Off the Editor’s Desk – 11-20-2019
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Our freedoms are at stake!
I spent all day Friday watching the Congressional Impeachment hearings with former U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, as the only witness in front of the House Committee trying to find any illegal activity by the President or his administration.
Yonanovitch admitted that she had no information that Trump violated any law, and that should have been the end of the conversation with her and the committee. But the hearing went on and on with the only point of it was to make Trump look like the bad guy. The leaders of the house committee wanted us to feel sorry for her that she was fired by Trump from her post.
Yes, I felt sorry for her, as she appeared to be a person with great knowledge about Foreign Service and served this country for more than thirty years. But she and all other ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President. He has the power to discharge who ever he wants without any reason.
As I watched, it only reinforced my belief that the far left wing of the Democratic Party is looking for power and how to hold on to it.
They want to stack the Supreme Court, do away with the Electoral College, take away our freedom of speech, reduce the power of the president, and tax the hell out of us.
Every time a Republican nominates a person to the United States Supreme Court, the left wants to change the Constitution to stack the court with more liberal members.
Ever since the Constitution was signed back in 1787, we have elected the president and vice president with a system called the Electoral College. Each state gets the number of votes in the college related to the number of representatives in Congress. Wisconsin gets ten votes, as does Minnesota. The framers of the Constitution were leery of the states with large populations taking control of the country and created the Electoral College. 270 votes are needed by a candidate to win to get elected as president.
But, back in 1787, there were no political parties. The drafters of the Constitution assumed that electors would vote according to their individual discretion, not at the dictate of a state or national party. Today, most electors are bound to vote for their party’s candidate.
As for taking away our freedom of speech, just look at Northwestern College where students stopped former Attorney General Jeff Sessions from delivering a speech on that campus. I feel that it is in the classroom of those centers of high learning that students are indoctrinated into the far left beliefs. Student protest against conservative speakers is very common.
And, that brings me back to the impeachment hearing, and if you watched any amount of it you should have come away with the belief that left leaning representatives want to reduce the power of the president.
Every Democratic candidate that has announced they are running for president wants to increase our taxes. We are now almost $23 Trillion in debt as a nation and if those left-wingers get elected and raid the public treasury with their socialist ideas, it will spell the end of what we now have.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton