This week’s edition is about doubt.  No, not the movie Doubt, that starred Philip Seymour Hoffman.  It was great, but that’s not what I’m talking about.  I’m talking about my doubt, or doubts plural.  And things being what they are on these pages, it’s not surprising that my doubts are about our political situation.  We live in a nation that seemingly has lost its mind.  We have two political Parties.  They rarely agree on much of anything, with one exception – they’re content to continue spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have, ballooning our national debt to more than $34 trillion.  They seem to think they can continue on this course indefinitely.  Can they get away with it?  I doubt it.  We’re on the road to ruin, and if we don’t stop soon, the Chinese are going to close our road for good.  We have leaders in Washington who have decided, for some demented reason, that we shouldn’t have secure borders, that we should admit millions of illegal aliens, and that we should let them come and go as they please, while we support them with borrowed money.  Does that make any sense?  I doubt it.  We have a president who has caused runaway inflation that’s crippling millions of Americans.  Does he intend to do anything constructive to make things better?  No doubts here.  He’s clearly a senile moron, who’s being led around by the shadowy figures who are really running the country into the ground.  Do I think he’ll figure out he’s being used and change course?  I doubt it.  All signs point to no.  The latest Biden gambit has been an attack on food producers and grocers whose greed he claims is responsible for the high prices.  To paraphrase Dean Vernon Wormer, “Brain-dead and stupid is no way to go through life son.”   Two things caused the inflation, both of which are Joe Biden’s fault – needless spending, and an idiotic energy policy that doubled the cost of fuel.  Think Biden might wise up and fire Cabinet members whose energy policy on oil and gas is “leave it in the ground”?  I doubt it.  If Biden’s economic and foreign policy debacles are truly part of a plan, that plan must be to turn America over to the Chinese, who have paid the Biden family millions of dollars.  A real media would have examined the mounting evidence, and long ago concluded that Joe Biden is in the employ of the Chinese.  Do I think the truth will ever come to light?  I doubt it.  Too many politicians from both Parties are bathing in foreign money.  We’re now 8 months away from a presidential election.  Joe Biden shows every sign of being the Democrat candidate.  Will Democrats keep Old Joe on the ticket?  I doubt that.  They don’t like to take chances on elections they think they might lose, or which may be so far out of reach that even ballot harvesting with an International Harvester reaping machine won’t help.  Will Sleepy Joe go quietly?  That’s doubtful.  On the other hand, Democrats don’t have many appealing candidates to replace him.  So, chances are we will be getting the electoral rematch that most voters say they don’t want.  But one thing is certain.  This will be the first presidential election in our history in which each of the candidates is trying to win so he can stay out of prison.  That should make for a lively campaign season.  And what about the campaigns?  Donald Trump is alternating between rallies and court appearances, he’s oozing with energy, and he’s, so far, managed to limit his rhetoric to commonsense plans for the future.  Can he manage his tongue till November?  I doubt it.  Meanwhile, Joe Biden is in therapy designed to keep him upright, he has an ever more disturbing blank look in his eyes, and when he speaks, he needs a gibberish interpreter. The latest polls have Trump 2, 4, or 5 points ahead nationally.  Should we believe them?  I doubt it.  My theory has two scenarios.  Democrats are either manipulating the poll numbers to make them look bad, or they’re permitting the true numbers to be reported now in hopes that Joe will either drop out or be pushed out by Party leaders.  If Democrats get their wish, can they pull off a smooth candidate swap?  Highly doubtful.  The only way to do that painlessly would be to replace Joe with Cackling Kamala, but if they do that, what have they gained?  Kamala is less popular than Biden.  It looks like the Democrats will have to fall back on their traditional three-part plan – lies, a corrupt media, and ballot box stuffing in the dead of night.  If they can keep the election close, that will work again.  The trick will be to hide Old Joe from the public if he’s the candidate.  This week, Trump challenged Biden to debates, anywhere, anytime, and in any format.  I doubt that Joe will take the bait.  This will become a bigger problem for Biden the closer we get to November.  One more reason to take Joe out.  For who?  Well, this week, Michele Obama’s spokesperson said she will “not not run for president.”  Can we rely on that?  I doubt it.  What wasn’t said, ala LBJ was, “I will not run, nor will I accept” the nomination.  Nobody ever expected her to “run.”  The scenario is that, Joe gets shipped to assisted living, and Michele grudgingly agrees to be put on the ballot.  And speaking of the ballot, this week, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that State officials can’t remove Trump from the ballot for participating in a nonexistent insurrection, or for that matter, in a true insurrection.  No surprise to anyone who actually read the 14th Amendment.  Have the liberal rubber-stamps on the Court finally seen the light?  No.  They wrote an opinion saying the majority went too far by foreclosing other methods of removing candidates.  The three Leftist witches, pardon me, Justices, missed the point.  The Court ruled there’s only one method, and it resides in the Congress.  Case closed.  And now I must close this episode.  Have we heard the last of the Leftist attempts to force Trump off State ballots?  No.  And don’t doubt me.