule of Law. They all need to be held accountable and they all should be indicted and go to prison if found guilty. At the top of that list of potential criminals, I happily put the despicable Mike Pence. Next in line comes Bill Barf, the Toady at the head of Cult#45’s Department of Injustice. After that, Pompeo and Mulvaney and Giuliani all follow in handcuffs. They must also go after Corey Lewandowski, the current acting DNI Maguire who broke the law and had no explanation for doing so, Secretary Mnuchin who broke the law by refusing to turn over the president’s tax returns, and Attorney McGhan, who broke the law by defying a congressional subpoena. 
 
And once all of these criminals have been put in prison, the public must see that every single Republican who supported this president be removed from office, by voting them out in the ballot box. They have proven themselves to be traitors to the nation, more interested in their personal political survival and power, than in protecting the Constitution. Having defiled their oaths, each and every one need to be tossed out of office in utter disgrace and condemnation. Let no one hire any of these dastardly villains once they leave office, lest they risk the wrath of a national public backlash against corruption of any and all stripes. Let those like Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey be shown the door out to the gutter where they deserve to reside for the rest of their despicable lives. Let the heads of all Republican sycophants who protected and aided this president in his many criminal enterprises, roll like the waters of Justice, pouring down from the Heavens. I can only hope and pray that they all will be removed from office in the next election, and that their stain of corruption will finally be removed from our capital once and for all.
 
I am so grateful to all of the House Democrats and in particular to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and to all of the Committee Heads, in particular Chairman Adam Schiff, for the courage and leadership they have shown in taking on this unruly and unhinged president. Acting on the oaths of office they have taken to protect our nation and our Constitution, they are all acting in good faith, showing courage and taking a moral stand in doing the right thing, for which all of America should rightly reward them in the next election. The awakened electorate must stand up and vote in such high numbers as to throw out all incumbents of either party who fail to vote for impeachment.. 
 
In this next election, let every eligible voter speak with one voice, the voice of the true America. Let a new nationwide call for Justice and Equality and Anti-Corruption echo throughout every corner of our land, from both red states and blue states, from every outpost and every single county and every town and every polling place, that a new Government Of, By, and For the American People will soon reign strong and proud, and never perish from the earth.

Our lawless president and his utterly corrupt administration—the worst in the entire history of America—requires an adequate response, a check and a balance on his blatant shredding of the U.S. Constitution, from our Congress. Instead, all we hear is silence from the Republican cowards in both the Senate and the House. Worse, we hear lots of condemnation from the Democrats in both chambers, much gnashing of teeth and declarations that “no one is above the law, not even the president,” but in their actions all we see is feckless political calculation, stalling, and continued gutlessness and inaction. The House Intelligence Committee and the House Judicial Oversight Committee, have tools as their disposal to hold the lawbreakers in the White House, including the Orange Turd in the Oval Office. They can impeach the Orange Outlaw, for one thing. For another, they can exercise their inherent contempt powers and start arresting those who do not cooperate with Congress. They can put Corey Lewandowski, the current acting DNI Maguire, Secretary Mnuchin, Attorney McGhan and all of the other lawless ingrates who have refused to cooperate with Congress into holding cells, and feed them only bread and water until someone decides to obey the Constitution and all of our laws as written. They can withhold all monies to fund the Justice Department and the Office of the DNI until cooperation starts happening. They can start to play as tough and hard as the criminals in the executive branch are playing. They can begin to grow a pair. 
 
The Republicans have long shown that they would not act to protect the country against this lawless president, since they have no guts whatsoever in standing up to their Dear Leader. But the fact that the House Democrats, as led by the mealy-mouthed, gutless and very nervous Nancy Pelosi, have refused to do their constitutional duty, is a real shocker. As I pointed out earlier, they keep saying the right words, calling out the president on his illegal behavior, but continue to prove that they lack the courage and the political will to do their jobs. Why on Earth should any American support returning the Democrats to power in the House, when they have refused to use their power to hold the Orange Animal in check? Indeed, while Nervous Nancy is hemming and hawing in indecision, the Tyrant is burning Washington down to the ground. 
 
Now, we have the newest scandal unfolding, with a Whistleblower’s complaint, having been properly submitted through legal channels to the Inspector General’s Office of the Intelligence Community, who in turn determined that the complaint was both “credible” and “urgent” who then submitted the complaint on to the Acting Director of National Intelligence, who was then obligated by law to submit the report to the Intelligence Committees in both the House and Senate. But Acting DNI Maguire broke the law, did not pass on the complaint to the congressional committees, but instead went to the Department of Injustice as run by Attorney General Bill Barf, and White House counsel run by criminally-incompetent attorneys. 
If we can trust the news reporters (and apparently they are the only ones we can trust), The Lyin’ King got of the phone with the Ukranian President to extort and bribe him into making up dirt on Joe Biden’s son to use against his opponent in the next election. Aside from the obvious crimes of Bribery and Extortion, this also includes crimes of soliciting help from a foreign government (AGAIN!!!!) to interfere in our next election.
 
Presented with this, Nervous Nancy still can bring herself to call for impeachment. Perhaps we need to have an investigation into Pelosi, to determine what, if anything, the lowlife scumbag known as Cult-45, has on her and if she is being blackmailed by the White House. Little else can explain her utter disregard for the Rule of Law. 
 
Among many other things, the Democrats were given control of the House in the midterm elections of 2018, to provide a check and balance on the outrageous lawlessness of our Criminal-in-Chief. Having failed to act thus far, the Democrats look stupid, feckless, reckless, utterly incompetent, spineless and foolish. It is one thing for the Republicans, who refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing by the Orange Monster they created. It is quite another for the Democrats, who fully see the president’s crimes and call him out about them, but refuse to take any strong actions. Clearly, we need a new party of patriots, or we simply need to surrender to Dictator Donald and accept that our Democracy had already been sold to the highest bidders long before he ever rose to power. 
 
Indeed, if I could wish it so, the president and his entire criminal cabal would be removed now, not later, just as I wish that every Democrat who has refused to stand up for impeachment, and every Republican who has refused to speak out against our new Dictator, could be impeached and be removed from office for failing to keep their oath to protect and defend our Constitution. If I could wish it so, they all should be removed from office in the next election—that is, if we are still allowed to vote by then—and Nancy Pelosi would be the first in line to be voted out. For failing to protect and defend our country, she deserves removal at the very least.
 
Clearly the know-nothing Republicans will never take action against the Felon in Chief, but I still hope and pray that Nervous Nancy and the do-nothing, gutless Democrats in the House come to their senses and begin impeachment NOW, not later, and start by kicking some butt, utilizing EVERY POWER, including Inherent Contempt to take a few of the lawbreakers prisoner. The oaths these Democrats took to defend the Constitution requires that they stop stalling and DO THEIR JOBS! 
 
I end by reiterating, if the Tyrant in Chief is nor removed before the election in November 2020, the American people must rise up and do this. But the American peop[le should also throw out every incumbents of either party, both in the Senate and House, who would not do their duty to impeach the lawless thug in the Oval Office, should be voted out of office as well. The awakened and frightened nation must stand up in such numbers to throw out the lot of them, and to finally standing up to protect what is left of our democracy.

In this blog I have often referred to our current president as He Who Must Not Be Named (“HWMNBN”), taking my cue from J.K. Rowland’s characterization of the utterly evil Lord Voldamart. I have also referred to him as the Orange Monster (the “OM”). And, I have often referred to him by the designation afforded him in last year’s court indictment as the unindicted conspirator known s as “Individual-1.” Along the way, I have given the ne’er-do-well and nincompoop of the oval office many a vile nickname. Of late, I have most often referred to this treacherous creature as “His Assholiness.” None of these nicknames seem to stick, however, as he continues to lie, cheat, steal, exploit, and corrupt his way through our entire federal government system, such that no one—no reporter, news agency, media outlet or news consumer—can even keep up with the cacophony of corruption this his crime syndicate of an administration commits on a daily if not hourly basis.
 
Even keeping up with all of the lies that our Liar-in-Chief makes daily, is maddeningly challenging. According to the Washington Post he has now told over 13,000 deliberate out-right lies since becoming our president. The very first lie he told, it should be pointed out, was that he would solemnly defend our constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. And according to the Post, our Liar-in-Chief has gotten much worse: Apparently, the more the know-nothing Republicans and the do-nothing Democrats allow him to continue to lie and to commit crimes without facing even the slightest accountability for his treachery to the public and to the nation, the worse the Liar-in-Chief has become both in the frequency and the shocking mendacity of his lies from very large to tiny.
 
I heard it suggested today on youtube that we give the president the new and well-earned nickname of “the Lyin’ King.” It is catchy and true, and should provoke serious consideration for an apt nickname. Others suggested that we start calling him “Cult 45.” This too is a worthy nickname. But as far as I am concerned his name, like his credibility, must be far worse than mud. Yet, something that would truly fit 45 has yet to stick to him the way most of his caustic nicknames have stuck to his opponents and enemies; nor has any nickname has stuck to him as well as “Moscow Mitch” has become glued to the treacherous Senator McConnell. I believe the voluminous crimes and lies, committed by our president, often several times a day, has made him nearly impervious to any and all slanders. No slander against him can stand as large against He Who Slanders Us All Constantly. Perhaps the “Slanderer Philanderer” might stick. Or “Putin’s Puppet.” But something tells me we need to get down into the shit with the pigs to really find a nickname that could ever be as apropos to such a president so utterly full of crap.
 
My real point here is that actions here require deeper and darker words that we have ever used to describe any president. This one defies them all. His evil is larger, darker and more vile than any of the vilest names any of us could give this Turd-in-Chief. The time for naming names has long since passed. It is time for action.
 
We need this national embarrassment removed from office YESTERDAY, not tomorrow.
 
Clearly the know-nothing Republicans will never take action against this guy. They are in league with him, as with their party, as with the Russians, Moscow Mitch, William Barf, and Lyin’ Brett Kavanaugh. A pox on all of the Republicans and the criminal enterprise of the White House that has now spread to our Department of Injustice, that almost of all of them have supported and continue to support.
 
As to the do-nothing Democrats, it is way, way, way, way past time for the Dems to impeach our Asshole-in-Chief. Nervous Nancy and the do-nothings MUST rise to the occasion, and have the courage to do the right thing and impeach the Criminal-in-Chief and do it NOW, or we can kiss our Democracy goodbye. There can be no more stalling, no more putting fingers in the wind to see which way it, no more counting the votes. Their oath to defend the Constitution requires that they stop stalling and DO THEIR JOBS! 
 
Any and all incumbents of either party who cannot or will not do their duty and vote to impeach the lawless thug in the Oval Office, should be removed from office in November 2020, along with the “Evil One” in the White House, by an awakened nation finally standing up to protect our democracy against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. 

During a broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC last month, the host, former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough gave Mitch McConnell the well-deserved nickname of Moscow Mitch, which has rightfully stuck to McConnell’s ass like Russian glue to a shingle.
 
Now, after the three mass killings in El Paso, Dayton and the Garlic Festival in California, when Mitch made his disdain for supporting any type of reasonable gun safety laws crystal clear, by refusing to call the Senate back from summer break to attend an emergency session to address this National Security issue, another well-deserved moniker has been plastered to his Russian buttocks, that of “Massacre Mitch”. 
 
Clearly, Massacre Mitch was too busy collecting his ill-gotten gains from his swindling deal to bring Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s money into Kentucky (after arranging for U.S. sanctions against Deripaska to be lifted--against the will of the House and the Democratic Senate and against American National Security interests) to bother with holding an emergency session to save his fellow Americans from more mass murder. Indeed, Massacre McConnell has sold out his state and our country to the highest bidder (i.e., Putin). 
 
As the treachery of Moscow Mitch and Massacre McConnell is exposed to the light of day, he should also become infamous as “Mitch the Menace,” as he alone presents a clear and present danger and menace to our National Security. Not only are McConnell and his Republican-Russian comrades acting as well-paid “Russian Assets,” they are also acting in a deeply un-American manner, and collectively betraying our country and our countrymen.
 
Not only is Moscow Mitch a Russian asset, dedicated to allowing the Russian government to infiltrate our entire political and electoral system while his party accepts untold amounts of bribes through the NRA to do Putin’s bidding, he and all of the members of his Russian Republican Federation are also acting as stooges for the NRA agenda, which is to flood our country with as many weapons of war as possible.
 
Russia’s goal appears to be to get as many Americans as possible to kill each other, first by flooding our streets with assault weapons designed only to kill as many people as possible within a war zone, and second by taking over our entire electoral system. Moscow Mitch is obviously fully onboard with this Russian anti-America strategy. I certainly hope he is being paid handsomely for such treachery. 
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again during the election and presidential campaign of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let him bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he doesn’t like his other nickname of Massacre Mitch, let him bring to the floor all of the gun safety laws already passed by the House as well, and waiting on his desk.
 
And if he doesn’t like his new nickname, Mitch the Menace, he should start acting like an adversary for America. But clearly his allegiance lies elsewhere, with those who secretly fill his pockets and his campaign chest.
 
Russian Republicans, as led by Mitch the Menace and His Assholiness, our 45thpresident and the first U.S. president ever appointed by Russian Oligarchs, are both doing everything they can to welcome and give aid and comfort to our Russian enemy. Indeed, if a war had been officially declared against Russia when they first began their plan of attack against our democracy in 2014, most of currently elected Republican members in the House of Representatives and the US Senate, particularly Senator McConnell, along with His Assholiness, our 45thpresident, could be officially accused of treason. 
 
In time, and hopefully sooner than later, most of the Republicans in Washington will be shown to have accepted illegal contributions from Russian Oligarchs, funneled through the equally corrupt NRA, which might as well stand for the National Russian Associationat this point. 
 
If this treason were not enough, His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere, while his Repugnant Racist Republicans have stood silently by and placidly supported him in doing so.
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. Forget the normal issues of a presidential year: the economy, health care, etc. The election in November 2020 is going to be an existential question: Americans will have to vote either for or against our Democracy. Which will it be: Will we have a Dictator or will we choose the Rule of Law? Will we allow Moscow Mitchand His Assholinessto hand our country over to Vladimir Putin, or will we choose to end this abject corruption?
 
Voting for the Republicans—any Republican—is a vote for Putin and the Russian Oligarchs. So prepare far in advance to make your choice, America. And make it wisely. As this may be the last election held in our country—at least the last one with even the slightest semblance of fairness.
 
I pray to God that we collectively vote out Moscow Mitch, His Assholiness, the NRA, and the Russian-Republican Federation. 

"As I pointed out in last Sunday’s blog posting, “Moscow Mitch” has blocked all attempts to stop Russian and other foreign governments from attacking our democracy and our voting system. According to Dana Milbank’s column in last week’s Washington Post:
 
"McConnell has blocked all such attempts, including: 
A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence. 
A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies.
A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election.
 A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes."
 
"McConnell has prevented them all from being considered — over and over again. This is the same McConnell who, in the summer of 2016, when briefed by the CIA along with other congressional leaders on Russia’s electoral attacks, questioned the validity of the intelligence and forced a watering down of a warning letter to state officials about the threat, omitting any mention of Russia."
 
Clearly, McConnell’s acts are that of a Russian stooge and a traitor to America. Further, McConnell, is acting as a Russian Asset, quite willing to do anything to aid and to abet our sworn enemies so that he and our Russian-appointed president retain his power. And McConnell seems quite willing to let foreign actors invade and attack our country, just so that he and his fellow Russian-Republican stooges can retain their power.
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again in the election of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let it bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he proves his allegiance to America by putting these bills forward for debate on the Senate floor, then we can stop calling him Moscow Mitch. If, on the other hand, he proves that he and our president and their Russian-backed party are beholding to Russian influence, as I believe he will, by not allowing any of these bills that would protect America come forward, then the name of Moscow Mitch should not only stick to him forever after, he should be renounced and chastised by every American who loves our country. A traitor is a traitor and an enemy is an enemy. If McConnell continues to betray our country, the nickname of Moscow Mitch, like that of Benedict Arnold and others whose stains outlast the time in which they betrayed their country, should be emblazoned on his tombstone, in all of the history books, as a name that will live in infamy.
 
The hatred that is espoused daily from the loathsome White Nationalist creature who became our 45thpresident, is now spreading hate and violence throughout our land, quite awash in guns thanks to the Republicans and the NRA. In the last two days, two mass killings have taken place, both killers being racist white followers of their Racist in Chief. And rather than tone down his hate-filled rhetoric His Assholinessonly spouts and spreads more hatred, and more contempt for the Rule of Law. Clearly, His Assholiness is also a Russian appointee, precisely in the same mold of Moscow Mitch. These traitors to the Constitution, to the Rule of Law, and to any remaining sanity in our society, must be removed soon. Indeed, the current president presents a clear and present danger to our country, to our national security, and to our democracy. He, like the Russian asset Moscow Mitch, must be removed as soon as possible.
 
The call for the impeachment of the unworthy and unlawful monster in the Oval Office is finally growing in the House of Representatives, such that a majority of the Democratic members of the House now support an impeachment hearing. Most if not all of the Republican members of the House (i.e., the Russian Republicans), appear to want to stay onboard the Trumptanic as it veers toward the ultimate iceberg; history should judge them, too, as traitors to America and the American way, even as they sink while still happily aboard their Racist and White Nationalist flagship, a most deserved outcome. 
 
His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere. Now, on a nearly daily basis, we see his racist killers using their assault weapons to kill as many of their fellow Americans as possible.  
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. If Americans want to see daily carnage in a nation swimming with insanity and guns, by all means vote for the Russian Republicans and vote for the White Nationalist pig now snorting from the bully pulpit. You, too, can joins the Russians who want to see America sink into the abyss. OR you can vote for America, for decency, for the Rule of Law, for the expulsion of Moscow Mitch and every other Russian-backed traitor, be they Republican or Democrat (I’m looking at you, Tulsi Gabbard!). You can vote for hate and White Nationalism and turn our current president into an Russian-appointed Emperor who will never need to step down or ever hold national elections again. OR you can vote for a return to sanity, to civility, to Rule of Law. That is the choice, clear and simple. Just what in God’s name, do Americans want our country to become? We can be Fascist or we can be Free but we cannot be both. We can be a nation where there are more guns than people OR we can decide we have had enough of the violence, the racism, the hatred, the contempt for law, but we cannot continue to be both, a nation torn apart from within, divisible and hate-filled. 

We can continue to drown in guns and killing OR we can stop the violence by choosing to get most of the guns off the street, but we can't have both situations. It's either the right to guns or the right to life, but you cannot have both!
 
We can continue to allow the occupant of the Oval Office to shout his racist hatred across all of our media, or we can choose to have his sorry ass thrown out of office. We can keep the outlaw president we now have OR we can send him to prison where he deservedly belongs as soon as possible.
 
At the very least, every thinking American should want impeachment hearings to begin immediately, before our Russian-appointed president is allowed to spew any more of his racist bile and before any more innocent Americans are shot down at the local mall, the theatre, or your local public school.
 
In essence, we can choose hatred or we can follow our Better Angels and choose love. But we can’t go forward into the future, holding both in our hearts.

Right now, Russia has us right where they always wanted us: at each other's throats and killing each other.