Politicians used to talk about “the vision thing,” by which they meant a candidate’s ability to formulate and present his or her vision for the country going forward.  As 2019 comes to an end, it is abundantly clear that only one of the presidential candidates for 2020 has mastered “the vision thing,” and that his name is Donald Trump.  The contrast is stark.  It’s not just that no Democrat candidate has been able, or even willing, to propose a palatable set of policies.  It’s not that the Democrats’ vision is of a different means to a utilitarian end, the greatest good for the greatest number of Americans, it’s that the Democrats’ vision itself is defective.  They’re not myopic.  It’s not that they can’t see far enough to appreciate the policies of this President.  It’s worse than that.  They have double vision, or more to the point, they are experiencing hallucinations, which cause them to see things that really aren’t there.  It’s really shocking to consider that two large groups of the electorate can view the same landscape, the same facts, and the same actions and accomplishments, and yet see two different things.  Let’s take the realities of the year 2019 as an example.  When 2019 began, the Dow Jones average stood at 23,340.  As this is written near year’s end, the Dow is at 28,565, an increase of over 22%.  In 2019, stocks added $17 trillion in value.  2019 began with an unemployment rate of 3.7%, one of the lowest rates in half a century.  Although Democrats suggested in the Spring that recession was imminent, 2019 ends with the unemployment rate at 3.5%, the lowest in my memory.  There are far more jobs available than workers available to fill them.  Businesses are thriving, wages for all income levels are up for the first time in many years.  All sectors of the population have benefited, with low-wage workers gaining most of all.  A normally sighted person observing these facts could only conclude that the economy is booming like never before, and that 2020 promises even more prosperity.  However, the vision impaired Democrats see something else.  According to the Democrat presidential field, if the economy has improved, and they’re not admitting that it has, any and all credit belongs to Il Duce Obama, who after 8 years, had everything humming along just in time for Trump to take over.  I have to agree that Obama did do one thing right, he left the White House, and with his departure the economy had nowhere to go but up.  President Trump has produced results that Democrats never dreamed of, and which Il Duce Obama told us were impossible.  Obama said manufacturing jobs would never come back.  They did come back, but those jobs, and the 6 or 7 million others created since 2017 are invisible to the Democrats.  Bad vision.  Income up, unemployment down, plentiful jobs available to all, or at least for the sighted.  Not for Democrats though, according to whom, the middle class is “being crushed,” the working class has “no way up,” and the poor “are being left behind.”  You have to wonder about more than the vision thing.  Doesn’t “the middle class” work?  And just who are “the working class?”  Are they working for the middle class?  Or are they working for the hated “rich?”  And if the “rich” are not part of the “working class,” then how did they get so rich without working?  Curious.  But back to reality.  President Trump promised a wall on the Mexican border and pledged to reduce illegal border crossings.  Despite getting no help from the Congress, and constant resistance from misguided federal District Court judges, Trump has kept his promise.  The wall is being built and illegal border crossings are down.  Trump has even gotten Mexico to use its military to stop illegal crossings.  These actions have ameliorated the humanitarian crisis on the border, have protected lives on both sides of the border, and have eased the strain on our health and educational systems, as well as preserving higher paying jobs for Americans.  This looks good to the sighted, but not to the Dems.  Democrats view these developments as proof positive of racism.  Hey, maybe that’s what they mean about the poor being “left behind.”  Poor illegal aliens have been left behind the border wall where they belong.  President Trump promised to get our NATO allies to pay more for their own defense.  He got them to pay billions more, easing our burden.  Under normal vision that’s good.  Through Democratic black-colored glasses, it’s a threat to world security.  Go figure.  Then there’s the trade situation.  The “experts” all said Trump could never replace NAFTA and could never get China to agree to trade terms that prevented them from screwing us.  They were wrong.  Trump replaced NAFTA, getting Canada and Mexico to agree to the USMCA, and the House even took a day off from trying to impeach the President, and actually passed the USMCA.  On top of that, a new trade agreement has been reached with China, in which they will at least promise to screw us a little less in the future.  But positive trade realities look a lot worse through Democrat eyes.  The Dems see a trade war hurting the U.S.  It’s not there, but they see it.  Just like they view the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report confirming that President Trump was the victim of campaign interference by foreign interests in the last election, and instead see a president who himself is encouraging foreign governments to interfere in the next election.  Funny how faulty vision can play tricks with your mind.  The problem for Democrats is that more and more Americans are now wearing corrective lenses.  With 20-20 vision, more Americans can clearly distinguish between the President’s actual accomplishments and the Democrats’ blurred vision of current events.  An electorate with 20-20 vision bodes poorly for Democrats in 2020.

         HOW THE SCHIFF STOLE THE CONSTITUTIONThe following is a conversation with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (for brains), also known as, Shifty Schiff, Pencil Neck Schiff, Cowardly Liar Schiff, or just plain, The Schiff, in which he provides insight on his role in the impeachment inquiry.
(With sincere apologies to Dr. Seuss).

Although most Americans want Trump to stay, the Schiff is determined to send him away.  While Trump is the happiest man we have seen, the Schiff is unscrupulous, lying and mean.  The Schiff’s an obnoxious and arrogant mass, with a face that resembles two cheeks of an ass.  When Trump sought election he said it was funny, Trump never could win, cause Hill had the money.  Trump was sexist, misogynist, racist and crude, he paid money to strippers, and then he got sued.  The Democrats all were progressive and woke, so Trump as the President must be some joke.  When they counted the votes, they all choked on their phloem, and the Democrats knew that the joke was on them.  There was anger and crying and wailing and tears, they were stuck with the Donald for all of four years.  But fear not, they were promised by Brennan and Strzok, we took out insurance, so Trump’s a dead duck.  We’ll say Trump is working as Vladimir’s bitch, and then we’ll investigate, hunting that witch.  We’ll lie about stuff, and we’ll sow some confusion, we’ll claim that it’s all due to Russian collusion.  But who could they count on to peddle that crap?  Why the Schiff, whose conscience has a big gap.  The Deep State came after the Trumpster with spies, so the Schiff would support them by telling some lies.  The Schiff said, “There’s evidence, it’s no illusion, Trump is so guilty of Russian collusion.”  The nasty old Schiff told us “Trump’s in a bind,” There was simply no telling what Mueller might find.  Only Bob Mueller found there was nothing amiss, and it looked like the Schiff would gain nothing from this.  But fear not ye Democrats, your target’s in reach, the Schiff will keep lying so you can impeach.  The President dared to speak to Ukraine, he delayed some money that caused them no pain, he wanted to see that our money’s well spent, not squandered or taken with crooked intent.  He wanted a favor, and he said so, but paying the money was no quid pro quo.  “Ah ha,” the Schiff bellowed, as quick as a missile, “we’ve heard from a phantom who’s blowing a whistle.”  He said, “I don’t know his name,” then the Schiff winked his eye, and that also turned out to be a big lie.  The Schiff just kept lying, and making up stuff, “Don’t look at the transcript, my lies are enough.”  “If I say it’s the truth, it’s the truth, and that’s it, and I know CNN will then swear to my shit.”  The Schiff called some witnesses from the State deep, who said that Trump’s words had disturbed them a heap.  They knew nothing first hand, just hearsay you see, from this one or that one, all Trump enemies.  When asked, “You want something in return for the dough?”  The President told them, “There’s no quid pro quo.”  But the Schiff overlooked this, because he’s so wise, “We can’t believe him, you know Trump lies.”  “Instead of the evidence, listen to me.” “We’ll find something on him that fits to a tee, extortion or bribery, or a tone that is sour, no wait, I’ve got it, abusing his power!”  Abusing his power? Is that a high crime?  “As long as I say it, it will be this time.”  But the Framers don’t say that in Article Two.  They said what’s impeachable, not something new.  “Don’t need no Framers,” Schiff spat with a sneer, “They’re white, were slave owners, and have been dead for years.”  “The law is whatever I say it should be, Maxine Waters agrees, and she won’t lie … to me.”  “See, we all hate Trump and we must make him go, Constitution be damned, it’s all a Schiff Show.”  But is that the standard that Democrats favor?  “Trump’s just a bad guy, so we must not waver.”  But what if it’s done to a Democrat Prez?  What if the law is what Jim Jordan says?   “Not a chance,” the Schiff snorted, “you’re way off the track.”  “After Biden’s elected, we’ll just change it back.”  But what if the voters make Democrats pay?  The Schiff smiled slyly, “I’d rather not say.”  “Alright,” he relented, “You might as well know.  Once there’s no Constitution, then anything goes.  We’ll still have elections, we’ll still let them vote, but if you think that matters, you’re missing the boat.”  “They voted for Trump, and now that doesn’t count.  When the Deep State says go, then you’re finished, you’re out!”  But how can you peddle such terrible lies?  Have you no decency, like other guys?  The Schiff cracked what’s known as a shit-eating grin, “I learned it from Clinton, they’re not lies, it’s spin.”  You may think the Schiff  has plenty of nerve, but if we let him do this, it’s what we deserve.  Ron Reagan once told us with charm and distinction, our freedom’s just one generation from extinction.  So tell all your friends what the Schiff’s all about, and then next November, let’s throw the crumbs out.

As this is written, the House of Representatives has drafted two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.  They are finally ready to fulfill their dreams.  20 minutes after Trump took the oath of office in January 2017, the Washington Post proudly published this message, “The effort to impeach President Donald John Trump is already underway.”  Now it looks like they will get their wish.  The fact that the Democrats have been pursuing impeachment since day one of the Trump presidency tells you all you need to know about the bona fides of the recent action by the House.  Simply put, the entire affair is a steaming crock of Bull Schiff.  This latest move stinks of desperation, stinks of their paranoid delusions about this president, stinks of their mindless hatred for anything Trump, and well, just stinks.  Nancy Pelosi put in her teeth and stood alongside Jerry (the Penguin) Nadler, Adam Schiff (for brains), bottle blonde Carolyn Maloney and crazy Maxine Waters to announce two impeachment articles – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  Then they beat a hasty retreat, taking no questions.  Not surprising, because to answer a question, you need facts to support your claims.  This impeachment saga has two components – the process and the product.  The lying, thieving Democrats talk about our values and about the Constitution, but they have no values and their interpretation of the Constitution is a cruel joke.  They shed crocodile tears, expecting us to believe they “take no pleasure in impeachment.” “We were forced to act,” and “the Constitution compels us to impeach.”  More Bull Schiff.  They have been planning this for three years.  The process – Donald Trump was afforded none of the constitutional protections that are guaranteed to any civil litigant in America, to any criminal defendant, and indeed to any terrorist.  In Schiff’s Star Chamber, Trump was denied the rights to counsel, to see evidence against him, to confront witnesses against him, to submit exculpatory evidence, or to call witnesses on his own behalf.  The denial of any one of these protections will result in the reversal of the most minor conviction.  Yet they consider this appropriate for the removal of a president.  When Republicans complained, the Democrat retort was, “All they’re talking about is process.”  The guarantee of due process is no technicality.  It underpins the Constitution that the Democrats swore to uphold and claim to be following.  The “inquiry” was started by a so-called whistleblower who claimed the President misbehaved during his call to the president of Ukraine.  The President released a transcript of the call, but this was real evidence which exonerated Trump, so it was ignored.  The phantom snitch was vitally important, until it was revealed that he was a Democrat CIA employee, worked for Joe Biden, hired a lawyer who worked for Hillary Clinton, and improperly coordinated with Schiff (for brains).  Then, not only was he unimportant, but he must remain anonymous.  Schiff called 17 witnesses.  16 had no first hand knowledge, they just “heard things” that made them uncomfortable.  Ambassador Sondland actually had first hand knowledge.  He spoke to the President.  He asked Trump, “What do you want in return for the military aid.”  The President was explicit, “I want nothing from them, no quid pro quo, I just want them to do what they said.”  Schiff ignored the direct evidence and endorsed the opinions of the 16 sniveling Deep State Trump haters, who opined that they were “troubled” by what they heard or were told about the phone call.  Really?  Then they brought in three moth-eaten law professors to give legal opinions that what the President did is impeachable.  This really underscores the fact that impeachment is not a legal process, because courts don’t permit experts to give opinions about what the law is or about someone’s guilt.  The professors babbled about bribery and extortion, one actually claiming that, if what Trump did is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.  In the end, the Democrats reported two articles of impeachment, neither of which concern bribery, extortion, or any other crime.  One is for abuse of power.  The other is obstruction of Congress.  Both are absurd.  Think about it.  Abuse of a president’s power?  A president’s powers derive from the Constitution.  When he exercises those powers it’s not abuse.   You can’t be  impeached for carrying out the duties of your office.  One of those duties is the conduct of foreign policy, i.e., what went on in the phone call.  Government employees don’t have to like it.  Members of Congress don’t have to agree with it.  And you can’t impeach a president for doing his job.  At the end of the day, they will impeach Trump for keeping his promises.  He promised to make European nations pay more for their own defense.  That’s what he told the Ukranian president.  Obama’s Ambassador to Ukraine testified that Hunter Biden’s job in Ukraine was a major issue for the Obama administration.  Translation – Obama knew Ukraine was corrupt.  Trump arrives, he tries to assure that our foreign aid money isn’t going to be stolen, and he gets impeached?  Bull Schiff.  Obstruction of Congress?  Really?  It’s not a crime or misdemeanor of any kind.  It’s a fiction.  Here’s how it works.  Congress demanded witnesses who work directly for Trump.  He refused to let them appear, claiming executive and attorney-client privilege.  The Congress refused to let the courts decide the privilege issue and just declared Trump guilty.  In other words, since you didn’t confess, and you wouldn’t help us screw you, you’re guilty.  Once again, Democrats have adopted a Russian tactic, taking a page from the Russian prosecutor at Nuremberg, who ended every question with, “Do you now confess yourself to be a fascist pig?”  Neither of these articles are appropriate “high crimes or misdemeanors” that warrant impeachment.  Nancy Pelosi told us she had to impeach because Trump is not a king.  Good thing for her.  If he was the king they complain about, the heads of Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler would be on pikes on the White House roof.  There is an abuse of power, and it’s coming from the House of Representatives.

Things are really getting bad when a bunch of politicians who make their livings by mincing and parsing words, mouthing platitudes, and working overtime endeavoring not to offend anyone by speaking plainly, begin to throw around the L word with impunity.  I am speaking of the Republican members of the House of Representatives who lately have distinguished themselves by bluntly separating Schiff from Shinola.  The L word they have been applying to Adam Schiff (for brains), of course, is “Liar.”  This is highly unusual, as Members of the House normally adhere to an artificial and obsequious code of phony civility when they address one another.  They’re always bowing and scraping, while while addressing “the gentleman from Here” and “the gentlewoman from There.”  They normally say nothing harsher than, “the gentleman will suspend,” when they’re really thinking, “Shut up you dirty SOB!”  There used to be consequences for what was called “unparliamentary language.”  The House has sanctioned members for such conduct.  In 1869, Edward D. Holbrook was censured for unparliamentary language for stating in debate that another Member made false assertions.  In 1890, John Y. Brown and William D. Bynum were censured for unparliamentary language for insulting a Member during debate.  And we all remember the reprimand of Joe Wilson in 2009, after he dared to yell “You lie!” at Il Duce Obama after the Duce said illegal immigrants (yes, even Democrats could use those words in 2009) would not get medical coverage under Obamacare.  I guess truth is not a defense.  There have been even more egregious breaches of the peace in the Congress.  In 1856, in the wake of perhaps the most well-known episode of congressional violence, the House censured Laurence Keitt for assisting fellow South Carolinian Preston Brooks as he beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts unconscious with a cane on the Senate Floor.  The assault was motivated by a disagreement over slavery.  A motion to expel the offender was defeated, and he was reelected.  The Civil War soon followed.  In 1997, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania produced a study entitled, Civility in the House of Representatives. The study found that instances of unparliamentary language, more specifically, the application of the word “liar” to another House member were more prevalent in the aftermath of a change in leadership from one Party to the other, as happened this year.  The disgraceful Adam Schiff Show has removed all the phony civility filters normally employed when Republican members comment on another Member of the House.  Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “When it comes to Adam Schiff I have a lot of concerns.  He can’t remember whether he met with the whistleblower, who it was.  Adam Schiff has a long history with a problem of telling the truth. Adam Schiff also has a long history to do anything above and beyond and even lie if it takes to impeach the president.  We’re just finding another flag where Adam Schiff is doing it one more time.”  GOP lawmakers, Rep. Lee Zeldin and Rep. Jim Jordan then slammed Adam Schiff for lying to the American people, telling reporters, “Adam Schiff is misleading you and you’re playing along with it … The American public is then getting deceived.”  At one of the Intelligence Committee hearings, Jim Jordan was even more blunt, addressing Schiff (for brains), Jordan observed, “You say you don’t know who the whistleblower is, but nobody here believes that.”  Never before have I heard Members of the House of Representatives repeatedly apply the L word to a colleague.  It put me in mind of Charles Laughton’s cross-examination of Marlena Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, “Are you not in fact a chronic and habitual liar?”  The President was even more direct at a November 26th rally, calling the impeachment inquiry “really bullshit.”  Or perhaps he meant Bull Schiff.  The dropping of the pretense of civility really has more to do with the media than with Schiff (for brains).  House members are permitted to lie about others.  You and I are not, as we are mere mortals, and not Members.  Remember Candace Owens, testifying before the Judiciary Committee, and being admonished by Jerry Nadler that mere witnesses are not permitted to suggest that a member is not telling the truth?  So they can call us liars, and they’re protected by the Speech and Debate Clause, which gives them absolute immunity for any defamation they utter in their official capacities.  Sweet.  The Republicans resort to the L word when speaking of Schiff is motivated by the media’s bias.  The media will swear to any lie Schiff, Pelosi, Nadler, or any other Democrat tells.  Under these circumstances, it is difficult to conceive of any reason why a Democrat would ever tell the truth.  They know they can lie with impunity and never be contradicted by the Fourth Estate (or is it the Fifth Column?)  When they are called liars by Republicans, they know the Republicans will be denounced as extremists.  It’s tailor made.  The only problem is that so much Schiff is being peddled for truth that the Democrats and the media are doing lasting damage to the country.  There was a time when Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America.  Today, the media is considered to be only slightly more trustworthy then the lying politicians they protect.  That’s dangerous.  It’s doing irreparable harm to our nation.  They don’t seem to care.  The Trump haters are deranged.  Their derangement causes them to view any evidence, or a lack thereof, and come to but one conclusion.  Donald Trump is guilty.  Guilty of what?  It doesn’t matter.  This will not end well.

We’ve been treated to a continuing soap opera in the House Intelligence Committee.  Chairman Adm Schiff (for brains), has hand-picked deep state embedded bureaucrats to testify as to their dislike and disagreement with the foreign policy of President Trump.  That’s what this whole charade is really about.  Trump is the President.  They don’t like that, and they don’t like the fact that Trump has steered away from the deep state, sell the American people down the river, foreign policy of past administrations from both Parties.  This die was cast the moment that candidate Donald Trump began promising to “drain the swamp” and to cut 20% of the federal workforce.  That was akin to showing a cross to a vampire.  And there is no deeper deep state than that in the State Department.  It’s not by accident that the State Department is in Foggy Bottom, the deepest, dankest swamp in a City which is built on a swamp.  There’s too much money to be made from foreign business deals, by rich donors, lobbyists, and would-be lobbyists, currently holding public office, but anticipating their turn at the Washington pig trough that feeds the federal swine a limitless supply of slop.  These are the real forces behind the hatred for Donald Trump and the continuous drive to remove him.  It’s not his “tone,” it’s not “racism,” “sexism,” or any other “-ism” that they keep spouting out.  As Congresswoman Ilhan Omar so colorfully put it, “It’s all about the Benjamins,” or in Latin, “sequere pecuniam” – follow the money.  The Dems thought the CIA and FBI coup attempt would defeat Trump.  That failed, and some of the participants are about to be indicted.  Avenatti and Michael Cohen couldn’t take Trump down.  They counted on Bob Mueller, but he found nothing, which wasn’t surprising, since there was nothing to find.  So now its Ukraine, and the dreaded references to quid pro quo, which means nothing more than “this for that,” an agreement to exchange one thing of value for another.  The Democrats like to use the Latin phrase, because the Latin sounds more substantial.  They have to try to make it sound substantial, because their case is wholly without substance.  To put a point on it, the Democrats are lying in Latin, hence they are Latin liars.  The witnesses put before the Intelligence Committee had one thing in common – each of them disagrees with the President’s foreign policy.  Each of them expressed the opinion that Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Zelinsky was bad.  The problem is that the opinions of bureaucrats as to what they agree or disagree with is irrelevant.  They are not the President.  The President makes foreign policy, they don’t.  So if they disagree with the administration they have two options:  shut your pie hole and carry out national policy, or resign.  And only one witness had any direct contact with the President.  Ambassador Sondland asked the President, “What do you want in return for the aid to Ukraine?”  The President answered, “I want nothing.  No quid pro quo.  I just want them [the new Ukranian government] to do the right thing.” [End corruption].  That’s pretty clear.  It’s what the Romans would call res ipsa loquiter,  “the thing speaks for itself.”  But it’s not good enough for Lord High Impeacher Adam Schiff (for brains).  He’s made himself judge, jury and executioner, thus violating another Latin maxim, “nemo iudex in causa sua” – no man shall be a judge in his own cause.  All the other witnesses had no direct evidence, only hearsay, that is something they heard from someone else, which makes this an REO Speedwagon impeachment -“Heard it from a friend who, Heard it from a friend who, Heard it from another you been messin’ around.”  In other words, even in Latin, it’s all bovis stercus, which is to say, Bull Schiff.  The Constitution doesn’t permit impeachment for mere political disputes, only for crimes and other violations of law, or as the Romans might say, “nulla poena sine lege est – there is no penalty without a law.  None of the witnesses before the Committee could provide any evidence that any crime was committed or any law was violated, or as Julius Caesar might say, “Questio quid iuris” – I ask what law?  There has been no violation of law, unless you consider it illegal for a president to make sure our hard earned money isn’t being squandered when it’s given away to a foreign country.  Despite their sanctimonious protests, the Democrats don’t care about foreign aid going to Ukraine, or being delayed.  The notion that a delay cost Ukranian lives is more Bull Schiff.  Il Duce Obama refused to send Ukraine any weapons at all, and no Democrat even noticed, much less complained about it.  The Ukranian phone call nonsense is just the latest installment of the Democrats’ impersonation of another old Roman, Cato the Elder, who kept repeating, “Carthago delenda est,” – Carthage must be destroyed.  Cato was as obsessed with Carthage as the Dems are obsessed with Trump.  As this is written, the Dems, including old Schiff (for brains), have seemingly taken a step back from impeachment.  Adam’s Schiff Show not only failed to convince more voters of the need to impeach Trump, they actually lost ground, and Trump’s approval went up.  A recent poll found Trump’s support among African-Americans at 34%.  Donald Trump has double-dog dared the Dems to impeach him, declaring, “I want a trial!”  At a Senate trial, hearsay testimony will be inadmissible, which should shorten the witness list to just Ambassador Sondlin (see above).  Meanwhile, Trump has vowed to call the so-called whistle-blower, Hunter Biden and Adam Schiff (for brains) to testify under oath.  These facts may have convinced Nancy Pelosi to  “festina lente” or, hurry slowly.  The Dems are not going to be able to remove this president.  A baseless impeachment will cause election day 2020 to be a “dies irae” a day of wrath against Democrats.  The American voters aren’t as stupid as Democrats think.  “Franc locuta, causa finita.”  Frank has spoken, the case is closed.