February 19, 2020: The GOP is, "A Soulless Beast that Cares about Neither the People Nor the Planet."

 

2/19/20: You might imagine the Attorney General is the head of the Justice Department. But we have a new cop on the beat: Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he declared himself the “chief law enforcement officer of the United States.” For fun, he tried out his pardon powers on a bunch of scuzzy white collar criminals, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Rod is famous for trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, among other faux pas of a criminal kind. 

The president commented specifically on the Blagojevich case, saying, “That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence, in my opinion.” Then he pointed out that the people who charged Blagojevich had been involved in charging and convicting several of his felonious 2016 campaign aides. Really, what was with all these juries and lawyers and court procedures anyway! 

“In my opinion,” will soon replace the rule of law. 

Consider this flurry of pardons warmups for the pardons of Roger Stone and the whole den of thieves, sometimes known as the Trump inner circle.

 

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“A soulless beast that cares about neither the people nor the planet.” 

Martin A. Hewitt, former GOP candidate for Congress, describing his party

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WITH THAT, let’s close with an article this blogger stumbled upon, by former Republican candidate for Congress, Martin A. Hewitt. Let’s see what he thinks of his party and his party’s president these days: 

I always hoped this day would never come and that the proud history of past Republican presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower would save the party. Unfortunately, that is not where we are. Today the Republican Party has died. It has been replaced by a soulless beast that cares about neither the people nor the planet. Its only purpose is to grow and takeover its host - the United States of America.

 

The party died when the Senate voted against witnesses. It was the last chance for the leadership to actually lead and provide an essential check [emphasis added] on what has now become unfettered power in the executive branch.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Republican with morals and true patriotism.

Hewitt goes on to speak of a “circular firing squad” being conducted by Democrats, which he fears will lead to the re-election of an unleashed Trump. He pillories his colleagues in Congress, and the president, for fiscally irresponsible policies, and says conscience leaves him no choice. 

“I am forced to quit the Republican Party,” he says. He will fight for a better future for the country in his own way.