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Ilya Shapiro has penned an interesting, if somewhat strained article in The Federalist pinning the rise of Donald Trump on the deciding Obamacare decisions by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. (Tip of the hat to my wife for this reference.) Yes, there is some logic behind this supposition, but it seems to this observer that it was Obummer himself who was the primary culprit behind Obamacare. Justice John Roberts was but a secondary audience member in this sad legislative kabuki play.

So Trump's candidacy is a rebound reaction to Obummer's fumbled attempt to remake our health care system (among many other snotty actions) in the same way that Obummer's election was a rebound reaction to George W. Bush's war in Iraq ... and Bush '43's election  was a rebound reaction to President "Slick Willie" Clinton's slimy personal behavior. This has become a predictable presidential precedent ... like the bumptious bouncing of these two previous presidential jack-in-the-boxes.

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Sandy Burglar

Sandy Berger, President Clinton's former National Security Advisor and admitted stealer and destroyer of National Archives classified documents ... for which he surrendered his law license, paid a hefty fine, and had to perform community service ... was invited to the White House last night for dinner with the president and a number of former foreign-policy experts ... see: Weekly Standard Story for the full list of attendees (but no Susan Rice, the current National Security Advisor!). This is obviously a bit of staging for tomorrow night's prime-time address to the nation by the president on the ISIS threat.

Let us hope that they counted the White-House silverware after Sandy Berger's departure.

The I Word

Impeachment for President Obama is being bandied about more and more … particularly since his administration's scandals seem to be piling up faster than BMWs on a foggy San Diego freeway. The ones that are pushing even many lefties over the edge are the Veterans Administration mismanagement and Taliban prisoner swap deal … see: The Hill Story. Much as I would like our fearless leader to face this easily-justified well-of-the-Senate humiliation … it just isn’t going to happen for two reasons:

1)     President Clinton escaped this process with higher approval ratings than before he started … primarily because the gullible American public thought that it was about his assignations with Monica Lewinsky when it was really about his lying under oath. This realization that spin can easily trump truth has made the Republican Party quite gun shy (excuse the pun).

2)     No one really wants to impeach the first black American president … and Barack Obama knows it all too well. This is why we are suffering though these scandal escalations that will likely continue until the last wagyu steak has been consumed at the White House.

Even this Taliban prisoner exchange scandal still has a few wacko lefties trying to defend Obama with twisted logic and pained expressions. I guess Lincoln was right when he quipped about the various populations of foolish people. Surprisingly, I even believe that Mr. Haughty at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may release Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the mastermind behind the 9/11 World Trade Centers’ destruction) before he finishes rubbing American noses in the excrement left behind by his mentor, Saul Alinsky.

So we Americans will still have to suffer through 2 ½ more years of lavish presidential self-indulgences, foreign-policy disasters, and Constitution-defying domestic ukases by our tyrant wannabe. The only I-word that we will likely experience will be surrounded by “me” and “my” when we watch Obama’s chin-in-the-air Teleprompter claptrap.  

Not a very happy thought.