Dateline:   The Medicaid Marsh, April 15, 2025

With an increasingly loud drumbeat, Democrats claim that Trump’s debt and tax reduction goals will force a cut in Medicaid benefits. Republicans deny that cuts will be made insisting that DOGE efficiencies will reduce costs sufficiently.

There’s no current litmus test to determine the truth of it.  It is certain that benefit reductions with hurt Trump perhaps irrevocably.

Also without doubt is the fact billions of dollars in Medicaid benefits are currently spent on immigrants who enter the Country in violation of federal law. As well, it is true that very few, if any, Democrats speak against this gross misuse of entitlement funds.

Some Democrats attempt to justify illegal immigration by claiming that our industries, and citizens by extension, benefit from an influx of unskilled labor. If that’s correct, those who wish should have no difficulty in obtaining seasonal work visas.

But luring millions of unvetted illegals with the promise of “entitlement” benefits, as Biden did, is not about temporary jobs.  It’s about building perpetual power through importing a huge new crop of Democrat voters irrespective of their ineligibility to vote and the threat they pose to the security of our citizens.

So, Democrats prefer to maintain entitlement benefits to illegals through higher taxes and deeper debt. Rather than advocating that position directly, they object to Trump’s budget proposals by claiming benefits will be cut. In a companion fight, they also vigorously oppose attempts to require citizen i.d.s to vote.

We have some very messed up leaders in Congress. If this deflection succeeds, voters aren’t paying attention.

Dateline:   ClownVille, March 25, 2025

Stephen Sondheim wrote the song Send In The Clowns for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. The ballad laments a doomed relationship and expresses deep regret.  The title is a recognition of the foolishness of squandered opportunity.

Fifty years later, the lyrics describe the state of the Democrat Party with its very strained voter relationships. Some Dems, but almost none openly, are even experiencing deep regret.

And there are plenty of clowns. They’re the Dems who are taking the stage in an attempt to usurp Party control.

These clowns don’t speak of the election outcome, why it occurred or necessary changes in the Party platform. Instead, they scream and yell, call opposers foul names and tell whoppers about Trump and his Presidency. With blinders on, they also continue to insist on the social change agenda that voters rejected.

The list of these clowns is long. At the bottom are buffoons like Tim Walz, losers who rejoice in acts of violence perpetrated against their opposition. Higher up are people like Chuck Schumer who oppose Trump regardless of the best interests of the Country.  Trump is his litmus test. If Trump is for it, Chuck’s against it. Period.

At the top of the list are those determined to take control of the Party and force it down the path of their choosing.  Among them AOC and Bernie Sanders are the most vocal. They are storming the Nation attempting to rabble-rouse support for their extreme political positions.

The Dem clown car is very crowded.

In the song, sending in the clowns was ultimately unnecessary as they were already there. In our case as well, don’t bother they’re here.

Dateline:  StompVille, March 17, 2025

Trump was inaugurated 56 days ago. Since then, the Dems have flailed non-stop making fools of themselves raging over anything and everything he does. No message. No strategy. No leadership.

Until, maybe, now. They’ve become so steeped in anger that, apparently, resistance fueled by seething petulance has become their strategy. Unfortunately for them, it limits their options.

For example, reasoned alternatives to Trump’s agenda are not on theirs. The latest focus of their outrage is Schumer for his support of the CR. It put him in the crosshairs of their high-powered verbal attacks. AOC is now being urged to primary Chuck as if an unaccomplished, radical leftist could win a state-wide contest.

And their rage strategy has blinded them to the fact that voters in November overwhelmingly rejected Biden’s Presidency. That’s not a reality that theirs can recognize let alone accommodate.

There are plenty of Dems who seem to be sitting on the sidelines. They don’t support Trump, of course, but they aren’t jumping into the fray either. Some even speak out against the current strategy as counterproductive. By that they mean voters can’t get far enough away from a Party overwhelmed by an irrational, self-destructive lack of direction.

Perhaps these cooler-headed Dems believe that the anger of their colleagues will burn out and reason will return. Perhaps that’s wishful thinking. What is for sure is that those without reason are stomping through the swamp splashing muck and mud all over themselves.

It’ll be a difficult clean up job.

Dateline:  DirectionlessVille, March 9, 2025

The media – yes, even the mainly leftscream – are mystified by the empty chair at the head of the Dem Party. It’s been vacant since the Party’s thrashing in November. At this point, no one appears close to occupying it which has left Dems in a state of disarray.

There were Party leaders before the election of course. Biden, the weak, demented old fool, wasn’t one of them. The consensus is that Obama and Pelosi were the powerholders in the Party with Schumer as their errand-boy-in-chief.

But they have since receded into the background. They have no desire to sully their reputations further by association with the chaos and destructive antics currently in play. Besides, they don’t have the pull to rally Dems around the Party flag. Probably at this point no one does.

Even before the election, a current of discontent was pulling against the prevailing tide of Party rule. The current became a raging river of divisiveness after the blowout loss. At this juncture the river cannot be diverted. More and more Dems in Congress are exhibiting the bizarre behavior that once was the exclusive domain of the Odd Squad.

Perhaps cooler heads are waiting for this madness to exhaust itself when they can step in and get the unified ball rolling again.

The problem with waiting is that there may not be enough left to bring together. The positions being staked out now either triggered the November massacre or create more denial discord among the emotion-driven extremists.

Dateline:  StupidVille, February 24, 2025

The Dems just won’t give up howling about Kamala’s defeat in November. They were, and remain, so stunned by Trump’s victory – and their loss of power – that the excuses just can’t stop coming.

These excuses are a babbling stream of inconsistency and fantasy.

The first explanation was that candidate Biden should have withdrawn early enough for Dems to hold a primary to nominate his replacement. This seems to be a backhanded way of saying that Harris was the wrong stand-in. It has also been interpreted to mean that Harris simply needed a primary win to validate her candidacy.

Both interpretations come down to the same thing. However you get there, Harris was the wrong choice.

Undoubtedly Kamala was a poor performer, even a laughable one. But as undeniable was the fact that the state of the Country in 2024 foreshadowed bad tidings for the Party in power.

Boarding on the trivial, another excuse is that Biden himself could have won if he’d given an interview during the 2024 Super Bowl.

Nitpicking explanations are foolish and only keep Dem losses rolling in.

An argument trotted out just last week – apparently in earnest – was that Biden should have remained in the race. According to this theory, his debate performance was bad but not that bad. It didn’t really impact his poll numbers. And, of course, Biden’s mental capacity was just fine. The real problem was the Party’s over-the-top reaction to his debate loss.

What very few, if any, Dems admit is that Biden’s job performance was repugnant to most Americans. Harris’s affirmation that she wouldn’t have done anything differently killed whatever chances her Party had in November.

Death occurs for many reasons – age, infirmity, accident, etc. Death by dumb only happens to the very stupid.