. . . strongly and clearly declare that life, liberty, and constitutional governance must prevail.
Good luck with
that, Mr. French.
Neither the Republican nor the Democratic presidential candidate believes in truly constitutional
government.
Both believe that if elected they prevail and the Constitution be damned.
Both believe---with differing devils in differing details---that the State is all and the citizen is nothing, above
and beyond how the citizen might have been used to put them in office in the first place.
The good news: Hilarious Rodent Clinton lost, never mind that she won't go gently into that good gray
night without substantial contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
The bad news: Donaldus Minimus won.
The worse news: It said something terrible about the American people that they live in a country whose
first presidential contest was between George Washington and John Adams yet saw fit to produce a
contest between the two worst qualified candidates in the history of that country.
The hopeful news: That enough of the majority Republicans on Crapola Hill a) grow spines, with plentifully
iron marrows; and, b) aren't afraid to . . . well, never mind holding feet to the fire, they need to hold
Donaldus Minimus's
ass to it.
We've had a Republican White House and a Republican Congress together before, and not all that long
ago:
How'd
that work out, gang?
