Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Amy Klobuchar: "We can't take another 4 years."

May Senator Amy Klobuchar
or any other democrat become the 46th president

As I entered the parking lot for my Pilates class, a wave of nausea swept over me.  I'd been listening to National Public Radio, and someone was announcing:

Trump tweeted last night that the sentencing guidelines of 7-9 years for Roger Stone are "very unfair," so the Justice Department rushed to replace the guidelines and recommend a "far less" long prison term.


Suddenly my stomach was reacting, clenching toward expulsion.

Injustice.  Letting off a man convicted of foreign interference in an election and witness tampering, a man who also committed perjury for the president. 

Having a "Justice" Department headed by Attorney General William Barr, who takes orders from dt.  I hate needing to put justice in quotation marks.

It's just too much to bear.

"Trump pretended to be different.  He was lying," writes Paul Krugman in today's New York Times, then listing the major broken promises:

  • Promise: raise taxes on the rich.  He did the opposite.
  • Promise: not cut SS, Medicare, and Medicard.  He's now proposing cuts in them.
  • Promise: rebuild infrastructure.  Nothing done in over three years.

"The question now is whether Trump will pay any price for betraying all his promises," notes Krugman.

He may get off the hook to inflict another four years of his insanity on the United States of America--unless we ALL vote.  

He spent today being the creep on the sidelines of the New Hampshire Democratic primary election, insulting Democrats.

Tonight he's tweeting "some really scary, dark stuff" says Nicole Wallace.

Senator Amy Klobuchar captured my sense of frustration and desperation tonight in her speech in New Hampshire--(see her 17-minute speech on YouTube).

  • "Our country cannot take another four years of Donald Trump.  
  • The rule of law can't withstand another four years of a president who thinks that he is above it. 
  • Our collective sense of decency can't handle another four years of a president who doesn't care about it.  
  • Our democracy can't tolerate another four years of a president who wants to bulldoze right through it." (minute 11 to 12 of her speech).
"I will bring this country together instead of tearing it apart," she continued (minute 14). 

"...That's what's lacking right now in the White House--that empathy.... What is lacking is that sacred trust between the people of this nation and the president of the United States, and my friends, I will restore that trust."

May Senator Klobuchar become the 46th president of the USA--she or any one of the Democratic candidates.  We can't take another four years of Donald Trump.

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