Earl R. Smith II's Blog, page 25

News You Can Muse – The Real Donald Trump

“Where’s my favorite dictator?”: Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France, President Trump awaited a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. Mr. Trump looked over a gathering of American and Egyptian officials and called out in a loud voice: “Where’s […]

The President’s Personal Taxpayer Funded Law Firm – DOJ

The Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Friday that a federal court should reject the House Judiciary Committee’s efforts to obtain evidence and testimony from the special counsel’s ireport and investigation in part because Democrats cannot agree on the scope of the panel’s inquiry. This should raise immediate questions. Why if DOJ taking this step? Why […]

Trump’s Best Allies in His Reelection Campaign?

These are going to be hard words for many Democrats to read. But they are important to write in the hope that doing so will wake up the fighting spirit of the people’s party. The accepted wisdom is that the 2020 election is Trump’s to lose and that he is doing a good job of […]

News You Can Muse – Trump’s Chaos Central

“What the hell is going on in here?” That’s something I asked years ago when I walked into a room full of political activists and found themselves arguing amongst themselves. As it turned out, most of the people in the room were fonder of arguing amongst themselves than going out and getting something done. The […]

Tired of Winning Yet America?

It was a signature slogan of his campaign. “We’re going to win so much. You’re going to get tired of winning.” Well, let’s see how that is going! Farmers just loved Trump. He promised to make America great again and they bought it hook, line and farm. Well, the got hooked alright and are being […]

News You Can Muse – Mob Tactics

You might want to go back and watch the Godfather series of movies. Or maybe just reading the news will be enough. Kneel and kiss the ring: A modified weather map turned out to be the front door to a demonstration straight out of The Godfather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responded to a […]

News You Can Muse – Patterns and 2020

There comes a time when patterns become so obvious that even dead men become aware of them. The question is not whether despicable things are being done in the name of the American people or whether the current government is intellectually, legally and morally corrupt. But how much Americans are prepared to tolerate. That’s the […]

The Elephant’s Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog

I recently spent some time with a half-dozen Republican moderates. Not since the financial crisis of 2008 have I encountered a more dispirited group. It wasn’t my first encounter with them. In the past they had been watching, with rising despair, the slow-motion train wreck of the political party they had dedicated most of their […]

Another Musical Salute to the Republican Rank and File – I’m being swallowed by a Boa Constrictor

Okay, they deserve it. And it’s difficult to have any sympathy for the pain of the Republican rank-and-file. But it’s possible for the rest of us to understand what they’re going through. After all, empathy is a human virtue. Many decades ago, Johnny Cash released a song that pretty much sums up how the Republican […]

A Musical Salute to the Republican Rank and File – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

I came across an old recording of a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 that seems to reflect the current dilemma of rank and file Republicans. The song is  Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VOo...). Notably, the song resulted in a notorious censorship of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Give it a listen […]