Earl R. Smith II's Blog, page 20

The Unmasking of Susan Collins – This is What A Trump Republican Looks Like

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin describes the willful blindness of the Senator from Maine. “Collins’s first reaction was not, “We need to get to the bottom of this and find out whether the president’s cohorts were spying on our ambassador!” It was not, “How in the world could the secretary […]

All the News That’s Fit to … Why Woodward and Bernstein Had to Be Replaced with Sean Hannity and Chuck Todd

Talking heads live in a virtual world in which it’s okay for them to participate in the degradation of a free press in pursuit of their own egoistic goals. They are the center of talk shows that have five or six guests at once so that they, as the indispensable star, can get maximum mike […]

How lame do you have to be …

Of all the people who are taking on Trump, only the two billionaires seem to understand how it needs to be done and are ready to do it. Both Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are advancing three arguments. Trump has not delivered on his campaign promises – he has lied to the American people Those […]

A Winning Hand for the 2020 Independence Referendum

The 2014 referendum was lost because the leadership of the SNP came off liking like the Keystone Cops. They fumbled on three key issues. When pressed, it became obvious that they had not thought through their vision for Scottish Independence and that simply saying independence over and over again was not enough. Those three issues […]

The ticking time bomb

In politics, there is a simple recipe for disaster. First you build a bomb. Arm it. Strap it to your chest. Then launch your re-election campaign. The talking heads tend to look only as far as the impeachment trial in the Senate. Most Republican senators who are up for reelection in 2020 seem to be […]

A Suggested Roadmap

As a longtime supporter of the idea that Republicans need to stand up and oppose what Trump and his followers have done to the party of Lincoln, I applaud the launch of the Lincoln Project. I offer the following observations in the hope that they will increase the contribution that this effort can make toward […]

Is this the kind of country you want to live in?

I’m one of those people who was born in a small town and now consider New York my hometown. That’s because Manhattan made me what I am. It ignited my curiosity, opened my eyes to a broader, exciting world and expanded my horizons. During the two decades I lived there, I learned the difference between […]

Trump: The Criminal who Confesses by Accusing

Trump’s playbook on display! When you are committing crimes, accuse the other side of doing exactly what you are doing. Then watch the taking heads dash after the bright, shiny object – right down the rabbit hole and into an alternate reality. So, today he sent a letter to the Speaker of the House that […]

If you support Trump, it means …

All the talking heads – both left and right – are constantly telling you that the country is divided. But stating the obvious is insulting if they don’t go the extra step and ask, “divided into what?” Let’s take a quick look at what it means to be a Trump supporter as told by Trump […]

This is the real Bill Barr

The man who is supposed to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed is making sure that his god’s law supplants the laws made by congress and interpreted by the courts. He sees Trump as a combination Pope and Führer – the incarnation of god as man. When you look at what Trump does, […]