From 1youngvote.com ...

​Listening to the Sunday morning shows and I hear, "And here is Republican governor Bill, then we'll talk to Democrat Joe".

What if there were no parties? And there was not Hastert rule?

​I think that's what the founding fathers would like.

I had always thought that our president could be considered stupid, or as at least one in the cabinet says, a moron.  But both of these terms are derogatory digs when there is clinical terms that are clearly the case.

Functional illiteracy is reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level". Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense, meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language.   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy ​)

The fulfillment of this definition has been demonstrated repeated in our President's tweets and his well documented inability to read documents larger than a couple of pages such as the Presidential Daily Briefing, a document essential to the president's "employment tasks".

Attention Disability (ADD or newer ADHD) under any name describes our president my my opinion when he hears something like,  "This report does not address collusion", and understands "There was no collusion".  The president filters and modifies all words and phrases to reflect favorably on him no matter the modifications required to make that so. And when it is all said and one, he believes the modified version is true. That's the disorder.

Another strange example might be the fact that the president feels that when the FBI badly botched warning information regarding the Florida shooter Cruz was because the FBI was distracted by the Russian Investigation. Apparently the president believes that all of the 35,000 employees of the FBI are focused on him.  That is self centered foolishness.

I believe that not only do we have to get bipartisan action in congress, it must be veto proof so that the president is a non-factor..

The president asks what ever happened to “Due Process”?

He raises a question that I have been pondering for a while. I’m a believer in due process.

I’m also a fan of Al Franken.  He got into trouble.  In my mind, he was a superior comedian. Any person that presses the edges in their pursuit, go where lesser people do not. edges.  And if you are out there being the best, you can cross the line. In comedy it would be a line of good behavior.  Yes, cross the line.  I don’t think you can be the best if you don’t.  I bet Bob Hope, a superior comedian, particularly when entertaining the troops, crossed the line.

Al Franken, admitted to crossing the line and asked for due process so that we all could consider his sins.  I looked forward to due process because I also believe him to be a superior senator. I’d like to hear and consider his situation AND that of his accusers.

I was emotionally confused when another of my favorite senators, Elizabeth Warren took a stance with over thirty other democratic senators, a stance that said Senator Franken should leave the Senate without due process.  The pressure and distraction were overwhelming, and sadly, we lost a fine senator under a cloud.

My thought then is that we no longer have a “he said, she said” environment. We now have a “she said” and that alone rules the day.  Neither works very well.

Now along comes the Porter matter in the White House.  The general details and the photo have been repeated endlessly. But the last word by President Trump is, “What ever happened to due process?” This was in the face of Porter resigning and stating he wanted no further discussion.

Who can demand due process?

The President of the United States for Mr. Porter?

Can we properly hear the women who have accused the president?

Could Mr. Porter have demanded due process rather than running into the night?

Did the wives of Mr. Porter get due process when they testified to the FBI under a felony threat for lying?  (I think so.)

Can Al Franken?  (Didn’t seem like it.)

My preference would be for some kind of due process for all. If you make an accusation, swear to it under oath with the penalty of perjury.  If you make a denial, swear to it under oath with the penalty of perjury. 

Put your freedom where your mouth is.

iPut me in the column that believes that the Falcon Heavy launch on February 6, 2018 is in the top three events in our lifetime.  In no order,  

(x) The SpaceX launch and the Tesla in solar orbit;
(x) The USA landing on the moon;
(x) The worldwide understanding that the U.S. President is a pathological liar.

​An incredible time to be alive.  

​“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”  - Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“Trump is a liar, everyone knows that. But he made Paul Ryan lie. Now I can’t believe him either.” – Dave Murphy

How dare I say that Trump made Ryan lie?  Something monstrous changed Ryan. One can see in Paul Ryan's eyes that he doesn't believe himself.