Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
A couple of weeks ago, Rube Render had a column explaining how much power the president had. The purpose of the article was to justify firing the head of the FBI.
It had me wondering if we were supposed to address our so-called president as “Your Majesty” or “Your Holiness.”
The president’s lawyer said when Trump used the word “Hope you can -...” concerning an investigation, he did not mean it as applying pressure.
When the Mafia says “hope nothing bad happens to your nice business,” surely you would not consider that pressure.
There are lots of Republicans that are real queasy about Trump, but they are afraid if they cross him his base will turn against them in the next election. They want to use Trump to achieve what their goal has always been — tax cuts for the rich, eliminate health care, neuter governmental regulations on financial industry, render the Environmental Protection Agency useless, basically go back to the “good old days” prior to Theodore Roosevelt.
The results of this would be to free corporations and the moneyed elite to pursue their goal without regard for the consequences to the rest of society.
Two recent examples of the push to gut controls: The house approved a bill destroying Dodd-Frank that was designed to prevent another financial disaster, the Senate pushed a bill behind closed doors, no hearings, that would basically destroy health care.
Facts and science do not affect the ideology of Trump nor Republicans (a lot of the current crop) when it is rebutted. Science overwhelmingly supports global warming and its causes, health care is a fact in most industrialized countries and is superior and cheaper, tax cuts for the wealthy do not pay for themselves — proven by Kansas and numerous other examples.
Leon Logan
Tucumcari