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I appeared on Silvio Canto Jr's talk show from Dallas. It's here.

MARCH 14, 2022

WELCOME TO THE WAR – OVERNIGHT: The war in Ukraine is sucking all the oxygen out of the political room. There seems to be an understanding, even among some Democrats, that this is something new, and different. We now realize we can have a major war in Europe, one that can draw in the superpowers quickly.  We can lose this war. We can lose our status as leader of the free world.  Indeed, we seem to be trying.

I ask this question:  Are we really prepared for this crisis? Anyone who replies "yes" hasn't been watching the rapid decline of the United States – a decline begun wilfully under Barack Obama, interrupted by Donald Trump, and now continuing with unseemly enthusiasm by Joseph Biden and his trustless sidekick, Grand Admiral Kamala Harris.

Can you imagine the movie? Fade in: A huge hole where the White House once stood. Kamala Harris enters the frame in rags and four-inch heels, determined to find the teddy bear she left behind as the place was being evacuated.  She finds the remnant of the White House staff, bloody but alive, and announcing that now Americans would understand what Donald Trump and Richard Nixon gave them.  Kamala giggles, and trips over the remains of an Iranian missile financed by the United States.

I ask another question:  Why are we one of the few democracies on Earth that has no mechanism for replacing a clearly failed leadership in times of crisis?  I'm not overlooking impeachment and removal, but that only applies to one officeholder.  I am not forgetting the 25th amendment, but that only allows for removal of an impaired president after a complicated process.

No, I am talking about a Constitutional amendment, precisely and calmly written, that would permit several different entities – Congress, state legislatures, a petition drive, to order a snap election within 30 days, an election that could replace an entire administration, the way any presidential election would.  For goodness sake, the Brits can change administrations overnight.  This proposal would allow a month.

Opponents would argue that such a Constitutionally permitted process could destabilize the presidency, that the office has worked since 1789 because it is so stable.  I ask: What happens when stability fails?  And stability is failing right now.  The president of the United States has led the nation on a rush toward suicide.  His first act after taking the oath was to destroy our energy independence.  This was followed by an all-out political attack on our energy industry, an industry vital to our national survival.  After that, as Americans remember with horror, came the president's vast failure as commander-in-chief, ending the Afghanistan war with a chaotic, humiliating withdrawal worthy of a defeated third-world country. That act was unquestionably examined in the Kremlin before Putin decided to invade and bomb Ukraine.  Today, the president of the United States is rarely mentioned as a serious player in international politics – and we are supposed to be the leader of the free world.

We must finally concede that we have a flaw in the presidential system.  That system may have been tolerable in the pre-nuclear age of artillery shells and bayonets, a time when a train trip from coast to American coast took four or five days.  A presidential election every four years seemed to work, with the president held in check by Congressional elections every second year.  Today, when a nuclear-tipped missile can cross an ocean in 20 minutes, our system is eroding, and needs to be fixed.

Do you agree?

March 14,  2022     Permalink 

MARCH 13, 2022

THE REAL AMERICA SPEAKS – OVERNIGHT – and what it is saying will not produce a victory party in the White House.   From Fox:

PHILIP, S.D. – President Biden has been "absolutely worthless" and "has done nothing for us," residents of a small South Dakota town say as their community continues to deal with the fallout from the Keystone XL Pipeline cancelation.

"He does not care," Paulette, a resident of Philip, told Fox News. "If he did care, Keystone would be going."

Biden revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline's building permit his first day in office over concerns about its potential impact on the climate.

"Biden and his administration ran on Build Back Better, and, that is, from where I'm standing, a load of crap," West Central Electric Cooperative CEO Jeff Birkeland told Fox News. "I think his new slogan should be ‘butchering booming business.'"

Birkeland said the Keystone XL Pipleine was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" for Philip, a town with a population of 779. The project would have brought unprecedented growth to their otherwise stagnant community, he told Fox News.

West Central, which is located in Philip, was one of three electric co-ops in South Dakota working on substations for the Keystone pipeline.

Birkeland's co-op had invested $9 million into the project when Biden halted it after one day in office, the energy CEO told Fox.

"He's literally pulled the rug out from under us and killed our economy," Birkeland said.
Paulette told Fox News the effect of Biden's decision to cancel the pipeline "was huge. He got no love from this area."

"There was going to be a lot of money coming in here to help our schools, help our community," she continued. "It was going to be a good deal, and he trashed it."

Duane Adair, manager of the town’s only motel, the Motel West, said: "There's no common sense in making that decision to shut down pipelines – and then turn around and we have a problem with not having enough oil."

For three consecutive days this week, gas prices hit their all-time highest mark, with the national average reaching $4.35 per gallon Thursday, according to AAA.

Biden announced a ban on Russian oil and gas imports Tuesday in response Moscow's war on Ukraine. The president warned that Americans would see higher prices at the pump.

COMMENT: Americans are figuring it out. Biden destroyed our energy independence and almost wrecked the energy industry – because the far left in his party demanded it.  Now he's begging dictatorships around the world, from Russia through Iran to Venezuela, to pump more oil to the tottering little United States. What a performance.  It flashed weakness, and we got the invasion of Ukraine.  But the totalitarian left is pleased.

It will get worse.  From everything we hear, Field Marshal Biden and Grand Admiral Harris are giving Iran a huge victory in the nuclear talks. Looks like the Iranians will have tens of billions of dollars more to finance terrorism, and will likely have a nuclear weapon whenever they want it.

How would you like to be an American ally right now?  That may be the question of the decade.

March 13,  2022     Permalink