IMPEACHMENT???

  Trump has said that “impeachment would be a disaster for the country; “In an interview with Fox & Friends, he said the market would crash and "everybody would be very poor".  Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with Sky News. "the American people would revolt".

  Impeachment is a drastic step which must be first pass in the House and confirmed in the Senate.

  Only two Presidents in history have been impeached, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. In both cases the Senate failed to confirm the House’s action. A third President, Richard Nixon< most likely would have been but he resigned before any vote.

  I do think that Trump is right that it would be a disaster, but for the wrong reason. When the President’s office is vacant he is succeeded by the Vice-President.

  That would be Pence; a zealot ultra-right Christian who would try to impose a Theocracy. He has expressed his feelings on racial relations, abortions and the place of women in society. The Ayatollah of Iran could be an angel in comparison.

   Is it better to stick with an egotistical incompetent or have a Pence for the next two years?

CARTOON DELIGHT

I have another doctor’s appointment Friday am. I may not write a post this evening. Although all three late show hosts are on vacation and missing a ton of material to our regret; the cartoonists have been in rare form. Indeed, there were too many great cartoons today. Thus, for those that enjoy them these are the best:

A BLOG

  Ten years and 4340 blogs ago in May 2008 I wrote: “This Blog will periodically and with no set time interval reflect a senile octogenarian's views on politics, life, Plainfield, NJ, perhaps religion, or any inane subject from A to Z. Since I am having trouble finding cognizant peers, these will be comments that I would like to share. Perhaps, someone may find time to reply pro or con, or even act upon.”

  I have tried to maintain that goal to this date. But I do need your comments to succeed. All comments that do not exceed the limit of decency or are personal attacks with no relation to the blog will be posted.

  I have had much to say this week but sadly (A Trump expression) this week I have had several days of computer frustration!

  For the past several weeks I have been slack in posting blogs. A prime extra and unplanned reason has been both the New computer and the new cell phone. For example;

  I spent hours writing a blog on word, hit copy to paste it on my blog and poof I could not find it anywhere nor recover it.  That has happened too often. My new cell phone would be working fine if several important APPS which were transferred worked. Luckily, I have solved that problem today

 Compound all of that by health problems which required many extra and unplaned needed MD visits I have had little time to post.

  The news that Cohen has made  a deal and Manafort was found guilty on eight of 18 tax and bank-fraud charges was the most significant happening  to date this week. This represents the present status of corruption in our present politics.

  But we can change it. Did you know?  "In more than half the states that register and report voters by party, independent voters outnumber one or both of the two major parties.

  Voter frustration is mounting under President Trump, the second-straight anti-establishment candidate whose presidency failed to deliver positive and durable change. Yet the political duopoly continues to dominate Congress and state legislatures. Only two of the 535 members of Congress, and 27 of the 7,317 state legislators are independent.

  Why are there so few independents elected when there are so many independent voters? The single greatest barrier to change is the question of viability. People don’t want to waste their vote. With an angry electorate and more-competitive independent candidates, that may soon change." (source ??? but not fake news.)

And for laughs: