Time to Think

Disinformation By Hank Silverberg I have never been to Iowa. I hear it’s a nice place, if you can stand the cold winters where temperatures hover between 14 and 20 degrees in January.   But it’s time for them to change the way they pick delegates to the political party convention.   Last week’s caucuses, as everyone knows by now, were a   d isaster.   It really makes no difference at this point who won. New Hampshire, where people actually vote, is much simpler. But the beginning of the primary season got off to a bad start and the only person who won was Donald J. Trump. That, combined with the highly predictable vote to acquit him on the articles of impeachment in the Senate, gave Trump a very good week.    You would think that would give him a chance to move forward, forget about what has happened in the last year, tout his accomplishments and work on things that matter, like reducing the national debt or fixing thousands of roads and bridges across the countr

Expectations By Hank Silverberg Here we are, exactly where I predicted we would be weeks ago. And I am certainly not alone in that forecast. By mid-week the Senate will have voted to acquit Donald J. Trump on the two articles of impeachment, and he will then be free to do whatever he wants for at least another year.  There are those who will say the U.S. Constitution worked. But did it? I say no. It stopped working the minute the Republicans in the Senate voted to deny new witnesses or new evidence to be admitted to the trial, making the whole Senate procedure useless! Trump won’t be removed from office, but the trial certainly did not exonerate him. We are right where we were after the release of the Mueller Report. He has NOT been exonerated. WE know s omething smells, but the GOP is throwing out the rubbish and covering it up with soil before we can get to the bottom of the the garbage can.  But at least we can get back to the election campaign, which pretty